Harborcompliance

Harborcompliance

VP of Engineering

Remote (United States) · Vp

Sponsorship not specified$20k-$30kDetected 27 days ago
Cloud PlatformsCI/CDBudgetingManual TestingLeadership

About the role

  • 5000 and Deloitte Technology Fast 500, we've grown through five strategic acquisitions - and are now backed by a 2026 majority growth investment from Bregal Sagemount to accelerate product, AI, and customer experience.
  • We're a passionate team making compliance simpler and smarter for every organization we serve.
  • The VP of Engineering will transform and scale our engineering organization into a highly predictable, elite execution engine.

Responsibilities

  • Lead a unified, multi-disciplinary engineering organization focused on operational excellence and a culture of high accountability.
  • Partner with product leadership to align technical capacity with product prioritization, creating a reliable, transparent, and repeatable release cadence.
  • Achieve and maintain a high sprint and release commitment success rate of greater than 85 percent within the first six months.
  • Drive the successful adoption of AI-assisted tooling across engineering and quality assurance teams to achieve a 20 to 30 percent reduction in standard cycle times.
  • Deliver a comprehensive codebase refactoring and migration blueprint within 90 days, executing Phase 1 milestones by month nine.
  • Optimize capacity allocation to achieve a target distribution of 60 percent innovation, 20 percent legacy modernization, and less than 20 percent ongoing maintenance by month six.
  • 🏆 Great Place to Work® Certified | USA Harbor Compliance is a leading technology platform for entity compliance, helping more than 80,000 businesses and nonprofits manage licensing, tax registration, and legal entity requirements nationwide.
  • Serving as a strategic partner to the executive team, this leader will establish company-level technical strategy, modernize foundational legacy systems, and translate engineering velocity into business growth at board altitude.
  • The role owns the entire multi-disciplinary engineering domain, including development, quality assurance, and infrastructure, ensuring technical capability aligns perfectly with product priorities.
  • By championing next-generation AI-driven development workflows and cultivating engineering leadership, the VP of Engineering will drive the technological innovation necessary to move core business metrics.

Requirements

  • 10 or more years of progressive software engineering experience, including 4 or more years in a senior engineering leadership role with direct ownership of multiple functions.
  • Proven track record leading and scaling engineering organizations in a B2B SaaS company through significant growth or transformation phases.
  • Experience partnering at the executive level to translate technical strategy into business outcomes and align investment decisions to company-level growth objectives.
  • Experience owning and managing an engineering P&L, including budget planning, headcount allocation, vendor spend, and cloud infrastructure costs.
  • Proven experience leading large-scale legacy modernization efforts, architectural refactoring, and service decoupling while maintaining product delivery continuity.
  • Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tooling and a track record of driving adoption and measurable productivity gains across an organization.

Skills

  • Familiarity with compliance, legal, or regulated industry software where data accuracy and auditability are core requirements.
  • Experience navigating rapid organizational scaling or post-acquisition integration within a private equity-backed environment.
  • Deep knowledge of engineering metrics frameworks, such as DORA metrics, cycle time analysis, and defect escape rates.
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

Compensation

  • Harbor Compliance's base salary range for this role is listed below.
  • Compensation at the time of offer is based on factors such as skill set, experience, qualifications, and work location.
  • Salary is one part of Harbor Compliance's total compensation package.
  • Note that the salary range and benefits apply only to U.S.-based candidates.
  • $260,000 - $275,000 + bonus.
  • Pay Transparency Policy Statement Harbor Compliance will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant.

Benefits

  • Other benefits may include health benefits, flexible paid time off, parental leave, fertility and adoption assistance, 401(k), and educational reimbursement.
  • To request an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter.

Company info

  • Founded in 2012 and recognized repeatedly by the Inc.

Equal opportunity

  • Statement Harbor Compliance is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law.
  • Notice Regarding the Use of Selection Technology Harbor Compliance uses third-party automated tools and skills assessments (such as Testlify and Rippling) to help evaluate job applications and streamline our hiring workflow.
  • These tools assist our recruitment team in reviewing qualification trends and scheduling, but all final employment decisions are made solely by humans on our Talent Success team, and all tools are subject to human oversight.
  • Depending on your location, local laws may grant you specific disclosure rights or the option to request an alternative evaluation process.

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  • If you require a reasonable accommodation or wish to opt out of automated assessment steps due to regional regulations, please notify your recruiter
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