Director of Engineering
You will own the Nexus Exchange engineering end to end, including architecture, matching, risk, settlement, indexing, storage, APIs, oracles, and infrastructure. You will lead the engineering organization, manage roadmaps and resourcing, drive product and customer outcomes, improve engineering productivity, establish quality practices, mentor senior engineers and tech leads, and manage a distributed workforce.
Responsibilities
- Own architecture across the Exchange domain and write production code in high-leverage system components
- Build the matching engine, risk engine, settlement, data indexing, cold data storage, API, CLI, SDK, oracle, and underlying infrastructure
- Lead the engineering organization and manage timelines, roadmaps, and resourcing
- Drive product and customer outcomes and high-frequency iteration
- Improve organizational productivity and efficiency
- Own automation of engineering processes, including agent infrastructure, logging, telemetry, observability, and self-improvement loops
- Design team structures and incentives with the CEO and executive team
- Manage an international distributed workforce
- Establish telemetry, observability, automated testing, code review, on-call, and incident response standards
- Grow individual contributors and technology leads
- Communicate through design documents, RFCs, and post-mortems
Requirements
- 8+ years building production software
- 2+ years in an engineering leadership capacity
- Experience leading engineering organizations
- High-throughput and low-latency systems experience
- Strong command of concurrent and parallel systems
- Fluency with Rust, Go, Next.js/TypeScript or Node, and GCP
- Experience making correctness, latency, throughput, and operability trade-offs
- Exchange, trading-system, or comparable transaction-processing architecture experience
- Matching, risk, and settlement correctness experience
- Market data, indexing, and cold storage experience
- API, SDK, and CLI experience
- Oracle design experience
- Fluent written and spoken English
- Meaningful US Pacific time overlap