Director​/VP of Software

Location

Boston;
San Francisco

Full time

Hybrid

Engineering

Help define the future of hardware development by building a collaboration platform for circuit designs, enabling the next generation of smart vehicles, IoT devices, rockets, medical devices, robotics, and much more.

At All Spice, we're building the agile development environment for hardware designers, including a Git-friendly translation layer and automated CI/CD framework for native circuit designs — think Git Hub/Git Lab + Copilot for electronics.

Read more about our latest Series A announcement!

As Director/VP of Software, you will own All Spice's product development strategy and execution while building and leading a growing engineering organization. This is a hands‑on leadership role: roughly 60% management and strategic work, 40% individual contribution, reporting directly to the CTO. With ~3 technical team leads under your wing today, you need to be equally comfortable whiteboarding system architecture and jumping into a codebase alongside an engineer to solve difficult problems.

If you are passionate about building great software, growing high‑performing teams, and translating customer needs into shipped product, this role is for you.

This is a high-impact role that comes with significant autonomy and requires a self-driven, strategic, and collaborative leader. You will own product development across the full stack — from our Go back-end and Rust parsing layer to our Vue/Type Script front-end.

• Own All Spice's product development roadmap in close partnership with the CTO and Product Management
• Make architectural decisions that balance speed, scalability, and technical quality across multiple teams
• Align engineering priorities with business goals and customer needs, translating product requirements into clear technical plans
• Evaluate build‑vs‑buy decisions and manage technical debt strategically

• Oversee and mentor ~5 technical team leads, fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement
• Hire, develop, and retain top engineering talent as the organization scales
• Set team goals, define development processes, and drive operational cadence (sprints, standups, retrospectives)
• Create growth paths for individual contributors and managers alike
• Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and incident response when needed

• Serve as the primary connector between technical teams (Platform, Parsing, GenAI, Front‑end), facilitating alignment and removing blockers
• Partner closely with Infrastructure to ensure smooth deployments, performance, and reliability of production systems
• Work with Customer Success and Sales to understand customer pain points and feed insights back into the development process
• Represent Engineering in cross‑functional planning, providing realistic timelines and trade‑off analysis

• Jump in with engineers to debug, prototype, and solve complex problems when needed — especially in areas spanning multiple teams
• Drive end‑to‑end web performance analysis and optimization across the stack
• Maintain a high standard of technical quality through architecture guidance, code review, and mentorship
• Engage with open‑source communities used in our software to upstream relevant changes and influence key decisions

• Analyze and improve end‑to‑end web performance: from server response times through rendering of complex CAD documents (100k+ elements)
• Lead the development of a 3D rendering engine for PCBs
• Architect scalable APIs and data models for CAD documents stored in Git repositories
• Drive expansion of ECAD format support (e.g., LTSpice, KiCad, additional formats)
• Guide the GenAI/DRCY team on integrating AI‑powered design review deeper into the product, including PCB analysis and extended knowledge repositories
• Oversee implementation of cross‑probing between schematic and PCB views
• Improve the snippet and diff rendering pipeline for accuracy and performance

• Gitea application soft fork
  • Go [server‑side]
  • Vue/Type Script front‑end
• Rust…