Care.com is seeking a Vice President of Engineering to lead their Enterprise, LifeMart, and International businesses, driving 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
- 1–2 real-world AI-enabled product or workflow implementations
- Familiarity with modern development tools and architectures (e.g., microservices, event-driven systems, cloud-native environments)
Responsibilities
- Shape and execute engineering strategy across Enterprise, LifeMart, and International businesses in alignment with product and business goals.
- Ensure world-class architecture across Care.com’s platform, driving scalability, performance, and reliability for both consumer-facing and enterprise clients.
- Collaborate with Product, Design, and Data to deliver customer-centric solutions, balancing near-term delivery with long-term platform health.
- Be a cultural leader for AI adoption, embedding AI workflows across the organization and applying real-world AI use cases to enhance our business.
- Foster best practices in software development, system design, reliability, and operational excellence.
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
- Proven experience building scalable, consumer and enterprise-facing products
- 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
- Hybrid – in office Monday, Wednesday & Thursday
