Head of Engineering
You will lead day-to-day engineering delivery, technical direction, architecture, team health, and personnel management while remaining hands-on in the codebase. You will ship critical payment-path code, resolve production issues, mentor engineers, manage delivery, and gradually take operational ownership from the CTO.
Responsibilities
- Write, review, and ship production code on critical payment paths
- Debug production incidents, reliability gaps, performance issues, and correctness issues
- Set technical direction and make architecture decisions
- Raise engineering standards through code review and example
- Own delivery planning, sequencing, and execution
- Mentor and develop engineers
- Manage engineers through one-on-ones, feedback, performance management, and hiring
- Own engineering processes and project accountability
- Report personnel matters and team health to the CTO
Requirements
- Current senior engineering leadership experience
- Strong current individual contributor skills
- Experience owning team delivery and shipping products
- Experience building processes without bureaucracy
- TypeScript
- Node.js
- Express
- React
- MongoDB
- ClickHouse
- Redis
- Queues
- Reliability
- Security
- Correctness
- Direct communication
- Payments experience preferred
- Stablecoin or blockchain infrastructure experience preferred
- Regulated-environment experience preferred
- Early-stage startup experience preferred
Benefits
- Performance bonus
- Equity grant
- Health and wellness benefits
- 401(k) savings plan
- Flexible time off