Job Details

Overview

VP of Technology & Engineering - fully remote!

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In this leadership role, you will be leading Inflect's technology and product strategy with a bold, future-forward mindset, providing thought leadership and direction on everything AI and platform architecture, and accelerating the pace and efficiency of how we build our core platform and toolset. You''ll refine the tech vision, architect scalable systems, and champion a product experience that makes IT procurement feel less like pulling teeth and more like clicking "buy now." Think Amazon Prime for buying datacenter, cloud, and network services. You''ll be the connective tissue between Engineering, Product, and Designensuring we work fast, scale smart, and always keep the user front and center.

This is a leadership role where you''ll be expected to zoom out and think strategically, but also roll up your sleeves and dive into the details. You''ll guide the Engineering, Product, and UX teams through complex decisions, foster a culture of ownership and experimentation, and make sure our systems are secure, performant, and future-proof. Especially in this new world of AI and deep learning, we not only help supply the digital infrastructure to power the world''s AI ambitions, we are leveraging it to be the best place to buy and sell these infrastructure services globally.

We''re revolutionizing the way companies buy and sell digital infrastructure, and we''re extremely proud of that. Digital infrastructure is the enabler of the internet and at the core of every industry. Traditionally it''s been bought manually through service provider sales people, resulting in high costs, slow procurement cycles, and services that don''t work the best - slowing down the ability of companies to build and hold back human innovation. Inflect''s marketplace and advisory are removing friction so any company can get what they need, when they need it, at the right deal terms. By achieving our mission, we unlock businesses to build and human innovation inflects!

What you''ll own includes strategic leadership and engineering, product collaboration, UX collaboration, and everything else needed to run a scalable, secure, and user-focused platform.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute Inflect''s technology vision in lockstep with our mission, vision, and long-term strategy.
• Architect intelligent, secure, and scalable systems that support rapid growth and AI-driven innovation.
• Lead engineering in building secure, scalable, and performant systems.
• Drive innovation across all product offerings while managing technical debt.
• Implement DevOps best practices to support rapid iteration and reliability.
• Oversee platform architecture, backend systems, and infrastructure.
• Partner with execs to align tech initiatives with business goals.
• Cultivate a high-performing engineering culture rooted in transparency, ownership, and continuous improvement.

Product (In collaboration with Director of Product)

• Own the product roadmap, prioritizing features that drive efficiency and trust.
• Use customer insights, competitive intel, and analytics to guide decisions.
• Translate stakeholder needs into clear product requirements.
• Monitor KPIs like quote response time, conversion rates, and usage to inform strategy.

UX (In collaboration with UX Manager)

• Champion user-centered design for IT buyers and decision-makers.
• Align design with brand identity while optimizing for clarity and speed.

Everything Else

• Ensure data privacy and regulatory compliance (GDPR, CCPA, etc.).
• Act as a bridge between technical teams and commercial functions, translating complexity into clarity.
• Foster a culture of transparency, experimentation, and continuous improvement.
• Recruit and mentor top talent across engineering, product, and design.

Required Skills & Experience

• Proven leadership across both Product and Engineering
• Experience managing customer-facing tools with strong UX sensibilities
• Online marketplace experience a plus
• Deep technical expertise across modern stacks and infrastructure
• Understanding of AI trends and high focus on adoption and usage of AI
• Experience working with Typescript (node.js/React) and Go
• Track record of building high-functioning engineering teams
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence across functions and levels
• 2+ years leading and coaching both frontend and backend engineers
• Infrastructure deployment experience with AWS (Kubernetes, Cloudflare)
• Strong understanding of software engineering principles and ability to document design systems
• Experience with Redis, Dgraph, Postgres, Next.js
• Familiarity with data migration projects and relational databases

Bonus Points

• Experience with data warehouses and data lakes
• DevOps experience (e.g., HA environments, instrumentation tools like Pendo)
• Familiarity with JIRA/Confluence

The Benefits We Offer

• Compensation will be a combination of base salary and variable
• 100% remote work environment - seriously!
• Fully covered health insurance options through a major health insurance provider for both you and your family (you pay $0)
• Dental and Vision insurance available with widely used providers
• Option grants begin vesting after year 1 - you own a piece of Inflect
• Unlimited PTO
• Typical amount of company holidays is 16+/yr

Seniority level

Executive

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Information Technology

Industries

Technology, Information and Internet