Xapo Bank
201 - 500 employees
Founded 2013
🏦 Banking
₿ Crypto
🔐 Security
Banking • Crypto • Security
Xapo Bank is a fully licensed bank and Bitcoin custodian, founded in 2013, that offers top-notch security for Bitcoin holdings. It provides its users with the ability to secure their Bitcoin wealth through advanced security features, including decentralized multi-party computation technology and a global network of guarded bunkers. Xapo Bank also offers banking services, combining fiat and cryptocurrency transactions with the ability to earn interest on Bitcoin and USD deposits. With personalized banking services and access to global financial markets, Xapo Bank positions itself as a premier choice for managing Bitcoin-centric wealth and financial growth. Members can enjoy seamless transactions, a dedicated account manager, and the use of the Xapo Bank card for global spending without foreign exchange fees, while benefiting from Gibraltar's deposit protection for fiat deposits.
Head of Engineering
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Xapo Bank
201 - 500 employees
Founded 2013
🏦 Banking
₿ Crypto
🔐 Security
Banking • Crypto • Security
Xapo Bank is a fully licensed bank and Bitcoin custodian, founded in 2013, that offers top-notch security for Bitcoin holdings. It provides its users with the ability to secure their Bitcoin wealth through advanced security features, including decentralized multi-party computation technology and a global network of guarded bunkers. Xapo Bank also offers banking services, combining fiat and cryptocurrency transactions with the ability to earn interest on Bitcoin and USD deposits. With personalized banking services and access to global financial markets, Xapo Bank positions itself as a premier choice for managing Bitcoin-centric wealth and financial growth. Members can enjoy seamless transactions, a dedicated account manager, and the use of the Xapo Bank card for global spending without foreign exchange fees, while benefiting from Gibraltar's deposit protection for fiat deposits.
📋 Description
• Creating the role of Head of Engineering, reporting directly to the CTO. • Own how engineering operates: the standards, the practice, the people, and the delivery. • Set engineering standards across the function and own the unified Software Development Lifecycle end to end. • Responsible for measuring the function on predictable delivery: consistently shipping committed scope on committed dates, with a 90% target as the bar. • Own the engineering tech-debt roadmap and the people leadership of the Engineering Managers who run delivery in each tribe. • Engage in change management, incident response, observability, and audit-readiness. • Ensure 100% of changes generate a regulator-ready audit trail automatically.
🎯 Requirements
• 8+ years in software engineering, with at least 3–4 years in an engineering leadership role spanning multiple teams or squads - managing engineering managers, not just senior engineers. • A track record of owning delivery predictability at function level: you have made commitments on behalf of an engineering organisation and built the practices to meet them consistently, without resorting to estimate-padding. • Hands-on experience building and running engineering practice: SDLC definition, code review standards, change management, and the retro and feedback loops that keep them healthy. • Strong people leadership - you have hired, developed, and performance-managed engineering managers and know what good EM execution looks like versus what needs intervention. • A clear, evidence-based point of view on AI-assisted development across the SDLC - where it adds real value, and how to drive genuine adoption rather than dashboard adoption. • Solid understanding of backend distributed systems and what operating them in a regulated, high-stakes environment demands: change management discipline, incident response, observability, and audit-readiness. • Data-driven - comfortable owning engineering metrics (delivery predictability, cycle time, defect escape rate, blocker aging) and turning them into prioritised action rather than dashboards nobody acts on. • Strong communicator across technical and non-technical audiences - you can write the SDLC definition, present the tech-debt roadmap to the CTO, and give an EM hard feedback, all with equal clarity. • Experience in a regulated environment (fintech, banking, payments, or equivalent) with a real appreciation for what a quality or security failure means when customer funds are at stake.
🏖️ Benefits
• Great work-life balance • Flexible PTO plan • Yearly budget for individual learning and development goals
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