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SVP, Software Engineering – B2C
Location
California
Posted
72 days ago
Salary
$460K - $560K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
SVP, Software Engineering – B2C
AXS Group (formerly Arrangers and Starkey Productions)
• Partner with C-Level executives as a key operational leader, driving innovation and advancing AXS’ engineering strategy. • Define the engineering roadmap, balancing long-term vision with near-term priorities across product development, infrastructure, security, and compliance. • Oversee engineering execution to ensure delivery of high-quality, scalable software products that meet productivity, growth, financial, and roadmap objectives. • Lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of end-to-end engineering processes, with clear KPIs to measure and drive excellence. • Build and empower high-performing global teams, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. • Collaborate with Product, Ticketing Strategy, Sales, Operations, AEG, and other partners to ensure strong outcomes and alignment. • Drive operational effectiveness through best practices, disciplined execution, and process improvements that increase productivity and reduce inefficiencies. • Translate business goals into actionable engineering initiatives, ensuring technical direction is aligned with organizational priorities. • Provide clear communication and progress updates to the CTO and senior leadership. • Manage operating budgets and resources effectively, ensuring financial accountability and sustainable growth.
Job Requirements
- Proven Leadership: 14+ years in high-growth technology, including 11+ years leading large engineering teams with a focus on operational excellence and consumer-facing applications.
- Consumer & E-Commerce Scale: Experience building and supporting complex, high-volume systems that deliver seamless user experiences under tight time constraints.
- Strategic Execution: Demonstrated success defining and delivering technology roadmaps, managing multiple projects end-to-end, and scaling engineering organizations.
- Technical Depth: Strong background across modern frameworks (.NET, React, Node, Swift, Kotlin) and scalable cloud platforms (preferably AWS).
- Performance & Security: Expertise with CDNs, caching, edge security, dynamic routing, CI/CD, test automation, and SRE practices to ensure high reliability.
- Data & Real-Time Systems: Skilled in designing scalable data platforms, working with enterprise databases (Oracle, DynamoDB, Snowflake, etc.), and leveraging event-driven architectures for personalization and analytics.
- Agile & Operational Excellence: Deep knowledge of Scrum/Kanban with a proven ability to optimize processes, define KPIs, and improve delivery at scale.
- Global Team Leadership: Success leading distributed, diverse teams worldwide, building collaborative, innovative, and high-performance cultures.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Strong ability to partner with Product, Design, Marketing, and Operations to align engineering execution with customer and business goals.
- Vendor & Outsourcing Management: Proven experience managing third-party vendors and outsourcing partnerships, ensuring quality, accountability, and alignment with strategic goals.
Benefits
- medical, dental and vision insurance
- paid holidays
- vacation and sick time
- company paid basic life insurance
- voluntary life insurance
- parental leave
- 401k Plan (with a current employer match of 3%)
- flexible spending and health savings account options
- wellness offerings
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