VP of Engineering

VP of Engineering

Location:

U.S. (Remote)

Stage:

High-growth fintech

Focus:

Payments rails \| Real-time infrastructure \| Stablecoin settlement

The Opportunity

We’re working with a fintech that’s quietly building the

plumbing for how money will actually move over the next decade

.

Not just another payments company - they sit at the intersection of

traditional rails (ACH, RTP, FedNow, card networks)

and

programmable money via stablecoins

.

They’ve hit product-market fit, volume is ramping fast, and now they need someone to take the engineering org from

“this works” → “this scales globally without breaking.”

Why this is interesting

• You’re not maintaining legacy rails - you’re

redefining how they connect to the future

• Real-world problems:

money movement, settlement, reconciliation, finality

(not vanity metrics)

• Blending

fiat \+ stablecoin settlement

into a single, intelligent system

• Proper distributed systems challenges:
• idempotency under failure
• ledger correctness
• real-time vs batch trade-offs
• A genuine

0→1→scale journey

• not a finished platform
• You’ll shape the org, the architecture, and the roadmap -

not inherit constraints you can’t change

What you’ll do

• Set the

technical direction for a modern payments platform

spanning multiple rails

• Build and scale the engineering org from

\~30 to 100\+

(without breaking culture)

• Own systems that move

real money, in real time

• reliably
• Lead development of

stablecoin settlement infrastructure

(wallets, ledgering, on/off-ramps)

• Ensure everything reconciles - because in payments,

“almost correct” \= broken

• Partner with Product \+ Compliance to ship

regulated, high-trust systems

• Make the big calls: architecture, hiring, scaling strategy

What they’re looking for

• You’ve led engineering at

VP / Head level

(or you’re a Director already operating there)

• You understand

payments at a systems level

— not just APIs, but how money

actually

moves

• Experience with

ACH / RTP / FedNow / cards / settlement flows

• Exposure to (or strong curiosity about)

stablecoins / blockchain-based settlement

• You’ve built

high-scale, event-driven systems

that can’t go down

• You can scale teams

and

systems at the same time

• You’re comfortable where things aren’t fully defined yet - and you fix that

Tech (high level)

• Backend: Node.js / TypeScript, Go, Python
• Infra: AWS / GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform
• Architecture: Event-driven, Kafka, microservices
• Core systems:

ledgering, reconciliation, transaction processing

Comp

• Strong base \+ meaningful equity
• Built to attract top-tier fintech leadership

Why this role actually matters

Most companies build features.

This team is building

infrastructure that other companies build on top of

.

If they get it right, they don’t just process payments - they

become part of the rails themselves

.