Vice President of Engineering

Wpromote; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Half-day Fridays

Multiple medical plans

401(k) with company match

Employee Assistance Program

Unlimited PTO

LinkedIn Learning access

Job summary

Wpromote seeks an experienced engineering leader to guide managers and engineers across the Polaris IQ stack, data tools, and cloud platform. You will shape the technology strategy, drive architectural decisions, and ensure reliable delivery while balancing cost and customer value.

You’ll partner with product, UX, data science, and security to advance the Polaris roadmap, scale data products, and improve developer productivity through platform capabilities and CI/CD practices.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience.
• 5+ years leading engineering managers and multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience with modern SaaS architectures and data infrastructure.
• Strong architectural judgment and delivery ownership.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineers across application stack, data pipelines, QA, and cloud platform.
• Reduce single points of failure and enable scalable growth.
• Set high standards for technical judgment, delivery ownership, collaboration, and customer impact.
• Own capacity planning, staffing allocations, and engineering budgets.

Skills

Technical leadership

Architecture strategy

Budget & cost management

DevEx / platform engineering

CI/CD & observability

Security & compliance

Tools

GCP

Django

React

PostgreSQL

Airflow

BigQuery

dbt

GKE

Terraform

GitOps

Argo CD

GitHub Actions

Job description

• Leading, coaching, and holding accountable engineering managers and individual contributors across our application stack, data pipelines, quality engineering, and cloud platform
• Build technical leaders that reduces single points of failure and allows the organization to scale without depending on individual heroics
• Set and reinforce a high bar for technical judgment, delivery ownership, collaboration, documentation, operational discipline, and customer impact
• Own engineering capacity planning, staffing allocations, and the engineering operating budget. Manage cloud, data, AI, tooling, and software vendor spend
• Partner with Product, UX, Data Science, and the Chief Product Officer to shape the Polaris roadmap, sequence investments, expose dependencies, and make clear tradeoffs among customer value, speed, reliability, cost, and technical health
• Translate agency, client, and market needs into a coherent technology strategy across Polaris IQ, shared data products, and measurement applications
• Maintain an actionable architecture roadmap that supports product growth while retiring fragile systems, duplicated capabilities, and unnecessary operational cost
• Define and manage an engineering scorecard that tracks delivery speed and quality. Continue moving delivery toward more frequent deployments through automated testing, CI/CD, observability, release automation, and fast feedback loops
• Set and execute the engineering AI strategy. Evaluate coding agents, model providers, agent runtimes, and automation opportunities based on measurable value, security, reliability, usability, and total cost
• Own the end-to-end technical architecture across Python and Django services, React applications, PostgreSQL, Airflow, BigQuery, dbt, GKE, Cloud Run, Terraform, GitOps, Argo CD, and GitHub Actions
• Ensure data pipelines and systems deliver accurate, timely, and observable data across advertising, analytics, commerce, and client data sources
• Own service-level objectives, incident management, corrective actions, capacity planning, and risk reduction for application, platform, and data workloads
• Act as the final engineering escalation for critical incidents and high-risk architecture decisions, while ensuring durable runbooks, monitoring, and delegated ownership exist afterward
• Partner with Security and Legal on secure architecture, identity and access management, secrets, vendor risk, data governance, incident response, client assurance, and compliance obligations

Benefits

• Half-day Fridays every Friday
• 3 different medical plans to suit your needs, including a plan under $10 per month, as well as dental, vision, disability, and life insurance
• 401(k) with company matching
• Free, confidential Employee Assistance Program
• Free weekly virtual workout classes
• 100% paid parental leave policy for birth, adoption, and foster placement
• Medical and dependent care FSAs
• LinkedIn learning and access to internal training and development
• Unlimited PTO
• Organizational transparency - our c-suite and senior leadership are easily accessible to all employees, they share business updates, and recognize top employees through a monthly all-hands and a weekly CEO message
• Virtual experiences, from Slack cooking challenges to trivia tournaments and employee awards
• Wprotege mentorship program

Clear written and verbal communication, especially when explaining risk, architecture, cost, or tradeoffs to clients and non-technical leadersCalm, decisive leadership and the ability to move between executive communication and hands-on technical investigation when necessaryPractical experience adopting AI-assisted development or agentic workflows, with the judgment to balance speed against security, quality, cost, and maintainability12+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years leading engineering managers and multidisciplinary engineering organizationsA record of building healthy teams, developing leaders, raising accountability, and delivering complex products in close partnership with Product, UX, Data Science, Security, and business stakeholdersA bias toward durable systems, explicit ownership, and delegation. This role must solve urgent problems without allowing the organization to remain dependent on a single personDeep architectural judgment across modern SaaS applications, APIs, cloud infrastructure, data platforms, distributed systems, CI/CD, observability, and security. Direct experience with GCP and the Polaris stack is valuable, but equivalent depth in comparable technologies is acceptableDemonstrated ownership of cloud and software budgets, vendor relationships, capacity planning, and technical contract decisionsExperience improving developer productivity and delivery performance through platform capabilities, automation, testing, operational standards, and reporting on DevEx KPIsCustomer-facing, multi-tenant enterprise products that share data, services, or platform capabilitiesDigital marketing, advertising technology, agency technology, or high-volume data and analytics integrationsData ingestion and transformation at scale, including heterogeneous APIs, normalized data models, orchestration, warehouse design, and data quality controlsProduction support for data science and measurement applications such as marketing mix modeling, forecasting, experimentation, optimization, or anomaly detectionSOC 2 or similar control environments, enterprise identity and access management, and client security reviews