Director of Engineering

Director of EngineeringAustin / Bay Area / Remote (US)Base $220–290k + Equity

A Series B, VC-backed FinTech building market-leading identity, risk, and fraud prevention infrastructure is hiring a Director of Engineering to lead and scale its API and backend engineering organisation.

The company works with major U.S. financial institutions, credit unions, and high-growth fintechs to prevent synthetic fraud, identity theft, and first-party fraud at account opening and beyond. The platform is deeply technical, data-driven, and mission-critical.

This is a senior leadership role in a fast-growth environment, reporting into executive leadership and owning core platform delivery.

Responsibilities

• Own the roadmap and delivery for API products and core backend services, with a focus on scalability, security, and performance
• Lead, mentor, and scale an initial team of ~12–14 engineers, growing the organisation to 20+
• Manage managers and senior ICs, setting a high bar for execution and technical quality
• Partner closely with Product, Data Science, Infrastructure, and Executive leadership to align engineering with business goals
• Drive architectural decisions and platform evolution to support product differentiation
• Establish best practices across engineering workflows, including reliability, observability, incident response, and on-call standards
• Maintain hands-on technical involvement through code reviews, production debugging, and selective feature delivery

Requirements

• 5+ years of engineering leadership experience
• Experience managing managers and teams of 15-20+ engineers
• Proven track record scaling teams from early stage to growth stage
• Strong backend and API development background
• Deep system design and architecture expertise
• Hands-on leader able to write and ship production code
• Strong experience with AWS; ML exposure is a plus
• Comfortable operating in collaborative environments where technical decisions are made as a team

Tech stack

Python, Go, React, Aurora PostgreSQL, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, CI/CD, observability tooling, Linux, OpenSearch

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