VP, Engineering
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15 hours ago
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Job Summary
Our engineering org is 30 people fully Ukraine-based and part of a broader 65-person Ukraine team that spans product data science design and marketing. The VP Engineering leads that engineering org and is a member of the executive leadership team reporting directly to the Chief Product & Technology Officer.
This is a hands-on leadership role. You will set technical direction build culture and contribute directly to innovation through prototyping and architectural work alongside your team.
What Youll Own:- Define and drive the engineering roadmap across a multi-product platform ensuring architectural decisions are coherent durable and tied to business outcomes
- Serve as the senior technical voice in cross-functional planning shaping product and data decisions alongside peers in Product Data Science and Design
- Set and maintain standards for code quality system design and operational reliability including the legacy systems and architectural debt that are already in production and need active stewardship
- Own production reliability end-to-end including 24/7 incident response and escalation. This role is accountable for uptime and operational health across a live multi-product platform.
- Build a culture where architecture decisions service ownership runbooks and onboarding materials are written down kept current and treated as engineering deliverables
Developer Experience and Agentic Engineering
- Own the engineering toolchain as the platform for how work gets done: CI/CD pipelines release infrastructure error tracking and the agentic development environment your team operates within
- Lead the orgs transition to AI-assisted and agentic development practices defining where and how AI agents participate in the development lifecycle from code generation to testing to deployment and where engineers stay in the loop
AI-Native Product Development
- Lead the design and delivery of AI and agentic capabilities within the products: systems that monitor reason and act on behalf of users
- Prototype and build proof-of-concepts directly to validate ideas and set direction for the team
- Build engineering practices around LLM integration agentic workflows and AI-driven automation at the product level
- Develop team-wide judgment on where AI systems operate autonomously and where human review is required and design products accordingly
Note: this is an active and required capability for this role. Candidates should have shipped something in this space not just a point of view about it.
Team Leadership
- Lead and develop 30 engineers organized across: Backend Engineering Full Stack Engineering Data Engineering Infrastructure and DevOps QA and Architecture
- Grow engineering leads into accountable autonomous owners with strong technical judgment
- Build a culture of product engineering where engineers own outcomes operate with high autonomy and are accountable to users and business results not delivery processes.
- Build a high-trust async-first operating culture across a fully distributed Ukraine-based team
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Partner with Product Data Science Design and Commercial leadership as a full peer in executive discussions
- Communicate engineering strategy and status clearly to the CPTO CEO and board when required
- Proactively surface risks decisions and opportunities across the organization
Qualifications:
Background
- 8 years in engineering leadership with meaningful time at the VP level or equivalent scope
- Experience at a product-led company with a track record of owning outcomes across the full software lifecycle
- Experience leading and developing distributed engineering teams within a global organization
- Familiarity with the operational realities of multi-product platforms: shared infrastructure competing priorities and the tradeoffs that come with scale including the legacy systems that are part of any platform that has been in production for years
AI and Agentic Systems
- Demonstrated experience shipping products where AI or agentic systems are in the critical path
- A clear point of view on how to design products around AI capabilities responsibly and effectively
- Ability to prototype and build directly and to use that work to lead the team technically
Technology
Our stack includes: Ruby Go TypeScript Python React Databricks PostgreSQL AWS Kubernetes and GitHub Actions. TypeScript and are central to the product roadmap and hands-on familiarity with both is expected. The ability to reason well about systems and lead credibly across a broad technical surface matters more than deep experience in every layer of the stack.
Communication
- Business-level written and spoken English is required. This role involves direct participation in English-language executive discussions partner conversations and external communications.
- Clear precise and proactive communication across all levels of the organization
Ways of Working
- Proactive and systems-oriented: you identify what needs attention and act
- Hands-on: you contribute through prototypes design documents and architectural review
- A member of the executive team first with a remit that extends beyond the engineering organization
Required Experience:
Exec
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About Company
Simulmedia's cross-channel TV advertising platform can help you find, measure, and scale high-intent audiences across linear TV, connected TV, and games.
