Vice President, Software Development

Vice President, Software Development

Bandwidth, a prior "Best of EC" award winner, is a global software company that helps enterprises deliver exceptional experiences through voice, messaging, and emergency services. Reaching 65+ countries and over 90 percent of the global economy, we're the only provider offering an owned communications cloud that delivers advanced automation, AI integrations, global reach, and premium human support. Bandwidth is trusted for mission-critical communications by the Global 2000, hyperscalers, and SaaS builders!

At Bandwidth, your music matters when you are part of the BAND. We celebrate differences and encourage BANDmates to be their authentic selves. #jointheband

What We Are Looking For

This Vice President of Software Development will lead a 50 - 100+ person software engineering organization building and operating multi-region, high-availability platforms. You'll define technical strategy, grow leaders, and enable teams to ship quickly and safely with strong reliability practices.

What You'll Do

• Set a 18 to 24 month technical strategy across platform, data, reliability, and AI enablement; translate into org design and staffing.
• Drive service decomposition and multi-region / active-active architectures with clear SLIs / SLOs and error budgets.
• Instrument delivery with DORA metrics / four keys and use data to improve lead time, deployment frequency, MTTR, and change failure rate.
• Work in partnership with Product leader counterparts to facilitate and support, through management and project teams, the completion of software projects.
• Build a strong EM / Director / Staff+ bench; coach managers; run clear career architecture and succession plans.
• Raise engineering quality via lightweight design docs / RFCs and high-signal code reviews; enforce security / privacy by design.
• Partner tightly with Product / Design / Operations / Infosec on roadmaps, investment cases, and cloud cost outcomes; communicate to the senior leadership team.
• Make principled, transparent decisions especially under ambiguity or pressure.

What You Need

Bonus Points

The Whole Person Promise

At Bandwidth, we're pretty proud of our corporate culture, which is rooted in our "Whole Person Promise." We promise all employees that they can have meaningful work AND a full life, and we provide a work environment geared toward enriching your body, mind, and spirit. How do we do that? Well

Are you excited about the position and its responsibilities, but not sure if you're 100% qualified? Do you feel you can work to help us crush the mission? If you answered 'yes' to both of these questions, we encourage you to apply! You won't want to miss the opportunity to be a part of the BAND.