VP of Software Engineering
Evident
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Atlanta • United States
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About the role
- Lead and grow the software engineering organization, including hiring, org design, leadership development, and performance management.
- Build a high-accountability, high-trust engineering culture centered on ownership, speed, quality, and customer impact.
- Own engineering execution across the product and platform, ensuring teams ship high-quality SaaS capabilities with speed, predictability, and strong operational performance.
- Define and lead an AI-first engineering model in which AI is embedded into day-to-day software development workflows across the SDLC.
- Partner with product and company leadership to define how we plan, build, and ship software in an AI-first environment.
Requirements
- Must have 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant leadership experience in SaaS or cloud software environments.
- Proven experience leading engineering teams and organizations in a scale-up environment, where both product complexity and organizational complexity are increasing.
- A track record of building and shipping sophisticated software products in a modern stack (e.g., cloud-native services, microservices/SaaS, APIs, data-heavy systems, workflow-driven platforms).
- Demonstrated experience leading organizational and technical evolution — e.g., scaling teams, improving engineering execution, platform migrations, process redesign, or adoption of new development practices and tools.
- Hands-on familiarity with AI/LLM tools for software development and strong judgment about where AI materially improves leverage, quality, and speed.
- Strong system design and architectural skills, with the ability to guide scalable, maintainable architectures and communicate trade-offs clearly.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to lead through growth, complexity, and changing ways of working.
- Strong people leadership skills, including hiring, coaching managers, and developing senior engineering talent.
Benefits
- Competitive pay package, including base pay and stock options
- Full medical, dental, vision benefits and 401K
- Unlimited PTO
- Paid parental leave to support you and your family
- Home internet stipend, virtual events, & more!
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
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