VP of Engineering

What You'll Own & Achieve

• Be the executive voice of engineering: Own Engineering's narrative across All Hands, leadership reviews, board updates, and investor conversations. Translate technical strategy into business clarity for the entire team, and translate business priorities into focused engineering bets for your team.
• Create the technical vision & turn it into strategy: Establish your thesis on how our engineering team & the infrastructure that powers our Web, Mobile, and AI products need to evolve in order to build a world-class product, then create and communicate the core principles, pod structure, and key inputs and outputs we need to get there.
• Make Posh an AI-native engineering org: Define how Posh's engineers and non-technical ICs alike use AI to build — codifying agentic workflows, evaluating tooling, and reshaping team structure for an era where leverage per engineer is multiplying.
• Make career growth a competitive advantage: Redefine the engineering career ladder so the path to each level is undeniable. Ensure every tenured engineer has a personalized growth document. Set and uphold a high bar for what "great" looks like at every level.
• Partner deeply with Product & Design: Make engineering an active force in shaping what we build, not just how. Build a partnership with Product & Design leadership that operates as one cohesive R&D function.
• Own engineering health as a measurable surface: Establish the signals — scoping accuracy, on-call load, bug frequency, uptime, time-to-merge, developer experience — that prove the engineering org is getting better, quarter over quarter.

What We're Looking For

• 12+ years of engineering experience with at least 3+ years leading engineers-of-engineers (i.e., managing managers) on high-growth consumer or marketplace software teams.
• Ideally, you have personally scaled an engineering org through the 25 → 75+ engineer band (Series A-C+).
• Deep understanding of platform architecture and infrastructure.
• Track record of being the technical leader people seek direction from — Staff or Principal level engineer before becoming a manager.
• Demonstrated success attracting and retaining top talent & building the leadership bench.
• Bias toward urgency and visible ambition.
• Exceptional communicator and operator.
• Deep, current point of view on consumer mobile and web architecture, as well as the constantly evolving AI-native SDLC.
• Backend-leaning expert with direct experience building infrastructure that supports tens of millions of MAUs.
• React & React Native (Expo) at scale is strongly preferred.
• Strong opinion — and recent direct experience — on how AI is reshaping engineering org structure, developer experience, and team leverage.
• Experience working closely with a founder/CEO who is highly involved in product, taste, and pace.

Nice to Have

• Background at companies known for engineering craft and consumer obsession — Airbnb, Uber, DoorDash, Stripe, Linear, Ramp, Notion, Figma, or similar.
• Experience inheriting existing engineering teams and managing through organizational change.
• A point of view on engineering culture you've put into writing.
• A deep network of other engineering leaders you’d be able to invite for talks and mentorship for new managers.