Who we are💙

Here at Waitwhile we're on a mission to eliminate the 1 trillion hours people spend waiting in lines every year. Our platform combines virtual waitlists, scheduling, real-time updates, messaging, and analytics to make access to places, services, and events seamless, online or in person. Trusted by 10,000+ companies, Waitwhile has already helped over 150 million people enjoy a radically better waiting experience. Our clients include IKEA, Chanel, Costco, Google, Delta Airlines, and thousands more. We’re just getting started, and we need your help.

The role💼

We're looking for an incredible VP of Engineering who will support Waitwhile's mission by building a world class engineering culture and team, shaping our technology & product roadmap, and championing our vision for building the best platform for our users. You'll report to our CEO and work collaboratively with our CTO and other members of the Waitwhile team to build innovative tech. With empathy and transparency at the core of how we work, you’ll set and execute Waitwhile’s long-term global engineering strategy. 

What you'll own🚀

• The Waitwhile engineering team: consisting of 9 distributed software engineers. You will manage the team while partnering with product development, operations, design and UX, product marketing and analytics to heavily improve the Product roadmap with your technical perspective.

• Delivery execution excellence: ensuring we plan, build, and ship high-quality product features on time, delight our current customers and win new ones. 

• Reliability, uptime and operations: ensuring Waitwhile exceeds SLAs, operates sustainably, and continually improves the efficiency of support and maintenance. 

• Engineering talent management: setting clear performance standards while fostering growth and development within your team. 

• Cross technology organizational relationships: the ability to cross boundaries and develop strong relationships with our pre and post sales team leaders and our customers. 

What you have🙌

• 8+ years of technical leadership, scaling engineering in high-growth, distributed environments.
• Proven ability to set technical vision and build the technical product roadmap from launch to scale.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills in english or swedish 
• Diplomacy, and humility to lead and develop strong working relationships.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills including requirements analysis and risk assessment. 
• Experience working with stakeholders to create hiring strategies to recruit and develop quality teams.
• Knowledgeable about industry trends and best practices. 
• Ability to Identify market opportunities and risks by evaluating emerging technologies. 

It´s a plus if you have 

• A Bachelor's or Master´s degree in Engineering, Computer Science or a closely related discipline. 
• Experience leading the shift from a small, fast-moving business to an enterprise-focused organization, ideally in SaaS. 

A great place to work❤️

We want Waitwhile to be an incredible place to work. We offer great benefits and perks, flexible working hours and lots of interesting challenges. We believe in making work fun and rewarding and care about your development and are committed to your success. 

Waitwhile has a positive, diverse, and supportive culture—we look for people who are curious, inventive, and work to be a little better every single day. We aim to be smart, humble, hardworking and, above all, collaborative. If this sounds like a good fit for you, why not say hello?