AI-Driven VP of Software Engineering — Remote & Flexible

CXT Software; United States; Remote; USD 260,000 - 520,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Access to AI engineering tools

100% remote

Flexible hours

Growth path

Ionic tools

Community events

Job summary

CXT Software is seeking an AI-Native VP of Software Engineering to lead our engineering and SaaS operations end to end and to define how it builds and runs software in the AI era. You will own people, architecture, quality, delivery, production reliability, and customer outcomes.

Our stack is .NET, C#, JavaScript/TypeScript, Angular, SQL, MAUI, and Azure PaaS. Reporting to the CTO, you will shape how we build and run software with AI, verify adoption through real behavior rather than dashboards,

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 12+ years in software engineering, including 5+ years in engineering leadership and 2+ years managing managers.
• Led a multi-team engineering organization through managers, across several products with separate codebases, including legacy modernization.
• Led engineering for a B2B SaaS product and owned its production operations through a team: reliability, on-call, incidents, security operations, and cloud cost.
• Uses AI coding assistants and agents in production work today, and has led their adoption across multiple teams with measured results.
• Designed and run engineering experiments with baselines, success metrics, and clear decision criteria.
• Hands-on experience running flow-based delivery (Kanban or similar) at scale, with CI/CD, automated testing, and release management.
• Still reads code and reviews architecture; experience in our stack is a plus.
• Led a remote, distributed engineering organization; professional English; regular overlap with North American business hours.

Responsibilities

• Lead, hire, and develop Directors, architects, and their teams; set and hold the hiring bar.
• Make AI-assisted development, testing, review, and operations the way the organization works; verify adoption through real behavior, not dashboards; and coach leaders and skeptical senior engineers through the change.
• Run engineering experiments with baselines and clear scale, modify, or stop decisions.
• Own quality, releases, and production reliability: uptime and SLAs, on-call, incidents, security operations, and cloud cost.
• Own architecture across our products, including legacy modernization and standards for AI-generated code.
• Plan and deliver the roadmap with Product, raise trade-offs early, and drive customer escalations to root cause with Customer Success.

Skills

Leadership experience

Managing managers

B2B SaaS production operations

AI coding assistants adoption

CI/CD and release management

Remote/distributed team leadership

Education

Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Azure PaaS

AI coding assistants

Job description

CXT Software is seeking an AI-Native VP of Software Engineering to lead our engineering and SaaS operations end to end and to define how it builds and runs software in the AI era. You will own people, architecture, quality, delivery, production reliability, and customer outcomes.

Our stack is .NET, C#, JavaScript/TypeScript, Angular, SQL, MAUI, and Azure PaaS. Reporting to the CTO, you will shape how we build and run software with AI, verify adoption through real behavior rather than dashboards,