Head of Engineering

About the Role

We're building the infrastructure layer that makes risk in tokenized finance machine-readable, onchain, and composable: an AI-driven risk scoring engine, a cross-chain risk protocol, and an institutional-grade analytics platform.

The technical challenges are ingesting and normalizing onchain and offchain data at scale, running statistical risk algorithms on a hybrid database architecture, streaming real‑time market signals, and serving everything through a multi‑portal institutional platform – all with an AI/ML pipeline deeply embedded in engineering workflows, including AI‑assisted coding across the team. Down the road: ISO 27001 and SOC 2.

We're hiring a Head of Engineering to own and scale this function – leading day‑to‑day execution, stabilizing core infrastructure, and growing team velocity. You'll work directly with the CTO and Head of AI to turn a big technical vision into reliable, production‑grade systems.

Our Stack: AWS EC2/EKS/ElastiCache/Amplify/Kinesis/SageMaker, Python, Laravel, Nuxt.js, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Qdrant, Claude, Cursor, Langdock, GitHub, Jira, Confluence, SonarQube

Tasks

• Own the engineering team – run all 1:1s, manage performance, unblock engineers, and drive accountability across frontend, backend, and cloud infrastructure.
• Stabilize and scale core infrastructure – identify and resolve critical gaps in our existing systems, establish engineering standards, and build toward a resilient, production‑grade architecture.
• Drive delivery – translate product and business priorities into clear engineering roadmaps, sprint structures, and shipping cadences.
• Coordinate with the Head of AI – ensure smooth integration between the AI pipeline and the broader platform infrastructure, from data ingestion to API delivery.
• Build engineering culture – introduce the right processes (code review, incident response, documentation, testing) without creating bureaucracy.
• Hire and grow the team – own recruiting, onboarding, and team composition decisions in close alignment with the CTO.
• Represent engineering in leadership discussions – bridge the gap between technical reality and business expectations.

Requirements

• 7–12 years in software engineering, with 3+ years in an engineering leadership role owning a team directly (not just tech lead).
• Proven track record managing and growing small‑to‑mid‑size engineering teams in a fast‑moving startup environment.
• Strong full‑stack understanding: backend systems, frontend delivery, cloud infrastructure (AWS), and API design.
• Experience inheriting and stabilizing broken or scaling infrastructure – not just greenfield builds.
• Excellent people manager: you do 1:1s properly, give direct feedback, and create clarity in ambiguous environments.
• Strong communicator upward (founders/CTO) and downward (engineers) – you translate between vision and execution fluently.
• Highly structured and process‑oriented, but pragmatic – you ship, then you improve.
• Entrepreneurial by nature: you build, you own, you drive.
• Bonus: familiarity with data‑heavy platforms, analytics infrastructure, or financial/fintech products.
• Bonus: exposure to blockchain or Web3 infrastructure.

Benefits

• Offsites with the team in exciting locations
• Flexible working hours in a company that relies on remote work
• Exciting product in a very dynamic market environment as well as founding‑level ownership of a key growth function.
• Values‑based start‑up culture
• Many opportunities to develop further and network with committed people
• Flat hierarchy

Send us a quick intro with your CV and LinkedIn profile. Bonus if you can share a system, team, or infrastructure challenge you owned and solved.

Let's build the next layer of trust for digital assets – together!