VP of Engineering

At Sureify, a Most Loved Workplace® certified employer in the Information Technology space, Revolutionizing life and annuity insurance through seamless digital transformation.

<div class="content-intro"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Who We Are</strong></span></p>

<p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Sureify’s mission is to modernize the life insurance and annuity industry by helping carriers acquire, service, and engage their customers through any distribution channel. Sureify’s products empower life insurance carriers, agents, employees, and customers to have the digital experiences employees and consumers have come to expect in the rapidly advancing tech climate.</span></p></div><p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">We are looking for a hands-on, execution-oriented <strong>Vice President of Engineering</strong> to lead our global engineering organization. This is a pivotal leadership role at a high-growth enterprise software company where you will have a direct impact on the evolution of our next-generation cloud-based platform for digitally-delivered life insurance.</span></p>

<h2><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>The Role</strong></span></h2>

<p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">As the VP of Engineering, you will be responsible for all product engineering globally, overseeing teams across the USA, India, and Latin America. Reporting directly to the SVP of Product Development, you will lead a multi-level scaled engineering organization, ensuring technical excellence, operational efficiency, and a high-performance culture across diverse geographic regions.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">You’ll shape and scale our engineering culture as we grow from where we are today into a mature, global organization, building a team that can deliver with consistency, quality, and speed.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></span></p>

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<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Global Leadership:</strong> Provide strategic and operational leadership for a multi-country engineering organization (USA, LATAM, India), fostering a unified culture across time zones.</span></li>

<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Organizational Scaling:</strong> Design and manage a multi-level management structure, mentoring Directors and Engineering Managers to ensure high-quality delivery at scale.</span></li>

<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Talent Acquisition & Evaluation:</strong> Own and scale our hiring engine, including strategic partnerships with external recruiting partners. Build rigorous systems for evaluating technical depth and cultural fit to ensure we consistently hire top software engineers aligned with our modern development practices.</span></li>

<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Talent Development & Performance:</strong> Build a culture of continuous growth and accountability. Establish clear expectations, performance standards, and career pathways while actively coaching and developing engineering leaders and ICs to raise the overall caliber of the organization.</span></li>

<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Operational Rigor:</strong> Implement and refine CI/CD practices, security standards, and performance monitoring (APM) across all global teams.</span></li>

<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>High-performance Execution: </strong>Foster our culture of execution excellence and continuous improvement within product development, including driving our ongoing adoption of AI coding agents for maximum engineering efficiency.</span></li>

<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Technical Alignment</strong>: Drive alignment and consistency across technical leads, architects, Co-CTOs, and product management on technical and architectural topics.</span></li>

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<h2><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Requirements & Qualifications</strong></span></h2>

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<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Proven Executive Leadership:</strong> 15+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 5+ years in a senior leadership role (VP or high-level Director), leading multi-layered engineering organizations through growth and change.</span></li>

<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Remote Scaling Expert:</strong> Demonstrated success building and operating high-performing distributed engineering teams. You bring a clear approach to sourcing, vetting, and managing remote talent.</span></li>

<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Global Management Experience:</strong> Deep experience managing engineering hubs in India and Latin America, with an understanding of the cultural and operational nuances of each region.</span></li>

<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Highly Configured Enterprise Software:</strong> Extensive experience building software for large enterprises with an expectation of configuration through professional services and systems integration partners. </span></li>

<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Technical Depth:</strong> A strong foundation in modern SaaS architectures (AWS, TypeScript, React, Distributed Systems). While you aren't coding daily, you can still go deep in architectural reviews.</span></li>

<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Product & Business Alignment:</strong> Demonstrated ability to partner closely with Product and executive stakeholders to translate business goals into clear technical priorities and outcomes.</span></li>

<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Scaling & Evolution Mindset: </strong>Experience leading organizations through periods of growth and transformation, balancing the need for structure with continued iteration and improvement.</span></li>

<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Communication:</strong> Exceptional communication skills with the ability to influence at the executive level and inspire engineers at the individual contributor level.</span></li>

<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Education:</strong> Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.</span></li>

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<h2><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Our Culture</strong></span></h2>

<p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">We are a close group at Sureify, bound together by strong working relationships and a common mission in the industry. The success of our customers is very important to us, and we value merit in the workplace, long-term thinking, and the flourishing of all our employees.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Experience working in a startup or an ability to adapt to a small, rapidly-growing company mindset is required. There is an expectation that you can be agile amidst the fluctuations inherent to a young company establishing itself in the marketplace. Frequently we have to come together as a team and go beyond the responsibility of our roles to ensure success.</span></p><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="title">Base annual salary</div><div class="pay-range"><span>$260,000</span><span class="divider">—</span><span>$300,000 USD</span></div></div></div><div class="content-conclusion"><div class="WaaZC">

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<p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Our Guiding Principles</strong></span></p>

<p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Our products are for nothing if their creators are not fulfilled in their work. We want our employees to flourish at Sureify. We do not fawn over status or titles, instead, we honor effort and intelligence. The best idea wins no matter which colleague proposed it. We do not shortcut our mission with overblown claims or false promises. Sticking to the truth is both a strategy and a principle for us.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Sureify is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, age, disability, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law.</span></p>

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