HarperDB, Inc.

Vice President, Engineering

HarperDB, Inc.

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $225,000 - $250,000 per year

Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

CloudOpen Source

About the role

  • Scale and inspire the engineering organization while staying close to the technology as a hands-on leader.
  • Lead day-to-day operations of the engineering team, managing people, processes, and execution.
  • Coach engineers and build retainable high-performing teams through mentorship and clear career paths.
  • Own operational leadership tasks: performance reviews, coaching, and setting clear expectations.
  • Champion best practices in software development, architecture, testing, and deployment.
  • Oversee planning, prioritization, and execution of engineering projects for scalable, secure, high-quality delivery.
  • Partner with product, founders, and GTM teams to align technical execution with business priorities.
  • Promote accountability, ownership, and empowerment and translate strategic vision into operational reality.

Requirements

  • 10+ years in software engineering, with at least 5 years leading and scaling teams in high-growth environments.
  • Proven experience building distributed, cloud-native, or data-intensive systems.
  • Deep technical expertise balanced with strong people leadership — you can talk system design one moment and career development the next.
  • Track record of hiring, coaching, and developing top engineering talent.
  • A builder’s mindset: comfortable rolling up your sleeves and making pragmatic decisions without losing sight of the big picture.
  • Strong communicator who can align engineering with product, design, and business priorities.
  • Bonus: Experience in databases, real-time systems, or edge computing.
  • Bonus: Hands-on contributions to open source projects.
  • Bonus: Background in startup or founder-led environments.
  • Bonus: Experience with Harper.