Greenlight is the leading family fintech company on a mission to help parents raise financially smart kids. We proudly serve more than 6 million parents and kids with our award-winning banking app for families. With Greenlight, parents can automate allowance, manage chores, set flexible spend controls, and invest for their family’s future. Kids and teens learn to earn, save, spend wisely, and invest.

At Greenlight, we believe every child should have the opportunity to become financially healthy and happy. It’s no small task, and that’s why we leap out of bed every morning to come to work. Because creating a better, brighter future for the next generation depends on it.

Greenlight is looking for a VP, Engineering Operations to lead Site Reliability, Test Infra, Cloud Infrastructure, Database Administration, DevEx teams. These teams build, scale and operate highly reliable and performant systems and processes for our consumer product and partnership platforms in a cloud native environment. We are looking for a leader who thrives in a fast paced and quickly changing environment and can help us deliver excellent products at scale. Collaboration will be a key part of this role. You will engage with cross-functional teams, including product management, engineering, and business stakeholders, to ensure that our infrastructure strategies align with broader business goals. By advocating for necessary enhancements and improvements you will help position Greenlight for continued success and growth.

This role reports to the SVP of Engineering.

Your day-to-day:

Lead a team of managers and highly-skilled engineers across our SRE, Test Infra, Cloud, Tooling, and Technical Operations teams
Work in close partnership with leaders in product, quality and engineering to guide our product and platform engineering teams to build fast, reliable and scalable production systems
Drive the Engineering roadmap to scale our products and systems and reduce the operational burden while improving the customer experience
Improve technical operations processes and monitoring to address production level incidents quickly.
Work with the team to guide the organization on quality metrics, test frameworks, testing strategies and coverage and tooling
Mobile Platform and Developer Experience teams. In this role, you will lead a team of talented engineers who are responsible for Greenlight’s end to end Mobile Platform, including CI/CD pipeline, release management, mobile test infrastructure, library and version management.
Work closely with the recruiting team to support the recruitment of top talent, and hire, develop and coach a high-performing team of managers and engineers with an emphasis on building diverse and inclusive teams.

What you’ll bring to the team:

10+ years of experience in software development, site reliability engineering, and/or cloud architecture and infrastructure
Demonstrated a history of building high performing and diverse teams. This includes hiring, mentoring, providing career development opportunities as well as a history of performance management
Technical expertise in cloud native technologies, site reliability engineering and building high performance and scalable products and systems. This is not a hands-on role but you will drive the strategy of Site Reliability across the product and engineering organizations with company wide visibility
Experience leading database administration/engineering teams within the context of data warehouse design and implementation, data management activities, or database administration
A deep understanding of multi-region, high availability architecture is required
Strong understanding of CI/CD concepts and experience with CI/CD pipeline including mobile release patterns and tools.
Strong understanding of mobile and API testing frameworks, tooling
Ability to influence large engineering teams and align around Mobile development and release practices.

Work perks at Greenlight:

Medical, dental, vision, and HSA match
Paid life insurance, AD&D, and disability benefits
Traditional 401k with company match and Roth IRA
Unlimited PTO
Paid company holidays and pop-up bonus holidays
Wellness & professional development stipends
Mental health resources
1:1 financial planners
Fertility healthcare
100% paid parental and caregiving leave, plus cleaning service and meals during your leave
Flexible WFH, both remote and in-office opportunities
Fully stocked kitchen, catered lunches, and occasional in-office happy hours
Employee resource groups

Our stance on salaries:

Greenlight provides a competitive compensation package with a market-based approach to pay and will vary depending on your location, experience and skill set. The total compensation package for this position will also include a discretionary performance bonus, equity rewards, medical benefits, 401K match, and more. Greenlight conducts continuous compensation evaluations across departments and geographies to ensure we are keeping our pay current and competitive.

The estimated base pay range for this position in (NY, CA, WA): $230,000 - 350,000

The estimated base pay range for this position in (CO): $230,000 - 295,000

Who we are:

It takes a special team to aim for a never-been-done-before mission like ours. We’re looking for people who love working together because they know it makes us stronger, people who look to others and ask, “How can I help?” and then “How can we make this even better?” If you’re ready to roll up your sleeves and help parents raise a financially smart generation, apply to join our team.

Greenlight is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant based on age, race, color, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition (including pregnancy, childbirth, or a medical condition related to pregnancy or childbirth), genetic information, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.