Director/VP of Software

What you'll do

Strategic leadership and architecture

• Own AllSpice's product development roadmap in close partnership with the CTO and Product Management
• Make architectural decisions that balance speed, scalability, and technical quality across multiple teams
• Align engineering priorities with business goals and customer needs, translating product requirements into clear technical plans
• Evaluate build-vs-buy decisions and manage technical debt strategically

People management and team building

• Oversee and mentor ~5 technical team leads, fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement
• Hire, develop, and retain top engineering talent as the organization scales
• Set team goals, define development processes, and drive operational cadence (sprints, standups, retrospectives)
• Create growth paths for individual contributors and managers alike
• Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and incident response when needed

Cross-functional communication

• Serve as the primary connector between technical teams (Platform, Parsing, GenAI, Front-end), facilitating alignment and removing blockers
• Partner closely with Infrastructure to ensure smooth deployments, performance, and reliability of production systems
• Work with Customer Success and Sales to understand customer pain points and feed insights back into the development process
• Represent Engineering in cross-functional planning, providing realistic timelines and trade-off analysis

Hands-on engineering

• Jump in with engineers to debug, prototype, and solve complex problems when needed — especially in areas spanning multiple teams
• Drive end-to-end web performance analysis and optimization across the stack
• Maintain a high standard of technical quality through architecture guidance, code review, and mentorship
• Engage with open-source communities used in our software to upstream relevant changes and influence key decisions

Example projects

• Analyze and improve end-to-end web performance: from server response times through rendering of complex CAD documents (100k+ elements)
• Lead the development of a 3D rendering engine for PCBs
• Architect scalable APIs and data models for CAD documents stored in Git repositories
• Drive expansion of ECAD format support (e.g., LTSpice, KiCad, additional formats)
• Guide the GenAI/DRCY team on integrating AI-powered design review deeper into the product, including PCB analysis and extended knowledge repositories
• Oversee implementation of cross-probing between schematic and PCB views
• Improve the snippet and diff rendering pipeline for accuracy and performance

Our stack

• Gitea application soft fork
• Go [server-side]
• Vue/TypeScript front-end
• Rust back-end parsing layer for ECAD files (nom for binary parsing, Criterion for benchmarking)
• Intermediate data in JSON schema, exported to SVG for rendering
• Playwright for e2e testing
• GitHub Actions for CI/CD
• Docker Swarm & Terraform for deployment
• AWS
• PostgreSQL

Expectations

Our ideal candidate has:

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with significant depth in web application development
• 2+ years of people management experience (hiring, mentoring, performance management)
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional engineering teams and drive product delivery end-to-end
• Experience aligning business and customer needs with technical solutions and capabilities
• Strong architectural instincts — you can operate at the high level and dive deep into implementation details
• Project management skills with the ability to lead initiatives from engineers to customers
• Comfort with ambiguity and a high degree of autonomy
• Bachelor's degree or higher in a technology-related field (preference, not required)

Relevant skills You don't need to check every box, but the more of these you bring, the better:

• Languages and frameworks: Go, TypeScript, Vue, Rust
• Common web architectures and interfaces: SVG, CSS selectors (for design rendering)
• Infrastructure and tooling: Docker and Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Playwright), PostgreSQL administration, AWS services
• Engineering leadership: Hiring, mentoring, and building engineering teams, Agile project management (Jira, Notion, or similar), Customer-facing technical communication, Open-source community engagement
• Domain knowledge (nice to have): Hardware / CAD / ECAD experience, Algorithms, data structures, and performance optimization, Parsing, rendering, or graphics programming, AI/ML integration in product workflows

Benefits

• Opportunity to make a large impact at an executive level
• Supportive and smart colleagues
• Flexible work
• Competitive salary and equity
• Health, dental, and vision benefits
• Generous PTO
• Home office stipend
• Relocation package