Director of Engineering – Assets & Issuance

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the technical strategy, roadmap, and execution for Assets & Issuance.

• Strike a balance between speed to market and ensuring reliability and controls for regulated institutional clients.

• Evaluate designs, test tradeoffs, and guide significant technical decisions.

• Expand and develop the engineering team by recruiting senior engineers and managers, while nurturing emerging leaders.

• Set standards for on-call duties, incident response, root cause analysis, and reducing operational risks.

• Collaborate with Product, Security, Compliance, and other regulatory functions to create secure and auditable systems.

• Decompose ambiguous challenges into manageable tasks, establish direction, and adapt as necessary.

• Lead the architectural design for wallets, key management, ledgers, settlement, and blockchain integrations.

• Create an engineering organization that leverages AI and modern tools to enhance software development, testing, and operations.

• Represent the engineering team to executive leadership by translating technical complexities into priorities, tradeoffs, and commitments.

• Engage deeply with blockchain technology, digital assets, and Paxos’s regulation-first philosophy.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 12 years of experience in software engineering.

• More than 8 years of experience leading engineering teams, including managing other managers.

• Background as an early engineer or engineering leader in a rapidly growing company.

• Proven experience in building systems from the ground up and scaling technology and engineering teams.

• Experience in constructing and leading a large engineering organization, including managerial roles.

• Familiarity with building and operating complex distributed systems where correctness, reliability, and security are paramount.

• Significant expertise in various domains: distributed systems, blockchain infrastructure, MPC or key management, high-availability systems, and security-sensitive financial software.

• Strong technical credibility among senior engineers.

• Ability to thrive in ambiguous situations and move swiftly without highly defined requirements.

• Proven ability to work collaboratively with Product, Security, and Compliance teams.

• A builder's mindset for addressing technical and organizational challenges.

• Experience in money-moving infrastructure is highly desirable.

• Experience in both startup and established company environments, exposure to regulated environments, and direct experience with blockchain protocols or smart contracts are advantageous.

• Eligibility to work in the United States.

• Work authorization in the US and visa sponsorship status must be addressed in the application.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity

• Annual bonus eligibility

• 25% annual bonus

• Competitive total compensation and benefits package