VP, Engineering
MyFundedFutures
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Dallas • Texas • United States
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About the role
- Build, scale, and lead a multi-disciplinary engineering organization through senior engineering leaders and managers.
- Establish clear organizational structure, leadership accountability, career progression frameworks, and performance management practices.
- Attract, retain, and develop top engineering leadership talent through structured hiring, onboarding, coaching, and succession planning.
- Own engineering hiring strategy and execution.
- Build recruiting pipeline and interview processes to maintain quality bar during rapid growth.
- Foster a culture of ownership, operational excellence, documentation, and continuous improvement across the engineering organization.
- Ensure engineering leaders are empowered to execute while maintaining consistent standards and alignment.
- Own engineering outcomes across planning, delivery, quality, reliability, and long-term sustainability.
- Set expectations for delivery discipline, forecasting accuracy, and execution consistency across teams.
- Oversee prioritization, resourcing strategy, and capacity planning to support both near-term execution and long-term platform investments.
- Ensure development standards, release governance, and quality benchmarks are consistently applied across the organization.
- Drive continuous improvement in engineering efficiency through tooling strategy, process optimization, and leadership alignment.
- Provide executive accountability for platform stability, performance, scalability, and operational readiness.
- Ensure engineering leadership maintains strong incident management, escalation processes, and post-incident learning practices.
- Partner with Infrastructure and Platform leaders to ensure systems are designed for resilience, security, and regulatory compliance.
- Review systemic risks, operational trends, and reliability metrics to guide long-term technical investment decisions.
- Champion preventative engineering practices that reduce operational risk and improve customer experience.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience with 5+ years in senior engineering leadership roles.
- Proven experience scaling engineering organizations in SaaS, fintech, or trading environments.
- Required: 3+ years experience in regulated financial services, trading platforms, or fintech with direct exposure to real-time trading systems, broker integrations, and financial regulatory compliance.
- Strong understanding of backend systems, distributed architectures, cloud infrastructure, and high-availability platforms.
- Demonstrated success partnering with Product, Trading, Risk, and Operations at an executive level.
- Experience leading through growth, change, and increasing organizational complexity.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field preferred.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Access to performance-based incentives
- Flexible work arrangements
- Professional development opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
software engineeringbackend systemsdistributed architecturescloud infrastructurehigh-availability platformsreal-time trading systemsbroker integrationsfinancial regulatory complianceperformance managementprocess optimization
Soft skills
leadershiporganizational structurecoachingcareer progressionincident managementcontinuous improvementoperational excellencecommunicationcollaborationstrategic planning
Certifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer ScienceBachelor's degree in Engineering