Pipetechnologies
Director of Engineering
Remote, United States. Posted 3 months ago
The role
You will own the engineering output and lead about 10 engineers. You will manage system health, scalability, and reliability from APIs to capital markets infrastructure.
What you will do
- Own the health, scalability and reliability of Pipe's systems end to end
- Make and defend architectural decisions
- Set standards for code quality, testing, deployment and incident response
- Sequence the technical roadmap
- Lead about 10 engineers through two squad leads
- Recruit, mentor and develop engineers
- Work with Product on scope, sequence and delivery
- Work with Risk and Data Science so infrastructure supports credit decisioning at scale
- Work with Capital Markets and Finance on money movement, reconciliation and reporting
- Represent engineering in partner technical conversations
Required qualifications
- 6+ years in software engineering
- 2+ years leading a team of 5 or more engineers
- Experience at a fintech, a payments company, or another company running regulated financial systems
- Hands-on: you review code, debug production issues and make architectural calls yourself
- Track record of scaling engineering teams and systems at an early-stage or high-growth startup
- Experience owning business-critical infrastructure
- Work well with Product, Risk, Data Science, Capital Markets and Finance
- First-principles operator: you debug and fix production issues and technical debt yourself
Nice to have
- Payments, money movement or lending infrastructure
- Partner SDK and API integrations at scale, in embedded finance, marketplaces or platform partnerships
- Scaling an engineering team from Series A to Series C
- Credit risk or capital markets systems
Benefits
- The equipment you need to do the job
- Flexible vacation and work hours
- Health, dental and vision insurance
- Parental leave for anyone growing their family, regardless of gender
About the company
Pipe builds embedded capital for small businesses. They deliver credit products inside the software platforms SMBs already use to run their business.