VP of Software Engineering — AI-Driven Platform Builder

SIDEARM Sports; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 300,000 - 380,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) + Match

Paid Time Off

Job summary

SIDEARM Sports seeks an engineering leader to drive a modern platform for college athletics. As Vice President of Software Engineering, you will guide 35+ engineers across web, mobile, APIs and data, owning architecture, delivery cadence and reliability.

You will partner with product, set engineering standards, scale performance for peak game days, and champion AI-driven features that enhance fan engagement. This is a builder’s seat with broad impact.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in software engineering with 6+ leading engineers, including experience leading leaders.
• AI and data literacy with practical grasp of agentic AI, data pipelines and LLMs.
• A platform you rebuilt or scaled, with experience taking legacy to modern architecture or handling order-of-magnitude traffic growth.
• Cloud architecture depth with hands-on judgment in distributed systems and multi-tenancy.
• Performance engineering with ownership of SLOs, latency and capacity planning.
• Web and mobile experience shipping native apps and web products with a shared platform underneath.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture and cloud migration, including service boundaries and API contracts.
• Maintain performance at scale with instrumentation, SLOs and capacity planning.
• Improve quality through automated tests, release gates and incident response.
• Oversee mobile and web delivery with a shared platform underneath both.
• Lead AI/data-in-product initiatives to enhance fan experience and engineering efficiency.
• Ensure security, privacy and disaster recovery align with public institutions.

Skills

Leadership of engineers

AI & data literacy

Cloud architecture

Performance engineering

Web & mobile platforms

Product partnership

Talent building

Tools

React

Node.js

TypeScript

Java

Job description

SIDEARM Sports seeks an engineering leader to drive a modern platform for college athletics. As Vice President of Software Engineering, you will guide 35+ engineers across web, mobile, APIs and data, owning architecture, delivery cadence and reliability.

You will partner with product, set engineering standards, scale performance for peak game days, and champion AI-driven features that enhance fan engagement. This is a builder’s seat with broad impact.