Vice President of Engineering, Super
$268-332k
+ Equity options
Cashback card & online savings provider
Open for applications
Cashback card & online savings provider
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$268-332k
+ Equity options
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help people get more out of life by providing them with ways to build credit, save money, travel more, and earn cashback rewards.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of engineering leadership experience, including at the Eng department level (75+ engineers)
- Proven experience working with high-growth startup or scaleup environments
- Strong technical acumen — you stay close to architecture and can meaningfully contribute to technical discussions and resolve technical blockers
- Experience managing both product and infrastructure engineering teams
- Expertise in modern web stacks; familiarity with our stack (Python, React, AWS, Kubernetes, Gitlab) is a plus
- A data-informed, outcome-oriented mindset — you measure impact, not just output
- Experience building high-performing, mission-driven engineering cultures and embrace servant leadership
- Excellent communication skills — written, verbal, and cross-functional
What the job involves
- We're seeking a transformational VP of Engineering to help lead us into our next phase of growth as a Series C rocketship, with hundreds of millions in revenue and one of the fastest growing membership programs in the world
- This is a unique opportunity to lead a large, high-caliber engineering organization, scaling both core revenue-generating products and new 0-to-1 initiatives
- You’ll be the strategic and operational leader of our Engineering org, responsible for driving excellence across product engineering, platform, and infrastructure
- You will be instrumental in shaping technical strategy, team structure, product initiatives, and culture
- You will report to the CTO and will be looked to for technical decision making, as we expect each leader in our engineering org to be technical
- You will also shape our product development lifecycle, ensure technical excellence best practices, and that we effectively leverage AI to help scale the highest performing team possible
- Technical Strategy & Execution:
- Drive quarterly technical strategy and OKRs across products and infrastructure. Partner with the CTO to set the annual technical vision, aligning with company strategy. Collaborate with the Super.com leadership team and cross-functional peers to craft quarterly team OKRs to drive business value
- Ensure high-velocity project delivery across teams and products, proactively identifying and resolving technical and collaboration blockers, and providing direction to navigate ambiguity
- Optimize product development lifecycle and engineering processes from a data-driven lensGuide key architectural and build-vs-buy decisions
- Champion technical excellence, system reliability, quality targets, and RCA culture
- Ambitiously improve our developer experience and ensure state of the art deployment and production infrastructure
- Promote engineering best practices and ensure teams are leveraging modern technologies where impactful, including AI
- If you’re up for it, get your hands dirty in the codebase every once in a while
- Organizational Leadership:
- Scale and evolve the Eng org structure and ways of working to support our growth and delivery goals
- Foster a high-performance and empowered engineering culture, with autonomy and accountability
- Lead and shape discussions around how we balance innovation, tech debt, and quality focusHire, mentor, and retain top engineering talent. Manage, coach, and develop engineering directors and senior ICs
- Drive career growth paths and performance management processes characteristic of a high-performance culture
- Embrace servant leadership
Our take
Ecommerce scaleup Super (formerly known as Snapcommerce) is looking to revolutionize the eCommerce experience. Instead of shopping around disparate sources for the best consumer product deals, Super wants users to be able to send a message to their account and have the best personalized deals returned, ready to purchase.
The company has tried-and-tested this approach with its flagship and original platform Snaptravel, which delivers travel deals via a text-like interface across Messenger, WhatsApp, and SMS. It proved a hit, already crossing the $1B sales mark with nearly half of sales coming from repeat customers. This is substantial, as any significant overhaul of how people shop requires both efficacy and popularity to catch on - Snaptravel has both, which bodes well for the broader Super brand.
The recent boom in eCommerce has spilt over into a marked increase in mobile commerce, too. With Gen Z more likely to shop using mobile, and this demographic maturing into a substantial consumer demographic, Super, with its capital raise of more than $160 million, is poised to lead a bold and lucrative new wave in online shopping.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
25% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Apr 2023
$60m
SERIES C
Mar 2021
$85m
LATE VC
Total funding: $167.4m
Company benefits
- Competitive base salary
- 2x/year performance reviews
- RRSP and 401k
- Generous equity options
- $1,200 annual learning & development allowance
- Unlimited PTO (really!)
- Recharge days throughout the year
- Parental leave + top-up program
- Annual $200 travel allowance
- Employee-exclusive discounts
- Health, dental, and vision insurance on day one
- $360 annual wellness allowance
- Employee assistance programs
- $500 WFH allowance (one-time)
- Free food Fridays!
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Hussein Fazal
(Co-Founder & CEO)A Computer Science graduate with a background in software development, who went on to co-found and serve as CEO at AdParlor.
Henry Shi
(Co-Founder)Previously co-founded social discovery network uMentioned, and went on to work as a Google software engineer. Also invests in various internet and consumer startups.
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