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Vice President of Software Development - 984

2 weeks, 6 days ago
Russia, United States
Full-time
Executive
VP of Engineering
Software Development
AWS CI/CD GraphQL Java Node.js OpenID Connect Python React REST API SAML SFTP Terraform
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Lightcast

Lightcast

Lightcast is a global leader in labor market analytics, offering the world's most comprehensive labor market data through sophisticated analytical tools and intuitive reporting features. With over two decades of experience, Lightcast provides superior ...

Professional Services
251-1K
Founded 2000
$1M raised
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Description

  • Own delivery and operational excellence across product and shared platform engineering teams.
  • Partner with Product leadership to define shared goals, priorities, and accountability for quality, speed, and customer impact.
  • Lead and develop Engineering Directors and Managers through coaching, feedback, career frameworks, and high hiring standards.
  • Drive measurable, end-to-end software delivery velocity.
  • Lead HCM/HRIS integrations, including APIs, SFTP/flat files, SCIM provisioning, and SSO (SAML/OIDC), with partners and vendors.
  • Apply a disciplined contractor and vendor model with clear quality gates, knowledge transfer, and retention of core architecture in-house.
  • Advance SDLC automation best practices, including CI/CD, infrastructure as code, testing, release controls, and progressive delivery.
  • Embed AI-assisted development through tooling, governance, standards, and productivity measurement.
  • Run an effective engineering operating system covering planning, delivery metrics, quality standards, architecture governance, and incident response.
  • Scale teams using a mix of full-time and contract engineers while maintaining quality and knowledge retention.

Requirements

  • Willingness to relocate to Moscow, ID, or travel there monthly, with a strong preference for leading primarily in person.
  • 10+ years building web-based SaaS products.
  • 5+ years leading multi-team engineering organizations, ideally as a manager of managers at enterprise scale.
  • Experience leading teams of 20+ engineers and working with offshore teams.
  • Deep experience building for enterprise customers, including SSO (SAML/OIDC), RBAC/ABAC, audit logging, compliance, tenant isolation, data governance, and security/procurement workflows.
  • Strong background in data-driven applications such as analytics and dashboards, including performance at scale, caching/materialization, data modeling, and metrics correctness.
  • Understanding of modern web architectures, including React or equivalent, backend services in Node/Java/Python, and REST/GraphQL APIs.
  • Proven cloud-native delivery experience with AWS, CI/CD, infrastructure as code such as Terraform, and production observability.
  • Track record integrating with HCM/HRIS platforms using SCIM, SSO, webhooks, bulk data exchange, and enterprise security patterns.
  • Ability to design and run an engineering operating system with planning, delivery metrics, quality standards, architecture governance, and incident response.
  • Experience scaling teams with a mix of full-time and contract engineers, with strong quality and knowledge-retention practices.
  • Experience driving adoption of AI-assisted development tools such as Copilot-style workflows with measurement and guardrails.
  • Excellent written communication for architecture docs, operational runbooks, incident communications, and executive updates.
  • Strong culture-building, collaboration, and trust-building skills with shared ownership of outcomes.
  • Bachelor’s degree or other education is not specified in the posting.

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