[Hiring] Head of Engineering @Particula

Role Description

We're building the infrastructure layer that makes risk in tokenized finance machine-readable, onchain, and composable: an AI-driven risk scoring engine, a cross-chain risk protocol, and an institutional-grade analytics platform.

The technical challenges include:

• Ingesting and normalizing onchain and offchain data at scale
• Running statistical risk algorithms on a hybrid database architecture
• Streaming real-time market signals
• Serving everything through a multi-portal institutional platform
• Embedding an AI/ML pipeline deeply in engineering workflows, including AI-assisted coding across the team

We're hiring a Head of Engineering to own and scale this function, leading day-to-day execution, stabilizing core infrastructure, and growing team velocity. You'll work directly with the CTO and Head of AI to turn a big technical vision into reliable, production-grade systems.

Our Stack:

• AWS EC2/EKS/ElastiCache/Amplify/Kinesis/SageMaker
• Python
• Laravel
• Nuxt.js
• PostgreSQL
• MongoDB
• Qdrant
• Claude
• Cursor
• Langdock
• GitHub
• Jira
• Confluence
• SonarQube

Tasks:

• Own the engineering team - run all 1:1s, manage performance, unblock engineers, and drive accountability across frontend, backend, and cloud infrastructure.
• Stabilize and scale core infrastructure - identify and resolve critical gaps in our existing systems, establish engineering standards, and build toward a resilient, production-grade architecture.
• Drive delivery - translate product and business priorities into clear engineering roadmaps, sprint structures, and shipping cadences.
• Coordinate with the Head of AI - ensure smooth integration between the AI pipeline and the broader platform infrastructure, from data ingestion to API delivery.
• Build engineering culture - introduce the right processes (code review, incident response, documentation, testing) without creating bureaucracy.
• Hire and grow the team - own recruiting, onboarding, and team composition decisions in close alignment with the CTO.
• Represent engineering in leadership discussions - bridge the gap between technical reality and business expectations.

Qualifications

• 7-12 years in software engineering, with 3+ years in an engineering leadership role owning a team directly (not just tech lead).
• Proven track record managing and growing small-to-mid-size engineering teams in a fast-moving startup environment.
• Strong full-stack understanding: backend systems, frontend delivery, cloud infrastructure (AWS), and API design.
• Experience inheriting and stabilizing broken or scaling infrastructure - not just greenfield builds.
• Excellent people manager: you do 1:1s properly, give direct feedback, and create clarity in ambiguous environments.
• Strong communicator upward (founders/CTO) and downward (engineers) - you translate between vision and execution fluently.
• Highly structured and process-oriented, but pragmatic - you ship, then you improve.
• Entrepreneurial by nature: you build, you own, you drive.
• Bonus: familiarity with data-heavy platforms, analytics infrastructure, or financial/fintech products.
• Bonus: exposure to blockchain or Web3 infrastructure.

Benefits

• Offsites with the team in exciting locations
• Flexible working hours in a company that relies on remote work
• Exciting product in a very dynamic market environment as well as founding-level ownership of a key growth function.
• Values-based start-up culture
• Many opportunities to develop further and network with committed people
• Flat hierarchy

Company Description

Particula is the prime rating provider for digital assets, transforming on- and off-chain data into actionable insights. The company delivers next-generation risk ratings and comprehensive analyses, across technical, economic, governance, and compliance dimensions – providing the clarity and confidence needed to navigate the complexities of digital finance.