Director of Engineering, Platform and Infrastructure

Vouch is looking for a Director of Engineering, platform and infrastructure to join the Vouch engineering leadership team. The director of platform and infrastructure engineering will be accountable for delivering a variety of software solutions to power Vouch’s rapidly growing insurance business and provide leverage to other engineering and operations teams throughout the company. This role is accountable for core systems and infrastructure to deliver core system components in a service-oriented environment, including foundation technologies such as authorization and authentication, company and user identity across multiple integrated systems, our data warehouse and an advanced data analytics platform, our AI and ML pipeline infrastructure, and core data entity services that underpin our entire system. Success in this role will require a strong combination of deep and broad technical experience and effective team-building and organizational leadership.  Demonstrated experience hiring and managing other managers/senior managers and working closely with senior leaders to translate strategic goals into effective execution plans is required.

Job Duties:

• Hire, develop, and organize strong technical talent across an organization of 30+ engineers
• Partner with architects and the CTO to define architectural and technical innovation objectives and translate these into effective execution
• Play a key leadership role in one or more company-wide strategic initiatives and effectively interface with insurance, sales, and operations leaders.
• Partner with other engineering leaders to drive growth and maturity of our engineering practices, disciplines, and culture.
• Ensure management of software delivery projects on time and within budget
• Effectively manage SaaS and other operational expenses

About You:

• Have 10+ years of software delivery leadership experience
• Have hired, mentored, and promoted managers and leaders in software delivery roles
• Have experience building multiple distributed systems and migration to Service Oriented Architectures in a complex system environment
• Are conversant with all and expert in some of these relevant technologies and paradigms:  SOA, Event-based solutions, knowledge graphs, dbt/data modeling, machine learning, LLM or related technologies, product information systems, identity and authentication standards, and protocols.
• Experience managing very senior technical staff such as principal scientists, staff engineers, and fellows.
• Have exceptional communication skills. You can effectively talk (and listen) to engineers, designers, product managers, executives, and other stakeholders
• Deep experience with complex data and entity modeling
• Highly proficiency with a variety of imperative programming architectural patterns with bonus points for basic ML/AI concepts and Production Rules paradigm

Tools & Technologies:

• Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Java (Scala, Kotlin), Python
• Terraform, Consul, Nomad, Docker
• Multiple RDBMS, Snowflake, Document DBs
• ML/AI frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, etc.

Vouch provides a number of benefits to help you bring your best self to work:

• Competitive compensation and equity packages
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Parental leave
• Flexible vacation time (Unlimited PTO)
• Wellness allowance ($80/month)
• Technology allowance ($100/month)
• Monthly Doordash credits ($80/month)

Salary Range:

The pay range for this role is: $250,000 to $275,000 per year.