Director of Engineering – Assets & Issuance

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $284k - $325.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Paxos

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2012

💼 Consulting

⚖️ Legal

📦 Logistics

💰 Corporate Round - Paxos on 2022-01

Consulting • Legal • Logistics

Paxos is a regulated blockchain infrastructure and trust company that builds enterprise-grade digital asset solutions, including issued stablecoins, custody, and crypto brokerage services. The company provides stablecoin issuance and redemption (e. g. , USDP, PYUSD, USDG, PAXG), payments and payout rails, and custody/trading infrastructure for institutions, emphasizing regulatory oversight, transparency, and compliance across jurisdictions. Paxos partners with major enterprises to enable payments and tokenization while operating under trust charters and payments licenses.

📋 Description

• Own the technical strategy, roadmap and delivery for Assets & Issuance • Balance speed to market with reliability and controls for regulated institutional customers • Review designs, pressure-test tradeoffs and lead hard technical decisions • Build and grow the engineering team by hiring senior engineers and managers and developing emerging leaders • Establish standards for on-call, incident response, root-cause analysis and operational-risk reduction • Partner with Product, Security, Compliance and other control functions to design secure, auditable systems • Break ambiguous problems into shippable pieces, set direction and adjust as needed • Drive architecture for wallets and key management, ledgers, settlement and blockchain integrations • Build an engineering organization using AI and modern tools to improve software development, testing and operations • Represent engineering to executive leadership by translating technical complexity into priorities, tradeoffs and commitments • Immerse in blockchain technology, digital assets and Paxos’s regulation-first approach

🎯 Requirements

• 12+ years of software engineering experience • 8+ years leading engineering teams, including experience managing managers • Experience as an early engineer or engineering leader at a fast-growing company • Experience building systems from scratch and scaling technology and engineering organizations • Experience building and leading a sizable engineering organization, including managers • Experience building and operating complex distributed systems where correctness, reliability and security are critical • Meaningful depth in several areas: distributed systems, blockchain infrastructure, MPC or key management, high-availability systems, security-sensitive financial software • Strong technical credibility with senior engineers • Comfort operating in ambiguity and moving quickly without highly defined requirements • Experience working effectively with Product, Security and Compliance • Builder's instinct for solving technical and organizational problems • Money-moving infrastructure experience strongly preferred • Experience at both startup and scaled-company environments, regulated-environment experience, and direct blockchain protocol or smart contract experience are nice to have • Ability to work in the United States • Work authorization in the US and visa sponsorship status addressed in the application

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity • Annual bonus eligibility • 25% annual bonus • Competitive total compensation and benefits package