Vice President, Engineering
Rush Street Interactive (RSI) is seeking an experienced, visionary, and hands-on Vice President of Software Engineering to lead and scale our global engineering organization. This strategic leadership role is responsible for modernizing our technology platforms through best-in-class software development practices, AI-enabled delivery, and a modern, scalable architecture. The preferred candidate will be located in Estonia, but we are also open to candidates where we have hiring entities across Europe.
The Vice President of Engineering will lead engineering strategy, execution, and transformation in close partnership with the CTO and senior leadership. Responsibilities include architecting and scaling highly available, high-performance platforms using modern cloud-native and microservices architectures, driving an AI-powered productivity transformation by introducing AI-assisted development tools and workflows across engineering teams, and setting and delivering engineering excellence standards across CI/CD, observability, incident response, technical debt reduction, and operational KPIs in alignment with our Platform Engineering strategy. Additionally, this role involves building, mentoring, and leading a high-performing, globally distributed engineering organization and senior leadership team, driving a culture of velocity and quality focused on a stellar user experience for our players, and collaborating cross-functionally with Product, Data Science, Security, Operations, and business leaders to align technology strategy with company objectives.
The ideal candidate will possess a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, with 15+ years of software engineering experience, including 7+ years in senior leadership roles. Proven success in leading large, distributed engineering teams in complex or high-growth environments is essential. Deep expertise in cloud platforms, distributed systems, microservices, event-driven architectures, and APIs is required, along with experience leading large-scale platform modernization; AI/GenAI experience is strongly preferred. A track record of improving engineering productivity, accelerating delivery, and driving operational excellence is crucial. The candidate should have a strategic yet hands-on leadership style with a strong bias for action, excellent communication and influence skills, including experience working with executive stakeholders, and be a high-energy, empathetic leader who is visible, approachable, and inspiring. Willingness to travel up to 25% annually is also expected.
RSI offers comprehensive compensation, work-life balance initiatives, and a people-oriented environment with a supportive atmosphere. We embrace personal freedom and responsibility, encourage creativity and innovation, and are committed to personal and professional growth. As a rapidly growing company in an emerging industry, you’ll have a significant impact on our product and our company. We value proactive team members who enjoy collaboration, having fun, and achieving together what others believe to be improbable. We are dedicated to treating everyone with respect and supporting your professional and personal growth.