VP of Engineering

Responsibilities

• Own engineering strategy, architecture, and the multi-year technical roadmap across card issuing, wallets, ledger, money movement, onchain settlement, and integrations with card networks and banking partners.
• Set and maintain the engineering quality bar for system design, code review, testing, observability, documentation, and technical decision-making.
• Review critical designs and high-consequence architecture and build-versus-buy decisions.
• Drive reliability, scalability, and operational excellence through SLOs, incident response, capacity planning, resilient systems, 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 to increase safe, independent delivery.
• Hire and coach engineering managers and technical leads, establish team ownership and boundaries, and own headcount planning and performance standards.
• Translate company strategy into technical plans and represent Engineering to leadership, the board, banking and network partners, and customers.

Requirements

• 15+ years building production software, including 8+ years leading engineers and meaningful experience leading managers.
• Recent experience writing or reviewing meaningful production code and contributing technical judgment in architecture reviews.
• 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, velocity, or reliability through measurable process and practice improvements.
• 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.
• Experience hiring and developing engineering managers.
• Strong written communication and executive-level communication skills.
• Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with card issuing, processing, or Visa and Mastercard network systems.
• 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 range of $320,000–$450,000.
• Unlimited time off with a 10-day minimum.
• Flexible work arrangements and a home workspace stipend.
• US health, dental, and vision coverage, including 95% employee and 90% dependent coverage.
• Company-subsidized life insurance.
• 401(k) with a 4% company match.
• Equity option plan.
• Monthly health and wellness stipend.
• In-office meals and company offsites.