[Hiring] Director of Engineering, Assets & Issuance @Paxos

Role Description

As our Director of Engineering, you will build and lead the engineering organization responsible for Assets & Issuance, shaping the architecture, growing the team and setting the direction as we scale. This is a leadership role for someone who has built money-moving infrastructure in the past and can shape how systems get designed and built. You won't be writing production code day to day, but you will go deep on architecture, reliability and hard technical decisions alongside your teams.

• Own the technical strategy, roadmap and delivery for Assets & Issuance, balancing speed to market with the reliability and controls our regulated, institutional customers expect.
• Stay close to the code and the architecture: review designs, pressure-test tradeoffs, and lead by example in hard technical decisions.
• Build and grow the team as needed: hire senior engineers and managers, develop emerging leaders, and shape an engineering culture centered on ownership, craft and bias to action.
• Lead through incidents: set the standard for on-call, incident response, root-cause analysis and follow-through, and drive down operational risk over time.
• Partner with Product, Security, Compliance and other control functions to design systems that are secure and auditable by construction, with controls built into the software rather than layered on afterward.
• Make progress with incomplete information. Break ambiguous problems into shippable pieces, set direction, and adjust as you learn.
• Drive the architecture of systems such as wallets and key management, ledgers, settlement and blockchain integrations, depending on team charter.
• Build an engineering organization that uses AI and modern tools to fundamentally improve how software is built, tested and operated, with just enough process to scale without slowing down.
• Represent engineering to executive leadership, translating technical complexity into clear priorities, tradeoffs and commitments.
• Immerse yourself in blockchain technology, digital assets, our regulation-first approach, and more!

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience, including 8+ years leading engineering teams, with experience managing managers.
• Experience as an early engineer or engineering leader at a fast-growing company, built systems from scratch and scaled both the technology and the engineering organization.
• A track record of building teams, not just inheriting them, with experience leading a sizable engineering organization, including managers, and growing it as the business scaled.
• Built and operated complex distributed systems where correctness, reliability and security are critical.
• Meaningful depth in several areas: distributed systems, blockchain infrastructure, MPC or key management, high-availability systems, security-sensitive financial software.
• Strong technical credibility with senior engineers.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and moving quickly without highly defined requirements.
• Experience working effectively with Product, Security and Compliance.
• A builder's instinct when faced with a messy technical or organizational problem.
• Nice to have: experience at both startup and scaled-company environments, prior experience in a regulated environment, and direct experience with blockchain protocols or smart contracts.

Requirements

• Experience managing managers and leading engineering teams.
• Proven ability to build and scale engineering organizations.
• Expertise in distributed systems and blockchain infrastructure.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work with incomplete information.
• Experience in a regulated environment is a plus.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity options.
• Comprehensive health benefits.
• Flexible work environment.
• Opportunities for professional growth and development.

Company Description

Today’s financial infrastructure is archaic, expensive, inefficient and risky — supporting a system that leaves out more people than it lets in. So we’re rebuilding it. We’re on a mission to open the world’s financial system to everyone by enabling the instant movement of any asset, any time, in a trustworthy way.

• For over a decade, we’ve built blockchain infrastructure that tokenizes, custodies, trades and settles assets for the world's leading financial institutions.
• Our engineers work on distributed systems and blockchain infrastructure where reliability, security and correctness are non-negotiable.