Director of Engineering – Contract

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Latin America.

📋 Description

• Take charge of the end-to-end engineering of the Nexus Exchange, which includes matching, risk management, settlement, indexing, storage, API/CLI/SDK, oracle, and infrastructure.

• Define the engineering vision while actively participating in high-impact production coding.

• Be responsible for the architectural decisions within the Exchange domain.

• Develop the Exchange and its components, utilizing Kubernetes and Terraform infrastructure.

• Lead senior engineers and teams, overseeing timelines, roadmaps, and resource allocation.

• Propel product, customer, and business results with a sense of urgency and frequent iterations.

• Enhance organizational productivity and operational efficiency.

• Manage the automation of engineering processes, agent infrastructure, logging, telemetry, observability, and self-improvement cycles.

• Collaborate with the CEO and executive team to design team structures and incentives.

• Oversee a globally distributed workforce.

• Set up quality infrastructure, automated testing, code review, on-call, and incident-response standards.

• Mentor individual contributors and tech leads to foster growth.

• Communicate effectively through design documents, RFCs, and post-mortems.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 8 years of experience in building production software.

• At least 2 years in an engineering leadership role, such as tech lead, staff engineer, principal engineer, or architect across various teams.

• Experience in leading engineering organizations effectively.

• Proven expertise in developing high-throughput, low-latency systems.

• Strong understanding of concurrent and parallel systems.

• Deep hands-on knowledge of Rust, Go, Next.js/TypeScript or Node, and GCP.

• Excellent architectural skills with the ability to balance correctness, latency, throughput, and operability.

• A business-oriented and outcome-focused mindset.

• Strong resilience, logical reasoning, and ability to think from first principles under pressure.

• Interest in leveraging current AI tools and enhancing organizational automation.

• Experience in mentoring senior engineers and developing tech leads.

• Proficient in written and spoken English.

• An async-first working style with significant overlap with US Pacific time.

• Extensive experience in exchange/trading systems or similar transaction-processing architectures.

• Understanding of matching, risk management, and settlement correctness; market data indexing and cold storage; API, SDK, and CLI interfaces; and oracle design.

• Willingness to work PST hours and be available on-call, as indicated in the application form.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses.

• Flexible working hours and a remote-first culture.

• Opportunities for professional growth and development.

• Comprehensive health benefits and wellness programs.

• Collaborative and innovative work environment.