VP of Engineering

About the company:

We’re partnering with the #1 practice-management platform for accounting, tax, and finance firms in the US and worldwide. Founded in 2017, they’ve grown into a team of 400+ people across 40+ countries, serving tens of thousands of firms with millions of end clients. The company’s clients are accounting firms, and their clients are the businesses they serve, so the team builds for a B2B2C world: a rich, complex platform that firms rely on every day to run their client work.

About the role:

The company is looking for a VP of Engineering to help with transformation into an AI-first engineering organization.

You will shape how a 180-person R&D team learns to build during a genuine shift in how software gets made. You will join a globally distributed team built on trust, ownership, and self-management, favoring outcomes, pragmatic decision-making, and accountability over activity and rigid processes.

What you will own:

• The AI-first transformation. Tune the culture, infrastructure and workflows that put AI at the core of the development lifecycle, and help 180+ engineers do their best work as an AI-native team;
• High accountability. Own the delivery process. When something stalls, you unblock it. When a deadline slips, you own the fix;
• A high quality bar. Push the team to do the best work of their careers and keep quality high, because talented people want to be challenged;
• Simplicity. Clear the path so engineers can focus on shipping code that works, rather than carrying process for its own sake;
• A better delivery and estimation process. Set up the incentives and the rhythm that lets teams plan and ship with confidence.

Who the team is looking for:

• A scale-up leader who has led engineering organizations of 100+ people and knows what good looks like at scale;
• A manager of managers, comfortable leading through other leaders rather than individual contributors;
• A track record of organizational transformation that produced real, measurable acceleration, with a clear line from the metrics you introduced to business outcomes;
• AI-fluent in practice: you treat AI as a tool that demands a new kind of engineering discipline, and you can tell a solid technical plan from a weak one;
• A product-first mindset: you care more about solving the user's problem than about the purity of the code;
• A partner to the CTO who can debate a decision in the room, then rally the team behind the chosen path;
• Comfortable with change as the norm, bringing flexibility and proposing improvements yourself;
• B2+ English - some communication with stakeholders and C-level executives is conducted in English;
• Experience with cloud-based products; high-volume AWS is a plus.

What your first months will look like:

• Your first weeks: get up to speed, review every cluster and its roadmap, and understand where the pain is;
• By the end of month one: come back with a clear proposal for what to change and improve;
• The following two months: move the team's output in the right direction, with communication clear enough that every team knows where we are going and why.

What the company offers:

• Fully remote setup;
• Employment through a B2B contract;
• 30 paid days off per year, plus sick days as needed;
• Health and well-being support;
• Learning and development budget;
• English lessons reimbursement;
• Co-working space reimbursement;
• Company-provided equipment;
• A high level of autonomy and ownership, and the chance to make a real impact at a fast-growing global SaaS company.