Unknown - Head of Engineering
Requirements
• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including significant exposure to large-scale distributed systems. • 5+ years of engineering leadership experience managing engineering managers and senior technical teams. • Proven experience leading multiple engineering teams in high-growth technology organizations. • Strong background in building and operating large-scale consumer-facing platforms. • Experience in fintech, payments, lending, wealth management, investments, crypto, or other regulated financial services environments (highly preferred). • Experience working in fast-paced, product-led organizations serving millions of users. • Technical Expertise • Technical Expertise • Strong expertise in Java and/or Golang. • Deep understanding of distributed systems, microservices, cloud-native architectures, and event-driven systems. • Experience with SQL databases, caching technologies, messaging systems, and high-traffic backend services. • Strong knowledge of reliability engineering, observability, security, and performance optimization. • Familiarity with modern cloud platforms and DevOps practices. • Leadership Competencies • Exceptional people leadership and coaching capabilities. • Strong strategic thinking and organizational leadership skills. • Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills. • Ability to influence at all levels of the organization. • Strong decision-making abilities in complex and ambiguous environments. • Fluent English communication skills, both written and verbal. • Experience within cryptocurrency exchanges, digital asset platforms, trading systems, or investment fintech companies. • Experience leading globally distributed teams. • Experience scaling engineering organizations through periods of rapid growth. • Track record of delivering mission-critical platforms with high availability and security requirements. • Prior experience managing organizations of 20+ engineers across multiple functions.
Responsibilities
• Engineering Leadership • Lead and scale multiple engineering teams responsible for backend systems and platform services supporting Ajaib’s Crypto business. • Define and execute the engineering strategy aligned with company and business objectives. • Drive architectural decisions and ensure engineering teams deliver secure, scalable, and resilient systems. • Champion engineering excellence across software design, development, deployment, and production operations. • Establish and promote best practices in reliability, observability, performance optimization, security, and incident management. • People Leadership • People Leadership • Build, mentor, and develop high-performing engineering managers and senior engineers. • Create a culture of accountability, ownership, continuous learning, and collaboration. • Set clear performance expectations, providing regular coaching, feedback, and career development support. • Lead workforce planning and organizational design to support rapid business growth. • Technical Strategy & Architecture • Provide hands-on architectural guidance for distributed systems, microservices, cloud infrastructure, and event-driven architectures. • Review critical technical designs and ensure alignment with long-term platform strategy. • Drive modernization initiatives that enhance scalability, performance, and developer productivity. • Partner with platform, DevOps, QA, and frontend teams to deliver seamless customer experiences. • Stakeholder Management • Collaborate with Product, Design, Data, Compliance, and Business leaders to define priorities and execute strategic initiatives. • Manage expectations, dependencies, risks, and trade-offs across multiple teams and stakeholders. • Act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership on engineering and technology decisions. • Delivery & Execution • Own engineering execution and delivery outcomes across the Crypto business. • Ensure teams maintain predictable delivery while balancing speed, quality, and technical debt. • Drive continuous improvement of engineering processes, planning, and operational excellence. • Support hiring efforts and resource allocation to meet business objectives. • What Success Looks Like • Within your first 6-12 months, you will: • Establish strong partnerships across Product, Business, and Engineering leadership. • Strengthen engineering processes and delivery predictability across the Crypto organization. • Improve platform reliability, scalability, and operational excellence. • Develop and retain top engineering talent and build a strong leadership bench. • Deliver strategic initiatives supporting Ajaib’s continued growth.
Benefits
• Shape the future of digital investing and cryptocurrency products for millions of users. • Lead a high-impact engineering organization with significant influence on business outcomes. • Work alongside world-class engineering and product leaders. • Competitive compensation package including performance bonus and potential equity participation. • International health insurance coverage. • Opportunity to collaborate with teams across multiple countries and travel regularly to Jakarta.
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