VP Engineering

A fast-growing startup building the go to platform for financial advisors is on an exciting trajectory and looking for a VP Engineering to help shape its next chapter. AI-powered and industry-defining, this role blends technical leadership, people management, and close cross-functional collaboration to drive the engineering team.

Having exceeded expectations and achieved impressive results in less than two years, the company is now gearing up for Series A funding - with big plans ahead and plenty of opportunity to make a massive impact.

What’s on Offer

• $250,000 - $500,000
• Competitive equity
• Onsite near Chelsea, NYC
• Impact, exciting challenges, growth!

Role

• Build and scale a high-performing engineering team: hire great people, retain them, and develop junior engineers into seniors.
• Drive delivery across multiple product areas, ensuring fast, high-quality features for financial professionals and enterprise partners.
• Set pragmatic engineering processes for planning, code quality, reviews, reliability, and on-call, balancing speed with structure as the company grows.
• Partner with the founders on technical strategy, shaping architecture, scaling plans, reliability expectations, and long-term platform direction.
• Stay hands-on where needed - contributing to architecture, unblocking engineers, and reviewing complex PRs.
• Foster a healthy engineering culture built on transparency, constructive challenge, strong communication, documentation, and a bias for action.

Requirements

• 10+ years of engineering leadership experience, ideally in a fast-growing startup the have grown from Series A > B
• Strong technical foundation, with hands-on engineering experience.
• Proven ability to deliver outcomes amid uncertainty, exercising sound, structured judgment in fast-moving startup environments.
• Excellent communication skills - able to clearly articulate the “why” behind priorities and keep the team aligned with company goals.
• Comfortable making architectural and tradeoff decisions across performance, reliability, cost, and speed
• Energized by both coding and leading, moving fluidly between technical work and team leadership
• Motivated to help build an engineering culture that will stand the test of time

Why Join

Join a rocket ship transforming an entire industry. You’ll have real ownership - building and scaling the engineering team, shaping the technical direction, and influencing products used by financial advisors nationwide. With Series A funding on the horizon, this is the perfect moment to get in early, move fast, and help define a platform with the potential to become category-defining.

Interested in learning more? Get in touch today!