Director of Engineering, Assets & Issuance

Overview

Lead the engineering organization responsible for Assets & Issuance at Paxos, setting technical direction, building the team, and delivering money-moving blockchain infrastructure.

What you'll do

• 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.

What you'll need

• 12+ years of software engineering experience, including 8+ years leading engineering teams, with experience managing managers.
• Experience as an early engineer or engineering leader at a fast-growing company, having built systems from scratch and scaled both the technology and the engineering organization.
• A track record of building teams, including experience leading a sizable engineering organization with managers and growing it as the business scaled.
• Experience building and operating 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, able to go deep on architecture, reliability and hard technical decisions.
• Comfort 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.

Nice to have

• 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.
• Experience with money-moving infrastructure is strongly preferred, but exceptional builders from other high-stakes systems are equally compelling.

Details

• Location: Remote, United States (East Coast).