Vice President, Engineering

S-Docs; Ann Arbor (MI); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

S-Docs is seeking a VP of Engineering in Ann Arbor, Michigan to lead their engineering efforts. This key role focuses on managing a global team, driving product development, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality software solutions. The ideal candidate will have over 15 years of software engineering experience, notably in leadership roles, and extensive knowledge of Salesforce and modern SaaS architectures. The position requires strong people leadership skills and a pragmatic approach to engineering challenges.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in software engineering with leadership experience.
• 10+ years developing on the Salesforce platform.
• Strong understanding of enterprise architecture patterns.

Responsibilities

• Lead Engineering organization ensuring high-quality outcomes.
• Drive development for product features and initiatives.
• Optimize global engineering operations including offshore teams.

Skills

Salesforce platform knowledge

Engineering leadership

SaaS architecture understanding

Java expertise

REST API design

Large Language Models knowledge

Cybersecurity best practices

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related

Advanced degree preferred

Certified Technical Architect (CTA)

Tools

Postgres RDBMS

Mulesoft

Job description

Role Overview

As the VP of Engineering at S-Docs, you will lead the execution, delivery, and people management of our Engineering organization, ensuring the reliable, scalable development of our document generation and e-signature platform. This role serves as a senior leader and key partner to the CTO, translating technical strategy into disciplined execution, delivery excellence, and team effectiveness. You will own the day-to-day leadership of Engineering, including development velocity, quality, and team performance, while building strong operating rhythms, scalable processes, and a high-performing engineering culture. This role is global in nature, with responsibility for managing a distributed engineering organization that includes an offshore development team in India. Working closely with Product, Customer Solutions, Customer Success, Support, and the broader Executive Leadership Team, you will ensure Engineering is aligned to business priorities, customer needs, and long-term platform scalability. This role is critical to enabling S-Docs’ continued growth while maintaining technical and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the Engineering organization, ensuring consistent execution, delivery predictability, and high-quality outcomes across all engineering initiatives.
• Hands-on involvement to drive architecture, design and development for product features and initiatives.
• Drive quality control of the product delivered through automation and strong quality engineering processes.
• Serve as the primary people leader for Engineering, building, mentoring, and retaining high-performing engineering leaders and teams.
• Oversee and optimize global engineering operations, including direct leadership and partnership management of the offshore engineering team in India.
• Establish and maintain strong operating cadences, development processes, and performance metrics to support scalable and reliable software delivery.
• Partner closely with the CTO to translate architecture, product vision and technical strategy into actionable plans, roadmaps, and execution.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Customer Solutions, Customer Success, and Support to ensure engineering efforts are aligned with customer needs and business priorities.
• Drive continuous improvement in engineering practices, including code quality, testing, security, documentation, and deployment processes.
• Support capacity planning, resourcing decisions, and prioritization to balance innovation, technical debt, and operational stability.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning across a distributed, global engineering team.
• Contribute to executive-level planning and decision-making.

Qualifications

• Deep working knowledge of the Salesforce platform that includes both declarative and programmatic capabilities.
• Strong engineering leadership capability with the ability to balance strategic thinking and hands-on operational execution.
• Deep understanding of modern SaaS architectures, cloud-based platforms, observability and enterprise-grade software development practices.
• Deep understanding of enterprise architecture patterns and best practices with specific knowledge on Java, Postgres RDBMS, asynchronous processing via messaging platforms.
• Strong working knowledge of i-PaaS integration platforms (e.g. Mulesoft, Workato, etc.).
• Deep understanding of REST API architecture and design with emphasis on security, authentication and authorization.
• Deep understanding of security, cyber security best practices for cloud-based applications.
• Strong knowledge of Large Language Models (LLM) and AI-based technologies using frontier LLM models.
• Proven ability to lead and scale distributed and global engineering teams across multiple time zones.
• Exceptional people leadership skills, including coaching, performance management, and talent development.
• Strong business acumen with the ability to align engineering outcomes to company goals and customer value.
• Clear, confident communication skills with the ability to engage effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Self-driven combined with curiosity, ability to explore and learn new technologies and paradigms.
• A pragmatic, execution-oriented mindset with a focus on outcomes, reliability, and continuous improvement.

Experience

• 15+ years of professional experience in software engineering, with significant time spent in engineering leadership roles.
• 10+ years of designing and hands-on development on the Salesforce platform.
• 8-10 years of designing and developing with Java, relational databases, REST APIs, and enterprise architecture.
• Demonstrated success leading engineering teams within a SaaS or enterprise software environment.
• Experience managing global engineering organizations, including offshore or outsourced development partners.
• Proven track record of building scalable engineering processes and delivering complex software platforms.
• Experience partnering closely with Product and executive leadership to support company growth and strategic initiatives.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, evolving environment while maintaining structure and discipline.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field is required.
• Advanced degree preferred.
• Certified Technical Architect (CTA) strongly preferred.

Location

Location: It is strongly preferred that the candidate is located in the Greater Detroit or Ann Arbor, Michigan area and available to work from the Ann Arbor office on occasion as needed for team collaboration or company events. Exceptions can be made outside the area for the right candidate, with frequent travel to Ann Arbor expected.