Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Firstup is dedicated to enhancing the employee experience through innovative communication solutions. They are looking for a VP of Software Engineering, Platform to lead the strategy and execution of their application development and AI platforms, ensuring that product teams can deliver high-quality enterprise software efficiently.
Responsibilities
- Lead the platform engineering vision, roadmap, operating model, and execution plan
- Build a cohesive organization across shared services, AI platform, integrations, data engineering, reporting, analytics, and developer experience
- Translate business and product strategy into platform capabilities that improve speed, reliability, security, scalability, and customer value
- Establish ownership models, platform adoption strategies, service maturity standards, and measurable outcomes
- Own foundational services including API Gateway, Developer Portal, Authentication, Authorization, Logging, Audit Trail, service templates, and platform libraries
- Drive a paved-road development model that improves velocity while preserving appropriate team autonomy
- Ensure shared services are reliable, observable, secure, well-documented, and easy to adopt
- Provide technical leadership across AWS, Kubernetes, Ruby on Rails, Node, Python, PostgreSQL, and related cloud-native technologies
- Own the strategy, architecture, and execution for the company’s agentic AI platform
- Build reusable capabilities for tool definition, retrieval and grounding, model interaction, permission context, tracing, evaluation, versioning, and usage reporting
- Enable teams to develop AI-powered features safely and quickly using OpenAI SDK, MCP, Python, Node, and related technologies
- Establish patterns for permission-aware agents, grounded responses, tool execution, model orchestration, evaluations, and production observability
- Lead the company’s AI-native software development lifecycle strategy
- Standardize agent skills, plug-ins, local development environments, templates, and workflows
- Enable AI-assisted development across coding, testing, code review, documentation, release management, support, and operations
- Define guardrails for security, code quality, data privacy, intellectual property, and responsible AI usage
- Define the technical strategy for enterprise integrations and ecosystem connectivity
- Lead integration capabilities using APIs, MCP, agents, and scalable integration patterns
- Own integrations with HRIS, ITSM, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, and other enterprise operational systems
- Reduce integration complexity through reusable connectors, authentication patterns, monitoring, documentation, and supportability standards
- Own data engineering, customer-facing reporting, internal analytics infrastructure, and analytics products
- Build scalable data pipelines, data models, warehouse architecture, reporting infrastructure, and analytics enablement
- Provide leadership across PostgreSQL, Redshift, AWS data services, and related data technologies
- Drive data quality, lineage, governance, privacy, access control, and reliability
- Lead multiple teams across platform engineering, AI platform, integrations, data engineering, analytics, and developer experience
- Hire, mentor, and develop managers, architects, staff engineers, and senior engineers
- Create clear goals, ownership, operating rhythms, and accountability across the organization
- Build strong partnerships with Product, CloudOps, Security, Customer Success, Implementation, Data, and executive leadership
Skills
- 15+ years of software engineering experience, with significant leadership experience in enterprise SaaS, platform engineering, data platforms, integrations, infrastructure, or AI-enabled product development
- 5+ years leading engineering organizations at senior director, VP, or equivalent levels
- Proven ability to translate business and product strategy into technical strategy, operating plans, and measurable outcomes
- Experience leading multiple teams, managers, senior technical leaders, and complex cross-functional initiatives
- Experience building shared platform services, internal developer tooling, integration platforms, data platforms, and AI platform capabilities
- Hands-on experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Ruby on Rails, Node, Python, PostgreSQL, Redshift, OpenAI SDK, MCP, and related technologies
- Ability to engage deeply in architecture reviews, technical tradeoffs, implementation approaches, and operational risk decisions
- Ability to identify repeated engineering needs and convert them into reusable, scalable, well-adopted platform capabilities
- Strong product mindset for internal platforms, with focus on adoption, usability, documentation, developer experience, and measurable impact
- Strong judgment on when to standardize, when to allow flexibility, when to build, and when to buy
- Hands-on technical executive who earns trust through depth, clarity, and follow-through
- Pragmatic, collaborative leader who can operate in ambiguity and create alignment
- Strong communicator across engineers, executives, customers, and cross-functional stakeholders
- Passion for building high-performance teams, developing leaders, and creating a durable engineering culture
- Bias toward outcomes, leverage, simplicity, customer impact, and continuous improvement
Benefits
- Excellent PTO program
- Great health benefits
- A casual and friendly environment
- Remote work
- A leadership team who truly believes in your growth – both personally and professionally
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