VP, Software Engineering

Vice President, Software Engineering — Seven Bridges 

Location: Remote. US preferred. India or EMEA candidates considered. 

Reports to: Chief Technology Officer 

Who are we? 

Velsera is the precision engine company. We build the software researchers, scientists, and clinicians use to drive precision R&D and bring analytics closer to the point of care. Seven Bridges, Pierian, and UgenTec came together to form Velsera; we are headquartered in Boston, MA, with [current headcount] colleagues across [current country count] countries. 

The Seven Bridges Platform is our research genomics platform — roughly 130 containerized services, multi-cloud, running in commercial and FedRAMP Moderate environments, where scientists run CWL, WDL, and Nextflow workflows over petabyte-scale genomic data. Current priorities are federated data management, compliance as a product capability, and governed AI. 

Reporting line and scope 

You report to the CTO and own engineering for the Seven Bridges Platform: architecture, delivery, and production operations, including reliability, cost, technical debt, and observability. The team is primarily in India, with a smaller group in Serbia; you lead across both sites and work daily with stakeholders in other time zones. You hold architecture authority for the platform, co-own boundary decisions with security, federal compliance, and quality leadership, and partner with a cross-business AI Engineering team. 

The role is roughly 40% hands-on technical work and 60% people leadership and organizational delivery. Hands-on means owning architecture decisions of record, leading design reviews, reviewing code and infrastructure changes, and prototyping where needed. You should be credible to your most senior engineers, with a clear view of what this class of platform should become and the ability to take a team and a business there. 

What will you do? 
- Own the technical vision for the platform over the next three years, and turn it into an architecture and roadmap the team and the business believe in. 

- Own architecture decisions of record, design reviews, multi-tenant isolation, and complexity reduction across the service estate. 

- Keep delivery governed and modern: infrastructure-as-code under CI with policy-as-code, short-lived credentials, progressive rollout, and change evidence that holds up to audit in a federally authorized environment. 

- Own reliability: SLOs and error budgets on the paths customers depend on, on-call design that works across two sites, and turning repeat incidents into architectural change. 

- Ship governed AI in the product and apply AI to how the team builds, both under a governance policy co-owned with Risk & Compliance, and both measured. 

- Build the team: management depth you can trust with delivery, the specialist skills the roadmap needs, and maintaining a thriving team through a period of growth.