Senior Vice President of Engineering - Array
New York City, NY
About the Job
Array is a financial innovation platform that helps digital brands, financial institutions, and fintechs get compelling consumer products to market faster. We deliver a suite of credit and identity monitoring tools, privacy protection, and a financial ads marketplace via embeddable widgets or a clean, modern API. Our private label offerings help drive revenue and increase engagement for our customers while empowering millions of consumers to achieve their financial goals.
As a remote-first company, we're focused on providing opportunities for high performing individuals to have deep impact in the fast growing fintech space. A clear mission, a commitment to continuous improvement and a willingness to experiment empower us individually and together deliver the best products for our clients and users.
The Senior Vice President of Engineering will play a critical role in attracting, retaining, and scaling our engineering department as we continue to grow. The SVP of Engineering will be responsible for strategically overseeing the development and release of new products and features, ensuring alignment with our business objectives. The ideal candidate will demonstrate a strong executive presence, excelling in business alignment and people management. This person will report to our CEO.
You Will:
- Lead our growing (~70 person) engineering department by shipping new products and modernizing existing products.
- Partner with talent strategy to manage career progression, including hiring, performance reviews, and coaching, in close partnership with talent acquisition.
- Increase productivity by optimizing partnership with technical product managers.
- Own a commercial mindset; never lose sight of how engineering delivery impacts revenue.
- Communicate effectively with stakeholders (internal and external clients) on project scope or timeline changes.
- Partner with senior leadership on process improvement and organizational change.
- Allocate teams to the highest-value investments based on business priorities.
- Leverage AI to improve engineering efficiency and product delivery.
You Have:
- 15+ years of engineering leadership experience built on an individual contributor background.
- Experience building and scaling engineering teams in high-growth, post-product-market-fit startups.
- Experience with infrastructure modernization, Finops, and cloud consolidation.
- A progressive mindset toward AI and how to leverage it to make engineering more productive and cost effective.
- Executive communication skills with ability to context switch between a variety of people (executives, investors, line managers, tactical level employees and external clients).
- A strong passion for talent management and acquisition for engineering leaders and individual contributors.
- Hands-on experience with most of our technology stack; Svelte, Go, Node.js, Postgres, GCP, AWS, Azure, MS SQL, and Onprem (Linux/Windows).
- A mind and eye for regulations, security considerations and compliance (SOCII and PCI).
Pay Transparency: $325,000+ base salary, depending on experience
Expected interviews: Recruiter conversation - Meet CEO - Meet SVP of Talent Strategy - Loop round: Various conversations with C-Suite (Ops, Finance, Eng).
Array Offers All Full Time Employees the following Benefits and Perks:
- Full medical, dental, and vision, premiums covered at 100% for full-time employees and 70% for dependents.
- Unlimited PTO and sick leave + 14 company holidays to encourage a healthy work-life blend.
- 100% 401k match up to 4% with immediate vesting.
- Generous and competitive parental leave for all parents.
- $1,000 desk setup subsidy to set-up your unique remote office.
- $100/month to subsidize wifi/cell phone expenses.
- Summer Fridays (half-day Fridays) typically from late May to the end of August.
- Arrayaversary Kits for work anniversaries.
Not sure if you meet the Qualifications? We know that folks tend to only apply if they check every box. If you think you have the appropriate qualifications, but don't meet every single one, we encourage you to still apply. We'd love to hear from you.
One of our core values at Array is to care and support one another, and that's why we strive to create an environment where everyone feels empowered to bring their best selves to work. Diversity, equity, and inclusion foster collaboration, comfort, and confidence. We're at our collective best when we each feel our best.
We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace; we are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.