Director of Engineering, Vanilla
$200-250k
+ Bonus + Equity
More information about location
Estate planning platform for wealth advisors
Job no longer available
Estate planning platform for wealth advisors
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$200-250k
+ Bonus + Equity
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
Vanilla's mission is to help everyone create a meaningful legacy.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- 10+ years of industry experience building and operating software products
- 7+ years managing leaders and individual contributors
- Proven track record building and scaling products
- Strong written and interpersonal skills
- Hire, mentor, and grow leaders across different disciplines
- Able to dive deep on technical, product, strategy, security, and design topics
What the job involves
- The Director of Engineering will be responsible for overseeing a team of engineers, managing the development and deployment of technology solutions, and ensuring the successful delivery of products that meet our customers' needs
- This role requires a strategic thinker with a strong technical background, excellent leadership skills, and a passion for driving innovation in a fast-paced start-up environment
- Lead frontend and backend development teams and their projects
- Ensure the reliability, scalability, and security of the company’s technology solutions
- Implement metrics and KPIs to track and improve engineering performance and product quality
- Partner with Legal and Security to ensure compliance with security regulations
- Work cross functionally with other departments (e.g., marketing, sales, customer support) to ensure alignment and support for engineering initiatives
- Manage software development projects by setting requirements, goals, and timelines
- Design strategies for future development projects based on the company’s overall objectives and resources
- Hire engineers and coordinate their training
- Coordinate with external stakeholders for new integrations and tools
Our take
Estate planning - in which the management of a person's estate is arranged for their future passing or incapacity - is an important but complicated process, often slowed down by archaic protocol. Vanilla supplies a platform for wealth advisors to create documentation, as well as monitor and visualize estate planning, so that they can speed up and optimize their processes to better serve their clients.
Vanilla's comprehensive and fully digital platform is the first of its kind, leveraging vast industry experience to support legacy operations from start to end. It is able to simplify even the most complicated estates, and display clear information on how assets will be passed down, as well as any changes that occur over time.
With the gargantuan size of the estate planning market, Vanilla should be afforded plenty of room to grow its operations into the future. The company has raised considerable funding towards accelerating expansion, as well as broadening its product offering and development.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Aug 2024
$35m
LATE VC
Feb 2023
$4.8m
SEED
Total funding: $81.4m
Company benefits
- Remote & hybrid options
- Fast-paced environment
- The autonomy to self-direct and self-manage your workday, spending less time in meetings and more time focusing on meaningful work
- Work collaboratively with talented people across the country
- Use the skills you’ve honed to develop a first-of-its-kind product at a startup that cares more about industry longevity than spectacle
Company HQ
Rio Grande, Salt Lake City, UT
Leadership
Steve Lockshin
(Founder)Also the Founder of AdvicePeriod, and a Board Member at PATHWATER and Just Invest. Former Chairman/CEO and Founder of Convergent Wealth Advisors.
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