Vice President, Engineering
Care.com
full-time
Posted on:
Location: 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $225,000 - $275,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
Tech Stack
CloudDynamoDBElasticSearchGoGraphQLGRPCKafkaMicroservicesNode.jsReactSaltStackSplunk
About the role
- Shape and execute engineering strategy across Enterprise, LifeMart, and International businesses in alignment with product and business goals
- Partner with business and product leaders to surface ideas, shape strategy, and bring technology-driven solutions to market
- Ensure world-class architecture across the platform, driving scalability, performance, and reliability
- Collaborate with Product, Design, and Data to deliver customer-centric solutions, balancing near-term delivery with long-term platform health
- Lead AI adoption and embed AI workflows across the organization
- Hire, coach, and retain engineering talent; foster inclusion and high standards
- Represent Engineering at senior levels, including the IAC Board
- Foster best practices in software development, system design, reliability, and operational excellence
Requirements
- 15+ years of engineering experience, with 6+ years leading large, distributed technical teams
- Strong tenure in past roles, with evidence of sustained impact and progression
- Proven experience building scalable, consumer and enterprise-facing products
- Demonstrated success as a thought partner to business/product leaders with measurable business outcomes
- Hands-on expertise in technical architecture, system design, and cloud-native platforms
- 1–2 real-world AI-enabled product or workflow implementations
- Exceptional communication and executive presence, with comfort engaging at the Board level
- A passion for inclusive leadership, culture-building, and mentorship
- Familiarity with modern development tools and architectures (e.g., microservices, event-driven systems, cloud-native environments)