VP, Software Engineering

Vice President, Software Engineering — Seven Bridges

Location:

Remote.

USpreferred. India orEMEA candidates considered.

Reports to:

Chief Technology Officer Who are we?

Velsera istheprecision engine company. We build the software researchers, scientists,and clinicians use to drive precision R&D and bring analytics closer to the point of care. Seven Bridges,Pierian,andUgenTec came together to form Velsera; we are headquartered in Boston, MA, with [current headcount] colleagues across [current country count] countries.

The Seven Bridges Platform is our research genomics platform —roughly 130containerized services, multi-cloud, running in commercial and FedRAMP Moderate environments, where scientists run CWL, WDL,and Nextflow workflows over petabyte-scale genomic data.

Current priorities are federated data management, compliance as a product capability, and governed AI.

You report to the CTO and own engineering for the Seven Bridges Platform: architecture, delivery, and production operations, including reliability, cost, technical debt, and observability. The team is primarily in India, with a smaller group in Serbia; you lead across both sites and work daily with stakeholders in other time zones. You hold architecture authority for the platform, co-own boundary decisions with security, federal compliance,and quality leadership, and partner with a cross-business AI Engineering team.

The role isroughly 40% hands-on technical work and 60% people leadership and organizational delivery. Hands-on means owning architecture decisions of record, leading design reviews, reviewing code and infrastructure changes, and prototyping where needed. You should be credible to your most senior engineers, with a clear view of what thisclass of platformshould become and the ability to take a team and a business there.

• Own the technical vision for the platform over the next three years,and turn it into an architecture and roadmap the team and the business believe in.

• Own architecture decisions of record, design reviews, multi-tenant isolation, and complexity reduction across the service estate.

• Keep delivery governed and modern: infrastructure-as-code under CI with policy-as-code, short-lived credentials, progressive rollout, and change evidence that holds up to audit ina federally authorized environment.

• Own reliability: SLOs and error budgets on the paths customers depend on, on-call design that works across two sites, and turning repeat incidents into architectural change.

• Ship governed AIin the product andapplyAI to how the team builds, both under a governance policy co-owned with Risk&Compliance, and both measured.

• Build the team: management depth you can trust with delivery, the specialist skills the roadmap needs, and maintaining a thriving team through a periodofgrowth.