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VP of Platform
Engineering

Department
Platform Engineering
Location
San Francisco, CA
Salary
$400K–$500K
Work policy
On-site, 5 days/week
Position
VP of Platform Engineering
Employment
Full-time · On-site
Experience
10–16 years
01 — Overview

About the Role

Our client is looking for a VP of Platform Engineering with 10+ years of experience to own and scale the AI-native platform core at a profitable, Series A agentic AI company serving hundreds of financial institutions. This is a player-coach role — you’ll build and lead the platform engineering org while staying hands-on in the code, partnering directly with the CTO and CEO on architecture, product releases, and new initiatives.

02 — Responsibilities

What will you be doing?

  • Managing and growing the existing platform engineering team (~4 engineers today, expanding) while remaining deeply hands-on in code and architecture
  • Working directly with the CEO and CTO daily on product releases and new platform initiatives being built from scratch
  • Owning the AI-native platform core end-to-end — agent runtime, LLM orchestration, retrieval systems, evals, integrations, and the agent-authoring platform
  • Driving velocity, quality, and reliability across all platform domains including tooling, eval gates, and observability
  • Scaling the platform org and its engineering culture through the company’s next stage of growth
03 — The Details

Role Details

Salary$400K - $500K base salary + competitive founding-team-tier equity. The company has indicated flexibility up to $500K for exceptional candidates.
Benefits100% paid health/dental/vision, 401(k), daily meals, commuter benefit, monthly wellness stipend, and Claude Enterprise + frontier AI tools
On-site work policy5 days in-office, Financial District, San Francisco
EmploymentFull-time position
LocationFinancial District, San Francisco, CA
EquityCompetitive equity
Visa sponsorshipOpen to visa transfers (e.g. OPT, H1B transfers) and visa sponsorships (e.g. new H1B, TN)
Tech stack
TypeScript Python LLMs Agentic AI Distributed Systems Cloud Architecture ML Infrastructure LLM Orchestration Retrieval Systems API Design
Why this role

Highlights

01

A profitable, venture-backed startup: $30M in Series A funding, already cash-flow positive, and experiencing strong market demand from the financial services market.

02

The platform is trusted by over 100 banks and credit unions and reaches more than 10 million Americans across voice, digital, and employee-assisted channels, all powered by a single AI brain.

03

You partner daily with the CEO and the CTO / Co-Founder, a 25+ year enterprise architect who built the production AI platform and sets the technical bar.

04

Mission: democratizing financial wellness for every American, not just the ones who can afford a private banker. Founded in 2019, the company has 140 employees.
What we need

Key Requirements

  • 10+ years of engineering experience with 4–6 years in leadership; must have scaling experience (revenue, funding stages, team growth)
  • Production-scale experience in AI/agentic systems, LLM/ML infrastructure, or conversational/voice AI — working on the platform side
  • Hands-on and still technical — must be actively coding, reviewing PRs, and making architecture calls (not a pure people manager)
  • Startup experience strongly preferred (Series A–D); open to strong VP-level candidates from big tech if they show exceptional career trajectory
  • Must be on-site in San Francisco 5 days/week; BS/BA in Computer Science required