Head of Engineering

Responsibilities

• Set and own the engineering quality bar across system design, code review, testing, observability, documentation, and technical decision-making.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership through code and design reviews, prototyping, production debugging, and architecture and build-versus-buy decisions.
• Own architecture and technical strategy for card issuing, wallets, ledgers, money movement, onchain settlement, and integrations with card networks and banking partners.
• Drive reliability, scalability, and operational excellence through SLOs, incident response, capacity planning, graceful degradation, idempotency, and replay capabilities.
• Partner with Risk, Compliance, and Security to build PCI, SOC 2, fraud-control, regulatory, and blockchain infrastructure requirements into the platform.
• Improve CI/CD, developer tooling, local environments, technical debt management, and architecture so teams can ship safely and independently.
• Coach engineering managers and technical leads, maintain high hiring and performance standards, establish clear team ownership, and collaborate across Product, Design, Risk, Compliance, and GTM.

Requirements

• 10+ years building production software, including 4+ years leading engineers.
• Current, demonstrable hands-on experience writing or reviewing meaningful production code.
• Deep experience with distributed backend systems at scale, including data modeling, consistency, idempotency, queues, event-driven design, and operations.
• Track record of raising engineering quality and demonstrating measurable improvements in quality, velocity, or reliability.
• Experience owning reliability, carrying a pager, leading serious incident response, and preventing recurrence.
• Experience in payments, fintech, banking infrastructure, or another domain where correctness and regulatory obligations are critical.
• Strong hiring, coaching, written communication, ambiguity-management, and execution skills.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with card issuing, processing, or Visa and Mastercard network infrastructure.
• Working knowledge of stablecoins, onchain settlement, custody and key management, EVM, or Solana infrastructure.
• Experience operating under SOC 2, PCI DSS, or bank and program-manager oversight.
• Experience leading distributed or multi-region teams.

Compensation and Benefits

• Annual salary: $300,000–$400,000.
• Equity option plan.
• Unlimited time off, with a minimum of 10 days required.
• Flexible workplace and home-office setup stipend.
• US health, dental, and vision coverage, subsidized life insurance, and 401(k) with a 4% company match.
• Monthly health and wellness stipend.
• In-office meals and domestic and international team summits.