Vice President, Software Engineering

Summary

Join Recast Software as their Vice President of Engineering, a key member of the technology leadership team reporting to the CPTO. This role blends people leadership with engineering responsibilities, requiring you to foster a positive work culture while overseeing product development, technical strategy, and team growth. You will collaborate extensively across departments, translating company vision into actionable engineering goals. The position demands significant experience in software engineering, product development leadership, and architectural leadership, particularly within complex enterprise SaaS environments. Recast offers a competitive compensation package including a discretionary bonus, commuting allowance, internet reimbursement, pension, company equipment, and work-life balance options.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience
• 5+ years prior product development leadership experience
• Deep experience working on technically complex enterprise SaaS experience
• 5+ years of architectural leadership experience
• Experience with multiple technologies / skills, specifically C#, ASP.NET Core, JavaScript, Azure, NoSQL, Domain Driven Design, Data Streaming
• Leader of product development and infrastructure best practices
• Experience managing multiple products, leading replatforming, solving complex business and technical problems
• Experience leading teams across multiple countries and an organizations of 60+ engineers
• Experience as the technology leader for a company. Enjoy working with a variety of disciplines to collectively solve a problem. Able to cover the gray areas between departments
• Experience with organizational design

Responsibilities

• Be a key steward of our practical and forward-thinking technology strategy
• Collaborate across the organization (ELT, SLT, and others) to understand product and business gaps to determine how technology should anticipate and respond
• Translate company-wide vision into departmental goals for engineering team(s). Work with teams on iterative, practical improvements
• Guide product development to reduce scope, duplicated efforts, & errors while increasing effectiveness
• Recruit and retain top engineering talent to create a world-class engineering team and culture
• Work cross-functionally to ensure success, alignment on expectations, understanding of risks and mitigation
• Adapt the structure of the engineering team(s), roles, and work streams necessary to achieve Recast’s goals
• Work closely with Recast’s CPTO, Chief Architect, and product leadership to create consistent standards, technologies, and frameworks across multiple products
• Effectively communicate vision and road map to engineering team so that team understands and has opportunity to question decision making
• Define, measure, and report metrics for engineering efforts toward product goals and align resources towards business priorities
• Ensure quality and security standards are met

Benefits

• 25% annual discretionary company bonus potential
• Commuting allowance
• Internet reimbursement
• Pension
• Company laptop
• Company cell phone or reimbursement
• Work-life balance and remote work options