Salary
💰 $220,000 - $290,000 per year
About the role
- Own the roadmap for API products and solutions, and operational capabilities—ensuring scalable, secure, and performant delivery.
- Manage an initial team of 12-14 engineers, structuring, mentoring, and scaling effectively as we grow. Foster a culture of continuous learning, hiring top talent, holding rigorous technical discussions, and promoting high standards.
- Collaborate closely with product, data science, infrastructure, and executive stakeholders to align engineering efforts with strategic business goals.
- Implement best practices for engineering workflows— scalability, observability, incident response, and reliability of all applications.
- Drive innovative architectural decisions and platform evolution to support product differentiation and speed to market.
Requirements
- A business mindset that involves thinking strategically to align engineering efforts with the overall business goals, prioritizing high-ROI projects, and cultivating an entrepreneurial spirit of ownership and continuous improvement within the team.
- 5+ years leading engineering teams (managing 10+ people), ideally within fast-growth tech environments.
- Proven track record of building and scaling high-functioning teams with high hiring and retention standards.
- Experience in full-stack engineering, API based products, and in a SaaS based environment.
- Strong communicator; capable of collaborating across product, data, and executive functions.
- Bonus: Experience in fintech, fraud/risk or identity systems.
- Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States and must live in the United States