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VP of Systems Engineering - USA

BackJoy

Austin, TX · Remote · VP

Listed on BackJoy’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.

What this role is

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. The full posting is on their site.

What they ask for

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

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