VP Engineering

Who Are We?

Scaleworks is a software fund that acquires and invests in B2B SaaS companies. We are investors and operators who scale great products into great businesses. We apply a hands-on operational model where we take substantial positions in our investments, focus on markets we can lead in, and bring together teams of experienced B2B SaaS operators to help us get there. It puts businesses in a strong position to succeed, using low to no debt and reinvesting every dollar of profit back into growth.

For one of our portfolio companies, we are looking for:

VP Engineering

Your role:

RESPONSIBILITIES AND HOW WE MEASURE

Weight	What they own	Measured by
30%	Shipping code in live services	Their own contribution visible in the repo, weekly
30%	Rebuilding how we build. Tooling, agents, standards, quality gates	Throughput per engineer up, QA and severity tickets down. Both, or it does not count
20%	Team size and shape. What we stop doing, who stays, hiring bar	Cost per unit of shipped output
20%	AI inside the product, with the VP of Product	Customer-facing AI features shipped

Does not own: product strategy or the roadmap (VP Product), a greenfield rewrite, a growing org.

90-DAY EXPECTATIONS

Day 30 — Shipped in every major service. Can tell us where engineering time actually goes.
Day 60 — New development method running on live work, with quality gates in place.
Day 90 — Measurable throughput change, plus a 12-month plan for team size and shape.

Requirements:

Must have

Has led a small engineering team and carried the outcome. Startup CTO, startup VP Engineering, or ran 5 to 15 engineers with delivery on their name
Still writes and ships code today. Not "used to be technical"
AI-native development as their actual working method, not a pilot. Agents doing real work, evals, model routing, AI-generated tests
Can walk through a substantial project they shipped where a model wrote most of the code under their direction, and explain specifically how they made it trustworthy
Strong in Python or Ruby, comfortable picking up the other. React exposure
Has delivered with no budget and no spare headcount
Clear, defensible views on code review and testing standards in an AI-assisted codebase

Nice to have

Has merged or consolidated codebases from an acquisition
AWS, Kafka, MongoDB, PostgreSQL
Has shipped customer-facing AI features, not just internal tooling
Has reduced team size while holding or improving output
Has worked with a product leader as a genuine peer

Our offer:

Development fund of 3k PLN per year per head
Flexibility in choosing the type of contract
Paid holiday
Private healthcare (Luxmed via Warta)
Sports card (Multisport)
Free English classes
Team building and socializing events
Competitive salary