VP of Technology & Engineering - fully remote!

What You Will Do In This Role

You’ll be leading Inflect’s technology and product strategy with a bold, future-forward mindset, providing thought leadership and direction on everything AI and platform architecture, and accelerating the pace and efficiency of how we build our core platform and toolset. You’ll refine the tech vision, architect scalable systems, and champion a product experience that makes IT procurement feel less like pulling teeth and more like clicking “buy now.” Think Amazon Prime for buying datacenter, cloud, and network services. You’ll be the connective tissue between Engineering, Product, and Design—ensuring we work fast, scale smart, and always keep the user front and center.

This is a leadership role where you’ll be expected to zoom out and think strategically, but also roll up your sleeves and dive into the details. You’ll guide the Engineering, Product, and UX teams through complex decisions, foster a culture of ownership and experimentation, and make sure our systems are secure, performant, and future-proof. Especially in this new world of AI and deep learning, we not only help supply the digital infrastructure to power the world’s AI ambitions, we are leveraging it to be the best place to buy and sell these infrastructure services globally.

Who You Are

You’re a product-minded technologist who thrives at the intersection of strategy and execution. You’ve led engineering and product teams through scale, and you know how to balance speed with stability. You obsess over UX, speak fluent DevOps, and know how to translate customer pain points into elegant solutions. You’re not just a builder—you’re a connector, a mentor, and a visionary. You love leading and growing teams and thrive when you are able to build bridges and tear down silos.

You probably get a rush from solving gnarly platform challenges and seeing your team create something that users love. You’re comfortable making tough calls, and you know how to rally cross-functional teams around a shared goal. You believe that great tech is invisible, great design is intuitive, and great leadership is about empowering others.

Who We Are

We’re revolutionizing the way companies buy and sell digital infrastructure, and we’re extremely proud of that. Digital infrastructure is the enabler of the internet and at the core of every industry. Traditionally it’s been bought manually through service provider sales people, resulting in high costs, slow procurement cycles, and services that don’t work the best - slowing down the ability of companies to build and hold back human innovation. Inflect’s marketplace and advisory are removing friction so any company can get what they need, when they need it, at the right deal terms. By achieving our mission, we unlock businesses to build and human innovation inflects!

Of course, we’re also a startup, and it’s important that you understand what that means if you work for us. We work quick, we work smart, we work hard, and the road to success is filled with some of the highest highs, but also has its fair share of lows. If you’re looking for the same thing day in and day out, this will not be the place for you. (And that’s totally okay!) We’re all owners of Inflect -full time employees receive option grants-, and we know that we’re the reason we’ll achieve our goals, or we’ll be the reason we don’t. So believe me when I say that we’re hell bent on achieving our goals. If this sounds like the kind of environment you would thrive in then we’d love to have you!

What You'll Own

Strategic Leadership & Engineering

• Define and execute Inflect’s technology vision in lockstep with our mission, vision, and long-term strategy.
• Architect intelligent, secure, and scalable systems that support rapid growth and AI-driven innovation.
• Lead engineering in building secure, scalable, and performant systems.
• Drive innovation across all product offerings while managing technical debt.
• Implement DevOps best practices to support rapid iteration and reliability.
• Oversee platform architecture, backend systems, and infrastructure.
• Partner with execs to align tech initiatives with business goals.
• Cultivate a high-performing engineering culture rooted in transparency, ownership, and continuous improvement.

Product (In collaboration with Director of Product) 

• Own the product roadmap, prioritizing features that drive efficiency and trust.
• Use customer insights, competitive intel, and analytics to guide decisions.
• Translate stakeholder needs into clear product requirements.
• Monitor KPIs like quote response time, conversion rates, and usage to inform strategy.

UX (In collaboration with UX Manager)

• Champion user-centered design for IT buyers and decision-makers.
• Align design with brand identity while optimizing for clarity and speed.

Everything Else

• Ensure data privacy and regulatory compliance (GDPR, CCPA, etc.).
• Act as a bridge between technical teams and commercial functions, translating complexity into clarity.
• Foster a culture of transparency, experimentation, and continuous improvement.
• Recruit and mentor top talent across engineering, product, and design.

Required Skills & Experience

• Proven leadership across both Product and Engineering
• Experience managing customer-facing tools with strong UX sensibilities
• Online marketplace experience a plus
• Deep technical expertise across modern stacks and infrastructure
• Understanding of AI trends and high focus on adoption and usage of AI a must
• Experience working with Typescript (note.js/react) and Go
• Track record of building high-functioning engineering teams
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence across functions and levels
• 2+ years leading and coaching both frontend and backend engineers
• Infrastructure deployment experience with AWS (Kubernetes, Cloudflare)
• Strong understanding of software engineering principles and ability to document design systems
• Experience with Redis, Dgraph, Postgres, Next.js
• Familiarity with data migration projects and relational databases

Bonus Points

• Experience with data warehouses and data lakes 
• DevOps experience (e.g., HA environments, instrumentation tools like Pendo)
• Familiarity with JIRA/Confluence

The Benefits We Offer

• Compensation will be a combination of base salary and variable
• 100% remote work environment - seriously!
• Fully covered health insurance options through a major health insurance provider for both you and your family (you pay $0)
• Dental and Vision insurance available with widely used providers
• Option grants begin vesting after year 1 - you own a piece of Inflect
• Unlimited PTO
• Typical amount of company holidays is 16+/yr (company holidays are based on the standard holidays in the US and Poland and can vary year to year)