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Director of Engineering

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You will lead the engineering organization and set its technical vision and direction with executive and product leadership. You will guide architecture, oversee delivery across backend, frontend, and infrastructure, and work with Product, Design, and Operations on roadmap priorities. You will promote feedback, mentorship, modern development practices, security, privacy, compliance, documentation, and scalable onboarding processes.

Responsibilities

  • Set and execute the engineering vision and technical direction.
  • Deliver an engineering strategy for scalable and secure platform growth.
  • Drive timely, high-quality engineering delivery across teams.
  • Promote feedback, mentorship, and career development.
  • Collaborate with Product, Design, and Operations on priorities and roadmap planning.
  • Champion CI/CD, testing, observability, and agile methodologies.
  • Oversee architectural planning across backend, frontend, and infrastructure.
  • Advocate for engineering priorities while balancing business goals and technical feasibility.
  • Maintain onboarding processes, documentation, and workflows.
  • Embed data security, privacy, and regulatory compliance into engineering culture.

Requirements

  • 10–15 years of experience in engineering leadership roles, ideally in fintech, SaaS, or tech-enabled services.
  • Experience leading engineering teams at high-growth technology companies or scale-ups.
  • Technical expertise in modern architectures and cloud-based platforms.
  • Experience managing and growing distributed engineering teams.
  • Leadership, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
  • Experience with agile development, DevOps culture, and continuous delivery pipelines.
  • Business acumen and ability to align engineering strategy with company objectives.

Benefits

  • Frequent team events and socials.

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