Director/ VP of Engineering
About The Position
Flexi Software is hiring a Director / VP of Engineering to stand up and lead a second engineering practice — an AI-forward team responsible for delivering the next-generation platform for our solutions. Reporting to the CTO, you will hire, set its technical direction, and ship modern, web-based software while holding to the enterprise standards of security, reliability, and resilience that the most mature financial institutions expect. This is a hands-on, player-coach role. You will be in the architecture and the code, not managing from a distance. We are looking for an aggressive, AI-forward engineering leader who uses AI to move fast — and who pairs that speed with the discipline and rigor our customers in banking, insurance, and financial services depend on. Both are required: we are not trading one for the other. The role can be filled at the Director or VP level depending on experience. This position is a hybrid position, working in-person with the CTO and team in our Atlanta, GA office.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in software engineering, computer science, or a related technical field — or equivalent practical experience
- 10+ years in software engineering and architecture, with deep, current, hands-on coding ability — this is a player-coach role
- 5+ years leading technical teams, including direct experience hiring and building an engineering team from the ground up
- Strong hands-on depth in modern web-based development — JavaScript, HTML, React, Vite, and related front-end technologies — and the APIs and services behind them
- Solid experience with Microsoft SQL Server and a track record of building for application and database performance at scale
- Proven, hands-on experience as an aggressive, AI-forward engineering leader who has measurably accelerated delivery using AI tooling, with a clear point of view on how to push velocity while protecting quality
- Demonstrated ability to deliver software to the standards expected in regulated, high-trust environments — security, reliability, resilience, and data integrity (banking, insurance, financial services, or similar)
- Strong technical depth across modern software architecture, cloud platforms, DevOps, and CI/CD; comfort integrating with existing C++/C# systems
- Experience managing cloud platforms and cloud spend, including cost optimization and build-versus-buy decisions
- Strong judgment in technical decision-making, cost tradeoffs, risk management, and execution planning
- Excellent communication skills with executives, product leaders, engineers, and business stakeholders
- Experience with ERP, accounting, financial, or other enterprise systems of record is highly desirable, especially B2B enterprise software
Nice To Haves
- Experience with AWS and/or Azure, Containerization, Terraform, CI/CD, and observability platforms
- Practical AI engineering experience — using LLMs, coding assistants, and agentic workflows to accelerate software delivery and, where valuable, to ship customer-facing capabilities
- Strong software engineering background in C++, C#, TypeScript, Python, or similar
- Experience with TDD, event-driven architecture, microservices, and platform engineering
Responsibilities
- Stand up a second, AI-forward engineering practice — hire, structure, and lead the team responsible for delivering Flexi’s next-generation platform
- Own delivery of the next-generation platform end to end, from architecture through development, QA, release, and ongoing operation
- Operate as a hands-on player-coach: stay in the architecture and the code, contribute directly, review your team’s work, and lift the bar by example — not from a distance
- Lead the team’s use of AI to accelerate delivery, embedding AI across coding, code review, testing, and documentation, and pushing aggressively for speed without sacrificing quality
- Build on modern web-based technologies — JavaScript, HTML, React, Vite, and similar — backed by Microsoft SQL Server, with a strong focus on application and database performance
- Hold the new practice to the enterprise standards expected of financial institutions: security, reliability, resilience, data integrity, and the controls our regulated customers depend on
- Partner with the CTO to define architecture standards, platform direction, and how the new practice integrates with Flexi’s existing C++/C# and DevOps environment
- Establish sound engineering discipline from day one — coding standards, testing, CI/CD, observability, and release practices — for a team being built from the ground up
- Manage cloud platforms and cloud spend; make sound build-versus-buy decisions and optimize cost without compromising scalability, security, or reliability
- Hire, onboard, and develop engineers; coach toward strong technical careers and identify the team’s future technical leaders
- Define and own engineering KPIs around delivery velocity, system reliability, performance, quality, and cost efficiency
- Partner closely with Product to turn the roadmap into shipped customer-facing software
Benefits
- paid holidays
- paid time off
- 401(k) Plan with company participation
- health and dental insurance
- life and disability insurance
- vision discount plan
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
