VP of Engineering
About The Position
Yourgi is seeking a VP of Engineering to lead its engineering organization, which consists of approximately 30 engineers. This role is responsible for building the consumer app, provider tools, matching and booking systems, and marketplace surfaces. The VP of Engineering will report to the Chief Product & Technology Officer and will have full accountability for the structure, output, and growth of the engineering department. This is a critical "build-and-scale" role, focusing on taking the "Yourgi Connect" product from its initial markets to national scale. The role involves setting the operating rhythm, developing technical leadership, designing the organization for scale, and managing the engineering budget and tooling. The company emphasizes an AI-first approach to development, engineering-owned quality, and building a strong management bench.
Requirements
- 12+ years in software engineering, including 6+ years leading engineering organizations through managers and leads, not only managing individual contributors directly
- A track record of building teams that own a product surface end to end, decompose their own work, and grow with the business
- Direct experience adopting AI-assisted development across a team, and a clear point of view on how it changes throughput, review practices, and quality
- A record of building engineering-owned quality: shifting it upstream through automated testing and CI/CD so teams own it
- Experience running remote engineering teams, with the operating rhythm that keeps delivery predictable
- Ownership of an engineering budget and headcount plan, fluency making tradeoffs with Product and Finance, and the operating discipline to run on delivery and reliability metrics (DORA or equivalent)
- Located in and authorized to work in the US (no visa sponsorship), available during regular US business hours
Nice To Haves
- Has scaled AI-assisted development across a full engineering team, with the review and quality gates that make it work
- Marketplace, gig-economy, or consumer-app experience, and familiarity with two-sided matching and booking dynamics
- Mobile and web at scale, including native app release management (release trains, feature flags, staged rollout)
- Platform or core-services thinking: turning shared backend capability into an internal product the front-end teams consume
- Experience taking a 0-to-1 product from first markets to national scale
Responsibilities
- Own how teams are shaped and how work flows, so each team owns a customer journey end to end and can ship without waiting on the others.
- Build technical leadership depth. Name owners for cross-cutting decisions, document the engineering strategy, and grow leads who run their teams independently.
- Make AI-assisted development the default: AI in the standard workflow from spec to code to review, with automated test generation and evals wired into continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD). Track the impact at the team level: cycle time and throughput against a pre-adoption baseline.
- Set the standards and review practices that keep the codebase coherent and secure as AI raises code volume.
- Build a culture where engineers own quality end to end, with automated testing and CI/CD carrying the load.
- Make engineering health measurable: bug frequency, change-failure rate, on-call load, uptime, and time-to-merge, tracked quarter over quarter so the org can see its own trend.
- Own the technical plan for Yourgi Connect: real-time availability, reservation, and booking against a national network of physical centers, built so adding a market doesn’t mean rebuilding.
- Turn shared backend capability into platform services the product teams consume, so each new surface launches faster than the last.
- Own the operating cadence and release train (continuous deployment, feature flags, a rotating release captain, on-call) that lets teams ship independently, and put the DORA delivery metrics (deploy frequency, lead time, change-failure rate, time to restore) in front of leadership.
- Partner with Product so engineering leads co-own acceptance criteria and own the technical breakdown.
- Own hiring, leveling, growth, and performance. Build the management bench, with individual-contributor and manager tracks that give strong engineers a path.
- Own the budget and tooling spend, invested deliberately across talent and modern tooling.
Benefits
- Health, vision, dental, long- & short-term disability, and life insurance
- A startup mentality with stable funding
- 401(k) match
- Pet care discounts
- Flexible time off
- The opportunity to shape and lead an engineering organization as Yourgi Connect scales nationally
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
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