VP of Engineering, Authorium
$240-300k
4+ days a week in office
Technology procurement platform for governments
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Technology procurement platform for governments
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$240-300k
4+ days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
City Innovate's mission is to make technology a force for social good in government.
Role
Who you are
- Scale Experience: 5+ years in senior leadership (VP/Director). You have led engineering through the transition from high-growth startup to enterprise platform
- Architectural Depth: Deep expertise in cloud infrastructure, SaaS architecture, and API design. You're comfortable reviewing technical designs and making architectural tradeoffs
- Regulated Industry: Experience in GovTech, HealthTech, or FinTech. You understand how to build high-performance software within strict compliance constraints
- Pragmatism: You balance the "ideal" architectural state with the immediate needs of a fast-growing business and its customers
What the job involves
- Reporting to the Co-CEOs, you will own the technical vision and the engineering organization. We need a leader who can define the long-term architectural north star while maintaining our current delivery momentum
- You’ll partner with the Head of Product to synthesize our core use cases into a unified technical vision. Working from our San Francisco office, you will build the systems, culture, and processes required for our next phase of growth
- Platform Evolution: Define the technical architecture that transforms our proven workflows into a modular, reusable platform - including data strategy, API design principles, and AI service integration
- Velocity & Rigor: Establish standards for quality and testing that allow our hybrid onshore/offshore team to maintain high quality and sustainable delivery velocity
- Compliance & Security: Partner with our Director of InfoSec to ensure platform architecture supports SOC 2, HIPAA, and FedRAMP requirements
- Organizational Scaling: Recruit and mentor the senior leadership layer needed to support a world-class engineering culture
Our take
Although there is a clear correlation between technological innovation and the effectiveness of businesses in serving their clients, the government as a whole has so far failed to adopt the same technologies to serve its citizens. Authorium, formerly City Innovate, is a company facilitating the faster procurement of government-essential technologies at the federal, state and local levels, to help these institutions better serve the communities they are responsible for.
Authorium's no-code platform supplies visibility across digitisation projects and streamlines the acquisition process from research to contracts and grants. By reducing the time taken to find and implement new technologies, governments using the company's platform can catch up with innovative trends and use technology to the advantage of their residents. With strong funds at its back, Authorium is moving ahead with advancing its platform and rolling out its new AuthorAI product, growing its team to make technology a force for social good.
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Insights
73% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Apr 2025
$8m
SERIES A
May 2023
$12m
SERIES A
Total funding: $29.2m
Company benefits
- A DIVERSE AND INCLUSIVE WORKPLACE: Women. Parents. Caretakers to the elderly. People of color. We pride ourselves on our diverse workforce.
- UNLIMITED PAID TIME OFF: We know work isn’t your whole life. Take the time you need when you need it. To take care of an ill child or other family member. Zipline through a tropical jungle. Or chill on the beach.
- MOST ROLES ARE REMOTE: We are a remote-first company with offices located in San Francisco, Sacramento, and – coming soon – New York. You can work where you like.
- $500 ALLOWANCE TO SET UP YOUR HOME OFFICE: Whether you live near an office or not, we want you to do your best work wherever you are.
- PAID COMPANY HEALTH CARE: Enjoy 100% coverage of health insurance premiums across our medical, dental, and vision plan offerings (where allowed by law).
- LEARNING AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: Everyone has a different learning style. We recognize this with a flexible program that provides reimbursement for books, coursework, and conferences.
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Kamran Saddique
(Co-Founder & Co-CEO)Former Investment Director at Tasweek. Has previously worked as VP of Private Equity at Convergence Capital, and as VP of Sales and Revenue at Media Plus.
Jay Nath
(Co-CEO)Previously CIO for the City and County of San Francisco. Was the VP of Product at SquareTrade.
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