VP of Engineering
At WhyHireWrong? · London, United Kingdom
- Engineering
- Director or above
See how well you match Match me reads your CV and picks the jobs that suit you best.
Get jobs like this within hours On Gumroad.
Where you’ll work
Hybrid, based in London
“London, United Kingdom”
From the job board field.
The job board lists it as hybrid.
Hybrid means some days in the office. The listing says how many, and where.
Report a mistake
- Posted
- 23 October 2026
- First seen by us
- 24 October 2026
- Last checked
- 11 hours ago
Job description
From WhyHireWrong?’s job post, as they wrote it.
The Role
You will be the most senior engineer on the product and the person who decides how it's built. In year one you will write a large share of the code yourself. As the team grows, you will take over technical leadership of the platform: architecture, engineering standards and hiring. For the right person this is a clear path to CTO.
You will work directly with the founders and the model research team. You are the link between a frontier model and a product that safety-critical engineers rely on.
Read the full description
What You Will Own
* Architecture: frontend, backend, data and infrastructure, including build-vs-buy decisions.
* Product delivery: ship quickly with product and early users, who are control and embedded engineers.
* Model integration layer: inference serving, prompt and context management, tool use, streaming, evaluation hooks and fallbacks. New model releases plug in without a rewrite.
* Trust workflows: traceability from requirements to code, diffing and review, test execution and audit trails, so engineers can verify AI-generated code.
* Engineering foundations: CI/CD, observability, security, access control and cost control for GPU-backed workloads.
* Enterprise readiness: SSO, data isolation and on-prem or private-cloud deployment for regulated industries.
* Team: hire, mentor and lead the first engineers, and define how they work.
Requirements
Must have
* 10+ years building and shipping production software, with real depth in both frontend and backend.
* Strong TypeScript and React (or an equivalent modern frontend), plus at least one backend language: Python, Go or TypeScript/Node.
* Founding, lead or principal engineer on a product taken from early stage to paying customers.
* LLM features shipped to production: model APIs or self-hosted inference, streaming, evaluation, and cost/latency trade-offs.
* Cloud skills on AWS, GCP or Azure, plus containers and infrastructure as code.
* Sound architectural judgement: you know when to move fast and when a shortcut costs too much.
* Experience hiring and leading engineers, or a clear appetite to do so.
* Clear written and spoken English, and comfort working with founders, researchers and customers.
Nice to have
* Compliance exposure: SOC 2, ISO 27001 or FedRAMP.
* Developer tools, IDEs, code editors (Monaco, VS Code extensions) or code analysis tooling.
* Serving custom or fine-tuned models (vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, Triton) and GPU infrastructure.
* Rust or C/C++.
* Selling to and deploying in regulated or security-conscious enterprises.
Offer
* CTO-level ownership of a product where frontier AI meets real-world engineering.
* A clear path to the CTO role as the company grows.
* Competitive salary and meaningful CTO-level equity.
* Direct work with a founding team that combines AI research with hands-on experience building high-voltage and electric drive systems.
* Hybrid working from the London office, with a full benefits package.
Get jobs like this by email
Once a week, we email the new remote jobs open where you live, each with the line that proves it. Every email has a one-click unsubscribe.
