Director of Engineering

2 months ago
Full-time
Executive
Software Development
Pipe

Pipe

Pipe is a modern capital platform that offers embedded capital solutions and working capital for business owners, enabling quick and easy access to capital for growth without dilution or restrictive debt.

Capital Markets
51-250
Founded 2019
$323M raised

Description

  • Own the health, scalability and reliability of Pipe's systems end to end, including partner-facing APIs and SDKs, money movement, capital markets infrastructure, and AI/ML model infrastructure.
  • Make and defend architectural decisions and stay close to the codebase to evaluate technical designs.
  • Set standards for code quality, testing, deployment and incident response.
  • Sequence the technical roadmap against speed, scale and risk, starting with credit operations, liquidity tooling and partner integrations.
  • Lead about 10 engineers through two squad leads and unblock the team directly.
  • Create clarity, momentum and a sustainable pace for the engineering team.
  • Build a culture where engineers make decisions and defend their choices.
  • Recruit, mentor and develop engineers as the team grows.
  • Work with Product, Risk, Data Science, Capital Markets and Finance to support scope, delivery, reconciliation and reporting.
  • Own incident response and production reliability, including monitoring, alerting and on-call practices.

Requirements

  • 6+ years in software engineering, including 2+ years leading a team of 5 or more engineers.
  • Experience at a fintech, payments company, or another company running regulated financial systems.
  • Hands-on engineering leadership with the ability to review code, debug production issues and make architectural calls.
  • Track record of scaling engineering teams and systems at an early-stage or high-growth startup.
  • Experience owning business-critical infrastructure where uptime, reliability and security are required.
  • Strong cross-functional experience working with Product, Risk, Data Science, Capital Markets and Finance.
  • First-principles operator who can debug and fix production issues and technical debt directly.
  • Comfort working through imperfect systems and legacy tradeoffs.
  • Experience with payments, money movement or lending infrastructure (preferred).
  • Experience with partner SDK and API integrations at scale in embedded finance, marketplaces or platform partnerships (preferred).
  • Experience scaling an engineering team from Series A to Series C (preferred).
  • Experience with credit risk or capital markets systems (preferred).

Benefits

  • $280,000 - $330,000 annual US base salary.
  • Fully remote work in North America.
  • Equipment provided to do the job.
  • Flexible vacation and work hours.
  • Health, dental and vision insurance.
  • Parental leave for anyone growing their family, regardless of gender.

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