Director of Engineering, Product

The role

The Director of Engineering will lead the Product Engineering organization. This role owns the technical direction and people leadership for key management, APIs, SDKs, and security infrastructure.

What you will do

• Own the engineering strategy and technical vision for the Product Engineering organization
• Build, manage, and grow a high-performing engineering org
• Partner with Product and Design leadership to translate needs into a technical roadmap
• Identify and evaluate emerging technologies in web3
• Contribute to company-wide strategic planning
• Define and evolve org structure, leveling, and career paths
• Drive recruitment, onboarding, and retention of engineering talent
• Set and uphold engineering rituals
• Coach and develop managers and senior engineers
• Provide technical guidance across security-critical product systems

Required qualifications

• Proven experience managing engineering managers and/or leading a multi-team engineering org
• Deep understanding of modern application architectures and security-critical systems
• Track record of shipping security-critical or developer-facing products at scale
• Excellence at holding a high bar on software quality and engineering process
• A healthy amount of paranoia

Nice to have

• Prior experience working in fast-paced crypto/web3 and/or FinTech companies
• Exposure to custody, key management, or HSM/enclave-based systems
• Experience scaling an engineering org through a significant growth stage
• Actively tracking developments in the crypto ecosystem and opinionated on where it's going

About the company

Turnkey is building infrastructure for the autonomous economy through programmable guardrails. The team consists of experts in cryptography, security, and systems.