Vice President of Engineering, LeagueApps
Youth sports management platform
Open for applications
Youth sports management platform
101-200 employees
Open for applications
101-200 employees
Company mission
To help leaders bring youth sports to kids and communities everywhere.
Role
Who you are
- An accomplished engineering executive with 10–12+ years of leadership experience, including 5+ years at the VP level (or equivalent) in SaaS
- Proven success scaling engineering organizations by developing talent, coaching leaders, and building structures that enable teams to thrive
- Strong technical acumen with deep SaaS architecture expertise (cloud-native, API-first, microservices, modern DevOps)
- Experienced in platform modernization and transformation, including raising test coverage, reducing regression risk, and driving system reliability
- A believer in user- and product-centered development, with a consumer mindset that ensures intuitive, high-quality experiences in B2B SaaS
- A communicator with the executive presence to inspire teams, align stakeholders, and build board and investor confidence
- Commercially minded and experienced in PE-backed environments where engineering outcomes tie directly to enterprise value creation
- Skilled at managing distributed (onshore and offshore) teams while optimizing for speed, quality, and cost efficiency
- Forward-looking, with experience applying AI and modern engineering practices to product development and team productivity
- Known for ruthless prioritization and disciplined execution, focusing on what drives the greatest impact
What the job involves
- As the technology leader, you will guide our engineering organization to deliver innovative solutions, align technical strategy with business objectives, and drive measurable impact across the company
- The Vice President of Engineering will lead this effort with full ownership of engineering strategy and execution
- As a key executive leader, you will scale and strengthen our engineering organization, drive delivery and architecture, and guide our platform modernization
- You will ensure consistent roadmap execution, align engineering tightly with business and user needs, and build a high-performing, accountable, and empowered team
- Drive system modernization efforts, including cloud-native architecture, API-first design, and scalable data infrastructure
- Define and execute LeagueApps’ technical strategy and architecture, driving modernization, scalability, and reliability
- Lead roadmap delivery with a focus on predictability, accountability, and measurable outcomes
- Establish and track engineering KPIs such as coverage %, regression escape rate, change failure rate, MTTR, and velocity to make excellence visible and celebrated
- Build a culture of ownership and professionalism where engineers are accountable for quality, reliability, and clarity, and unsafe shortcuts are rejected
- Drive adoption of testing discipline (80%+ coverage in core domains, automated regression suite in CI/CD, contract tests for microservices)
- Ensure every service and domain has clear documentation including runbooks, READMEs, and API contracts, and embed cross-squad reviews and systemic collaboration
- Champion a culture of craft where professional standards such as tests, documentation, clean code, monitoring, and refactoring are reinforced through onboarding, reviews, and recognition
- Scale the engineering organization by developing leaders, optimizing team structure, and fostering empowerment
- Introduce AI and automation to improve both product capabilities and engineering productivity
- Ensure best practices in security, data privacy, and compliance
- Act as a visible executive leader who inspires engineers, aligns stakeholders, and builds confidence with the CEO, board, and investors
- Tech Stack:
- Languages & Frameworks: Java, Spring, Hibernate ORM, Go, Kotlin, React
- Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL
- Infrastructure: GCP, Docker
- Integrations: Twilio, Stripe/Plaid
Our take
Youth sports teams need successful administration and management to thrive, requiring funding and payroll management, networking and scaling, and revenue generation programs. However, such organizations are commonly associated with an absence of technology, resulting in a lack of options for software platforms that help with such administrative tasks.
LeagueApps provides a customizable youth sports management platform to provide an all-in-one solution to aid any sports team's operations and growth. The software provides automation tools for payroll and financing, marketing and growth features, communication dashboards for player and parent retention, and bottom-line tools for revenue generation.
Whilst there are already generalized organization management platforms that youth sports teams can benefit from, LeagueApps has smartly recognized the need for customizable management tools designed to help sports teams. This approach hasn't gone unnoticed by investors, with the company recently receiving substantial funding which will propel its offerings even further.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jul 2021
$15m
SERIES B
Jun 2018
$1.8m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $43.2m
Company benefits
- Health and Wellness: Comprehensive medical and dental, gym and fitness subsidies, company sports teams
- Vacation: Generous paid time off policy
- Family Friendly: Generous parental leave for primary and secondary caregivers
- Community: Weekly All-Hands meetings with AMAs, bi-annual company offsites, social events
- Professional Development: Individual subsidy for continued learning and development (classes, certifications)
Company HQ
Gramercy Park, New York, NY
Leadership
Brian Litvack
(Co-Founder & CEO)Experience as General Manager and Founding Team Member of Sportsvite.com from 2006 to 2011.
Steve Parker
(Co-Founder & CTO)Experience as CTO and Co-Founder of Sportsvite.com from 2006 to 2010. Principal Consultant for OpenEvolve since 2004.
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