swap - VP of Engineering
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Requirements
• Ambitious, curious, and excited to build in an emerging category at a fast paced startup • History of recruiting and building high talent teams filled with leaders of leaders • 10+ years in engineering, with exposure to building AI-native or agent-powered products • Demonstrated customer centric thinking for maintaining alignment with a growing set of products and a rapidly growing engineering organization • Strong track record taking zero-to-one products to launch AND scaling v.next offerings • Familiarity with applied AI, conversational interfaces, LLMs, or agent orchestration tools • Customer-centric mindset feeding business outcomes; you know how to ship solutions to customer challenges that simplify the complex in a delightful way all way staying focused on business outcomes • Experience leading departments with tech stacks Typescript/JavaScript, using Node.js to architect and create REST and/or GraphQL APIs • Strong technical experience leading teams in modern front-end Typescript/JavaScript libraries and frameworks such as React.js • Experience working in commerce or logistics is a plus
Responsibilities
• Leadership: Recruit, build, and develop a world-class, high-performance engineering team, instilling a customer and business first culture. • Business Impact: Ensure the engineering organization is a core driver of business success, prioritizing projects that maximize commercial outcomes. • Vision & Strategy: Own and execute Swap’s engineering vision and north star architecture, maintaining an agentic-first perspective that prioritizes impact and minimizes buzzwords. • Scaling Systems: Successfully build, launch, and scale both B2C and B2B product offerings. • ROI: Facilitate rigorous prioritization trade-offs with stakeholders to maximize Return on Invested Engineering Time. • Accountability: Define clear, measurable metrics of success for engineering teams (both product and platform teams) and deliver results against established targets. • Cross-Functional Alignment: Build and maintain strong cross-functional relationships with Product and Business teams to accelerate innovation and time-to-market.
Benefits
• A very unique opportunity to change the way a major market functions in the world. • Leading a truly global team. Swap operates across time zones, markets, and currencies. • Work with modern tech (AI-powered systems, cross-border APIs, advanced analytics). • Autonomy with high impact. Your decisions will shape the backbone of ecommerce infrastructure for years to come. • Equity, ownership, and career growth. We're scaling fast, and we want you on the journey.
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