Director of Engineering, Dynamic Platform

📋 Job Overview

Fireblocks is the company bringing global finance onchain. Backed by over $1 billion in capital, we are the premier digital asset infrastructure provider trusted by thousands of industry-defining financial institutions, including banks, payment providers, fintechs, and global corporates such as BNY Mellon, BNP Paribas, ANZ Bank, Western Union, Stripe, and Revolut. Built for institutional scale and security, our enterprise-grade platform and network have powered over $14 trillion in digital asset transfers worldwide.

🏢 About Fireblocks

This is an opportunity to lead the core technology that is onboarding millions to the future of finance. As part of Fireblocks, the leading platform for securing digital assets, dynamic.xyz is positioned at the intersection of enterprise security and consumer accessibility. Our combined entity is setting the new standard for best-in-class custodial and non-custodial solutions globally. Fireblocks and Dynamic provide the simplest and most secure way for companies to work with digital assets and it trusted by some of the largest financial institutions, banks, globally-recognized brands, and Web3 companies in the world, including Stripe, Circle, Zerohash,  BNY Mellon, BNP Paribas, ANZ Bank, Revolut, Magic Eden, and thousands more. 

🎯 The Role

The Director of Engineering for Platform will own the complex, highly-distributed systems required to deliver this vision at massive scale.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Strategic & Technical Leadership: Define the long-term technical roadmap, architecture, and standards for the Platform team, ensuring unparalleled scale, security, and resiliency.
• Hands-On Ownership & Technical Activity: Maintain a high level of technical engagement and remain actively hands-on, contributing to critical design reviews, setting coding standards, and demonstrating a genuine passion for writing and shipping code.
• System Scaling & Delivery: Oversee the design and implementation of highly complex distributed systems capable of handling massive transactional volume and user growth, demonstrating a great track record of delivering software at high velocity.
• Team Management & Growth: Lead, mentor, and expand a high-performing engineering organization.
• Customer & Developer Focus: Work closely with our customers, understanding their technical needs, gathering feedback, and ensuring the platform meets their requirements for integration and performance.
• Innovation & Technology: Drive the adoption of modern engineering practices, including leveraging latest AI models and technology to enhance platform efficiency, security, and feature development.

📌 Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of engineering management experience, leading multiple teams and consistently delivering complex initiatives on schedule in time-sensitive environments.
• 10+ years of hands-on experience in backend development, architecting and operating large-scale, complex, and highly-secure distributed systems.
• Exceptional focus on Security: Experience architecting or building platforms where the design required thinking deeply about security and attack vectors (e.g., in finance, payments, crypto, or authentication).
• Deep expertise in one or more of the following sectors: Crypto/Web, Financial Services, or High-Security/Authentication Platforms.
• Demonstrated experience in scaling platforms to support millions of users and high throughput transaction volumes.
• Proven ability to attract, hire, and develop top-tier engineering talent, with a focus on growing senior and principal-level engineers.
• Strong technical foundation and the ability to influence architecture, including familiarity with modern development paradigms and cloud technologies.
• Proficiency in TypeScript and AWS infrastructure (experience with TEE big plus)

🎁 Benefits

A reasonable base salary range estimate for this position is $220,000 - $300,000. The base salary is one component of the total compensation package, which for some roles may include a target bonus, a very competitive equity grant, and very generous benefits.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

Fireblocks' mission is to enable every business to easily and securely access digital assets and cryptocurrencies. In order to do that, we strongly believe our workforce should be as diverse as our clients, and this is why we embrace diversity and inclusion in all its forms.