Hybrid Vice President, Engineering

Posted last month

Apply now

About the role

  • Lead Jiffy’s technical strategy and own the technology roadmap from infrastructure to architecture to shipping impactful products.
  • Build and scale the engineering team: hire, coach, and performance-manage a team valuing speed, quality, and customer impact.
  • Mentor technical leaders while staying hands-on to guide system-level decisions and unblock teams.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Marketing, and Operations to align technology with business outcomes and translate strategy into customer-focused goals.
  • Lead architecture for high-volume, transactional systems powering e-commerce, logistics, and custom manufacturing.
  • Ship fast and iterate while maintaining technical excellence.
  • Evaluate and adopt technology thoughtfully to drive performance and scale.
  • Ensure security, scalability, and reliability across platforms and infrastructure.
  • Drive a high-performance culture that embraces accountability and addresses underperformance.

Requirements

  • 8 - 12+ years of progressive engineering experience
  • At least 3+ years leading teams at a senior level (VP, Head of Engineering, or founding engineer scaling a team)
  • Bachelors Degree in Computer Science
  • Hacker mindset: built and shipped complex systems and can dive deep
  • Experience with high-volume transactional systems, e-commerce platforms, logistics, or custom manufacturing
  • Pragmatic leader: balance vision with execution and ship fast while keeping quality
  • Cross-functional collaborator able to engage with Product and Marketing at a strategic level
  • Effective people manager who sets a high bar and addresses underperformance
  • AI/ML expertise or hands-on experience integrating AI into products (plus)
  • Experience with mobile apps (nice-to-have)
  • Not focused on academic publications — emphasis on solving real-world problems
  • Preferred: Advanced degree in Computer Science or mathematics or equivalent deep technical expertise
  • Preferred tech stack: AWS-hosted platform, Ruby on Rails, Vercel / Angular, Rust, Python

Benefits

  • Competitive salary, equity opportunities, and performance-based bonuses.
  • Full medical, dental, and vision coverage (portion of premiums paid by Jiffy).
  • 401(k) retirement plan.
  • Annual wellness benefits.
  • Choice of MacBook or PC laptop and home office equipment allowance.
  • Annual $200 credit to use on Jiffy website and team merchandise perks.
  • Annual professional development stipend.

Job title

Vice President, Engineering

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

$350,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

Report this job

See something inaccurate? Let us know and we'll update the listing.

Report job