Director of Engineering, Assets & Issuance

Paxos is hiring a Director of Engineering to build and lead the engineering organization responsible for Assets & Issuance. The role sets technical strategy, architecture, and delivery while growing teams and ensuring reliable, secure systems for issuing and moving assets.

Responsibilities:

• Own the technical strategy, roadmap and delivery for Assets & Issuance, balancing speed to market with the reliability and controls our regulated, institutional customers expect
• Stay close to the code and the architecture: review designs, pressure-test tradeoffs, and lead by example in hard technical decisions
• Build and grow the team as needed: hire senior engineers and managers, develop emerging leaders, and shape an engineering culture centered on ownership, craft and bias to action
• Lead through incidents: set the standard for on-call, incident response, root-cause analysis and follow-through, and drive down operational risk over time
• Partner with Product, Security, Compliance and other control functions to design systems that are secure and auditable by construction, with controls built into the software rather than layered on afterward
• Make progress with incomplete information. Break ambiguous problems into shippable pieces, set direction, and adjust as you learn
• Drive the architecture of systems such as wallets and key management, ledgers, settlement and blockchain integrations, depending on team charter
• Build an engineering organization that uses AI and modern tools to fundamentally improve how software is built, tested and operated, with just enough process to scale without slowing down
• Represent engineering to executive leadership, translating technical complexity into clear priorities, tradeoffs and commitments
• Immerse yourself in blockchain technology, digital assets, our regulation-first approach, and more!

Requirements:

• 12+ years of software engineering experience, including 8+ years leading engineering teams, with experience managing managers
• You've been an early engineer or engineering leader at a fast-growing company, built systems from scratch and scaled both the technology and the engineering organization
• A track record of building teams, not just inheriting them, with experience leading a sizable engineering organization, including managers, and growing it as the business scaled
• Built and operated complex distributed systems where correctness, reliability and security are critical
• Meaningful depth in several areas: distributed systems, blockchain infrastructure, MPC or key management, high-availability systems, security-sensitive financial software
• Strong technical credibility with senior engineers. You can go deep on architecture, reliability and hard technical decisions, and you earn the respect of the engineers you lead
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and moving quickly without highly defined requirements
• Experience working effectively with Product, Security and Compliance, applying the right amount of process to keep teams aligned and controls intact without slowing down delivery
• A builder's instinct. When faced with a messy technical or organizational problem, your first move is to dig in and find a way through it
• Experience with money-moving infrastructure is strongly preferred, but exceptional builders from other high-stakes systems are equally compelling
• experience at both startup and scaled-company environments
• prior experience in a regulated environment (e.g., a trust company, broker-dealer or exchange)
• direct experience with blockchain protocols or smart contracts