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Location: CO
Job Type: Direct Hire, Full Time

Job Description

Job Title: Head of Engineering – Stealth Venture

 

 

The Head of Engineering will lead high-growth stealth startups with seed funding secured. The ventures will be incubated where it emerges from the team’s robust Discovery process that validates the problem area, defines the MVP product, conceives the go-to-market strategy, and commences build while recruiting the go-forward team. Each stealth venture has a strategic, unfair advantage to achieve commercial success by leveraging the substantial network of the world’s largest fintech company. These stealth ventures will play in multiple areas of financial services with a particular focus on digital assets (crypto, NFTs, and other components of decentralized finance).

 

Joining the team will put you at the forefront of fintech innovation. You will be able to scale an incredibly exciting new venture to dramatically accelerate success. Most importantly, your work will shape the future financial services landscape, furthering our mission of making commerce easy and accessible to all!

 

 

Job description

 

We will seek exceptional Heads of Engineering who will work with the leadership team to best align business and technology strategy to drive the success of this disruptive venture. Reporting directly to the General Manager, the Head of Engineering defines the technical vision and technical roadmap ensures the platform is scalable as the business grows, builds, and leads a high-performing engineering team, provides technical guidance to the executive team, and works with appropriate technical teams.

 

Responsibilities:

 

•        Work with the product group to establish the product roadmap from launch to scale (including defining long-term goals and strategies)

•        Lead long-term architectural vision for the platform

•        Identify opportunities and challenges

•        Evangelize technical vision and strategy internally and externally

•        Provide expert technical guidance to all functional areas, including strategy, operations, sales, and product

•        Effectively align resources to achieve key business priorities, including appropriate scope, quality, and timeline

•        Be fastidious about and lead frequent and meaningful product improvement

•        Constantly evaluate new technologies and platforms to drive growth and mitigate risk

•        Build and scale an efficient and agile end-to-end application infrastructure, with best practices in software delivery

•        Define and implement consistent, repeatable processes for quality assurance across all areas of organization and product build

•        Attract, retain, and grow a world-class engineering team

•        Cultivate a high-performing, innovative, one-team culture

•        Have continued and demonstrated passion for your team

•        Work with the enterprise architectural team to implement security and architectural guidelines within the product

•        Partner with our enterprise technology teams and maintain close communication with their leads

•        Implement and maintain a venture-wide disaster recovery and continuity plan according to corporate IT standards

 

General Requirements:

·      Bachelor’s degree

·      10+ years’ experience in software engineering, with 5+ in the context of a high growth tech company using agile methods

·      5+ years of experience managing a development team in an agile framework

·      Proven track record of ability to scale and build large engineering team

·      Proven track record of bringing applications to market in a startup environment

·      An entrepreneurial spirit and ability to operate independently

  • Experience working with large and small development teams both collaboratively onsite and with remote coworkers/teams
  • A growth mindset and the ability to genuinely embrace challenges and persist in the face of setbacks
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills

 

Technology Requirements

 

·      Experience with software best practices in:

o  Object-oriented design and development

o  Distributed Systems

o  Performance optimization

o  Securing cloud-native applications and platforms, general information security (including systems and data security)

o  General software engineering “hygiene” (e.g., Agile software development, test-driven development, unit testing, code reviews, design documentation, etc.)

·      Working knowledge of:

o  At least one modern front-end framework (React, Angular, Vue, etc.)

o  At least one modern back-end language/framework (.NET, .NET Core, Java, Kotlin, Node.js, Python, etc.)

o  At least one modern cloud provider (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.)

o  Modern API standards and design (REST, GraphQL, etc.)

o  Designing and developing service-based architectures (micro-services architecture a plus)

o  Integration with existing systems/applications (legacy and API) & 3rd party systems.

  • Designing data persistence and caching concepts using both SQL and NoSQL DBMS
  • Integrated “development experience” platforms with emphasis on source control, asset management, and CI/CD (Azure DevOps, AWS CodeCommit/CodeBuild/CodeDeploy/CodePipeline, GitLab, GitHub Actions, etc.)
  • Modern containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker, Podman, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, AWS Fargate, etc.)

 

Attributes that will push your application to the top of the stack

 

·      Demonstrated experience in growing a team while maintaining both standards and culture throughout all phases of that growth

·      Prior working experience in or expertise with digital assets-related technology (various blockchains, smart contracts, etc.)

·      Prior working experience in start-up environment or corporate innovation team

·      Previous background in tech entrepreneurship

·      Experience working in a SAFe Agile environment with multiple release trains

 

What we offer you

  • A driven, creative, and multi-talented group of colleagues who are extraordinarily passionate about their role in shaping the future of fintech and driving cultural transformation
  • A high-visibility, high-impact role
  • Ownership of your role and the ability to drive the design of our products going forward
  • The opportunity to shape the future of fintech
  • Opportunity to shape and influence an innovative culture
  • Work closely with teams that are creating solutions for some of the most challenging, relevant issues in financial services & technology
  • A work environment built on accountability, creativity, collaboration, curiosity, fearlessness, kindness, and respect
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