Director of Engineering, Internal Platforms & AI

ABOUT BIP CAPITAL

BIP Capital is an integrated private market investment platform built to create and capture opportunities through BIP Ventures traditional venture anchor funds, an Evergreen equity BDC, and private credit offerings. With a distinctive multi-stage, multi-sector investment approach and a growing array of capital offerings, BIP Capital has generated consistent top quartile returns since 2009.

BIP Ventures, the North American-focused venture capital division of BIP Capital, a highly active venture capital firm based in the Southeast. BIP Ventures partners with extraordinary founders to drive exceptional outcomes. Since 2007, BIP Ventures has invested in the success of B2B software and tech‑enabled service businesses at all stages of maturity. In addition to capital, it supports entrepreneurs with access to infrastructure, acumen, and talent, resulting in category‑leading companies.

We are champions of our investors’ goals and stewards of founders’ dreams, but more than that, we are ethical, honest partners who serve, educate, and protect our founders and investors. We take on the challenges and complex conversations because we operate out of integrity and genuine care.

We are seeking a Director of Engineering to lead our engineering team — the engineers who design, build, and operate the internal platforms that power our investment and operations teams. In this role, you will be a player‑coach: close enough to the work to review designs and challenge technical decisions, but focused first on developing people, shaping engineering culture, and ensuring the team delivers.

Your most important job is judgment: coaching experienced, opinionated engineers toward simple, right‑sized solutions; deciding when to pay down technical debt and when to ship; and keeping a small, high‑leverage team moving fast without accumulating complexity it cannot afford. If you have strong technical convictions, the backbone to hold senior engineers accountable, and the empathy to bring them along rather than overrule them, this is an opportunity to shape how software gets built at a leading venture capital firm.

• Lead and Develop the Engineering Team: Manage a team of fullstack engineers, including senior engineers, with direct responsibility for coaching, feedback, performance, and career growth. Build a culture of ownership, candor, and continuous improvement.
• Coach for Pragmatic Architecture: Set and enforce a high bar for simplicity. Guide engineers — especially strong, experienced ones — away from habitual over engineering and toward designs with the right amount of complexity for the problem, using design reviews, direct feedback, and clear architectural principles rather than mandates.
• Balance Technical Debt and Delivery: Prioritize and manage technical debt investments. Make these decisions explicitly and transparently, so stakeholders understand what the team is investing in and why, and the team understands when good enough is the right call.
• Own Delivery and Execution: Run the team’s planning and delivery processes. Translate business priorities from investment and operations stakeholders into a well‑sequenced roadmap, set realistic commitments, and hold the team accountable to them.
• Raise Engineering Standards: Establish and continuously improve team‑wide practices for code review, testing, observability, CI/CD, and AI‑assisted development — including how tools like Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex fit into the team’s workflows with appropriate quality and security guardrails.
• Partner Across the Firm: Serve as the primary interface between the engineering team and firm leadership. Communicate progress, risks, and trade‑offs clearly to non‑technical audiences, and advocate for the team’s needs, including hiring and tooling.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including substantial hands‑on fullstack work in environments similar to ours (Type Script, React, Node, AWS, relational databases).
• 5+…