VP of Engineering

🌐 WHO WE ARE Bankjoy is a Y Combinator and Bessemer Venture Partner backed FinTech startup. We are changing the way community banks and credit unions do business, enabling them to become tech-driven and digital first. Bankjoy provides modern digital banking products including mobile banking, online banking, online account opening, loan origination, and conversational AI. Our mission is to revolutionize banking tech infrastructure by leading digital transformation at financial institutions — big and small. THE ROLE We are looking for a VP of Engineering to lead four of Bankjoy's eight engineering value streams and own the quality engineering framework across the entire engineering organization. This is a hands-on leadership role at a critical inflection point in Bankjoy's growth. You will directly lead engineering teams across Banking Core Integration, Business Banking, Vendor Integration, and Client Analytics — while building the quality standards, automation framework, and release discipline that raise the bar for all eight value streams. The ideal candidate has deep roots in quality engineering, has personally rescued or rebuilt automation programs in multi-platform environments, and has the organizational credibility to drive a shift from manual-heavy to automation-first quality culture. You have led engineering managers and senior ICs, partnered closely with technical support and release operations, and know what it takes to deliver reliable software to regulated financial institutions. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES Engineering Leadership - Lead four value streams — Banking Core Integration, Business Banking, Vendor Integration, and Account Acquisition — owning delivery, velocity, and technical excellence across each - Manage and develop engineering managers, tech leads, and a Principal Engineer, building a high-performing organization that uses AI-assisted development as a core practice - Provide hands-on technical leadership by partnering with tech leads on solution design, architectural reviews, production incident management, and complex troubleshooting, while remaining close enough to the systems to guide critical engineering decisions. - Partner closely with the VP of Platform Engineering on cross-cutting initiatives including AI coding adoption, release coordination, architectural standards and DevOps. - Drive quarterly engineering OKRs focused on AI productivity, code quality, and delivery velocity - Participate in senior leadership alongside the COO, VP of Platform Engineering, and product leadership Quality Framework — Entire Engineering Organization - Design and implement Bankjoy's engineering quality framework across all eight value streams — setting standards for unit testing, integration testing, automated regression, and release readiness - Own a modern multi-platform automation framework covering Angular, Swift, and Kotlin - Define and enforce quality gates — explicit go/no-go release criteria that every value stream must meet, including automated coverage thresholds, defect standards, and QE sign-off - Lead and develop a QA organization of eight manual QA engineers and two dedicated automation QA engineers, working with the QA manager to elevate the team toward a quality engineering model - Establish a test data management layer, environment parity standards, and CI/CD quality integration across all value streams - Build a quality dashboard visible to engineering and leadership — automation coverage, open defect counts, regression completion rates — so release readiness is transparent, not judgment-based Release Quality and Cross-Functional Collaboration - Partner with the Release Manager to implement a structured release gate process — mid-cycle readiness reviews and formal go/no-go decisions with explicit sign-offs from engineering, QA, and product - Work closely with Technical Support to close the feedback loop between production issues and engineering prioritization — ensuring client-impacting defects drive p...