brightfin

Vice President – Engineering

brightfin

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Own the engineering delivery model: sprint cadence, release quality, deployment velocity, and incident response across the full platform.
  • Drive meaningful improvement in delivery predictability — Brightfin needs to ship faster and more reliably as the product roadmap expands.
  • Partner directly with the CPO to translate product strategy into executable engineering plans.
  • Establish clear engineering SLAs and accountability structures across distributed teams.
  • Drive AI adoption across the engineering team — engineering should lead, not follow, Brightfin’s company-wide AI fluency initiative.
  • Build trusted relationships with the CPO and CEO; translate technical complexity into business impact.
  • Own the engineering org design: team structure, hiring prioritization, headcount planning, and budget.
  • Own the technical architecture strategy in partnership with staff/principal engineers: API design, data layer, integrations, and scalability.
  • Understand and evolve engineering standards, code quality practices, security posture, and DevOps/CI-CD maturity.
  • Lead, develop, and retain engineering managers and senior individual contributors across the US, Ukraine, the Philippines, and other geographies.
  • Build a high-performance, psychologically safe engineering culture that spans geographies and legacy company identities (brightfin + Proven Optics).

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field (or equivalent work experience).
  • 8–15 years of engineering experience with 4+ years in engineering leadership, including direct management of engineering managers.
  • Proven track record leading distributed engineering teams, ideally including Eastern Europe or similar high-skill globally distributed models.
  • Experience scaling a B2B SaaS product through a high-growth phase.
  • Strong delivery instincts: ability to diagnose why a team is underperforming and implement systemic solutions — not just urgency.
  • Architectural fluency: ability to make sound technical calls and earn the respect of senior engineers without writing all the code.
  • Experience navigating post-merger or significant organizational change; ability to build trust across legacy organizational identities.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to translate technical complexity into business impact for executive audiences.
  • Strong people leadership skills with demonstrated ability to build and retain high-performing, geographically distributed teams.
  • Ability to operate in a fast-paced, PE-backed environment with a bias toward action and pragmatic decision-making.
  • Fluent in English.
Benefits
  • brightfin offers a comprehensive health, dental and vision benefits package.
  • Paid time off.
  • We strongly believe in work-life balance and taking time for yourself.
  • 401K with employer match.
  • Competitive Salary with Bonus.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
engineering delivery modelsprint cadencerelease qualitydeployment velocityincident responseAPI designdata layerintegrationsDevOpsCI-CD
Soft Skills
delivery instinctsdiagnostic skillssystemic solutionsarchitectural fluencytrust buildingcommunication skillspeople leadershiphigh-performance culturepsychological safetypragmatic decision-making