VP, Engineering

Rebuy, Inc.

2d•$225,000 - $300,000•Remote

About The Position

At Rebuy, we're on a mission to revolutionize shopping with intelligent, personalized experiences that wow customers around the globe. As a fully remote team, we power some of the fastest growing DTC brands like Tecovas, Momofuku, Dime Beauty, Liquid Death, Magic Spoon, OLLY, and many more. We believe in ownership, drive, and empathy and strongly uphold that every team member plays a vital role in shaping the future of intelligent commerce. Our culture thrives on collaboration, creativity, and genuine passion. We don’t just build great tech - we build lasting partnerships, a strong community, and a place where people love to work.

Requirements

15+ years in engineering leadership; have led 30–50 person engineering organizations
Experience scaling SaaS platforms in ecommerce, martech, or developer tools
Proven success scaling high-growth SaaS platforms with a strong focus on reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.
Deep expertise in software architecture, distributed systems, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and platform engineering.
Experience building API-first products and developer platforms using modern REST and OpenAPI standards.
Strong understanding of modern software development practices, CI/CD, DevOps, observability, incident management, and engineering operations.
Experience optimizing application performance, platform latency, database performance, cloud infrastructure, and large-scale distributed systems.
Strong opinions on API design and developer experience — OpenAPI, REST conventions, agent-tool patterns
Modern stack fluency (PHP/Node/React/Shopify ecosystem helpful)
Comfortable operating in an exit-process posture with discretion
Vast experience with large data sets and must be a database expert
Strong communication skills and ability to break down complex problems into easy-to-understand concepts.
Executive presence with the ability to inspire confidence, influence decision-making, and build trust across the organization.
Exceptional communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear business strategies and executive recommendations.
Collaborative leader who builds strong partnerships across Product, Customer Success, Sales, Operations, and Executive Leadership.
Someone who carries a positive attitude, loves to be a problem-solver, is naturally self-motivated, and passionate about e-commerce.

Responsibilities

Set engineering strategy, own technical architecture, direction and the bar for code, reliability, and security
Lead and grow the engineering organization; install the pod operating model, handle organizational design, and establish career progression paths
Ship the V2 REST API surface, the OpenAPI spec, and the agent-readiness layer
Own engineering KPIs: delivery velocity, system reliability, defect density, hiring quality
Partner on diligence-readiness — repo hygiene, IP assignment, security posture — for a strategic transaction.
Partner with the Product team to define technical vision, architecture standards, and product delivery roadmaps
Own the performance metrics for Rebuy engine (latency, errors, etc).
Responsible for all platform security
Review and optimize our entire tech stack, also assess all critical points of failure to add redundancies as needed.
Responsible for shipping high quality code.