About Spring Labs:

We’re reinventing the model for data ownership and changing how information is exchanged by creating the Spring Protocol — a blockchain-based protocol that enables competitively-sensitive parties to exchange information directly, and in a fundamentally new way.

We’re a Series A company who has raised more than $38m in funding from some of the top VCs in the world, including August Capital, General Motors Ventures, RRE, Pritzker Group, Jump Capital, Galaxy Digital, Multicoin Capital, and Wavemaker Genesis.

The first use cases for the Spring Protocol are focused on building a more secure and cost-effective financial services solution for credit and identity data, effectively disrupting the existing bureau system used today. To date, we’ve signed partnerships with more than 25 of the world’s leading fintechs and financial institutions. (You can read more about these partnerships by clicking here and here.)

We're a rapidly growing team of 35 entrepreneurs from backgrounds such as Snap, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Goldman Sachs, the NSA, Avant, Harvard, Deloitte, HSBC, and more, and if you're someone who wants to work at the bleeding edge of nascent technology, push yourself and collaborate with a resourceful and highly-motivated team, and strive to build a more secure, open, and transparent world of data sharing, then we would love to hear from you!

About the VP, Engineering Role:

The VP, Engineering role is a highly visible role that will help oversee software development efforts at Spring Labs. We are looking for an established Engineering leader to assist with the day-to-day engineering and technical leadership of Spring Labs. You'll partner with the CTO, CEO, and CPO to help lead our strategic direction, development, and ongoing growth. This person will be a beacon for top talent and experienced in leading a results-driven engineering culture that values cross-team collaboration and confidence in our organization.

Responsibilities

• Help lead a team of talented engineers who like to ship code and tackle hard engineering problems
• Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of your team members. Help develop their careers, and assign them to projects tailored to their skill levels, personalities, work styles, and professional goals
• Create plans for prioritizing technical and resourcing challenges in your team
• Provide continuous feedback, address underperformance, and recognize the individual strengths and contributions of your team members
• Maintain a balance between building sustainable, high-impact projects and shipping things quickly
• Help establish and maintain the technical vision for products and overall technical quality, including reduction of technical debt
• Collaborate with engineering directors to refine and improve the codebase
• Instill a spirit of continuous improvement in the team’s code, architecture, and processes
• Contribute to planning and design discussions
• Encourage active participation in all phases of the project lifecycle, and work with project management to remove impediments and provide visibility to stakeholders
• Ensure clear and objective communication of goals, responsibilities, and timelines between all stakeholders, both internal and external

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in software engineering with increasing responsibilities
• 5+ years of experience in leadership/management roles
• A proven track record of maintaining a workplace that attracts and retains top engineering talent
• Excellent communication and inter-personal skills with both highly-technical teams and non-technical business leaders
• Strong attention to detail with prior experience developing KPI’s and metrics
• Professional, hands-on, team-oriented attitude with sound judgment and analytical skills
• Bachelor’s degree in the field of computer science or engineering

Additional Qualifications (Preferred, Not Required)

• Relevant graduate degree is a plus

Equal Opportunity Statement:

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.