Head of Engineering

Role overview Lead engineering delivery for production blockchain infrastructure used by institutional clients. The remit covers multiple engineering groups, production reliability and contractual commitments, technical direction, and the operating model that helps teams deliver through a period of organizational and infrastructure transition.

Responsibilities - Lead the delivery organization across core engineering, smart contracts, and infrastructure and DevOps. - Own client delivery against commitments for availability, latency, disaster recovery, incident response, and supporting evidence. - Oversee production networks, including public, sovereign, and permissioned deployments. - Set technical priorities and roadmap sequencing with Product and Sales, including decisions on what to build, buy, defer, or decline. - Establish decision ownership and escalation paths across engineering and partner teams; develop managers and technical leads to own delivery and design decisions. - Work with Security on standards, complete infrastructure separation work, and promote practical AI use in engineering workflows.

Requirements - Deep Ethereum and EVM knowledge, with strong distributed systems experience. - Led an engineering organization of 20 or more across multiple teams, managing through other leaders at a comparable company stage. - Owned production systems with contractual service commitments and personally handled customer-facing outage accountability. - Strong technical judgment to assess designs, estimates, and trade-offs, alongside strategic and commercial awareness. - A record of hiring and retaining people through challenging periods. - Clear, empathetic communication; able to coach leaders, delegate, and create alignment across teams.

Nice to have - Layer 2 or zero-knowledge rollup architecture. - Regulated financial infrastructure, audit controls, or SOC 2 and ISO 27001 work. - Experience with a carve-out, separation, or post-acquisition integration.

Benefits and work setup - Fully remote, globally distributed team with asynchronous work. - Compensation, equity, and open-source work are described as part of the package.