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The Company You’ll Join At Rebuy, we're on a mission to revolutionize shopping with intelligent, personalized experiences that wow customers around the globe. As a fully remote team, we power some of the fastest growing DTC brands like Tecovas, Momofuku, Dime Beauty, Liquid Death, Magic Spoon, OLLY, and many more. We believe in ownership, drive, and empathy and strongly uphold that every team member plays a vital role in shaping the future of intelligent commerce. Our culture thrives on collaboration, creativity, and genuine passion. We don’t just build great tech - we build lasting partnerships, a strong community, and a place where people love to work. The Role As the VP of Engineering, you will own the engineering organization and the technical delivery of rebuyengine.com http://rebuyengine.com. You will lead the engineering pods (4–6 engineers each, one team captain per pod) and partner with the VP of Product on the roadmap and with the CEO/COO on operational execution. One of the main objectives will be to deliver the 2nd version of the API-first surface — the standardized REST tool set that makes Rebuy the cleanest API in the Shopify ecosystem for agents to call. What You’ll Do: - Set engineering strategy, own technical architecture, direction and the bar for code, reliability, and security - Lead and grow the engineering organization; install the pod operating model, handle organizational design, and establish career progression paths - Ship the V2 REST API surface, the OpenAPI spec, and the agent-readiness layer - Own engineering KPIs: delivery velocity, system reliability, defect density, hiring quality - Partner on diligence-readiness — repo hygiene, IP assignment, security posture — for a strategic transaction. - Partner with the Product team to define technical vision, architecture standards, and product delivery roadmaps - Own the performance metrics for Rebuyengine (latency, errors, etc). - Responsible for all platform security - Review and optimize our entire tech stack, also assess all critical points of failure to add redundancies as needed. - Responsible for shipping high quality code. Who You Are We're looking for an experienced engineering executive who combines deep technical expertise with exceptional leadership skills. You're passionate about building world-class engineering organizations, developing high-performing teams, and delivering technology that drives meaningful business outcomes. THE HARD SKILLS - 15+ years in engineering leadership; have led 30–50 person engineering organizations - Experience scaling SaaS platforms in ecommerce, martech, or developer tools - Proven success scaling high-growth SaaS platforms with a strong focus on reliability, scalability, and operational excellence. - Deep expertise in software architecture, distributed systems, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and platform engineering. - Experience building API-first products and developer platforms using modern REST and OpenAPI standards. - Strong understanding of modern software development practices, CI/CD, DevOps, observability, incident management, and engineering operations. - Experience optimizing application performance, platform latency, database performance, cloud infrastructure, and large-scale distributed systems. - Strong opinions on API design and developer experience — OpenAPI, REST conventions, agent-tool patterns - Modern stack fluency (PHP/Node/React/Shopify ecosystem helpful) - Comfortable operating in an exit-process posture with discretion - Vast experience with large data sets and must be a database expert THE SOFT SKILLS - Strong communication skills and ability to break down complex problems into easy-to-understand concepts. - Executive presence with the ability to inspire confidence, influence decision-making, and build trust across the organization. - Exceptional communication skills with the ability to translate complex technica