Vice President of Engineering

About Ocrolus: Ocrolus is a premier global FinTech and artificial intelligence trailblazer engineering the world’s most advanced automated workflows and income analytics platforms for modern financial lenders. Processing nearly one million credit applications every single month for over 400 major enterprise customers—including market leaders like PayPal, Brex, SoFi, Plaid, Better Mortgage, Enova, Nova Credit, and Square—we sit at the absolute cutting edge of multi-asset document intelligence. By integrating state-of-the-art open- and closed-source LLMs with our proprietary human-in-the-loop (HITL) verification system, we convert complex financial documentation into pristine data streams with over 99% accuracy, processing more than $100B in annual financial decisions to drive a fairer, more inclusive financial environment.

Position Overview

We are seeking an exceptionally visionary, deeply technical, and execution-obsessed Vice President of Engineering to lead our distributed core platform and intelligence divisions under a permanent, full-time remote framework within India. Operating as a critical player-coach who has historically progressed through high-level individual contributor routes (such as Principal Engineer or Enterprise Software Architect), you will step up to claim absolute platform delivery speed, cloud architecture scaling, and cross-regional engineering execution accountability. Shifting completely away from distant administrative tracking, passive meeting moderation, or non-technical project management, you will run an active high-concurrency microservices, LLM agentic pipeline, and production infrastructure design laboratory—partnering face-to-face with peer engineering VPs, Director-level engineering leaders, cross-functional Product Heads, and the Chief Technology Officer (CTO). This position requires an engineering authority with 14+ years of professional software depth who models complex distributed layers fluidly natively using AI Engineer and Go/Python frameworks, evaluates algorithm output accuracy metrics cleanly under high transactional stress, and directs global multi-timezone teams confidently across both US and India sectors.

Key Responsibilities

• End-to-End Delivery and Velocity Ownership: Direct total software delivery across your engineering domain, mapping multi-tier roadmaps, stabilizing scrum sprint cadences, ensuring high release quality, and managing complex cross-team technical dependencies.
• AI-Native Architecture Strategy: Lead the engineering blueprint for integrating Large Language Models (LLMs), automated Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) layers, and generative agentic workflows into production ecosystems natively utilizing AI Engineer protocols.
• Rigorous Technical and Design Controls: Remain deeply hands-on by chairing core code architecture reviews, making high-stakes technical decisions, and defining company-wide standards for hallucination containment, token optimization, and cost governance.
• Distributed Team Scale and Management: Supervise and grow a high-performance distributed engineering framework across the US and India, mentoring engineering Directors and Senior Managers into leaders who scale autonomously.
• System Scalability and Observability: Establish and enforce bulletproof engineering benchmarks, supervising distributed system health, cloud infrastructure security (AWS preferred), automated test suites, and incident response runbooks.
• Executive Strategy and Budgetary Governance: Represent the technical division at the executive level, contributing directly to resource investment matrices, tool expenditures, headcount planning, and infrastructure cloud cost optimization.
• Enterprise Commitment Engineering: Partner actively with Sales and Customer Success divisions to address complex enterprise commitments, design rigid Service Level Agreements (SLAs), and resolve critical customer escalation paths.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• A minimum of 14 years of verified professional history in software engineering, with at least 5 years operating inside an explicit technical engineering leadership capacity.
• Hyper-Growth Scale Track: Proven history leading and scaling software engineering teams through Series C or equivalent hyper-growth technological milestones.
• Foundational IC Track Depth: Progressed cleanly through individual contributor tracks as a Principal Software Engineer, Core Tech Lead, or Systems Architect, demonstrating profound knowledge of distributed backend design parameters.
• Hands-on Production AI Exposure: Direct, practical experience shipping production-grade AI/ML systems, including open-source LLMs, custom prompt frameworks, multi-step agent workflows, or Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) modules.
• Masterful technical fluency managing cloud-native, high-availability microservices platforms (ideally utilizing AWS infrastructures).
• Outstanding written and verbal communication strengths in English, allowing you to interface authoritatively at the executive seat and present technical strategy clearly to the CEO and CTO.
• Cross-Timezone Flexibility: Proven comfort operating fluidly across globally distributed teams intersecting US and India time zones.
• Location Context: Position operates under remote geographic guidelines open exclusively to qualified technical executives residing and working permanently within India.

Preferred Strategic Indicators (Nice to Have)

• Prior engineering background operating within FinTech platforms, automated credit underwriting tools, or heavily regulated data-intensive industries.
• Applied understanding of human-in-the-loop (HITL) or hybrid AI/human transaction checking software.
• Experience designing and building interview machines, engineering career ladders, and modern developer onboarding playbooks from the ground up.

What We Offer

• Premium Global Executive Compensation Blueprint: Highly competitive, experience-calibrated base salary package paired with corporate incentive options designed for elite technical leaders.
• Full remote-first operational flexibility across India, enabling you to guide category-defining FinTech ecosystems from your optimized home workspace.
• Comprehensive private health insurance coverage plans protecting your total family physical well-being.
• Direct flat collaboration channels with the executive leadership team, shaping technical architecture at an absolute inflection point of agentic AI.
• An inclusive, highly ambitious engineering culture grounded in Empathy, Curiosity, Humility, and Ownership, with access to top-tier development toolsets and global company-wide offsites.