VP of Engineering
(Multiple states)
Full Time
Executive
🛠 VP of Engineering – AI-Native Fintech (Remote)
Build a product-focused engineering team. Use AI to triple delivery velocity. Lead with urgency, ownership, and customer obsession.Spinwheel is building an AI-powered platform to transform how consumers manage and pay off debt. We’ve raised our Series A, built powerful APIs, and proven the model works. Now we need to scale—and that means hiring a VP of Engineering who can orient our engineering team around delivery, quality, innovation and impact.
You’ll be responsible for growing and evolving the engineering team to meet ambitious delivery goals. You’ll own roadmap delivery, org design, code quality, and technical velocity. You’ll be held accountable for shipping high-quality software that actually solves customer problems—on time, at scale, and with industry-leading innovation.
This is a high-ownership, high-expectation role for someone with a startup mindset, a passion for product-focused engineering, and a proven ability to turn talented teams into high-performing ones.
🧠 What You’ll Own
- Build engineering culture around urgency, quality, innovation and customer impact
- Lead engineering hiring, org design, and development processes to focus on roadmap execution and delivery
- Set expectations for clear scope, on-time delivery, and exceeding customer expectations
- Personally review code and guide architecture decisions; get hands-on as needed
- Drive engineering velocity through better process, tooling, and leadership—not just more headcount
- Partner with Product, Sales, Marketing, and Senior Leadership to align execution with business goals
- Report to the CTO with a dotted-line relationship to the Head of Platform
🤖 How You’ll Use AI
- Multiply the team’s ability to ship high-quality software—targeting 3x productivity
- Standardize the use of LLM tools for code generation, test automation, debugging, and documentation
- Build internal tools or scripts that reduce bottlenecks and improve developer workflows
- Track, measure, and optimize performance using AI-enhanced observability and velocity metrics
- Turn AI from a curiosity into a competitive advantage
- Ensure AI-powered platform capabilities remain state-of-the-art and focused on solving real customer pain points
✅ You Might Be a Fit If You…
- Have led and scaled engineering teams in high-growth, product-focused environments
- Know how to create a delivery-obsessed culture that fosters collaboration, clear communication, innovation, and continuous learning
- Can spot good (or bad) code and are comfortable being hands-on in the stack when needed
- Thrive in high-autonomy, high-accountability roles with measurable impact
- Believe AI is the future of software delivery—and can turn that belief into operational advantage
- Can work closely with product leaders and think like a builder, not just an executor
- Have experience with fintech or regulated data environments (a plus, not required)
🌍 Logistics
- Location: Remote (U.S. time zones preferred)
- Level: VP
- Scope: Engineering org responsible for roadmap delivery, platform execution, and technical velocity
- Culture: Customer-obsessed, fast-moving, AI-native, and bias-for-action
📈 Success in This Role Looks Like...
- Engineering teams consistently delivering on-time, high-quality releases aligned with the product roadmap
- A visible shift in culture toward accountability, urgency, and solving real customer pain points
- Measurable improvements in velocity, scope control, and roadmap execution
- Engineers who are engaged, empowered, and deeply aligned with customer outcomes
- A team that becomes as product-obsessed and innovation-driven
- as their leader
- AI-enabled development practices that increase output and reduce overhead across the org
If you’re ready to build and lead a team that delivers better, faster, and with greater customer impact—this is the role for you.
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