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VP of Engineering, Applications
Posted: 07/17/2026
Employment Type:
Direct Hire
Job Number: 32120
Job Location: Remote
Industry: SOFT - Software Companies
Job Description
Job Title: VP of Engineering, Applications
Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting direct hire VP of Engineering, Applications with our client that is fully remote.
Job Description:
Job Responsibilities:
Job Qualifications:
Job Details:
About Protingent: Protingent is an Award-Winning provider of top-tier Engineering and IT talent, trusted by companies at the forefront of innovation — from Software and Aerospace to AI, Clean Tech, Medical Devices, and Connected Technologies. We’re passionate about making a positive impact by connecting exceptional talent with meaningful opportunities and helping our clients build the future.
Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting direct hire VP of Engineering, Applications with our client that is fully remote.
Job Description:
- Turn intelligence into a real product. You are responsible for the engineering systems, teams, and execution that turn ML capability into reliable, fast, and intuitive user experiences across backend, mobile, and desktop platforms.
- This role is a senior engineering leader who stays close to the product, makes hard technical decisions, and holds a high bar for quality and delivery.
Job Responsibilities:
- Own the application engineering strategy and execution across backend, mobile, and desktop.
- Lead and grow a small, senior applications team, including backend, mobile, and desktop engineers.
- Set the architectural direction for AI-powered product workflows, APIs, and client integrations.
- Ensure AI capabilities are integrated into the product with clear abstractions, predictable behavior, and graceful failure modes.
- Partner closely with Machine Learning leadership to translate model capability into shippable product features.
- Make high-impact decisions across latency, cost, reliability, security, and user experience.
- Establish clear ownership boundaries across backend, mobile, and desktop to prevent architectural drift.
- Ensure production readiness: observability, monitoring, retries, fallbacks, privacy, and cost controls.
- Balance speed and discipline – shipping quickly without compromising long-term system quality.
- Reliable, low-latency AI user experiences across backend, mobile, and desktop
- Clear architectural boundaries that allow teams to move fast without constant rewrites.
- Measurable improvements in system performance, stability, and production reliability.
- Strong observability and operational discipline across all application systems.
- A small, senior team that ships frequently, owns what they build, and raises the technical bar.
- Team members are empowered, growing in their roles, and able to make high-impact contributions.
Job Qualifications:
- Significant experience leading application or product engineering for complex systems.
- Strong hands-on background building and shipping backend systems used in production.
- Experience delivering AI-powered products, with a deep understanding of model integration trade-offs.
- Excellent system design skills across services, APIs, clients, and data flows.
- Comfort operating across platforms (backend, mobile, desktop), even if your depth is in one.
- Proven ability to make high-impact technical decisions under ambiguity.
- A strong bias toward shipping, iteration, and learning from real-world usage.
- Low ego, strong judgment, and the ability to raise the technical bar for the entire applications organization.
Job Details:
- Job Type: Direct Hire
- Pay Range: Market Rate
- Location: Fully Remote.
About Protingent: Protingent is an Award-Winning provider of top-tier Engineering and IT talent, trusted by companies at the forefront of innovation — from Software and Aerospace to AI, Clean Tech, Medical Devices, and Connected Technologies. We’re passionate about making a positive impact by connecting exceptional talent with meaningful opportunities and helping our clients build the future.