Director of Engineering, Assets & Issuance

The role

You will build and lead the engineering organization responsible for Assets & Issuance. You will own technical strategy, grow the team, and shape architecture for systems that move assets across blockchains and jurisdictions.

What you will do

• Own the technical strategy, roadmap and delivery for Assets & Issuance.
• Review designs and lead hard technical decisions.
• Hire senior engineers and managers and develop emerging leaders.
• Set the standard for on-call, incident response, and root-cause analysis.
• Partner with Product, Security, Compliance and other control functions.
• Break ambiguous problems into shippable pieces.
• Drive the architecture of systems such as wallets, key management, ledgers, settlement and blockchain integrations.
• Build an engineering organization that uses AI and modern tools.
• Represent engineering to executive leadership.

Required qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience.
• 8+ years leading engineering teams, with experience managing managers.
• Experience as an early engineer or engineering leader at a fast-growing company.
• Experience building and scaling both technology and engineering organizations.
• Experience building and operating complex distributed systems where correctness, reliability and security are critical.
• Meaningful depth in several areas: distributed systems, blockchain infrastructure, MPC or key management, high-availability systems, security-sensitive financial software.
• Strong technical credibility with senior engineers.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and moving quickly without highly defined requirements.
• Experience working effectively with Product, Security and Compliance.

Nice to have

• Experience with money-moving infrastructure
• Experience at both startup and scaled-company environments
• Prior experience in a regulated environment (e.g., a trust company, broker-dealer or exchange)
• Direct experience with blockchain protocols or smart contracts

About the company

Paxos is rebuilding financial infrastructure to enable the instant movement of any asset. They build blockchain infrastructure that tokenizes, custodies, trades and settles assets for leading financial institutions.