Eleven Recruiting · 5 months ago
Assistant Vice President, Product Engineering (.NET Developer)
Eleven Recruiting is a specialized technology staffing agency supporting professional and financial services companies. Their client, an investment firm, is seeking an Assistant Vice President, Product Engineering to understand user needs and turn them into scalable technology solutions. This role involves engaging with users, defining product requirements, and delivering production-ready systems in a hybrid product manager and software engineer capacity.
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Responsibilities
Engage with users to understand pain points, workflows, and unmet needs
Translate user insights into clear product requirements, workflows, and use cases
Prioritize features based on user value, technical feasibility, and time-to-impact
Design and implement scalable, maintainable software solutions and services with modern architectures
Lead rapid prototyping and test new ideas, iterating based on feedback and performance
Manage technical tradeoffs and recommend pragmatic solutions under time or resource constraints
Contribute to architecture discussions, write production-grade code, and conduct peer code reviews
Ensure system performance, reliability, and security across deployments
Facilitate user testing, feedback loops, and documentation of new capabilities
Work closely with designers, data team, and operations to bring products to life
Coordinate end-to-end delivery from concept to deployment, including QA and launch planning
Ensure technical feasibility and alignment between business goals and engineering work
Monitor usage, performance, and feedback post-launch; drive improvements
Contribute to agile ceremonies (planning, standups, retrospectives) and engineering best practices
Propose enhancements to architecture, tooling, and development workflows
Qualification
Required
Bachelors Degree
5–8 years of experience in software development, with at least 2+ years of product-facing or cross-functional work
Strong coding ability in one or more modern languages (.Net Core)
Experience designing and deploying cloud-native applications (e.g., Azure)
Experience with full-stack development (frontend frameworks e.g., React w/ node.js + backend APIs)
Strong understanding of user-centered design principles and product development lifecycles
Comfortable gathering requirements directly from users and making prioritization trade-offs
Experience designing and building in depth workflows, systems, writing in depth requirements, product road mapping / future state vision, defining OKRs, maintaining backlog and prioritization queue
Able to work independently and flexibly, wearing multiple hats as needed
Familiarity with enterprise software, internal tooling, or workflow automation
Exposure to analytics or ML/AI tools in a product setting
Experience / interest in vibe engineering
Demonstrated experience working in Agile team setting using Confluence and JIRA
Private credit workflow/debt expertise; previous financial services, portfolio management/PE, banking/financial, etc. industry experience; experience working with investment professionals / middle office business partners
Preferred
CFA, CAIA is a plus