Vice President of Software DevelopmentLightcast
The VP of Software Development leads the engineering organization responsible for building and operating a portfolio of web-based SaaS products, reporting to the CTO. This is a strategy-and-execution role: setting technical direction, establishing a high-velocity engineering operating model, and ensuring teams deliver secure, reliable, enterprise-grade software at scale.
You will partner closely with Product, AI/Data Science, Data Engineering, API, and TechOps leaders to align roadmaps to customer outcomes and scale a primarily full-time engineering organization, augmented by contractors as needed.
Culture and collaboration are critical. This leader thrives in a high-trust, low-ego environment and practices true co-ownership with Product, sharing accountability for outcomes end to end.
Own delivery and operational excellence across product and shared platform teams
Partner with Product leadership to define shared goals, priorities, and accountability for quality, speed, and customer impact
Lead and develop Engineering Directors and Managers through coaching, feedback, career frameworks, and high hiring standards
Drive measurable, end-to-end software delivery velocity
Lead HCM/HRIS integrations, including APIs, SFTP/flat files, SCIM provisioning, and SSO (SAML/OIDC), in coordination with partners and vendors
Apply a disciplined contractor/vendor model, defining externalizable work, quality gates, and knowledge transfer while retaining core IP and architecture in-house
Advance SDLC automation best practices, including CI/CD, infrastructure as code, testing, release controls, and progressive delivery
Embed AI-assisted development through tooling, governance, standards, and productivity measurement
Proven track record of successfully leading large-scale software development projects from conception through delivery in a fast-paced environment. Demonstrated ability to build, mentor, and retain high-performing engineering teams while fostering a collaborative and inclusive culture.
This person will have strong business acumen with experience translating complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and board members.
- Experience leading teams of 20+ engineers, and working with off-shore teams.•Excellent - Strong
- Excellent written communication across architecture docs, operational runbooks, incident communications, and executive updates.•Excellent - Strong
- Experience driving adoption of AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Copilot-style workflows) with appropriate measurement and guardrails.•Good - Strong
- Experience scaling teams using a mix of full-time and contract engineers, with strong quality and knowledge-retention practices.•Good - Strong
- Ability to design and run an effective engineering operating system: planning, delivery metrics, quality standards, architecture governance, and incident response.•Good - Strong
- Track record integrating with HCM/HRIS platforms using SCIM, SSO, webhooks, bulk data exchange, and enterprise security patterns.•Good - Strong
- Proven cloud-native delivery experience (AWS), CI/CD, infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform), and production observability.•Good - Strong
- Solid understanding of modern web architectures: React (or equivalent), backend services (Node/Java/Python), and REST/GraphQL APIs; strong systems thinking even if not hands-on daily.•Good - Strong
- Strong background in data-driven applications (analytics/dashboards), including performance at scale, caching/materialization, data modeling, and metrics correctness.•Excellent - Strong
- Deep experience building for enterprise customers, including SSO (SAML/OIDC), RBAC/ABAC, audit logging, compliance, tenant isolation, data governance, and security/procurement workflows.•Excellent - Strong
- Experience building web-based SaaS products•10+ years
- Leading multi-team engineering orgs, ideally at enterprise scale•5+ years
- Proven trust-building across Engineering and Product with shared ownership of outcomes at enterprise scale.•Good - Strong
Lightcast is a global leader in labor market insights with our headquarters located in Moscow, ID (US) and other offices in the United Kingdom, Europe, and India. We work with partners across six continents to help drive economic prosperity and mobility by providing the insights needed to build and develop our people, our institutions and companies, and our communities.
Competitive salary plus annual bonus
Relocation assistance available
Comprehensive health benefit package
Lightcast is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and does not discriminate on the basis of federally protected statuses. Lightcast has always been, and always will be, committed to diversity of thought and unique perspectives. We seek dynamic professionals from all backgrounds to join our teams, and we encourage our employees to bring their authentic, original, and best selves to work.
