Shields Group Search ยท 11 hours ago
Vice President of Engineering
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
$300K/yr - $450K/yrShields Group Search is partnering with an early-stage AI company focused on enterprise solutions. The role of VP of Engineering involves owning technical direction while being hands-on in code, leading a small engineering team, and evolving the product into enterprise-grade infrastructure.
Staffing & Recruiting
Hiring Manager
Thomas Shields
Responsibilities
Own engineering strategy, architecture, and execution across frontend and backend systems
Lead, mentor, and level up a small, high-caliber engineering team while actively contributing code
Take a product that works today and evolve it into enterprise-grade infrastructure
Drive enterprise deployment readiness, reliability, scalability, and security
Partner closely with founders on product, roadmap, and company-level decisions
Establish engineering best practices without slowing down execution speed
Help scale the engineering org thoughtfully as the company approaches Series A
Qualification
Required
Proven experience building and scaling products at early-stage startups (Pre-Seed to Series B)
Strong technical depth across both frontend and backend engineering
A true builder mentality with comfort being in the weeds and solving hard problems directly
Experience with or exposure to enterprise software and production deployment environments
High ownership, self-agency, and a student-teacher mindset
Someone curious about the right problems and able to operate without hand-holding
Comfort with intensity, ambiguity, and short-term sacrifice in pursuit of long-term upside
Either a startup-native engineer or a big-tech engineer ready to get hands-on again
Company
Shields Group Search
Shields Group Search specializes in serving early stage VC and PE backed companies.
2-10 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase