# VP of Systems Engineering - USA

Hiring organization: [BackJoy](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/backjoy)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/5312f4ae-b541-449b-ac9e-1c9f43bb48b5

Listed on BackJoy's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Seniority: VP
- Location: Austin, TX
- Remote: yes

## Summary

Lead quality engineering, release management, and DevOps at a fintech startup serving community banks and credit unions. This role suits experienced engineering leaders with deep automation expertise who want hands-on responsibility for shipping reliable software to regulated financial institutions.

_Our summary, not BackJoy's wording._

## Skills named

Agile, Angular, Appium, Azure DevOps, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Cypress, Helm, Kotlin, Kubernetes, Microsoft Azure, Playwright, Site Reliability Engineering, Swift, Terraform

## Required

- 10+ years of engineering experience
- 4+ years in engineering leadership managing QA, DevOps, platform engineering, release engineering, or SRE
- Deep quality engineering background with personal experience building or significantly modernizing automation frameworks
- Demonstrated success transitioning from manual-heavy QA to automation-first quality engineering
- Experience building quality automation across web, APIs/services, and native mobile applications
- Experience implementing release gates and go/no-go processes
- Hands-on experience with modern automation technologies
- Strong technical background in Microsoft .NET and Azure
- Experience operating cloud-native applications using Kubernetes, preferably AKS
- Working knowledge of Helm, containerized application delivery, and infrastructure automation
- Strong CI/CD and release automation experience, preferably Azure DevOps
- Strong understanding of Agile software development practices
- Strong platform reliability and production incident response background
- Technical depth to engage in solution design and architecture discussions
- Experience driving AI-assisted coding or testing adoption in team practices
- Strong cross-functional credibility and communication skills

## Nice to have

- Fintech, core banking, or digital banking platform experience
- Familiarity with credit union or community bank environments
- Familiarity with Angular, Swift, and Kotlin development environments
- Infrastructure as Code experience such as Terraform
- Broader Azure services experience for modern SaaS platforms
- SOC 2 Type II, PCI DSS, or similar regulatory compliance experience
- Experience managing QA teams through transition to quality engineering roles
- Experience building or scaling SRE or Platform Engineering functions
- Experience establishing DORA metrics, quality scorecards, or engineering reliability dashboards

Apply on BackJoy's site: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/bankjoy/c8a88c78-973b-4293-a5be-894be8d7b416/application