VP of Engineering

What You'll Own

Team Enablement & Delivery

• Build autonomous teams that own their delivery outcomes. You're accountable for creating the systems and capability that make this possible


• Create clarity around decision rights, accountability, and escalation paths


• Enable teams through coaching, unblocking, and removing organizational friction


• Establish when to engage directly vs. when teams have what they need

Engineering Excellence & Effectiveness

• Establish SLAs, metrics, and engineering standards


• Improve engineering effectiveness: deployment frequency, lead time, quality, velocity


• Create structure that scales from 40 to 60+ engineers while maintaining high performance


• Build systematic practices that enable scale without slowing teams down

People & Leadership Development

• Develop engineers, engineering managers and directors into confident, capable leaders


• Coach managers to make strong decisions independently


• Drive performance reviews, promotions, and career development


• Expand capacity for technical mentorship and creative problem-solving development


• Foster a culture of experimentation where teams take calculated risks aligned with product strategy


• Help shape the culture and define what high-performing engineering teams look like here

Delivery & Growth

• Accountable that engineering ships predictably and meets roadmap commitments


• Build recruiting infrastructure that attracts self-directed, senior talent


• Design org structure that supports autonomous teams with clear boundaries and minimal dependencies


• Implement onboarding that builds capability quickly


• Grow the engineering team while maintaining team quality and culture

QUALIFICATIONS

Experience:

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  10+ years in engineering leadership roles

  
  


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  5+ years leading engineering teams of 30+ engineers

  
  


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  Proven track record scaling engineering organizations

  
  


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  Experience developing engineering managers and leaders

  
  


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  Demonstrated success implementing engineering metrics, SLAs, and operational excellence practices

  
  

Leadership:

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  Track record of hiring and building high-performing teams

  
  


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  Experience coaching managers to operate autonomously

  
  


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  History of creating systems and processes that enable team independence

  
  


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  Comfortable operating in ambiguous, fast-growing environments

  
  

 Technical:

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  Strong technical background with hands-on engineering experience (not required to code daily, but must understand technical trade-offs)

  
  


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  Experience with modern software development practices (CI/CD, DevOps, Agile)

  
  


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  Understanding of SaaS architecture and scalability challenges

  
  

Nice to Have:

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  Experience in B2B SaaS or logistics/supply chain technology

  
  


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  Background scaling remote or distributed engineering teams

  
  


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  Previous experience at companies going through similar growth stages (50-200 people)

  
  

Education:

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  Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent practical experience)

  
  

You're a Great Fit If:

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  You've scaled an engineering org by building strong, autonomous teams

  
  


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  You take full ownership. Delivery, hiring, team health are YOUR outcomes

  
  


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  You proactively identify and solve systemic problems

  
  


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  You measure success by team outcomes, not your direct involvement

  
  


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  You love operational excellence. Metrics, SLAs, effectiveness improvements energize you

  
  


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  Learn more about Breakthrough's tech team and our culture here.

  
  

You're NOT a Fit If:

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  You need to be involved in most decisions to feel effective

  
  


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  You prefer directing work rather than developing capability

  
  


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  Metrics and operational excellence feel like secondary concerns=

  
  

Team structure:

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  5 product teams with strong execution autonomy

  
  


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  Engineering managers/directors paired with staff/tech leads

  
  

Tech stack: TypeScript, Node.js, Python, React, PostgreSQL, Firestore, BigQuery, Redis, GCP, Docker, Elastic search