Remote VP of Engineering — Lead, Build, Scale

Egreenservices; Newark (DE); Remote; USD 245,000 - 378,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full medical, dental, vision benefits

Generous paid time off

Mentorship from day one

Job summary

Social Change Institute is seeking a VP of Engineering for a remote role based near Newark, DE. The candidate will own technical direction, drive robust design reviews, and mentor a fast-moving engineering team. The position offers a compelling salary range, comprehensive benefits, and clear growth paths.

You will lead architectural decisions, modernize REST services, and promote best practices in testing, security, and observability while maintaining strong stakeholder communication.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of standing behind your own estimates.
• Excellent written and verbal communication across channels.
• Strong hands-on capability with modern tech and problem solving.
• Familiar with Accountability and Redis side projects.
• Proven ability to explain complex topics clearly.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical design reviews for VP technology initiatives.
• Decode the undocumented REST API service nobody at Social Change Institute remembers writing.
• Automate the manual Scrum chores that quietly drain Newark, DE engineering hours.
• Hand off Accountability runbooks so the next on-call at Social Change Institute sleeps better.
• Configure and manage infrastructure as code across staging and production.
• Stress-test Ruby on Rails systems until they bend, then harden where they cracked.
• Untangle the REST API dependency knots that have slowed Newark releases for months.
• Drive adoption of best practices in testing, security, and observability.

Skills

Cypress

Growth mindset

Hands-on experience

Redis projects

12+ years experience

Communication

Simplicity

Tools

Ruby on Rails

Job description

Social Change Institute is seeking a VP of Engineering for a remote role based near Newark, DE. The candidate will own technical direction, drive robust design reviews, and mentor a fast-moving engineering team. The position offers a compelling salary range, comprehensive benefits, and clear growth paths.

You will lead architectural decisions, modernize REST services, and promote best practices in testing, security, and observability while maintaining strong stakeholder communication.