Vice President of Engineering

Come build at the intersection of AI and fintech. At Ocrolus, we’re on a mission to help lenders automate workflows with confidence—streamlining how financial institutions evaluate borrowers and enabling faster, more accurate lending decisions.

Our AI workflow and analytics platform for lenders is trusted at scale, processing nearly one million credit applications every month across small business, mortgage, and consumer lending. By integrating state-of-the-art open- and closed-source AI models with our human-in-the-loop verification engine, Ocrolus captures data from financial documents with over 99% accuracy. Thanks to our advanced fraud detection and comprehensive cash flow and income analytics, our customers achieve greater efficiency in risk management, and provide expanded access to credit—ultimately creating a more inclusive financial system.

Trusted by more than 400 customers—including industry leaders like Better Mortgage, Brex, Enova, Nova Credit, PayPal, Plaid, SoFi, and Square—Ocrolus stands at the forefront of AI innovation in fintech. Join us, and help redefine how the world’s most innovative lenders do business.

We're at an inflection point. Large language models, agentic AI and our proprietary human-in-the-loop verification engine are converging. The VP, Engineering will own how that transformation happens — in our product, our platform and how our teams build.

This is a player-coach role: a hands-on technical leader who progressed through the IC route — Architect or Principal Engineer — gets into the weeds when it matters, and leads at the executive level. You build the team and stay in the game.

 

WHAT YOU'LL OWN

Engineering delivery and velocity

Own end-to-end engineering execution: roadmap planning, sprint cadence, release quality and cross-team dependency management

Partner with the Product teams to align engineering capacity with product priorities; surface honest tradeoffs early

Drive a culture of high velocity and high trust — ship fast, learn fast, fix fast

 

AI-native platform and product

Lead the engineering strategy for integrating LLMs, agentic workflows and AI-native development practices into Ocrolus products at scale

Drive adoption of modern developer productivity tools and AI-augmented engineering workflows across all teams

Define standards for AI output quality, hallucination control, cost governance and production reliability

Compress idea-to-ship cycles for GenAI features; set the bar for moving from prototype to production

Partner with the ML and AI Transformation teams to embed AI into internal workflows, not just external products

 

Architecture, scalability and reliability

Remain deeply hands-on: lead architecture reviews, own critical system design decisions and drive technical decision-making — not from a distance

Own the technical roadmap across distributed systems, platform architecture, scalability and reliability for your engineering domain

Set and enforce engineering standards: code quality, observability, incident response and security

Make high-stakes architectural calls that balance speed, cost and long-term maintainability

 

Engineering organization

Lead and grow a distributed engineering org across the US and India as one of three VP Engineering leaders; partner closely with peer VPs under the CTO

Manage directors and senior managers; coach them into leaders who scale with the company

Set the hiring bar, build the interview machine and recruit senior talent in a competitive AI-era market

Own DEI and retention outcomes within your domain

 

Executive and cross-functional leadership

Represent engineering at the executive level; contribute to the narrative on technology execution, risks and investments

Own your domain's engineering budget: headcount planning, tooling spend and cloud cost optimization

Partner with Sales and Customer Success on enterprise commitments, SLA design and escalation resolution

 

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

Non-negotiables

14+ years in software engineering with at least 5 years in engineering leadership; has scaled through Series C or equivalent growth

Strong IC background — progressed through the Architect or Principal Engineer route with deep ownership of architecture, system design and technical decision-making

Hands-on experience shipping AI/ML systems to production: LLMs, RAG, agentic workflows or document intelligence — not just oversight

Proven ability to build and scale large-scale distributed platforms with high availability and reliability requirements

Has partnered with a CTO or CEO on technical strategy; comfortable in the executive seat

Deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud-native microservices architecture at scale (AWS preferred)

 

Strong signal

Background in fintech, document AI, IDP (Intelligent Document Processing) or regulated data-intensive industries

Experience running engineering in a human-in-the-loop or hybrid AI/human system

Built or rebuilt engineering culture — hiring bar, onboarding, performance, career ladders — from a growth-stage baseline

Familiarity with modern developer productivity tooling and AI-augmented SDLC practices

Comfortable operating across US and India time zones with globally distributed teams

 

WHY OCROLUS NOW

AI-native at the core: integrating state-of-the-art open- and closed-source models into a platform processing $100B+ in lending decisions annually

Category leader: 400+ enterprise customers including PayPal, Brex, SoFi, Plaid, Better Mortgage, Enova and Square

Real moat: proprietary HITL verification engine, 10+ years of labeled financial document data, 99%+ accuracy at scale

Remote-first culture built on Empathy, Curiosity, Humility and Ownership

Life at Ocrolus

We’re a team of builders, thinkers, and problem solvers who care deeply about our mission — and each other. As a fast-growing, remote-first company, we offer an environment where you can grow your skills, take ownership of your work, and make a meaningful impact.

Our culture is grounded in four core values: Empathy – Understand and serve with compassion Curiosity – Explore new ideas and question the status quo Humility – Listen, be grounded, and remain open-minded Ownership – Love what you do, work hard, and deliver excellence

We believe diverse perspectives drive better outcomes. That’s why we’re committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where everyone has a seat at the table, regardless of race, gender, gender identity, age, disability, national origin, or any other protected characteristic.

We look forward to building the future of lending together.