VP, Software Engineering

About the Position

Newfire Global Partners is a leading technology firm that specializes in building transformative software solutions for some of the world’s most innovative companies. With a presence across four continents, Newfire Global brings deep expertise in digital healthcare, AI-driven analytics, and enterprise technology. The firm’s track record of delivering scalable, high-impact solutions has made it a trusted partner for organizations seeking to drive meaningful change through technology.

We are passionate about the purpose-driven mission to help improve the quality of care for patients and are building a collaborative, innovative, and inclusive culture. We are a fully funded company founded by serial entrepreneurs with a stable client base.

We are seeking a VP of Software Engineering to lead our core engineering function, with a clear mandate to build a robust mid-level management layer, strengthen our practices, and ensure our distributed teams deliver flawless technical execution inside complex, mission-critical environments.

Responsibilities

• Partnership with Delivery Leadership: Work closely with delivery and account leadership to ensure engagements are well-staffed, technical concerns are surfaced early, and engineering realities inform how solutions are scoped and delivered.
• Software Engineering Talent and Organization: Lead our global, onshore, and offshore engineering teams. Expand the management layer, including Engineering Managers and Directors. Own hiring, performance, career development, and capacity planning.
• Engineering Practices and Standards: Strengthen and evolve our engineering practices-quality standards, code review, architectural patterns, technical mentorship-so they work consistently across the company.
• Solution Shaping through Engineering Leadership: Ensure your architects and senior engineers are actively in the room when solutions are shaped, bringing technical depth and delivery realism to how client engagements are scoped, designed, and built.
• Centers of Excellence and Best Practices: Lead CoE work including DevOps as a Service and AI-augmented development practices. Develop strong opinions on engineering tooling and methodologies and operationalize those perspectives across the organization to maximize delivery speed.
• Newfire Labs and the Strategic Bench: Engineers between client assignments build internal IP, upskill on emerging technologies, and develop cross-functional versatility. Set Labs priorities in coordination with the CTO and commercial leadership, and ensure bench time produces engineers who are more capable when they return to client work.
• AI in Engineering Delivery: Contribute to our perspective on how AI changes team composition, skill requirements, and delivery velocity.

Requirements

• Organizational Builder: Successfully established practices, built mid-level management layers, created career development paths. Experience mentoring senior individual contributors and transitioning team leads into highly effective engineering managers.
• Strong Matrix Partner: Thrive in a matrixed environment, working effectively with non-engineering leaders-strategic consultants, account managers, program managers. Confidently advocate for engineering quality and technical realism while keeping global delivery moving.
• Talent Development & AI Mindset: Clear perspective on how to build versatile, current, high-performing engineering teams. Practical, hands-on experience with how AI-augmented development tools alter how teams code, ramp, and deliver solutions.
• Operational Competence: Strong foundational experience running the business side of engineering; capacity planning, utilization metrics, staffing pipelines, and skills-to-project matching.
• Location: Based within 100 miles of Boston, MA. This is a remote opportunity but will require collaboration in person with the senior leadership team in our Boston headquarters.

Preferred Skills

• Engineering Leadership in a Services or Consulting Environment: Managed engineering across multiple simultaneous client engagements with different stacks, team compositions, and expectations. Experience maintaining quality at scale across distributed global teams.
• Healthcare Industry Experience: Direct experience navigating regulated environments, complex healthcare data models, and interoperability challenges.

We Offer

• Compensation: Total compensation for this role is market driven, with a salary of $285,000 to $330,000 and a 25% bonus.
• Benefits:
  • Remote-first environment with a company-provided computer
  • Thirteen paid holidays per year
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage with multiple levels of coverage
  • HSA, FSA, and Dependent Care accounts
  • Short-term and long-term disability
  • Life and accidental death insurance
  • Discounted voluntary benefits, such as additional life insurance
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Paid parental leave
  • Flexible vacation time
  • 401(k) with employer matching and immediate vesting

Offers are contingent upon successful completion of a background screening. Background screenings will be conducted in compliance with applicable laws and will not be initiated without your consent.

Newfire Global is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

About the Company

Newfire Global Partners is a leading technology firm that specializes in building transformative software solutions for some of the world’s most innovative companies. With a presence across four continents, Newfire Global brings deep expertise in digital healthcare, AI-driven analytics, and enterprise technology. The firm’s track record of delivering scalable, high-impact solutions has made it a trusted partner for organizations seeking to drive meaningful change through technology.

We are passionate about the purpose-driven mission to help improve the quality of care for patients and are building a collaborative, innovative, and inclusive culture. We are a fully funded company founded by serial entrepreneurs with a stable client base.