Head of Engineering | VP Eng @ VC backed company

Join XAnge, a leading VC firm, and become the Head of Engineering / VP Eng at one of our 80+ portfolio companies. In this role, you will be responsible for scaling the engineering team, owning delivery processes, managing technical debt, and translating technical constraints into business terms. You should have 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with several years managing engineering teams.

• Recruit, structure, and develop the engineering team, ensuring growth from a handful of engineers to dozens.
• Own delivery processes, including CI/CD, agile/scrum, code quality standards, and incident management.
• Manage technical debt and reliability while keeping velocity high, translating technical constraints into business terms.

• **Who we're looking for**
• We care about track record and mindset, not pedigree. 10+ years is a guideline, not a hard rule: exceptional profiles below that threshold are welcome.
• **Preferred experience:** 10+ years in software engineering with several years managing engineering teams, having recruited and grown teams from 5 to 50+.

• **Hard skills:** cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure), backend, APIs, microservices, DevOps; engineering processes (CI/CD, agile/scrum, code quality, incident management); delivery at pace; platform engineering, data pipelines or AI/ML infrastructure a plus.
• **Soft skills:** people leadership and coaching; clear communication with Product and business; organized and process-driven; pragmatic; calm under pressure.

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