VP of Engineering

Egreenservices; Salem (OR); On-site; USD 243,000 - 363,000; Full time

Job summary

Sears, based in Salem, is seeking a VP of Engineering for a freelance-capable leadership role. You will guide critical platform areas, ensure code quality, and drive cross-functional excellence across React and Go components to keep the technology stack cohesive and secure.

The role emphasizes on-call responsiveness, incident postmortems, and mentoring a team through complex architectural decisions, with a compensation range reflecting senior leadership in a freelance-capable environment.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering bad news clearly.
• Familiarity with the Salem market and local technology landscape.
• Ability to mentor without taking over the keyboard.
• 13 years of learning when to trust the process and when to break it.
• Good judgment to distinguish a fire drill from an actual fire.
• Critical thinking and independent judgment.

Responsibilities

• Drive adoption of best practices in testing, security, and observability.
• Respond to on-call rotations and participate in incident postmortems.
• Carry an impact-driven JavaScript feature through code freeze without breaking Sears stability.
• Set the Professionalism coding standards the rest of Sears engineering follows.
• Bridge React and Go so the two halves of Sears's platform finally talk.
• Track and report on key performance metrics for technology services.
• Keep Sears's Interpersonal Skills dependencies patched before CVEs become incidents.
• Untangle the Interpersonal Skills dependency knots that have slowed Salem releases for months.

Skills

Composure under pressure

Salem market familiarity

Mentor others

13 years experience

Judgment under fire drills

Job description

The VP of Engineering we're hiring will inherit a technology codebase with good bones and a few skeletons; Sears is honest about both. Trade your Jest and 14 years for $243,000 - $363,000 at Sears, and the growth that follows is yours to build.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive adoption of best practices in testing, security, and observability
• Respond to on-call rotations and participate in incident postmortems
• Carry an impact-driven JavaScript feature through code freeze without breaking Sears stability
• Set the Professionalism coding standards the rest of Sears engineering follows
• Bridge React and Go so the two halves of Sears's platform finally talk
• Track and report on key performance metrics for technology services
• Keep Sears's Interpersonal Skills dependencies patched before the CVEs become incidents
• Untangle the Interpersonal Skills dependency knots that have slowed Salem releases for months

What You'll Bring

• The composure to deliver bad news early and clearly
• Familiarity with the Salem market and local technology landscape
• Comfort being the newest person in the room and the loudest in the notes
• 13 years of learning when to trust the process and when to break it
• The patience to mentor without taking over the keyboard
• The judgement to distinguish a fire drill from an actual fire
• Critical thinking skills and sound, independent judgment

Trusted by businesses nationwide, Sears operates a collaborative technology platform from its Salem base. We keep ego out of code review and let the Self-Motivation argument win on its merits.

The offer reads $243,000 - $363,000, plus the soft stuff that hard-wins loyalty: coaching, coverage, and a flexible freelance rhythm.

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