Vice President, Engineering

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As the VP of Engineering at S-Docs, you will lead the execution, delivery, and people management of our Engineering organization, ensuring the reliable, scalable development of our document generation and e-signature platform. This role partners with the CTO to translate technical strategy into disciplined execution, delivery excellence, and team effectiveness.

• Lead and manage the Engineering organization, ensuring consistent execution, delivery predictability, and high‑quality outcomes across all engineering initiatives.
• Drive architecture, design, and development for product features and initiatives.
• Drive quality control of the product delivered through automation and strong quality engineering processes.
• Serve as the primary people leader for Engineering, building, mentoring, and retaining high‑performing engineering leaders and teams.
• Oversee and optimize global engineering operations, including direct leadership and partnership management of the offshore engineering team in India.
• Establish and maintain strong operating cadences, development processes, and performance metrics to support scalable and reliable software delivery.
• Partner closely with the CTO to translate architecture, product vision, and technical strategy into actionable plans, roadmaps, and execution.
• Collaborate cross‑functionally with Product, Customer Solutions, Customer Success, and Support to ensure engineering efforts are aligned with customer needs and business priorities.
• Drive continuous improvement in engineering practices, including code quality, testing, security, documentation, and deployment processes.
• Support capacity planning, resourcing decisions, and prioritization to balance innovation, technical debt, and operational stability.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning across a distributed, global engineering team.
• Contribute to executive‑level planning and decision‑making.

• Deep working knowledge of the Salesforce platform, both declarative and programmatic.
• Strong engineering leadership capability with the ability to balance strategic thinking and hands‑on operational execution.
• Deep understanding of modern SaaS architectures, cloud‑based platforms, observability, and enterprise‑grade software development practices.
• Deep understanding of enterprise architecture patterns and best practices with specific knowledge of Java, Postgres RDBMS, and asynchronous processing via messaging platforms.
• Strong working knowledge of i‑PaaS integration platforms (e.g., Mulesoft, Workato).
• Deep understanding of REST API architecture and design with a focus on security, authentication, and authorization.
• Deep understanding of security and cyber security best practices for cloud‑based applications.
• Strong knowledge of Large Language Models (LLM) and AI‑based technologies using frontier LLM models.
• Proven ability to lead and scale distributed and global engineering teams across multiple time zones.
• Exceptional people leadership skills, including coaching, performance management, and talent development.
• Strong business acumen with the ability to align engineering outcomes to company goals and customer value.
• Clear, confident communication skills with the ability to engage effectively with technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Self‑driven and curious, with a willingness to explore and learn new technologies and paradigms.
• A pragmatic, execution‑oriented mindset with a focus on outcomes, reliability, and continuous improvement.

• 15+ years of professional experience in software engineering, with significant time in engineering leadership roles.
• 10+ years of designing and hands‑on development on the Salesforce platform.
• 8‑10 years of designing and developing with Java, relational databases, REST APIs, and enterprise architecture.
• Demonstrated success leading engineering teams within a SaaS or enterprise software environment.
• Experience managing global engineering organizations, including offshore or…