About Care.com
Care.com is a consumer tech company with heart. We’re on a mission to solve a human challenge we all face: finding great care for the ones we love. We’re moms and dads and pet parents. We have parents and grandparents so we understand that everyone, at some point in their lives, could use a helping hand. Our culture and our products reflect that.
Care.com offers an array of services that enable families to find, manage and pay for care and provide employment opportunities for caregivers. Our engineering organization is reimagining our tech stacks and consolidating to a single cloud native platform so we can test and learn faster. The new platform is composed of gRPC microservices and Lambdas in Go, Kafka streams, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, GraphQL, and micro-frontends on Node and React. We're utilizing industry best practices and tools like OpenTelemetry, Splunk, Github, SignalFX, Figma, and others to make our lives easier.
The Opportunity
We are looking for a dynamic and strategic Vice President of Engineering to lead Care.com’s product engineering organization into its next chapter of growth and innovation. This is a rare opportunity to shape the technology behind a product that touches millions of lives—while also building the systems that power meaningful partnerships with employers and organizations across the country.
The ideal candidate brings deep experience delivering high-impact consumer products and understands what it takes to scale for enterprise clients. You’ll be responsible for leading multiple engineering teams focused on delivering exceptional experiences across our platforms—from the core consumer marketplace to the tools that help employers support their employees’ care needs.
This role calls for a hands-on leader who blends technical excellence with cross-functional collaboration, and who thrives on building inclusive, high-performing teams. You’ll partner closely with Product, Design, and Business leaders to align on goals, drive execution, and ensure our solutions meet the evolving needs of both families and partners.
Work Environment: Hybrid - in office Monday, Wednesday & Thrusday
Locations: Salt Lake City, Utah | Austin, Texas | Dallas, Texas | New York, NY
What You’ll Be Responsible For
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Lead with Vision & Purpose: Shape and execute the engineering strategy in alignment with product and business goals—particularly across our Enterprise and B2B offerings, ensuring we meet the needs of organizations supporting their employees’ care journeys.
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Build & Scale Teams: Hire, coach, and retain top engineering talent. Create an inclusive and supportive environment where diverse voices are heard, growth is encouraged, and high standards are the norm.
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Drive Cross-Functional Execution: Partner closely with Product, Design, and Data to define and deliver customer-centric solutions at speed, balancing near-term delivery with long-term platform health.
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Elevate Engineering Excellence: Foster best practices in software development, system design, reliability, and operational excellence. Promote thoughtful experimentation, automation, and continuous improvement.
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Champion the Enterprise Experience: Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand customer needs and build the infrastructure and experiences that make Care.com indispensable to our employer partners and their employees.
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Empower Culture & Inclusion: Be a culture carrier. Model values-driven leadership, empathy, and transparency. Champion diversity and inclusion at every level.
What Will Help You Succeed
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15+ years of engineering experience, including 6+ years leading large, distributed technical teams
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A strong track record building and scaling user-facing digital products in fast-paced, high-growth environments
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Demonstrated success in a leadership role driving product-engineering collaboration with measurable business outcomes
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Experience supporting or building both consumer facing and B2B products
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Comfort balancing strategic thinking with day-to-day team needs
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Exceptional communication and storytelling skills, with an ability to connect technical solutions to user and business value
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A passion for building inclusive teams, mentoring others, and leading with empathy
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Familiarity with modern development tools and architectures (e.g., microservices, event-driven systems, cloud-native environments)
Company Overview:
Available in more than 20 countries, Care.com is the world's leading platform for finding and managing high-quality family care. Care.com is designed to meet the evolving needs of today's families and caregivers, offering everything from household tax and payroll services and customized corporate benefits packages covering the care needs of working families, to innovating new ways for caregivers to be paid and obtain professional benefits. Since 2007, families have relied on Care.com's industry-leading products—from child and elder care to pet care and home care. Care.com is an IAC company (NASDAQ: IAC).
Salary Range: $225,000- $275,000. The base salary range above represents the anticipated low and high end of the salary range for this position. Actual salaries may vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to work location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of IAC’s total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include annual bonuses and short- and long-term incentives. In addition, IAC provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, life, and disability insurance, a generous 401K employer matching program, paid holidays, and paid time off (PTO).
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What We Do
Care.com is a consumer tech company with heart. We’re on a mission to solve a human challenge we all face: finding great care for the ones we love. We’re moms and dads and pet parents. We have parents and grandparents so we understand that everyone, at some point in their lives, could use a helping hand. Our culture and our products reflect that.
Why Work With Us
Here, we’re applying data analytics, AI, and the latest technologies to solve universal problems and connect people in new ways. If you like having autonomy, if you thrive on collaboration and building new things, and if you’re all about using your talent for good, Care.com is the place for you.
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