Director of Engineering, Pipe

• 6+ years in software engineering, including 2+ years leading a team of 5 or more engineers
• Experience at a fintech, a payments company, or another company running regulated financial systems
• Hands-on: you review code, debug production issues and make architectural calls yourself
• Track record of scaling engineering teams and systems at an early-stage or high-growth startup
• Experience owning business-critical infrastructure. Uptime, reliability and security are not optional at Pipe
• You work well with Product, Risk, Data Science, Capital Markets and Finance
• First-principles operator: you debug and fix production issues and technical debt yourself rather than delegating and forgetting them
• Comfortable working through imperfect systems and legacy tradeoffs

Desirable

• You own Pipe's engineering output
• This is a hands-on leadership role
• You are in the codebase, in the architecture decisions, and in the incident channel when something breaks
• Technical leadership and architecture
• Own the health, scalability and reliability of Pipe's systems end to end, from partner-facing APIs and SDKs to money movement, capital markets infrastructure and AI/ML model infrastructure for credit underwriting
• Make and defend architectural decisions. Stay close enough to the code to know when a proposed design will not hold
• Set standards for code quality, testing, deployment and incident response that the team follows
• Sequence the technical roadmap against speed, scale and risk, starting with credit operations, liquidity tooling and partner integrations
• Team leadership and execution
• Lead about 10 engineers through two squad leads. Set the technical bar. Unblock people directly
• Create clarity and momentum, and hold a pace the team can sustain
• Build a culture where engineers make the call and defend it
• Recruit, mentor and develop engineers as the team grows
• Cross-functional execution
• Work with Product on scope, sequence and delivery
• Work with Risk and Data Science so infrastructure supports credit decisioning at scale
• Work with Capital Markets and Finance on money movement, reconciliation and reporting
• Represent engineering in partner technical conversations, including API and SDK integrations with platform partners
• Operational rigor
• Own incident response and production reliability. You are in the room when something breaks, not told afterwards
• Build monitoring, alerting and on-call practices that catch issues before partners see them
• Improve code review, deployment and testing to raise velocity and hold quality