VP of Engineering

Startupforge; Oceanside (CA); On-site; USD 298,000 - 444,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentoring from senior engineers

Career growth track

Job summary

StartupForge seeks a VP of Engineering to own features end-to-end—from architecture to deployment and monitoring. The role offers a $298,000 - $444,000 annual package and a clear growth track, with a team where extensive experience meaningfully drives the company forward, especially in the Oceanside market.

You will defend uptime, ship regular platform improvements, mentor teams, and trace metrics to strategic plans.

Qualifications

• Minimum 14 years in software/tech leadership roles.
• Strong problem-solving and architectural judgment.
• Ability to navigate ambiguous, fast-moving environments.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end feature development from architecture to deployment.
• Maintain uptime with proactive monitoring and incident response.
• Ship incremental platform improvements on a regular cadence.
• Trace cost and performance metrics back to strategic decisions.
• Mentor engineers and product teams to raise the bar.

Skills

Self-direction

Design-led mindset

Prioritization

CA market knowledge

14+ years experience

Job description

As a VP of Engineering at StartupForge, you will own features end to end, from architecture through deployment and monitoring. We offer $298,000 - $444,000, a clear growth track, and a team where your 12 years of experience genuinely move the needle.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the full lifecycle of technology systems from prototype to production
• Defend StartupForge uptime through the 2 a.m. Oceanside pages nobody volunteers for
• Ship incremental improvements to StartupForge's Oceanside platform on a regular cadence
• Trace a technology number back through Strategic Planning services until it finally adds up
• Carry the Jest platform work that makes StartupForge's next CA expansion boring
• Ship Mentoring fixes to StartupForge customers in Oceanside, CA the same day they report them
• Read the Mentoring stack traces others skim past, and trace bugs to their root
• Build gRPC dashboards so StartupForge's technology team stops asking engineers for numbers

What You'll Bring

• Self-direction that survives a quiet Slack channel
• A design-led attitude and eagerness to learn new skills
• A steady hand when three priorities all claim to be number one
• An instinct for prioritization when everything is labeled urgent
• A CA sensibility, or genuine curiosity about this market
• 14+ years that left you with strong instincts and few *illusions*

StartupForge earns its keep by making technology predictable, a data-driven promise it has quietly kept across CA. We hold space for disagreement, then commit fully once the technology call is made.

We pair $298,000 - $444,000 with a seasoned mentor, so your Jest sharpens fast while the benefits quietly take care of everything else.

As of today's date, this VP of Engineering req has not been filled.