About Remote Labs SRL

Remote Labs SRL is a Romanian education and training company, founded in 2019, that makes hands-on technical training available to anyone, anywhere. We connect real laboratory equipment, servers and test devices to the internet, so students, professionals and company teams can practise on real infrastructure from wherever they are. Around these remote labs we run interactive courses, practical workshops, mentoring and certifications in IT and engineering, helping schools and businesses train people without the cost of building and maintaining physical labs.

About the Role

As a Fractional VP Engineering, you will focus on engineering quality and the growth of engineers. You will provide part-time leadership across the engineering function, helping to strengthen standards, support engineer development, and improve how engineering work is delivered. You will work with our leadership on a fractional basis to raise engineering quality and grow the engineers who build our remote-lab platform and deliver client projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead initiatives to improve engineering quality across the team.

• Support the growth and development of engineers.

• Guide engineering practices to strengthen delivery standards.

• Provide leadership and oversight on engineering quality matters.

• Define engineering standards, ways of working and quality metrics across teams.

• Coach tech leads and engineering managers and support their growth.

• Shape the engineering organisation, hiring plan and career framework.

• Review technical roadmaps and help prioritise investments in platform and tooling.

• Report on delivery health, risks and engineering performance to leadership.

Requirements

• Experience leading engineering teams or functions.

• Ability to improve engineering quality.

• Ability to support the growth and development of engineers.

• Strong engineering leadership and judgement.

• 10+ years in software engineering, including 4+ years leading engineering teams or departments.

• Proven experience scaling engineering teams and processes.

• Strong understanding of modern software delivery, DevOps and quality practices.

• Experience advising leadership teams on technology and organisation.

Nice to Have

• Experience in EdTech, training or IoT companies.

• Experience with nearshore or distributed delivery centres.

• Experience running engineering in a services company.

How You Will Work

• Fractional freelance (B2B) engagement, about 1–2 days per week.

• Fully remote: you can work from anywhere, with working hours that overlap with Central European Time.

• Remote Labs SRL does not offer visa sponsorship or visa support.

Skills we're looking for

Technical skills

• Software Engineering
• DevOps
• Internet of Things
• Software Quality
• Technology Roadmapping

Interpersonal skills

• Team Leadership
• Mentoring
• Strategic Thinking
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Influence