VP of Software Engineering

About the Role:

• You will lead software engineering at Nooks and own the technical vision for everything we build: government software, internal platform, and AI strategy.
• You will report to the CEO, sit on the executive leadership team, and set direction while building the function from a small team.
• Priorities shift as contracts land; you will hold a durable technical direction while making short-term calls with incomplete information.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead, develop, and scale a software engineering organization accountable for delivery, quality, security, and reliability.
• Define the operating model moving from project-based execution to outcome-based ownership with clear intake and delivery cadence.
• Own AI strategy across Nooks, spanning product AI capabilities and internal AI adoption, including governance and knowledge management.

What Success Looks Like:

• Software delivery is predictable enough that leadership stops asking for status and starts asking what else the team can take on.
• AI shows up in workflows that measurably change and in product capability the customer can see, with tangible adoption metrics.
• The platform our site teams use is in production and reducing work, and growth brings you into software pursuits early.

Cross-Functional Expectations:

• You will work with the CEO on technology and AI direction, with Growth on pursuits, and with Operations and site teams.
• You will collaborate with IT/Cyber on network dependencies, with Finance on economics, and externally with government customers and vendors.
• You will hold technical relationships with government customers and manage the vendor and partner ecosystem across the software stack.