VP of Software Engineering

5 hours, 32 minutes ago
Full-time
Executive
Software Development
Nooks

Nooks

Nooks specializes in transforming the classified ecosystem by providing innovative solutions that enhance collaboration between the national security community and the private sector, ultimately addressing critical national security challenges through ...

Professional Services
1-10
Founded 2021
$3M raised

Description

  • Lead and scale the software engineering organization, owning delivery, quality, security, reliability, and operational outcomes.
  • Define the engineering operating model, including intake, prioritization, delivery cadence, metrics, and reporting.
  • Own Nooks’ AI strategy, adoption, governance, and institutional knowledge systems.
  • Deliver awarded government software contracts, managing scope, schedules, staffing, costs, utilization, and customer confidence.
  • Represent engineering and AI capabilities to government customers and support federal software pursuits and proposals.
  • Set technology strategy and architecture roadmaps across customer-facing, internal, and deployable systems.
  • Own the platform used by site teams, Operations, and internal functions to manage spaces, members, and contracts.
  • Lead build-versus-buy decisions, vendor relationships, and the business case for engineering investment.
  • Partner with the CEO, Growth, Operations, IT/Cyber, Product, Finance, customers, and technology vendors.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience with progressive leadership responsibility and ownership of a full engineering or software product function.
  • Experience delivering software to the U.S. government and working directly with federal customers.
  • Command of modern AI practices, including LLMs, agentic frameworks, RAG, orchestration, and AI governance.
  • Experience managing delivery economics, including cost, staffing, utilization, and fixed-commitment work.
  • Experience building and leading engineering organizations, including hiring and outcome-based delivery models.
  • Experience managing executive-level customer and cross-functional relationships.
  • Experience in defense, national security, or another regulated environment with clearance, compliance, or controlled-data constraints preferred.
  • Federal software capture experience, including technical approach and cost inputs, preferred.
  • Experience delivering software for field-based or operational users preferred.
  • U.S. work authorization and eligibility and commitment to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance required; active clearance preferred.

Benefits

  • Salary range of $230,000–$275,000 USD.
  • Executive leadership team participation and ownership of company-wide technology direction.
  • Opportunity to shape AI strategy and engineering organization development in a growing classified-infrastructure company.

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