Vice President : Software Engineering

Vice President : Software Engineering

Founded over 16 years ago, with more recent investments from Accel-KKR, Entersekt is a leader in digital banking fraud prevention and payment security, including mobile authentication, mobile app security, and 3-D Secure authentication for issuers, acquirers and payment networks. We offer highly scalable products with a track record of success across multiple continents.

Entersekt enables secure digital transactions for leading financial institutions globally. We exist to create a world where everyone can transact digitally without fear or compromise. Currently, we protect the digital transactions of over 210 million active users on our platform and hold 120 active patents that recognize innovation in digital security, payments, and user experience. Entersekt offers customers secure authentication and digital payments experiences that remove unnecessary friction. Entersekt has a diverse product portfolio and aggressive roadmap that positions the company well to sustain competitive advantage as it expands globally with emphasis on North America and European markets.

The Ideal Candidate

You're a senior engineering leader who has modernized software delivery at scale and knows how to drive consistent engineering excellence across multiple product teams. You've led transformations involving CI / CD, test automation, progressive delivery, AI-enabled engineering practices, and cloud-native architectures.

You're comfortable influencing a matrixed organization, setting standards, and guiding POD leaders without direct line authority. You balance engineering rigor, risk management, and speed, while partnering closely with Product, Architecture, Security, and Platform Engineering.

You enjoy driving clarity, structure, and governance in environments that are scaling quickly, and you have a strong track record of bringing consistency to engineering processes while enabling innovation and autonomy.

The Role

The VP of Software Engineering is accountable for enterprise-wide engineering standards, release governance, toolchain strategy, and AI-driven engineering transformation across our product development PODs.

This role serves as the central owner of the SDLC, quality gates, metrics, release patterns, architectural governance, and engineering operating model. It drives alignment across PODs without initially taking direct line management of engineering team leads, but with clear authority to define, enforce, and continuously improve engineering practices.

You will partner closely with POD Leaders, Product, Architecture, SRE / Platform Engineering, Information Security, and GRC, ensuring our products meet high standards of reliability, security, compliance, and delivery consistency, all while embedding modern engineering practices across the SDLC.

Responsibilities

• Cross-Functional Leadership

Operate as a matrixed leader : influence POD Leaders, Product Management, Architecture, SRE / Platform, and InfoSec; chair an Engineering Standards Council to ratify and evolve practices.

Define, publish, and enforce the enterprise SDLC and development standards (branching, code review, secure coding, documentation), including POD consistent Jira workflows, states, and entry / exit criteria from ideation through production.

Institutionalize separation of deployment from release to reduce risk and improve flexibility; standardize feature flag usage, canary, and progressive delivery patterns, and kill switches for rapid rollback.

Lead the shiftleft transformation so software developers own unit, component, and functional tests within PODs; QA evolves to enablement, tooling, and governance.

Build an AI adoption roadmap across the SDLC : AI assisted coding & reviews, test generation, defect triage, vulnerability remediation, documentation, and intelligent planning / estimation; implement guardrails for privacy, security, and provenance.

Embed securebydesign practices and evidence collection to meet SOC 2 Criteria and PCI DSS / 3DS requirements; leverage control overlaps to streamline audits and reduce burden.

Define and enforce architectural standards for scalable, secure, and compliant systems across PODs.

Approve and enforce the enterprise SDLC, Jira workflows, and quality gates.

Successful candidates for this role will generally possess the following qualifications and skills :

Success measures (1218 months) :