Vice President of Engineering

The role

You will lead software engineering, DevOps, and data while serving on the executive team. You will build and scale the platform, set engineering direction, and integrate AI into workflows.

What you will do

• Coach and grow engineers, DevOps, data, and the engineering manager
• Connect engineering strategy to company goals and customer outcomes
• Evolve how the team plans, prioritizes, and ships
• Ensure the team understands customer problems through call reviews and implementation work
• Find places where AI can take on pieces of work in financial workflows
• Contribute to company strategy as an executive team member
• Partner with the VP of Product
• Guide architecture, reliability, and incident response
• Own engineering's part in SOC 2, PCI, and bank partner security reviews

Required qualifications

• 7+ years in software engineering
• 3+ years leading engineering organizations through managers
• Head of engineering experience (VP, Head of, or similar) with a seat on an executive or senior leadership team
• Strong technical foundation in backend systems, APIs, and distributed architecture
• Experience leading DevOps or infrastructure and data teams
• Track record of building teams and leading them through change and innovation
• Hands-on experience leading a team through AI adoption
• Comfort engaging with a founder-CEO's vision
• Strong cross-functional partnerships, especially with sales and customer success
• Experience in a regulated or security-sensitive industry such as fintech, payments, or banking
• Comfort in a small, fast-moving company where leaders are both strategic and hands-on

Nice to have

• Banking as a Service, core banking, payments, or ledger experience
• Clojure or other functional programming languages
• Leading engineering at a B2B company under 100 people through scaling
• Building or running a security program
• Shipping LLM-based or agentic products

About the company

Treasury Prime is the operating layer for modern banking, running a bank network for embedded finance. It is a small, senior, fully remote team backed by Y Combinator and other investors.