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Care.com is seeking a Vice President of Engineering to lead their Enterprise, LifeMart, and International businesses, driving both technical excellence and business innovation by overseeing an organization of 30-50 engineers and acting as a strategic partner to GM and Product teams to shape business growth through technology.

Requirements

• Hands-on expertise in technical architecture, system design, and cloud-native platforms
• Familiarity with modern development tools and architectures (e.g., microservices, event-driven systems, cloud-native environments)
• 1–2 real-world AI-enabled product or workflow implementations
• Proven experience building scalable, consumer and enterprise-facing products

Responsibilities

• Architect at scale: Ensure world-class architecture across Care.com’s platform, driving scalability, performance, and reliability for both consumer-facing and enterprise clients.
• Elevate engineering excellence: Foster best practices in software development, system design, reliability, and operational excellence.
• Champion AI and innovation: Be a cultural leader for AI adoption, embedding AI workflows across the organization and applying real-world AI use cases to enhance our business.
• Drive cross-functional execution: Collaborate with Product, Design, and Data to deliver customer-centric solutions, balancing near-term delivery with long-term platform health.
• Shape and execute engineering strategy across Enterprise, LifeMart, and International businesses in alignment with product and business goals.
• Partner with business and product leaders: Work hand-in-hand with the GM and Product leadership to surface new ideas, shape business strategy, and bring innovative, technology-driven solutions to market.
• Build and scale teams: Hire, coach, and retain top engineering talent. Foster a culture of inclusion, high standards, and long-term growth.

Other

• 15+ years of engineering experience, with 6+ years leading large, distributed technical teams
• Strong tenure in past roles, with evidence of sustained impact and progression
• Demonstrated success as a thought partner to business/product leaders with measurable business outcomes
• Exceptional communication and executive presence, with comfort engaging at the Board level
• A passion for inclusive leadership, culture-building, and mentorship