Vice President of Engineering, BibliU
Learning enablement platform
Open for applications
Learning enablement platform
101-200 employees
Open for applications
101-200 employees
Company mission
To empower higher education institutions to streamline their textbook and courseware workflows to achieve greater student outcomes, affordability, and social mobility.
Role
Who you are
- Significant experience leading software engineering or application development functions at VP, Director or CTO level
- A track record of leading teams through change
- Demonstrated accountability for delivery of complex web and mobile applications, including release governance
- Experience managing engineering teams and technical leads
- Full stack TypeScript and AWS experience is required
- Track record of owning application security: secure coding practice, vulnerability management, audit and customer security review
Desirable
- Experience implementing development governance, DevOps practice, CI/CD and quality assurance standards
- Proven ability to manage technical risk and align engineering output with commercial objectives, and to report both credibly to senior leadership
- Strong understanding of cloud-native architecture and modern development frameworks
- A considered, practical position on AI-assisted development: tooling, guardrails, review, and how to measure real gains
- Experience in SaaS, EdTech, FinTech or other product-led digital environments
- Knowledge of cybersecurity standards and secure coding practices, and of the certifications customers ask about
- Familiarity with international product deployments and multi-region infrastructure
- Exposure to data-driven product optimisation and analytics frameworks
- Experience in a resource-constrained scale-up, where pragmatism and sequencing matter more than ideal solutions
What the job involves
- Reports to: CEO (interim)
- BibliU is hiring a VP Engineering to lead and grow its engineering function. This role owns team leadership, engineering standards, technical governance, security posture, and delivery against the product roadmap
- The engineering organisation today is about 15 engineers across application and platform, primarily full stack TypeScript on AWS, with 1-2 managers but otherwise a fairly flat team structure. You'll inherit a function that has been through a period of change, and is in the middle of changing how software gets built
- The first six months are about earning the team's trust, getting delivery predictable, and landing AI-assisted development as a standard part of how the team works rather than scattered individual use. Beyond that, this is a build job: growing the team as the business grows, setting the architecture direction for the next stage, and taking BibliU's platform from $100m revenue to what comes after
- It is expected that product and engineering will sit under a single leader longer term, so you'll spend your time on engineering rather than on cross-functional alignment
- What Success Looks Like in year one
- The team is stable, growing, and the engineering managers are developing under you
- Security posture is documented, owned and defensible, and customer security reviews are routine rather than fire drills
- Availability, performance and incident metrics are improving
- Delivery is predictable, with an honest roadmap and a release process the team trusts
- AI-assisted development is measurably in use across the team, under agreed review and quality standards, with quality and security metrics improved against the baseline set in month one
- Multiple engineering workflows have materially changed, with the before/after evidenced
- Engineering standards, architecture decisions and technical debt are documented, and there's a credible architecture plan for the next stage of scale
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Educational institutions are becoming increasingly keen to use technical solutions to better their services, and BibliU is tapping into this trend. The company delivers access to e-textbooks and courseware for as low as $50 per student, per class - massively reducing the cost of access to essential educational resources.
Universities subscribe to BibliU for an annual fee, and their students can access course materials such as e-textbooks, monographs, and more. This means that educators have more freedom when planning lessons or lectures, knowing all their students will be able to get their hands on relevant resources. BibliU also shares the revenue from its institutional deals with academic publishers, with which it partners.
Funds secured by the company have been used to accelerate expansion across the UK and US, secure additional partnerships and investigate new product development. Impressively, during the economic uncertainly that plagued EdTech in general throughout 2022, BibliU experienced massive growth that saw over half the UK's higher education students receive access to its platform, and many US institutions replace legacy bookstores with a BibliU subscription.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Jun 2026
$55m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Sep 2022
$1.8m
SERIES B
Total funding: $100m
Company benefits
- 35 holiday days per year (in addition to public holidays)
- 12 scheduled company wellness Fridays off per year
- Your birthday off
- Flexible working hours - we're a remote team spread across the US, the EU and UK!
- Enhanced maternity & paternity allowance
- Work-from-home allowance to help you set up your dream WFH station
- Cycle-to-work scheme
- Health insurance cover by Vitality
Company HQ
Walthamstow, London, UK
Leadership
Dave Sherwood
(CEO & Co-founder)Founding Member of the Edtech Founders Club, and Board Advisor at Purlos. Also founded Teach Learn Grow, and is a graduate of Oxford University.
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