Director of Engineering, Fireblocks
Dynamic Platform
$220-300k
Digital asset infrastructure company
Open for applications
Digital asset infrastructure company
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$220-300k
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To enable every business to easily and securely support digital assets and cryptocurrencies.
Role
Who you are
- 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)
What the job involves
- The Director of Engineering for Platform will own the complex, highly-distributed systems required to deliver this vision at massive scale
- Founded in 2021, Dynamic's vision is that every app and website will integrate a wallet component, viewing wallets as foundational infrastructure for use cases like payroll, remittances, and global payments
- The product centers on developer-first SDKs enabling seamless embedded wallet functionality. These wallets allow end users to create, manage, and use wallets without leaving the application
- Dynamic has onboarded over 50 million wallets. Within the joint entity, Dynamic focuses on the application-layer wallet experience and developer tooling, complementing Fireblocks’ core custody, security, and transaction infrastructure. The team emphasizes a strong product mindset, secure-by-default systems, and exceptional developer experience
- The Platform team is the core engine of dynamic.xyz's backend, building and maintaining highly reliable, scalable, and secure foundational services
- This includes the mission-critical Wallet-as-a-Service (WAAS), the core Authentication Platform, and essential services like Balances, Events, and many integrations. This high-growth area directly impacts the goal of onboarding millions more people
- As the Director of Engineering for Platform, you will be a visionary hands-on leader. You will:
- 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
Our take
The derivatives market has always been attractive for larger investors, but some of the hurdles to overcome are capital efficiency, custody and security. Fireblocks allows for the trading of derivatives on any asset, using any form of collateral while receiving cross-margin benefits across counterparties. Essentially, it enables institutional traders to move digital assets without the operational or security headache.
Fireblocks is banking on assets like cryptocurrencies becoming a new part of the mainstream trade of financial institutions. Although cryptocurrencies are known for being notoriously unstable, when traded properly they can be hugely profitable. So, in a safer landscape, there is a lot of incentive for new participants.
Basically, by raising security standards, a new crop of institutional entities is able to set up shop in the crypto world. This means more business for Fireblocks, and a stabler market which then attracts even more interested parties. The company continues to develop its offering, for example through the recent acquisition of TRES which enables it to deliver the first complete operating system for digital assets.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
20% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jan 2022
$550m
SERIES E
Jul 2021
$310m
SERIES D
Total funding: $1.0bn
Company benefits
- Flexible vacation policy
Company HQ
Garment District, New York, NY
Leadership
Michael Shaulov
(CEO & Co-founder)Prior to Fireblocks, they co-founded Lacoon Mobile Security, which was acquired by Check Point, and was then appointed the Head of Products, Mobile and Cloud Security for Check Point. Previously a seed investor in Armis Security and Orca Security.
Paul Berengoltz
(CTO & Co-founder)Previously director of research at Lacoon Mobile Security.
Idan Ofrat
(CPO & Co-founder)Ex software consultant and previous VP Product at Orbs - a blockchain company.
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