Vice President of Engineering

Care.com

full-time

Posted on: 9/19/2025

Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $225,000 - $275,000 per year

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About the role

Lead with vision and purpose: Shape and execute engineering strategy across Enterprise, LifeMart, and International businesses in alignment with product and business goals.
Partner with business and product leaders: Work hand-in-hand with the GM and Product leadership to surface new ideas, shape business strategy, and bring innovative, technology-driven solutions to market.
Architect at scale: Ensure world-class architecture across Care.com’s platform, driving scalability, performance, and reliability for both consumer-facing and enterprise clients.
Drive cross-functional execution: Collaborate with Product, Design, and Data to deliver customer-centric solutions, balancing near-term delivery with long-term platform health.
Champion AI and innovation: Be a cultural leader for AI adoption, embedding AI workflows across the organization and applying real-world AI use cases to enhance our business.
Build and scale teams: Hire, coach, and retain top engineering talent. Foster a culture of inclusion, high standards, and long-term growth.
Executive leadership and presence: Represent Engineering at the senior-most levels, including presentations to the IAC Board and parent company executives.
Elevate engineering excellence: Foster best practices in software development, system design, reliability, and operational excellence.

15+ years of engineering experience
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)