Vice President, Engineering

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Job Type: Full-Time
• Salary: CA$325K - CA$350K

Aurora Solar is on a mission to create a future of solar for all. Our award-winning software puts the power of data and technology into the hands of every solar professional to make solar adoption simple and predictable. Our software has designed millions of solar projects so far, empowering solar companies to sell, design, and install residential and commercial solar arrays accurately, seamlessly, and at scale. We are a remote-first collaborative team of sustainable energy enthusiasts who love what we do. We’ve been named one of "The Best Remote Companies To Work for in 2025" by BuiltIn.com and have been recognized for the second time as a Certified Green Business (CGB) with the city of San Francisco. We’re in this together to support the world’s transition to solar.

About the Team

Aurora’s Engineering team is a collaborative, customer-oriented group that cares deeply about solving real-world problems with quality and care. The team brings deep institutional knowledge and technical rigor, and is tightly partnered with Product and Design in a unified PDE triad. We’re looking for a leader who can help unlock even greater product velocity, sharpen accountability, and coach a talented group of Directors and Senior Directors to scale their impact.

About the Role

As Aurora Solar’s VP of Engineering, you will lead the entire engineering organization across a wide and complex product surface area that spans the full lifecycle of distributed solar — from customer acquisition to system design, financing, permitting, and installation. You’ll inherit a technically capable team with strong institutional knowledge and be responsible for evolving the org to meet the demands of scale and speed.

The successful candidate will be a strategic change agent who can assess what’s working, define what must improve, and drive focused execution across the org. You’ll modernize our software architecture to increase iteration speed while reducing blast radius, and champion a culture of accountability, agility, and roll-forward momentum. Major priorities will include aligning the team on rapidly evolving product priorities driven by market and regulatory shifts; extending our platform’s depth and compliance for international markets; deepening our financing integrations to create a best-in-class experience; and building out the consumer marketplace with a data-driven approach. You’ll lead and develop a team of Directors and Senior Directors, guiding them to operate with greater clarity, urgency, and impact.

Your Impact

• Drive global engineering execution with a focus on real customer outcomes solving complex, evolving challenges across the full solar lifecycle.
• Articulate strategic vision to the Engineering organization, inspiring and bringing excitement to the work. Connect company priorities to the work that the Engineering team performs.
• Champion modern AI development tools and practices. This includes agentic coding, LLM-enabled workflows, and automation to increase team velocity, quality, and leverage.
• Build, develop, mentor, and scale a strong bench of engineering leaders, enhancing their management capability, accountability, and team autonomy. Ensure that talent is matched with organizational needs.
• Maintain an adaptive, high-velocity engineering organization capable of balancing structured quarterly execution with rapid response to shifting customer and market needs.
• Partner cross-functionally with Product and Design leadership to streamline alignment, prioritize effectively, and accelerate product delivery through lightweight, scalable processes.
• Oversee IT, security, and GRC functions, maintaining trust with customers and partners through scalable internal systems and proactive risk management.

What You Bring

• Demonstrated success leading and developing high-performing senior engineering leaders (Directors and Senior Directors), ideally across multiple domains and business units.