Director of Engineering

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

📋 Description

• Take full responsibility for the health, scalability, and reliability of Pipe's systems from start to finish, which includes partner-facing APIs and SDKs, money movement, capital markets infrastructure, and AI/ML model infrastructure for credit underwriting.

• Make and justify architectural choices while remaining close enough to the code to assess designs effectively.

• Establish standards for code quality, testing, deployment, and incident response.

• Organize the technical roadmap in relation to speed, scale, and risk, beginning with credit operations, liquidity tools, and partner integrations.

• Lead a team of approximately 10 engineers across two squads through squad leads.

• Foster clarity and momentum while ensuring a sustainable pace for the team.

• Cultivate a culture where engineers are empowered to make and defend their technical decisions.

• Recruit, mentor, and nurture engineers as the team expands.

• Collaborate with Product on scope, sequencing, and delivery.

• Engage with Risk and Data Science on infrastructure for large-scale credit decisioning.

• Work alongside Capital Markets and Finance concerning money movement, reconciliation, and reporting.

• Represent engineering during technical discussions with partners, including API and SDK integrations.

• Oversee incident response and ensure production reliability.

• Develop monitoring, alerting, and on-call practices.

• Enhance code review, deployment, and testing processes to boost both velocity and quality.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 6 years in software engineering, with at least 2 years of experience leading a team of 5 or more engineers.

• Background in a fintech, payments company, or another organization managing regulated financial systems.

• Practical experience in code review, debugging production issues, and making architectural decisions.

• Proven history of scaling engineering teams and systems within an early-stage or high-growth startup environment.

• Experience managing business-critical infrastructure, focusing on uptime, reliability, and security.

• Capability to collaborate with Product, Risk, Data Science, Capital Markets, and Finance.

• A first-principles approach to troubleshooting and resolving production challenges and technical debt.

• Comfort with navigating imperfect systems and legacy trade-offs.

• Preferred: expertise in payments, money movement, or lending infrastructure.

• Preferred: experience with partner SDK and API integrations on a large scale in embedded finance, marketplaces, or platform partnerships.

• Preferred: experience in scaling an engineering team from Series A to Series C.

• Preferred: knowledge of credit risk or capital markets systems.

🏝️ Benefits

• The necessary equipment to perform your job effectively.

• Flexible vacation and working hours.

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.

• Parental leave for all individuals expanding their families, irrespective of gender.

• Colleagues who embody authenticity and humility in their work.