Vice President, Engineering

At LegitScript, we are passionate about making the internet and payment ecosystems safer and more transparent. We help companies of all sizes keep their services legal and safe for consumers. To do this, LegitScript combines big data with the world’s leading team of experts skilled in highly regulated and complex sectors, including transaction laundering detection, pharmaceuticals, online gambling, and more.

The result? Unmatched accuracy and deep risk analysis that identifies which commercial entities play by the rules, and which do not. Our diverse industry partnerships provide unique insights that keep businesses and governments at the forefront of emerging trends. That’s why LegitScript is trusted by the world's largest search engines, internet platforms, payment companies, and regulatory agencies.

We are seeking a Vice President of Engineering to lead a major technology and organizational transformation. This executive will modernize our data platform, increase engineering velocity, and build a high-performing, globally distributed engineering organization.

This role is ideal for an engineering leader who has successfully scaled teams, transitioned organizations from services-heavy delivery to product platforms, and built modern data foundations that support growth, reliability, and compliance.

This is a high-impact executive role with ownership over the technology platform, engineering organization, and delivery outcomes that directly support a growing revenue base. The VP of Engineering will play a central role in shaping how the company scales—technically, operationally, and culturally.

• Drive the migration from siloed, service-level databases to a unified data intelligence platform.
• Lead architecture and execution of a Databricks Lakehouse environment to create a governed, enterprise-wide source of truth.
• Shift engineering from client-specific work to reusable data products, APIs, and shared platforms.
• Establish Infrastructure as Code and automation to ensure reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Design and operate a “Follow the Sun” engineering model with strong ownership across regions.
• Reduce dependency on contractors through structured knowledge transfer and transition to full-time ownership.
• Deliver a measurable improvement in engineering delivery times
• Implement and manage DORA metrics (deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, MTTR).
• Optimize SDLC and CI/CD pipelines to support data engineering and platform development at scale.
• Advance Agile maturity from process-driven execution to outcome-focused delivery.
• Ensure engineering practices meet SOC 2, ISO 27001, and ISO 42001 compliance requirements.

• 10+ years in engineering leadership, including 3+ years at the Director or VP level.
• Proven success driving major transformations (e.g., Services to SaaS, On-Prem to Cloud).
• Strong background in modern data architectures and the Databricks ecosystem (Spark, Lakehouse, ETL/ELT).
• Experience building scalable platforms, data products, and APIs.
• Ability to translate technical strategy into clear execution plans.
• Demonstrated success leading distributed teams across multiple time zones and cultures.
• Strong change management skills and executive communication.
• Experience managing engineering budgets, including cloud spend, headcount costs, and contractor optimization.

• 401k with company match and immediate vesting
• Generous paid time off package and 11 paid holidays
• And much more!

If you got to this point, we hope you're feeling excited about the job description you just read. Even if you don't feel that you meet every single requirement, we still encourage you to apply. We're eager to meet people that believe in LegitScript’s mission and can contribute to our team in a variety of ways.

This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of all activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice.

Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position. We cannot support international remote work.

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