VP of Engineering

Bankjoy

1d•Remote

About The Position

Bankjoy is seeking a VP of Engineering to lead four of its eight engineering value streams and implement a quality engineering framework across the entire organization. This is a hands-on leadership role focused on driving quality standards, automation, and release discipline. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in quality engineering, experience rebuilding automation programs, and the ability to foster an automation-first quality culture. This role involves leading engineering managers and senior individual contributors, collaborating with technical support and release operations, and ensuring the delivery of reliable software in a regulated financial environment.

Requirements

10+ years of engineering experience, with at least 4 years in engineering leadership managing managers and senior ICs.
Deep background in quality engineering, with hands-on experience building or rebuilding automation frameworks.
Proven experience migrating automation frameworks in a multi-platform environment (web and native mobile - iOS and Android).
Demonstrated success driving a cultural shift from manual-heavy to automation-first QA in a fintech, banking, or similarly regulated environment.
Experience implementing release gate processes and enforcing go/no-go decisions under schedule pressure.
Hands-on experience with modern automation tooling (e.g., Playwright, Cypress, Appium, Maestro).
Familiarity with Angular, Swift, and Kotlin environments is a strong advantage.
Experience driving AI coding tool adoption across engineering teams, impacting culture and productivity.
Strong technical depth for solution design, architecture discussions, incident response, root-cause analysis, and complex debugging.
Ability to balance strategic leadership with operational execution.
Strong cross-functional credibility, having worked with technical support, release management, and product to solve systemic quality problems.
Excellent communication and organizational influence skills.

Nice To Haves

Experience in fintech, core banking, or digital banking platforms.
Familiarity with credit union or community bank client environments.
Experience with SOC 2 Type II, PCI DSS, or similar regulatory compliance contexts.
Background working with multi-platform products serving both financial institutions and end consumers.
Experience managing QA teams through a transition from manual QA to quality engineering roles.

Responsibilities

Lead four value streams: Banking Core Integration, Business Banking, Vendor Integration, and Account Acquisition, focusing on delivery, velocity, and technical excellence.
Manage and develop engineering managers, tech leads, and a Principal Engineer, fostering a high-performing organization that utilizes AI-assisted development.
Provide hands-on technical leadership in solution design, architectural reviews, production incident management, and complex troubleshooting.
Partner with the VP of Platform Engineering on cross-cutting initiatives like AI coding adoption, release coordination, architectural standards, and DevOps.
Drive quarterly engineering OKRs related to AI productivity, code quality, and delivery velocity.
Participate in senior leadership discussions with the COO, VP of Platform Engineering, and product leadership.
Design and implement the engineering quality framework across all eight value streams, establishing standards for testing and release readiness.
Own a modern multi-platform automation framework for Angular, Swift, and Kotlin.
Define and enforce quality gates, including automated coverage thresholds, defect standards, and QE sign-off.
Lead and develop the QA organization, transitioning towards a quality engineering model.
Establish test data management, environment parity standards, and CI/CD quality integration.
Build a quality dashboard for transparency on automation coverage, defect counts, and regression rates.
Partner with the Release Manager to implement structured release gate processes and go/no-go decisions.
Work with Technical Support to improve the feedback loop between production issues and engineering prioritization.
Own post-release retrospectives to identify systemic lessons and drive process changes.
Partner with product leadership to enforce scope freeze discipline and involve QEs in sprint planning and grooming.
Champion AI-assisted coding adoption across assigned value streams.
Embed AI productivity into engineering performance criteria.
Ensure AI tools are utilized in QA for test generation, maintenance, and regression coverage.

Benefits

Competitive compensation
Stock options
100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision premiums for individuals on the base plan (USA), with significant contributions toward other plan options.
100% coverage of extended medical, dental, and vision premiums for you and your family under a single plan (Canada).
Retirement plan with 4% company matching
8 weeks paid parental leave for birthing parents
4 weeks paid parental leave for non-birthing parents
3-5 weeks PTO depending on tenure
5 health days
15 holidays
End of year shutdown
Performance-based bonuses