Matthews™ · 5 hours ago
VP, Engineering (PHX)
Scottsdale, AZ
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$200K/yr - $240K/yr
10+ years expMatthews is a commercial real estate company seeking a Vice President of Engineering to lead and scale their software development organization. The role focuses on engineering leadership, team management, and ensuring delivery predictability while providing technical oversight and aligning engineering efforts with strategic priorities.
Financial ServicesReal Estate
No H1B
Responsibilities
Lead, mentor, and develop engineering managers, senior engineers, and cross-functional development teams
Foster a culture of accountability, ownership, psychological safety, and continuous improvement
Monitor team health, capacity, morale, and sustainability, proactively addressing risks such as burnout, skill gaps, or delivery bottlenecks
Partner with Product, Data, and Business leaders to ensure engineering efforts align with strategic priorities
Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance across the engineering organization
Review designs and implementations to ensure scalability, reliability, security, and maintainability
Serve as a trusted technical advisor to architects and senior engineers
Maintain sufficient hands-on proficiency to: Understand system tradeoffs, Review code and technical designs, Occasionally contribute code when it meaningfully accelerates delivery or unblocks teams (not as a primary responsibility)
Own engineering execution and delivery outcomes across multiple teams
Establish and reinforce effective agile practices (Scrum, Kanban, or hybrid approaches) that balance predictability with flexibility
Ensure commitments, forecasts, and delivery risks are clearly communicated and managed
Hold teams accountable for outcomes while maintaining a blameless, learning-oriented culture
Define, track, and communicate engineering KPIs and health metrics (e.g., delivery predictability, throughput, quality, reliability, team health)
Provide clear, data-informed updates to senior management on progress, risks, and tradeoffs
Translate technical realities into business-relevant insights for non-technical stakeholders
Establish transparency around delivery performance without resorting to micromanagement or vanity metrics
Continuously assess and improve engineering processes, tooling, and workflows
Ensure high standards for code quality, testing, security, and operational reliability
Support incident response, postmortems, and long-term reliability improvements as needed
Balance speed of delivery with long-term maintainability and platform health
Qualification
Required
10+ years of professional software development experience, including significant hands-on engineering work
5+ years of experience managing software engineers and/or engineering managers
Proven experience leading multiple development teams and complex software initiatives
Strong understanding of modern software architecture, cloud platforms, APIs, and data-driven systems
Deep familiarity with agile methodologies and iterative delivery practices
Demonstrated ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to senior, non-technical stakeholders
Track record of building, scaling, and retaining high-performing engineering teams
Preferred
Background managing developers in a mid-enterprise environment ($50m-1b revenue), particularly delivering SaaS product
Familiarity with engineering metrics frameworks (e.g., DORA, flow metrics, team health indicators)
Experience partnering closely with product management and business leadership
Prior experience reporting to or working directly with executive leadership
Golang in production systems
Kubernetes and container orchestration
Terraform and cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred)
Experience as a Site Reliability Engineer
Open-source contributions
Code generation frameworks
GraphQL schema design
Linux internals and CLI tooling
Experience with LLMs, LangChain/LangGraph, and vector databases
Company
Matthews™
Matthews™, a commercial real estate investment services and technology firm, holds recognition as an industry leader in investment sales, leasing, and debt and structured finance.
501-1000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Kyle Matthews
Chairman & CEO
Duerk Brewer
Chief Operating Officer
Recent News
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2025-10-03
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