Director of Engineering
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Own the Nexus Exchange engineering organization and architecture end to end, including matching, risk, settlement, indexing, storage, APIs, oracles, and infrastructure. The role combines hands-on systems engineering with organizational leadership, product and customer outcomes, engineering productivity, quality practices, and management of 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