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We find exceptional flight deals, from mistake fares to deep discounts, and get them to members before they disappear. Our membership has grown on one promise: we save you money on the trips you actually want to take.\nWe are a small, fully remote team with outsized reach. Every engineer's work lands in front of millions of travelers, often the same week it ships. Now we're rebuilding how we build: simplifying our platform, raising our quality bar, and using AI where it measurably makes a small team faster.\nWe're hiring a VP of Engineering to lead a lean, senior team through its next chapter: mentor the team, simplify our platform, raise quality and delivery speed, and make AI a measured force multiplier for engineers.\nThis is a seasoned-leader role with a short distance to impact. You'll sit on the Leadership Team, partner daily with Product, Marketing, Operations and Data, and see the results of your decisions in member behavior within days, not quarters.\nReports to: CEO\n\nLocation: Remote (US time zones)\n\nWhat you'll do\nLead and develop the team. Create a strong engineering culture, build clear growth paths, mentor engineers into leaders, and make the hard call when coaching doesn't work. Hire for judgment and craft, including how candidates use AI. Run a remote, written, async culture with clear ownership.\n\nMake AI a force multiplier, with judgment. Find where coding agents and LLM tooling earn their keep across product, design and engineering, and where they don't. Measure ROI (cycle time, defect rates, cost), set quality and security guardrails, and keep engineers accountable for and in control of what they ship.\n\nLead adoption by example. Coach product, design, and engineers to work with agents where it helps, measure the gains, and retire the workflows that no longer earn their keep.\n\nShip fast, safely. Shorten the path from idea to member impact. Build the delivery system (CI/CD, automated testing, observability, feature flags, experimentation) so we release frequently with confidence and catch issues before members do.\n\nOwn technical strategy and architecture. Set the long-term vision for our codebase and the data pipeline behind every deal, alert and price drop members see. Own that pipeline's accuracy, freshness and cost as we scale. Pay down tech debt where it unlocks business value.\n\nBuild AI into the product. Partner with Product and Data to ship AI-powered member experiences, before and after booking, that are hard for competitors to copy.\n\nStay technically credible. You've been an engineer and can judge architecture and tradeoffs, but you lead through others rather than only your own commits as often as you can.\n\nBe a business partner. Bring engineering's view to the Leadership Team and tie every roadmap bet to membership growth, our North Star.\n\nWhat you know\nRequired:\nYou're legally authorized to work in the United States and able to work US hours.\n\nA seasoned engineering leader. 10+ years in software, including 5+ leading engineering teams of 8-25 at a consumer tech company, ideally startup or scale-up.\n\nAI-pragmatic in practice. You and your teams use coding agents and LLM tools daily. You know where they help, where they fail, and how to verify their output. You've led adoption that produced measurable gains without mandates or eroding quality.\n\nProduct thinker. You start with the member and use the product, read the feedback, and ask why before how, helping the entire team deliver value to members.\n\nBiased for speed. You'd rather ship, learn and iterate than polish in private. You make reversible decisions quickly and know which decisions aren't reversible.\n\nImpact-hungry. You want to see your work move real numbers every day, not disappear into a large org's roadmap.\n\nProven at consumer scale. You've built reliable, high-traffic consumer systems, including iOS and Android apps, and worked with large and complex datasets.\n\nA builder of people. You hire well, give direct feedback, and develop engineers into leaders.\n\nA clear remote communicator. You write well, run an async team effectively, and can explain technical trade-offs to non-engineers.\n\nSecurity- and privacy-minded. You treat member data and payment flows with care.\n\nPreferred:\nExperience in flights or travel: airfare data, GDSs, NDC, metasearch, OTAs, or airline retailing\n\nBuilt agentic or LLM-powered features in a consumer product\n\nExperience with pricing, alerting, or real-time data pipelines\n\nSubscription or membership business experience\n\nLed an engineering org through a step-change in tooling or process\n\nBenefits & perks you'll love\nThe salary for this role is $270,000 + equity\n\n100% remote work environment\n\nAnnual team retreats, with past destinations including Asheville, Scottsdale, Washington D.C., Vancouver, and Mexico City\n\nOpen vacation policy, with a 15-day minimum\n\nComprehensive health, vision, dental, and life insurance\n\n401(k) with a 5% match\n\n$750/quarter remote work, wellness, and wisdom stipend\n\nUp to 12 weeks of paid family leave\n\nMeetup stipend when you cross paths with a co-worker\n\nContinuing education & development reimbursement\n\nChallenging problems to solve and an awesome team to collaborate with every single day\n\nWe want you to bring your authentic self to work every single day. We accept you for who you are and consider everyone on an equal opportunity basis without regard to ancestry; age; appearance; color; gender identity and/or expression; genetics; family or parental status; marital, civil union, or domestic partnership status; mental, physical, or sensory disability; national, social or ethnic origin; past or present military service; sexual orientation; socioeconomic status; race; religion or belief; hair length; organ donor status. 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