Director of Engineering – Digital Assets

EUROCLEAR UK & INTERNATIONAL LIMITED

Director of Engineering responsible for shaping digital assets capability and strategy at ClearBank. Leading a team focused on stablecoin minting and redemption in a regulated environment.

Posted 5/26/2026full-timeLondon • 🇬🇧 United KingdomLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Ruby on Rails

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the technology strategy for Digital Assets, ensuring alignment with ClearBank’s wider platform and technology strategy.
Partner with the Head of Product for Digital Assets to define and evolve a clear, credible roadmap covering near‑term delivery and longer‑term technical direction.
Provide domain leadership and technical challenge, supporting informed decisions on build, buy, and partner options as the capability matures.
Provide senior oversight of an existing Digital Assets engineering team, ensuring delivery remains on track as the product moves from early testing through to go‑live.
Ensure strong engineering fundamentals, including resilience, scalability, security, and operational readiness, appropriate for a regulated bank.
Support the transition from initial capability to a broader, high impact portfolio of services in the digital assets ecosystem.
Guide architectural decisions for integrating with digital asset networks while maintaining ClearBank standards.
Define the technical direction of travel for digital assets, including how the platform could evolve to support additional capabilities.
Ensure digital assets integrate effectively with ClearBank’s existing services.
Lead and develop engineers and engineering managers within the Digital Assets domain.
Set clear expectations, provide coaching, and build a culture of ownership, learning, and delivery.
Communicate clearly with senior stakeholders on progress, risks, and trade‑offs in a complex and evolving domain.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Senior technology leadership experience (Director or equivalent) within payments, financial services, or adjacent regulated domains.
Demonstrable experience owning and evolving complex platforms or payment rails from early delivery into live operation.
Strong domain understanding of digital assets or stablecoin‑based systems, sufficient to lead strategy and challenge technical decisions (deep blockchain specialism is not required).
Proven ability to partner effectively with Product leadership to shape and deliver long‑term strategy.

Benefits

Comp & perks

42% of our senior management roles are held by women
Our enhanced family leave policies
Launching our partnership with Code First Girls
Increasing awareness of neurodiversity in the workplace through our partnership with the Inclusive Group

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Hard Skills & Tools

technology strategyplatform evolutiondigital assetsengineering fundamentalsresiliencescalabilitysecurityoperational readinessarchitectural decisionsintegration

Soft Skills

senior leadershipcoachingcommunicationstakeholder managementteam developmentexpectation settingculture buildingownershiplearningdelivery