Responsibilities
- Define the long-term technical roadmap, architecture, and standards for the Platform team, ensuring unparalleled scale, security, and resiliency.
- Maintain a high level of technical engagement and remain actively hands-on, contributing to critical design reviews, setting coding standards, and demonstrating a genuine passion for writing and shipping code.
- Oversee the design and implementation of highly complex distributed systems capable of handling massive transactional volume and user growth, demonstrating a great track record of delivering software at high velocity.
- Lead, mentor, and expand a high-performing engineering organization.
- Work closely with our customers, understanding their technical needs, gathering feedback, and ensuring the platform meets their requirements for integration and performance.
- Drive the adoption of modern engineering practices, including leveraging latest AI models and technology to enhance platform efficiency, security, and feature development.
Requirements
- 5+ years of engineering management experience, leading multiple teams and consistently delivering complex initiatives on schedule in time-sensitive environments.
- 10+ years of hands-on experience in backend development, architecting and operating large-scale, complex, and highly-secure distributed systems.
- Exceptional focus on Security: Experience architecting or building platforms where the design required thinking deeply about security and attack vectors (e.g., in finance, payments, crypto, or authentication).
- Deep expertise in one or more of the following sectors: Crypto/Web, Financial Services, or High-Security/Authentication Platforms.
- Demonstrated experience in scaling platforms to support millions of users and high throughput transaction volumes.
- Proven ability to attract, hire, and develop top-tier engineering talent, with a focus on growing senior and principal-level engineers.
- Strong technical foundation and the ability to influence architecture, including familiarity with modern development paradigms and cloud technologies.
- Proficiency in TypeScript and AWS infrastructure (experience with TEE big plus)
Benefits
- Base salary is one component of the total compensation package, which for some roles may include a target bonus, a very competitive equity grant, and very generous benefits.
- Fireblocks embraces diversity and inclusion in all its forms.
Additional Information
- For employees hired to work from our NYC HQ, Fireblocks is required by law to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role.
- It is not typical for a candidate to be hired at or near the top of the pay range and each compensation decision is dependent on each individual case.
