At Submittable, we are transforming how organizations create social impact.
Our platform empowers thousands of mission-driven organizations, from nonprofits to government entities, to make a difference in their communities and beyond.
In 2024, our innovative software helped organizations worldwide run 30,000 programs, welcomed 1.
2 million applicants, and facilitated the distribution of more than $10 billion in funding through our products on behalf of our clients.
We are on a mission to help organizations accelerate their impact, so we are proud to partner with organizations focused on Equity & Social Justice, Children & Education, Creative & Arts, Health & Wellness, Economic Justice & Opportunity, and Environment & Climate.
At Submittable, technology and purpose converge, offering a unique opportunity to contribute to meaningful change.
You will report to the CTO and run engineering day to day: delivery, quality, reliability, cost, and the people who make them happen.
We want a different VP than the old SaaS playbook produced.
That playbook grew output by growing headcount and adding layers of management.
We believe AI coding tools now let a small team of strong engineers ship what once took a team several times its size.
We intend to run engineering that way.
You will keep the organization lean, keep layers few, and raise output per engineer rather than the number of engineers.
You cannot lead that change from a slide deck.
You need to know firsthand what it is like to ship production software with AI agents, including where they fail.
We expect you to have done this yourself in the last 12 months and to keep doing it here.
Plan on roughly a fifth of your week going to hands-on technical work: reading and writing code, reviewing pull requests, working incidents, and building the tools your teams use.
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