Lightcast

Vice President of Software Development (Moscow, ID)

Lightcast  •  Moscow, ID (Onsite)  •  3 months ago
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Job Description

The VP of Software Development leads the engineering organization responsible for building and operating a portfolio of web-based SaaS products, reporting to the CTO. This is a strategy-and-execution role: setting technical direction, establishing a high-velocity engineering operating model, and ensuring teams deliver secure, reliable, enterprise-grade software at scale.
You will partner closely with Product, AI/Data Science, Data Engineering, API, and TechOps leaders to align roadmaps to customer outcomes and scale a primarily full-time engineering organization, augmented by contractors as needed.
Culture and collaboration are critical. This leader thrives in a high-trust, low-ego environment and practices true co-ownership with Product, sharing accountability for outcomes end to end.
Location matters. The engineering hub is in Moscow, Idaho, and strong preference is given to candidates willing to relocate to lead in person and build deep cross-functional relationships.

Major Responsibilities:

  • Own delivery and operational excellence across product and shared platform teams
  • Partner with Product leadership to define shared goals, priorities, and accountability for quality, speed, and customer impact
  • Lead and develop Engineering Directors and Managers through coaching, feedback, career frameworks, and high hiring standards
  • Drive measurable, end-to-end software delivery velocity
  • Lead HCM/HRIS integrations, including APIs, SFTP/flat files, SCIM provisioning, and SSO (SAML/OIDC), in coordination with partners and vendors
  • Apply a disciplined contractor/vendor model, defining externalizable work, quality gates, and knowledge transfer while retaining core IP and architecture in-house
  • Advance SDLC automation best practices, including CI/CD, infrastructure as code, testing, release controls, and progressive delivery
  • Embed AI-assisted development through tooling, governance, standards, and productivity measurement

Experience & Education:

  • Willingness to relocate to Moscow, ID (highly preferred) and lead primarily in person.
  • Strong culture and collaboration skills; proven trust-building across Engineering and Product with shared ownership of outcomes.
  • 10+ years building web-based SaaS products; 5+ years leading multi-team engineering orgs (managers of managers), ideally at enterprise scale.
  • Experience leading teams of 20+ engineers, and working with off-shore teams.
  • Deep experience building for enterprise customers, including SSO (SAML/OIDC), RBAC/ABAC, audit logging, compliance, tenant isolation, data governance, and security/procurement workflows.
  • Strong background in data-driven applications (analytics/dashboards), including performance at scale, caching/materialization, data modeling, and metrics correctness.
  • Solid understanding of modern web architectures: React (or equivalent), backend services (Node/Java/Python), and REST/GraphQL APIs; strong systems thinking even if not hands-on daily.
  • Proven cloud-native delivery experience (AWS), CI/CD, infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform), and production observability.
  • Track record integrating with HCM/HRIS platforms using SCIM, SSO, webhooks, bulk data exchange, and enterprise security patterns.
  • Ability to design and run an effective engineering operating system: planning, delivery metrics, quality standards, architecture governance, and incident response.
  • Experience scaling teams using a mix of full-time and contract engineers, with strong quality and knowledge-retention practices.
  • Experience driving adoption of AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Copilot-style workflows) with appropriate measurement and guardrails.
  • Excellent written communication across architecture docs, operational runbooks, incident communications, and executive updates.
Lightcast is a global leader in labor market insights with offices in Moscow, ID (US), the United Kingdom, Europe, and India. We work with partners across six continents to help drive economic prosperity and mobility by providing the insights needed to build and develop our people, our institutions and companies, and our communities.
Lightcast is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Lightcast has always been, and always will be, committed to our diversity of thought and unique perspectives. We seek dynamic professionals from all backgrounds to join our teams, and we encourage our employees to bring their authentic, original, and best selves to work.
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About Lightcast

We're creating a labor market that works for everyone.

People are the most important part of any organization, which means its highest priority must be understanding its workforce. Lightcast enables faster, better decisions by making labor market data accessible and useful for enterprise, education, and the public sector.

In a fast-changing world of work, Lightcast (formerly Emsi Burning Glass) provides clarity. Our global data—available through software, consulting, and data delivery—provides specific, practical, unique insights to guide your most important decisions.

Whether you're an enterprise mapping your workforce's future, an educator preparing students for jobs that don't exist yet, or a government agency building economic resilience—we deliver the insights that matter.

Lightcast pioneered the collection and big-data analysis of information on the labor market. We have the world’s most comprehensive database of job postings, which has been refined by AI and human experts to provide insights clearly and quickly.

Industry
IT & Software
Company Size
501-1,000 employees
Headquarters
Moscow, Idaho
Year Founded
2000
Website
lightcast.io
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