VP of Engineering

poolside; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative AI software company is seeking a VP of Engineering to lead and scale their engineering organization. The role requires a strong engineering leader with experience in hypergrowth environments and a track record in building developer tools. This position offers fully remote work, generous vacation, and a supportive work culture focused on diversity and inclusion.

Benefits

Fully remote work & flexible hours

37 days/year of vacation & holidays

Health insurance allowance

Company-provided equipment

Wellbeing and home office allowances

Frequent team get-togethers

Diverse and inclusive culture

Qualifications

• Experience in engineering leadership roles during hypergrowth.
• Proven track record of scaling engineering teams and leading managers.
• Experience with developer tools or relevant products.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the engineering vision and strategy.
• Lead and mentor a team of engineering leaders.
• Partner with Product and other teams for alignment.
• Own engineering budgets and resource allocation.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Team scaling

Delivery management

Building developer tools

Job description

About Poolside

In this decade, the world will create artificial intelligence that reaches human level intelligence (and beyond) by combining learning and search. There will only be a small number of companies who will achieve this. Their ability to stack advantages and pull ahead will determine who survives and wins. These companies will move faster than anyone else. They will attract the world's most capable talent. They will be on the forefront of applied research and engineering at scale. They will create powerful economic engines. They will continue to scale their training to larger & more capable models. They will be given the right to raise large amounts of capital along their journey to enable this.

Poolside exists to be one of these companies - to build a world where AI will drive the majority of economically valuable work and scientific progress.

We believe that software development will be the first major capability in neural networks that reaches human-level intelligence because it's the domain where we can combine Search and Learning approaches the best.

At Poolside we believe our applied research needs to culminate in products that are put in the hands of people. Today we focus on building for a developer-led increasingly AI-assisted world. We believe that current capabilities of AI lead to incredible tooling that can assist developers in their day to day work. We also believe that as we increase the capabilities of our models, we increasingly empower anyone in the world to be able to build software. We envision a future where not 100 million people can build software but 2 billion people can.

About Our Team

We are a remote-first team that sits across Europe and North America and comes together once a month in-person for 3 days and for longer offsites twice a year.

Our R&D and production teams are a combination of more research and more engineering-oriented profiles, however, everyone deeply cares about the quality of the systems we build and has a strong underlying knowledge of software development. We believe that good engineering leads to faster development iterations, which allows us to compound our efforts.

About The Role

As Poolside’s VP of Engineering, you will be responsible for all things in our engineering roadmap, building a high-performance culture, and ensuring scalability across multiple teams and company priorities. You will oversee multiple engineering teams, partner closely with product and GTM, and be the ultimate delivery owner. You will also travel significantly between the US and Europe.

YOUR MISSION

Build and scale a world-class engineering organization that takes AI from a developer tool to a universal platform for human knowledge work. Starting with developer tools and multi-agent systems for the enterprise, you will drive the technical foundation that expands into broader AI applications across new verticals and consumer experiences. Your success will be measured by our ability to ship products that scale from IDE assistants today to enterprise agent orchestration to eventually powering AI experiences that transform how all knowledge work gets done—maintaining startup velocity while building the infrastructure for a generational AI company.

Delivery, delivery and delivery. Today we work with large defense contractors and the public sector, tomorrow with enterprise at large and directly with developers. We’re building products and systems to be used by millions and joining this early on will offer the chance to see it all from the beginning.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the overall engineering vision, strategy, and organizational structure
• Lead, mentor, and scale a team of engineering leaders, including Heads of Engineering and Engineering Managers
• Partner with Product, GTM, and other teams to drive alignment and efficiency
• Set the standard for delivery and drive across the engineering organisation
• Own engineering budgets, headcount planning, and resource allocation
• Represent engineering at the leadership level, communicating progress and challenges effectively

Skills & Experience

• Experience in engineering leadership roles, having witnessed and managed hypergrowth
• Proven track record of scaling engineering teams and leading managers and leaders
• Experience building developer tools, agents or products that might be relevant to Poolside’s context

Benefits

• Fully remote work & flexible hours
• 37 days/year of vacation & holidays
• Health insurance allowance for you and dependents
• Company-provided equipment
• Wellbeing, always-be-learning and home office allowances
• Frequent team get togethers
• Great diverse & inclusive people-first culture

Seniority level: Executive

Employment type: Full-time

Job function: Engineering and Information Technology

Industries: Software Development