Director Of Engineering - Major Crypto Infrastructure Business - REMOTE

Node & Vector is conducting a retained search for an unnamed crypto infrastructure company seeking a Director of Engineering. The role leads a 15-engineer team across infrastructure and new products, sharing technical direction with the CTO and building the organization while maintaining a hands-on engineering culture.

Responsibilities:

• Report directly to the CTO and lead a flat, senior team of 15 engineers across infrastructure and new products
• Hands-on leadership: architecture, design reviews, critical code paths and incidents, not just the roadmap
• Own technical direction alongside the CTO, including security posture, reliability and technical debt
• Set the bar for quality and velocity across a team that ranges from mid-level to principal engineers
• Build the processes a growing engineering org needs, from planning and delivery through to performance and career development, while keeping it lean and fast
• Be the engineering voice with product, trading and leadership, and represent engineering to candidates, partners and the wider ecosystem

Requirements:

• 5+ years of engineering management including managing managers
• experience leading engineers from mid-level through principal
• both crypto and non-crypto experience
• a hands-on technical background that senior engineers will respect
• Time at a large-scale tech company
• experience across enterprise and consumer products
• exposure to trading or financial systems