Vice President, Engineering

Bloomerang

4h•Remote

About The Position

As the Vice President of Engineering overseeing our Fundraising Product and Payments Systems, you will own the technical strategy and execution for the products that sit at the heart of how tens of thousands of nonprofit organizations raise money and process donations. Our fundraising platform powers online giving, campaign management, and donor engagement, while our unified payments systems provide reliable payment processing across the Bloomerang ecosystem. This role demands a leader who can drive operational rigor in mission-critical payment infrastructure while accelerating innovation in AI-powered fundraising experiences. You'll work closely with Product leadership, fellow VPs of Engineering, Head of Quality Assurance, Head of Agile Operations, and Head of Information Security to deliver secure, scalable solutions that help nonprofits raise more money, reduce friction in the giving experience, and unlock new fundraising strategies through intelligent automation and predictive insights. We're looking for someone who is not just comfortable with the pace of AI-driven change, but is energized by it. You should be the kind of leader who rolls up their sleeves, digs into the details, and holds teams to a high bar while creating the conditions for them to do their best work.

Requirements

15+ years of software engineering experience with at least 10 years in senior leadership roles, preferably including experience scaling engineering teams through high-growth phases
Proven track record building and leading engineering teams of 30+ engineers across multiple products or domains, with demonstrated ability to set and maintain a high performance bar
Experience with payment processing systems, fundraising/donation platforms, or financial transaction infrastructure, including familiarity with PCI-DSS compliance and payment security requirements
Curiosity and conviction around AI's impact on software development, with hands-on experience driving adoption of AI coding and quality tools and measuring their impact on team velocity and output quality
Technical expertise across PHP, .NET Core, React, and AWS cloud infrastructure, with the ability to make sound architectural decisions across heterogeneous technology stacks
Experience managing complex technical integrations, platform migrations, and production systems where reliability and uptime are non-negotiable
A leadership style that combines high expectations with humility. You hold teams accountable, but you're equally willing to roll up your sleeves and work alongside them
Strong collaboration skills with product leadership, with experience translating business requirements into technical strategy in fast-moving competitive markets
Experience with DevOps practices and toolchains for continuous delivery at scale, particularly in regulated or compliance-sensitive environments
Excellent communication skills with ability to influence technical direction across multiple engineering teams and stakeholder groups, including clear and direct communication with executive leadership

Responsibilities

Lead and scale a high-performing engineering organization responsible for fundraising tools and payment processing systems serving the nonprofit sector
Drive technical execution across our PHP/React fundraising platform and .NET Core/React payments services, ensuring reliability, performance, and rapid feature delivery on AWS infrastructure
Own the operational excellence of our payments systems, including uptime, transaction reliability, PCI compliance, and seamless onboarding for customers across the Bloomerang platform
Contribute to and execute our AI-native product strategy, building co-pilot and agent capabilities that help nonprofits optimize campaigns, predict donor behavior, and automate fundraising workflows
Champion and drive AI tool adoption across your teams, pushing engineers to fundamentally rethink how they build software using tools like Cursor, Claude Code, AI-powered code review and quality analysis tools, and emerging AI coding assistants, while partnering with other engineering leaders to define shared adoption quality and impact metrics
Challenge teams to operate with a different mindset: faster iteration cycles, higher leverage per engineer, and a willingness to reimagine existing workflows rather than incrementally improve them
Collaborate with Product leadership to develop predictive analytics, intelligent giving experiences, and AI-powered features that differentiate Bloomerang in the nonprofit fundraising market
Establish technical roadmaps that balance payments platform stability and compliance requirements with aggressive innovation in AI-powered fundraising capabilities
Ensure secure, PCI-compliant payment processing and donor financial data management while maintaining the highest standards for data protection and privacy
Build and mentor engineering leadership, fostering a culture of accountability, intensity, and continuous improvement where leaders at every level do hard things and hold each other to high standards
Partner with cross-functional leaders to deliver high-quality software on aggressive timelines that support our growth trajectory
Get hands-on when needed, whether that's debugging a production payments issue, reviewing architecture decisions, or pairing with a team to unblock a critical initiative