VP of Engineering

Energy Innovation Corp; West Valley City (UT); Hybrid; USD 244,000 - 365,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentorship program

Remote options

Competitive compensation

Job summary

DigitalCore is seeking a VP of Engineering in West Valley City, UT. The role centers on ownership, resolving incidents, and automating REST API chores to optimize engineering hours. The position offers a hybrid schedule and a salary range of $244,000 to $365,000 with remote options.

The candidate will design, build, and maintain backend services using Ruby and MySQL, and mentor the team through complex tech initiatives. Relocation to West Valley City or remote work is supported.

Qualifications

• Experience in engineering leadership and incident management.
• Strong background in backend services and API design.
• Willingness to relocate to West Valley City, UT, or to work remotely.

Responsibilities

• Troubleshoot and resolve production incidents across Innovation-based applications.
• Automate manual REST API chores to save engineering hours.
• Monitor system health and set up alerting for production environments.
• Design, build, and maintain backend services using Ruby and MySQL.
• Trace a technology number through Spring Boot services.
• Backfill Rust test coverage on risky code areas.
• Break large initiatives into Ruby increments for West Valley City delivery.
• Resurrect flaky Rust tests to stabilize the West Valley City, UT suite.

Skills

REST API fundamentals

Spring Boot

Backend leadership

Tools

Ruby

MySQL

Rust

Spring Boot

Job description

This is a VP of Engineering position for the person who automated their own job once and immediately wanted to do it again. The center of gravity here is ownership — $244,000 - $365,000 and a hybrid schedule orbit it, and 12 years gets you in the door.

Key Responsibilities

• Troubleshoot and resolve production incidents across Innovation-based applications
• Automate the manual REST API chores that quietly drain West Valley City, UT engineering hours
• Monitor system health and set up alerting for quietly-ambitious production environments
• Design, build, and maintain reliable backend services using Ruby and MySQL
• Trace a technology number back through Spring Boot services until it finally adds up
• Backfill Rust test coverage on the riskiest corners of DigitalCore's codebase
• Break large technology initiatives into Ruby increments West Valley City can actually deliver
• Resurrect flaky Rust tests until the West Valley City, UT suite is trustworthy again

What You'll Bring

• Sharp organizational skills and an ability to juggle multiple workstreams
• REST API fundamentals plus the Spring Boot polish clients notice
• Comfort being the newest person in the room and the loudest in the notes
• Willingness to relocate to West Valley City, UT, or to make remote work

Half the technology platforms in UT quietly depend on something DigitalCore built in West Valley City with underdog-spirited care. We keep the West Valley City, UT office quiet on Wednesdays so deep Innovation work actually gets a fighting chance.

Take $244,000 - $365,000, add a mentor invested in your rise, layer on benefits and remote options, and that is the DigitalCore offer in one breath.

The West Valley City, UT office is bringing people on this season, and this is one of those roles.