Agile Defense
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Requisition Requisition# 1108 Job Title: VP of Product Engineering Salary Range: $157,500 - $292,500
Overview Agile Labs conceives, builds, and scales SaaS platforms that power mission ready talent management and resilient software delivery for federal and commercial customers. These cloud native products blend Generative AI to accelerate workforce readiness, automate compliance, and cut release cycles from months to hours, all while meeting the most stringent security requirements and supporting commercial and federal customer deployments.
Responsibilities
Drive product discovery by synthesizing user feedback, market signals, and competitive intelligence into actionable feature concepts and technical implementation strategies.
Architect and lead development of experimental prototypes that explore new technologies, validate hypotheses, and shape future roadmap investments.
Own the architecture, code quality, and operational excellence of Workforce and DuroSuite across web, API, and data services.
Lead backlog grooming, sprint planning, and release governance in concert with Product Management, ensuring features align with OKRs and market feedback.
Design and implement scalable React and Node.js front ends, Python and Go microservices, REST interfaces, and event driven data pipelines on AWS.
Implement and enforce DevSecOps pipelines with IaC, container hardening, SBOM generation, automated testing, and SRE style monitoring for government deployments.
Launch new modules and major enhancements, orchestrating alpha, beta, and GA phases while managing feature flags, A/B tests, and customer onboarding playbooks.
Collaborate with UX, Security, and Compliance teams to embed accessibility and FedRAMP/NIST safeguards from design through operations.
Curate and publish reusable component libraries, SDKs, and reference implementations that accelerate internal and partner development.
Represent Agile Defense at conferences, customer demos, and industry workgroups to drive brand recognition and market adoption.
Mentor senior and midlevel engineers, fostering a learning culture through code reviews, brownbag sessions, and Communities of Practice.
Supervisory Duties
Directly manages product tech leads, staff engineers and owns the engineering budget for Workforce and DuroSuite, ensuring optimal allocation of cloud spend, licensing, and R&D funds.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; Master’s preferred.
Twelve or more years of fullstack product engineering with at least five years leading launch ready SaaS solutions at scale.
Demonstrated success bringing new commercial or government focused products from concept to market, achieving measurable user growth and revenue targets.
Hands on experience operating production workloads in regulated cloud environments.
Devops experience using AWS, GCP and/or Azure; deployment of production ready containerized environments with multiple services.
Hands on development proficiency in Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, and/or NodeJs.
Hands on experience using frontend and backend modern frameworks such as React, Vuejs, FastAPI, Django, Express.
Proficiency designing microservice and event driven architectures with PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Kafka, and/or OpenSearch/Elasticsearch backends.
Deep knowledge of CI/CD, IaC (Terraform), Docker, container orchestration with Kubernetes, and policy-as-code security gates.
Experience integrating GenAI services, RAG pipelines, and AIOps frameworks into customer facing features.
Fluency in metrics driven development, including product analytics, and cost-to-serve optimization.
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills for executive, engineering, and customer audiences.
Background launching products within DoD Platform One, Iron Bank, or JWCC ecosystems.
Contributions to opensource projects in DevSecOps, GenAI, or secure supply chain tooling.
SAFe SPC or comparable enterprise agile transformation leadership credential.
Culture & Values
Happy – Be Infectious.
Helpful – Be Supportive.
Honest – Be Trustworthy.
Humble – Be Grounded.
Hungry – Be Eager.
Hustle – Be Driven.
Equal Opportunity Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals With Disabilities. We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
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Requisition Requisition# 1108 Job Title: VP of Product Engineering Salary Range: $157,500 - $292,500
Overview Agile Labs conceives, builds, and scales SaaS platforms that power mission ready talent management and resilient software delivery for federal and commercial customers. These cloud native products blend Generative AI to accelerate workforce readiness, automate compliance, and cut release cycles from months to hours, all while meeting the most stringent security requirements and supporting commercial and federal customer deployments.
Responsibilities
Drive product discovery by synthesizing user feedback, market signals, and competitive intelligence into actionable feature concepts and technical implementation strategies.
Architect and lead development of experimental prototypes that explore new technologies, validate hypotheses, and shape future roadmap investments.
Own the architecture, code quality, and operational excellence of Workforce and DuroSuite across web, API, and data services.
Lead backlog grooming, sprint planning, and release governance in concert with Product Management, ensuring features align with OKRs and market feedback.
Design and implement scalable React and Node.js front ends, Python and Go microservices, REST interfaces, and event driven data pipelines on AWS.
Implement and enforce DevSecOps pipelines with IaC, container hardening, SBOM generation, automated testing, and SRE style monitoring for government deployments.
Launch new modules and major enhancements, orchestrating alpha, beta, and GA phases while managing feature flags, A/B tests, and customer onboarding playbooks.
Collaborate with UX, Security, and Compliance teams to embed accessibility and FedRAMP/NIST safeguards from design through operations.
Curate and publish reusable component libraries, SDKs, and reference implementations that accelerate internal and partner development.
Represent Agile Defense at conferences, customer demos, and industry workgroups to drive brand recognition and market adoption.
Mentor senior and midlevel engineers, fostering a learning culture through code reviews, brownbag sessions, and Communities of Practice.
Supervisory Duties
Directly manages product tech leads, staff engineers and owns the engineering budget for Workforce and DuroSuite, ensuring optimal allocation of cloud spend, licensing, and R&D funds.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; Master’s preferred.
Twelve or more years of fullstack product engineering with at least five years leading launch ready SaaS solutions at scale.
Demonstrated success bringing new commercial or government focused products from concept to market, achieving measurable user growth and revenue targets.
Hands on experience operating production workloads in regulated cloud environments.
Devops experience using AWS, GCP and/or Azure; deployment of production ready containerized environments with multiple services.
Hands on development proficiency in Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, and/or NodeJs.
Hands on experience using frontend and backend modern frameworks such as React, Vuejs, FastAPI, Django, Express.
Proficiency designing microservice and event driven architectures with PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Kafka, and/or OpenSearch/Elasticsearch backends.
Deep knowledge of CI/CD, IaC (Terraform), Docker, container orchestration with Kubernetes, and policy-as-code security gates.
Experience integrating GenAI services, RAG pipelines, and AIOps frameworks into customer facing features.
Fluency in metrics driven development, including product analytics, and cost-to-serve optimization.
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills for executive, engineering, and customer audiences.
Background launching products within DoD Platform One, Iron Bank, or JWCC ecosystems.
Contributions to opensource projects in DevSecOps, GenAI, or secure supply chain tooling.
SAFe SPC or comparable enterprise agile transformation leadership credential.
Culture & Values
Happy – Be Infectious.
Helpful – Be Supportive.
Honest – Be Trustworthy.
Humble – Be Grounded.
Hungry – Be Eager.
Hustle – Be Driven.
Equal Opportunity Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals With Disabilities. We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
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