nexus.xyz - Director of Engineering (USA)
Requirements
• 8+ years building production software, including 2+ years in an engineering leadership capacity (tech lead / staff / principal / architect across multiple teams). Experience leading engineering orgs is important. • Proven high-throughput, low-latency systems experience and strong command of concurrent/parallel systems. • Deep hands-on stack fluency: Rust, Go, Next.js/TS or Node, GCP. • Architecture chops with sound correctness / latency / throughput / operability trade-offs. • Business-minded and outcome-driven. • Resilient and logical — clear-headed under pressure, reasons from first principles. • AI-forward: excited to use the latest AI tools and to push automation across the org. • Has mentored senior engineers and grown tech leads. • Fluent written and spoken English; async-first with meaningful US Pacific overlap (naturally strong for a U.S.-based hire). • Exchange-specific: deep exchange / trading-systems or comparable transaction-processing architecture; matching / risk / settlement correctness; market data (indexing, cold storage); API / SDK / CLI surfaces; oracle design. • Experience with exchanges / trading systems. • Standing up engineering practices (CI/CD, observability, on-call) in a fast-growing org. • Building automation / internal dev platforms / agentic workflow tooling. • Founding or early engineer at a high-velocity startup. • Open-source in Rust / Go / systems. • Backend & systems: Rust, Go. • Web & product surfaces: Next.js / TypeScript. • Infrastructure: Google Cloud (GCE/GCP), containerized services, modern CI/CD, Terraform/Pulumi, Prometheus/Grafana.
Responsibilities
• Own architecture across the Exchange domain — and stay hands-on, writing production code in the highest-leverage parts of the system. • Build the full Exchange and all its sub-components: matching engine, risk engine, settlement, data indexing, cold data storage, API / CLI / SDK, oracle, and the underlying infrastructure (Kubernetes, Terraform). • Lead the engineering org — senior engineers plus pods — managing timelines, roadmaps, and resourcing. • Drive product and customer outcomes, business-minded first; drive urgency and high-frequency iteration. • Make the org the most productive and efficient it can be. • Own end-to-end automation of engineering processes: agent infrastructure, logging, telemetry, observability — “closing the loop” with self-improvement loops and maximizing organizational context for agentic execution. • Design team structures and incentives with the CEO and exec team. • Manage an international, distributed workforce. • Drive quality infrastructure — telemetry, observability, and thorough automated testing (e2e, property, fuzz, invariants) — and set the bar for code review, on-call, and incident response, with particular rigor on money-handling paths. Correctness and performance should be continuously provable, not assumed. • Grow ICs and tech leads. • Communicate via design docs, RFCs, and post-mortems.
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