Summary

We are currently looking for a 

 to lead, strategize and execute on the company's engineering and product development plans. You will be part of a world-class team that will re-define the ways value is tokenised and transferred across the globe leveraging distributed ledger technology.

What you'll be doing:

1. Build the new standard for transferring value. You will own large parts of the backend infrastructure that will become the new standard for effecting value transfer, cross-border settlements and on/off-chain settlements, including SDKs and APIs for partners in our ecosystem.
2. Launch a Proprietary Protocol. Work with the Head of Engineering to design the on-chain protocol that powers our products and downstream use cases of it. Our backend infrastructure is built on top of this protocol and you will be heavily involved in design discussions.
3. Architect the modern decentralized lightweight bank. Design and build scalable, distributed backend systems that will power the financial ecosystem that utilizes the company’s products and services, including systems for withdrawal and deposit, transfers, auditing, and payments.

What we're looking for:

You're an engineering leader who has led and managed high-performance teams, and have senior or staff-level IC experience in building out complex, performant, scalable backend infrastructure.

1. Strong coding skills (Elixir, Go, C/C++, etc).
2. Possess excellent communication and collaboration skills, and the ability to translate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
3. 10+ years of hands-on software engineering, with a minimum of 5 years in technical leadership roles that involve people management and strategy.
4. Experience managing cross-functional teams or projects at early stage startups, owning the delivery of key R&D initiatives, and influencing management and stakeholders.
5. Experience building technologies in the blockchain/crypto space.
6. Strong problem-solving skills with a successful track record of delivering complex projects from concept to launch.
7. Has experience building engineering teams that have adopted Elixir (including hiring Elixir developers).
8. Professional experience and capability with scaled high-rate platform services, workflow orchestration systems and API design.
9. Experience working fluently with standard orchestration & deployment technologies like Kubernetes, Temporal, Terraform, Docker, etc in multiple clouds
10. BS or MS in computer science, engineering, or other technical degree

Qualities that describes you:

1. Bar raiser. You have strong opinions about what best-in-class engineering looks like and push yourself and the team towards excellence.
2. Methodical systems thinker that moves fast. You are adept at reasoning from first principles and architecting complex systems, but also care about driving business outcomes. You enjoy working with fast-moving, small but very senior teams. You are comfortable wearing multiple hats and aren't afraid to execute.
3. Team builder. Love building high-performing teams and creating collaborative, people and outcomes-focused engineering culture.
4. Enabler. You possess a balance of technology and people skills with a high degree of empathy, and thrive on cutting through areas of high ambiguity and narrowing down high-level problems into engineering solutions.

Skills

• C++
• Communications Skills
• Development
• Leadership
• Problem Solving
• Strategic Thinking
• Team Collaboration