VP of Engineering
Blockworks
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • New York • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $285,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- Lead and Scale a High-Trust Engineering Org: You'll hire, coach, and retain world-class engineers across our platform, data, and product teams.
- Own the Technical Roadmap and Architecture: You'll ensure our systems are secure, reliable, and built to scale.
- Build Quality Systems That Ship Quickly (and Scale): You'll translate complex problems into elegant, repeatable engineering solutions.
- Shape the Culture of Engineering Excellence: You'll set the tone for how the Engineering team works.
- Partner Deeply with Product and Data: You'll work closely with our CTO, VP of Product, Head of Data, and other leaders.
- Be a Force-Multiplier Across the Business: You'll collaborate with leaders across various departments to align on priorities.
- Elevate Technical Rigor Across Blockworks: You'll bring engineering excellence to all corners of the business.
Requirements
- At least 10 years of software engineering experience
- At least 5 years in a multi-unit leadership role like a Director or VP
- Demonstrated ability to ship product at scale while maintaining reliability and performance
- Experience shipping complex products, building APIs and platforms
- Understanding of modern data architectures and infrastructure in data-heavy SaaS products
- Proactively partnering with product and business teams to navigate tradeoffs and drive outcomes
- Experience operating in remote and async cultures
- Experience hiring and onboarding senior technical talent
Benefits
- Remote-First: We're a remote-first organization with an office in NYC for you to utilize as you please.
- 100% Medical Coverage for You: Close to fully paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for you, and a significant portion covered for your dependents.
- Flexible PTO: We have a flexible paid time off policy that doesn't limit the number of vacation days you can take.
- Parental Leave: At Blockworks, all team members are eligible for 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave.
- Hardware Stipend: Every team member has a stipend to use to purchase the tools and technology that help them be their most productive.
- Learning & Growth Stipend: Every team member has a stipend to spend on their skill growth and professional development.
- Career Growth: We prioritize skill growth and career development, and we have a clear, documented structure to take the guesswork out of individual development and career progression.
- Global & Diverse Team: We're a global team, and we're committed to creating an open, inclusive, and diverse work culture
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
software engineeringAPI developmentdata architectureSaaS productstechnical roadmapsystem securitysystem reliabilityengineering solutionsproduct shippingperformance maintenance
Soft skills
leadershipcoachingcollaborationcommunicationculture shapingproblem-solvingstrategic alignmentteam buildingmentoringforce-multiplying