Senior Vice President of Engineering

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KoalafiFintech lending

Remote opportunities are available to candidates throughout the United States.Full-TimeVp

Salary$275,000-$325,000 per year (depending on experience and location); eligible to participate in company bonus plan.

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Bring 15+ years of progressive engineering experience.
Have substantial experience leading managers and senior engineering leaders across multiple teams.
Have owned organization-wide engineering strategy, delivery, talent, and investment decisions.
Demonstrate architectural judgment across complex applications, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and data platforms.
Understand how engineering decisions affect revenue, cost, customer experience, and risk.
Have a track record of building high-performing organizations and developing managers into stronger leaders.
Be able to point to AI tools personally built, workflows redesigned, or experiments run.
Balance modernization with delivery, speed with reliability, and ambition with available capacity.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
Preferred: experience in fintech, payments, lending, or regulated, transaction-intensive environments.
Preferred: familiarity with Go, Node.js, React, AWS, Kubernetes, and native iOS and Android development.
Preferred: familiarity with frontier models, coding agents, and production evaluations and guardrails.

Set engineering strategy, investment priorities, and execution plans with the CPTO, Head of Product, and cross-functional leaders.
Own engineering delivery, address delivery risks, and align leaders on corrective actions.
Partner across business functions to connect technical decisions to growth, customer experience, operating efficiency, and risk.
Guide architectural decisions and the evolution of applications, core services, and data platforms.
Lead and develop engineering leaders and managers, including hiring, succession planning, and performance management.
Strengthen quality, test automation, delivery practices, observability, and operational readiness.
Own engineering budget and capacity planning with the CPTO and Finance.
Build and experiment with AI tools, and turn useful experiments into repeatable practices with measurable improvements.
Partner with business leaders to identify and implement AI, automation, and internal-tool solutions with appropriate safeguards.

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