Vice President of Engineering

Summary

Join Soda as their VP of Engineering and lead their engineering team, ensuring high-velocity product delivery and alignment with the product roadmap. You will work closely with the CPO and product team, resolving critical engineering challenges and contributing hands-on to implementation (at least 50% of your time). This role requires strong technical leadership, experience building scalable B2B products, and a proven track record of leading and scaling engineering teams. You will be responsible for hiring, defining recruitment needs, and managing engineers, fostering a product-focused culture. Soda offers a fully remote, flexible work environment and the opportunity to work on an open-source product.

Requirements

• Deep understanding of and extensive experience applying modern architectural design principles, extending to service architectures and full multi-tenanted SaaS product development
• Experience in broad-based API integration, extending to integrating with legacy systems quickly and without performance issues
• Expertise and experience in building robust, scalable B2B products with related requirements
• Appreciation for UX and UI, focusing on developing products that delight the user and are intuitive
• Experience putting ML systems in production
• Computer science or Engineering degree or other relevant educational background
• Technical and engineering leadership building data-centric Software, extending to technical/engineering leadership of modern data infrastructures (e.g., data orchestration and data warehouses)
• Experience building products deployed internationally in venture-backed environments and the related entrepreneurial mindset
• Track record of leading highly technical engineering teams, defining and executing a technology roadmap
• Experience in building, leading, and scaling engineering and development teams, ideally including remote and distributed teams
• Well-versed in designing feature-based, autonomous engineering teams with meshed DevOps
• Product engineering mindset and proven track record of successfully working with product managers, research, and designers
• Strong experience in implementing engineering processes and people development with the engineering function
• You have exceptional communication skills in English - both oral and written. You articulate technology vision, delivery strategy, and essential tradeoffs in a language that enables discussion with technical and non-technical audiences
• Strong experience contributing to, setting, and executing technical and engineering strategies at product and organizational levels
• A strong strategic mindset that allows you to combine the business's short-, medium- and long-term direction
• Experience working with Founders to deliver on product vision

Responsibilities

• Ensure fast delivery of product features by structuring engineering work, best practices, and processes
• Oversee architectural decisions to enable fast and reliable delivery in the coming years
• Resolve critical engineering problems hands-on and establish technical credibility by leading by example
• Make hiring decisions, define recruitment needs, and manage all the engineers
• Enable ownership and a proactive, product-focused culture in the engineering team
• Work closely with the CPO and the product team to stay aligned with the company's vision and long-term growth
• Develop a deep understanding of the data quality space and our customers’ challenges
• Build tight and effective relationships across engineering and the company to ensure transparent and clear communication

Benefits

• Working with a fast-growing international VC-funded startup with a flat structure
• You will have full ownership of the things you work on
• An international and diverse team
• Fully remote, flexible work, with as many opportunities to meet up as you want!
• Open Source Product with all the perks that come with that