{"id":"15u550742o","title":"VP of Engineering","posted_at":"2026-02-16T12:04:31.000Z","apply_url":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/swap/20666fae-5c94-40fe-9550-19432f3ff214/application","locations":["London, UK"],"employment_type":"full_time","workplace_type":"hybrid","seniority_level":null,"description_language":null,"source_name":"ashby","source_url":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/swap/20666fae-5c94-40fe-9550-19432f3ff214","salary":null,"job_summary":null,"job_description":null,"description_text":"## VP of Engineering\n\nLocation: London\n\nType: Full-time\n\nExperience: 10+ years of experience; with relevant recent AI experience\n\n## Say Hello to Ecommerce OS\n\nAt Swap, we’re building the first unified Ecommerce OS; a powerful, AI-driven platform that connects every operational workflow for ambitious ecommerce brands around the world. From real-time inventory intelligence to borderless returns, Swap helps brands simplify complexity, boost profitability, and scale globally.\n\n## About the Role\n\nWe are seeking an exceptional VP of Engineering to lead the definition and execution of agentic commerce, balancing openness and merchant control. This is a critical executive role for an engineering leader who is a proven talent magnet and an outstanding product operator with a strong track record of delivering business-defining results across both v1 and v.next product portfolios. The role demands platform expertise, a focus on shopper experience, and deep applied AI knowledge to create a smarter, more intuitive commerce ecosystem for merchants and end-users.\n\nYou will lead Swap’s talented Engineering organization, shaping our long-term strategy and roadmap. The product suite is broad and includes front-end shopper experiences, shipping and returns solutions, inventory and demand planning, package support, and global governmental compliance which all present significant agentic opportunities for development and exploration.\n\n## What You’ll Do\n\n- Leadership: Recruit, build, and develop a world-class, high-performance engineering team, instilling a customer and business first culture.\n- Business Impact: Ensure the engineering organization is a core driver of business success, prioritizing projects that maximize commercial outcomes.\n- Vision & Strategy: Own and execute Swap’s engineering vision and north star architecture, maintaining an agentic-first perspective that prioritizes impact and minimizes buzzwords.\n- Scaling Systems: Successfully build, launch, and scale both B2C and B2B product offerings.\n- ROI: Facilitate rigorous prioritization trade-offs with stakeholders to maximize Return on Invested Engineering Time.\n- Accountability: Define clear, measurable metrics of success for engineering teams (both product and platform teams) and deliver results against established targets.\n- Cross-Functional Alignment: Build and maintain strong cross-functional relationships with Product and Business teams to accelerate innovation and time-to-market.\n\n## What We’re Looking For\n\n- Ambitious, curious, and excited to build in an emerging category at a fast paced startup\n- History of recruiting and building high talent teams filled with leaders of leaders\n- 10+ years in engineering, with exposure to building AI-native or agent-powered products\n- Demonstrated customer centric thinking for maintaining alignment with a growing set of products and a rapidly growing engineering organization\n- Strong track record taking zero-to-one products to launch AND scaling v.next offerings\n- Familiarity with applied AI, conversational interfaces, LLMs, or agent orchestration tools\n- Customer-centric mindset feeding business outcomes; you know how to ship solutions to customer challenges that simplify the complex in a delightful way all way staying focused on business outcomes\n- Experience leading departments with tech stacks Typescript/JavaScript, using Node.js to architect and create REST and/or GraphQL APIs\n- Strong technical experience leading teams in modern front-end Typescript/JavaScript libraries and frameworks such as React.js\n- Experience working in commerce or logistics is a plus\n\n## Why Join Us?\n\n- A very unique opportunity to change the way a major market functions in the world.\n- Leading a truly global team. 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