VP of Product Engineering

At Agile Defense we know that action defines the outcome and new challenges require new solutions. That’s why we always look to the future and embrace change with an unmovable spirit and the courage to build for what comes next.

Our vision is to bring adaptive innovation to support our nation's most important missions through the seamless integration of advanced technologies, elite minds, and unparalleled agility—leveraging a foundation of speed, flexibility, and ingenuity to strengthen and protect our nation’s vital interests.

Agile Labs conceives, builds, and scales SaaS platforms that power mission ready talent management and resilient software delivery for federal and commercial customers. These cloud native products blend Generative AI to accelerate workforce readiness, automate compliance, and cut release cycles from months to hours, all while meeting the most stringent security requirements and supporting commercial and federal customer deployments.

The Vice President of Product Engineering is a senior full-stack engineer who defines and executes the technical strategy for Workforce and Duro Suite. You will partner with product tech leads to translate market signals into road mapped features, then guide cross functional squads from whiteboard to live release. Acting as chief builder, you will architect multitenant microservices, write production code, owning Dev Sec Ops  automation, and instrument usage analytics that drive evidence based iteration.

You will evangelize product vision to customers and internal stakeholders, secure executive buy in, and ensure every launch meets adoption, reliability, and compliance objectives. Your leadership will cultivate an engineering culture of experimentation, continuous delivery, and measurable user value across Agile Defense. Additionally, you’ll be a proactive industry thought leader, representing Agile Defense at panel discussions, technology events, and conferences.

• Drive product discovery by synthesizing user feedback, market signals, and competitive intelligence into actionable feature concepts and technical implementation strategies.
• Architect and lead development of experimental prototypes that explore new technologies, validate hypotheses, and shape future roadmap investments.
• Own the architecture, code quality, and operational excellence of Workforce and Duro Suite across web, API, and data services.
• Lead backlog grooming, sprint planning, and release governance in concert with Product Management, ensuring features align with OKRs and market feedback.
• Design and implement scalable React and Node.js front ends, Python and Go microservices, REST interfaces, and event driven data pipelines on AWS.
• Implement and enforce Dev Sec Ops  pipelines with IaC, container hardening, SBOM generation, automated testing, and SRE style monitoring for government deployments.
• Launch new modules and major enhancements, orchestrating alpha, beta, and GA phases while managing feature flags, A/B tests, and customer onboarding playbooks.
• Collaborate with UX, Security, and Compliance teams to embed accessibility and FedRAMP/NIST safeguards from design through operations.
• Curate and publish reusable component libraries, SDKs, and reference implementations that accelerate internal and partner development.
• Represent Agile Defense at conferences, customer demos, and industry work groups to drive brand recognition and market adoption.
• Mentor senior and midlevel engineers, fostering a learning culture through code reviews, brownbag sessions, and Communities of Practice.

• Directly manages product tech leads and staff engineers.
• Owns the engineering budget for Workforce and Duro Suite, ensuring optimal allocation of cloud spend, licensing, and R&D funds.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field;
  Master’s preferred.
• Twelve or more years of fullstack product engineering with at least five years leading launch ready SaaS solutions at scale.
• Demonstrated success bringing new commercial…