VP of Engineering

**ScribeUp** VP of Engineering; Competitive + equity; United States (Remote)

**About Company** ScribeUp is a Series A embedded fintech building AI-powered bill-management infrastructure for financial institutions. Its product lives inside banking apps as a modern "bills tab". Recurring bills (rent, utilities, loans, insurance, subscriptions) are automatically detected and tracked, users get alerts before bills are due, and they can take one-click action natively in their bank's app: cancel, update the payment method, or save money on a bill. When ScribeUp goes live at a financial institution, around 60% of end users immediately find a bill they didn't realize they were paying.

The platform rests on two core technical competencies. The first is intelligence built on full banking context, which over-the-top apps can't match. The second is agentic execution that can act on essentially any biller. ScribeUp has signed 60+ financial institutions in about 18 months, from neobanks and fintechs such as DailyPay and NerdWallet to banks and credit unions across the US. It is pre-integrated with the leading digital-banking providers (Q2, Alkami, Jack Henry/Banno, Lumin, Candescent) and recently raised a $10M Series A to scale Product, Engineering and Go-to-Market.

The team is high-caliber, low-ego and flat, with minimal micromanagement: talented people get outsized responsibility and clear ownership lanes. ScribeUp starts remote, with hybrid (~3 days/week in office) preferred but not required and a New York office planned depending on roles landing there in broader Q1 2027 hiring, and runs regular on-sites and virtual team events.

**About the Role** ScribeUp's engineering organization is scaling from founder-led to team-led, and the VP of Engineering is the leader who makes delivery predictable. The CTO and co-founder sets technical direction (new capabilities, tooling investments, architecture and efficiency programs); the VP of Engineering turns that direction into staffed, scheduled and managed work and carries it through to delivery. The role owns sprint execution, timelines, on-call health and cross-team dependencies, and manages the team leads of four teams: Integrations & Delivery, Agentic Execution (Iris), Platform, and Infrastructure/DevOps/Compliance. Team leads report to the VP of Engineering as each is hired; until then they report to the CTO, and the VP of Engineering supports those searches.

**Responsibilities** - Own sprint planning, estimation discipline and timelines the rest of the company can plan against. - Manage cross-team dependencies, sequencing work so one team's output is ready when another team needs it. - Own on-call health: sustainable rotations, clear escalation paths and a declining incident load. - Translate the CTO's technical direction into scoped, staffed and scheduled workstreams, and carry them through delivery (resourcing, tradeoff calls, removing blockers). - Report progress to the CTO and CEO with enough fidelity that leadership knows what is on track, what is at risk and what it would take to accelerate. - Manage team leads day to day: goal-setting, performance management, coaching and development. - Close open team-lead searches with the CTO, then own hiring plans within each team. - Build the engineering operations (processes, rituals, tooling) that let a multi-team organization move fast without unnecessary overhead.

**Required Skills** A. 3+ years managing software engineers, including managing managers or team leads. B. A demonstrated record of making delivery predictable within an engineering organization. C. Has turned ambiguous direction into scoped, sequenced and staffed work. D. Has operated as a senior execution partner to a technical founder or CTO, with high ownership of delivery. E. Enough technical depth to pressure-test estimates, evaluate architecture tradeoffs and assess risk credibly with senior engineers. F. Startup or small-team experience where process had to be established rather than inherited.

**Bonus Skills** - Fintech, banking technology or other regulated environments (SOC 2, PCI). - Has led teams building integrations, data platforms or AI and agentic systems. - Has scaled an engineering organization through the Series A to Series B stage.

**Logistical Info** - Location: US-based, full-time. Flexible: remote, or hybrid in New York City or Los Angeles. - Compensation: Competitive + equity. - **Other:** Works with the CTO and CEO; manages team leads across four engineering teams.

**Ideal Background** - 🔴 Please don't outreach on our behalf to Pinwheel (most important), Alkami, Candescent, Banno (part of Jack Henry), Q2, StrategyCorps, or DailyPay (a ScribeUp client, conflict of interest). - Comp note: the client did not share a range for this role and wants to see the resumes and comp asks that come back, so always include base and equity expectations in the submission.

**Red Flags** - 🔴 Please don't outreach on our behalf to Pinwheel (most important), Alkami, Candescent, Banno (part of Jack Henry), Q2, StrategyCorps, or DailyPay (a ScribeUp client, conflict of interest). - Currently works at a credit union (e.g. Navy Federal, PenFed, BECU, Alliant, or any local credit union) — ScribeUp's prospective clients; do not contact. - Currently works at a bank (e.g. Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Capital One, or any regional or community bank) — ScribeUp's prospective clients; do not contact. - Currently works at a consumer-facing fintech (e.g. Chime, SoFi, Cash App, Venmo, or similar apps people use to bank, pay, or save) — ScribeUp's prospective clients; do not contact. If unsure whether a company counts, ask before reaching out.