PR/087493 | Founding Head of Engineering

POSITION TITLE　 Founding Head of Engineering

POSITION SUMMARY

A company in the digital financial infrastructure industry is hiring for a Founding Head of Engineering position. This organization is building next-generation financial technology platforms, including digital payment, wallet, and transaction infrastructure within a highly regulated environment. As a founding technology leader, you will play a critical role in shaping the engineering foundation, operational standards, and long-term scalability of the platform while working closely with executive leadership.

RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Lead engineering architecture and delivery across mobile applications, backend services, cloud infrastructure, and platform operations.

• Establish technical standards for software development, CI/CD, security, observability, reliability, and production readiness.

• Oversee AWS cloud environments, infrastructure-as-code, release management, and operational controls.

• Manage technical governance of external engineering partners, ensuring high-quality execution and scalable solutions.

• Drive incident response, disaster recovery, monitoring, and operational best practices for mission-critical systems.

• Partner with executive leadership to align engineering priorities with business objectives and regulatory requirements. 

QUALIFICATIONS

• 10+ years of experience in software, platform, cloud, DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering.

• 5+ years of technical leadership experience overseeing architecture, engineering quality, or production systems.

• Strong expertise in AWS, cloud infrastructure, APIs, distributed systems, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform preferred).

• Experience operating highly available production environments with strong security and operational controls.

• Ability to lead engineering vendors and external partners through architecture reviews, delivery oversight, and release readiness.

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to translate technical concepts for diverse stakeholders.

• Experience in regulated, security-focused, or audit-sensitive environments is highly preferred. 

LOCATION　 Remote work flexibility within the United States.

EMPLOYMENT TYPE　Full-Time

SALARY　 $160,000–$220,000