VP of Engineering

LeagueApps is the operating system and community for youth and local sports leaders, equipping them with the technology, tools, and professional network they need to grow, scale, and play for the future. Our platform powers thousands of clubs, tournaments, leagues, camps, and facilities, serving over 10 million participants nationwide. Backed by professional leagues, teams, and athletes as investors and partners, we’re helping modernize the youth sports industry with our best-in-class SaaS platform. 

We operate at the intersection of sports, technology, and community. From registration to payments to communications, our platform makes running sports seamless for organizations across the country. Beyond software, we foster a community of leaders, sharing insights on critical issues like increasing girls’ participation in sports, preventing youth injuries, and understanding how technology is shaping the future of play. 

Mission-driven at our core, our purpose is to create amazing sports experiences for all. To further this mission, we founded and continue to support the FundPlay Foundation, a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to strengthening sports-based youth development organizations. FundPlay helps bring meaningful sports opportunities to hundreds of thousands of underserved kids and communities every year.      

Role Mission: As the technology leader, you will guide our engineering organization to deliver innovative solutions, align technical strategy with business objectives, and drive measurable impact across the company. The Vice President of Engineering will lead this effort with full ownership of engineering strategy and execution. As a key executive leader, you will scale and strengthen our engineering organization, drive delivery and architecture, and guide our platform modernization. You will ensure consistent roadmap execution, align engineering tightly with business and user needs, and build a high-performing, accountable, and empowered team.

• Drive system modernization efforts, including cloud-native architecture, API-first design, and scalable data infrastructure.
• Define and execute LeagueApps’ technical strategy and architecture, driving modernization, scalability, and reliability.
• Lead roadmap delivery with a focus on predictability, accountability, and measurable outcomes.
• Establish and track engineering KPIs such as coverage %, regression escape rate, change failure rate, MTTR, and velocity to make excellence visible and celebrated.
• Build a culture of ownership and professionalism where engineers are accountable for quality, reliability, and clarity, and unsafe shortcuts are rejected.
• Drive adoption of testing discipline (80%+ coverage in core domains, automated regression suite in CI/CD, contract tests for microservices).
• Ensure every service and domain has clear documentation including runbooks, READMEs, and API contracts, and embed cross-squad reviews and systemic collaboration.
• Champion a culture of craft where professional standards such as tests, documentation, clean code, monitoring, and refactoring are reinforced through onboarding, reviews, and recognition.
• Scale the engineering organization by developing leaders, optimizing team structure, and fostering empowerment.
• Introduce AI and automation to improve both product capabilities and engineering productivity.
• Ensure best practices in security, data privacy, and compliance.
• Act as a visible executive leader who inspires engineers, aligns stakeholders, and builds confidence with the CEO, board, and investors.

• An accomplished engineering executive with 10–12+ years of leadership experience, including 5+ years at the VP level (or equivalent) in SaaS.
• Proven success scaling engineering organizations by developing talent, coaching leaders, and building structures that enable teams to thrive.
• Strong technical acumen with deep SaaS architecture expertise (cloud-native, API-first, microservices, modern DevOps).
• Experienced in platform modernization and transformation, including raising test coverage, reducing regression risk, and driving system reliability.
• A believer in user- and product-centered development, with a consumer mindset that ensures intuitive, high-quality experiences in B2B SaaS.
• A communicator with the executive presence to inspire teams, align stakeholders, and build board and investor confidence.
• Commercially minded and experienced in PE-backed environments where engineering outcomes tie directly to enterprise value creation.
• Skilled at managing distributed (onshore and offshore) teams while optimizing for speed, quality, and cost efficiency.
• Forward-looking, with experience applying AI and modern engineering practices to product development and team productivity.
• Known for ruthless prioritization and disciplined execution, focusing on what drives the greatest impact.

• Languages & Frameworks: Java, Spring, Hibernate ORM, Go, Kotlin, React
• Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL
• Infrastructure: GCP, Docker
• Integrations: Twilio, Stripe/Plaid

LeagueApps is an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or family status, disability, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other legally protected status. We are committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and equitable organization, and to helping youth sports organizers across the country do the same. The duties listed are not exclusive and other duties may be assigned as needed or desired by the employer to meet business needs. The employer reserves the right to change, add to or eliminate positions as it deems appropriate. Your employment will be at-will, meaning you or LeagueApps Inc. may terminate the employment relationship at any time, with or without cause or advance notice, for any reason. Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for our size and industry, and are one part of the total compensation package that also includes benefits, and other opportunities at LeagueApps. Individual pay decisions are based on a number of factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skillset, and balancing internal pay parity relative to other LeagueApps employees. We expect the majority of the candidates who are offered roles at LeagueApps to fall healthily throughout the range based on these factors.