Senior Engineering Director Crypto
Senior Engineering Director Crypto
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Job Description
The Role:
We are seeking a Senior Director to join our team. SoFi is building out a new team to develop crypto products and services for our members. Recent developments made a path for SoFi to begin to reenter the space and expand on our product offerings with intuitive secure and fully featured products across crypto Investing Transfers Payments Custody and beyond.
On our team directors arent bureaucrats with a clipboard. You will be expected to show servant leadership inspiring the engineers on your team and making the team greater than the sum of its parts. The ideal candidate is both forwardthinking and handson has a strong sense of ownership and drive for delivery and is a good mentor who can help us continue to innovate and deliver on our goals. At SoFi we pride ourselves on the collaboration between Product Design and Engineering and you will be overseeing the entire product lifecycle from ideation through building deploying as well as continual improvement and evolution.
At SoFi youll become part of a new kind of finance company whose ambition is to help our members achieve financial independence and reach their goals. We aim to be at the center of our members financial lives and to help every member get their money right. We created student loan refinancing addressing the biggest financial challenge of a new generation through a modern approach to lending and personal finance. Next we expanded our products and services across loans wealth management and insurance. SoFi has achieved significant growth with ambitious plans ahead but to continue this growth we need great talent. And that starts with you.
What Youll Do:
- Lead multiple fullstack development teams through the full development lifecycle from project requirement to deployment ensuring deliverables are met
- Take initiative and produce timely results in a fastpaced and sometimes ambiguous environment
- Facilitate the definition of project scope deliverables and goals.
- Grow the team understand what your team needs define how to find and assess candidates
- Define the growth plan for individuals on your team
- Manage project budget monitoring and reconciliation processes.
- Assess project risks identify contingency actions and develop/manage a risk
- Communicate ongoing project health with key stakeholders and business leaders.
- Hold the team accountable for delivery
- Shape and support the team culture with an emphasis on continual improvement learning and fun
- Generate ideas for new initiatives
What Youll Need:
- Minimum of 10 years of experience in crypto or related financial services industry with at least 5 years in a senior leadership role.
- Deep understanding of the crypto industry and regulatory requirements.
- Proven track record of driving operational excellence and leading highperforming teams.
- Exceptional strategic thinking analytical and problemsolving skills.
- Excellent communication interpersonal and leadership abilities.
- Proficiency in relevant software and tools including loan origination systems.
- Experience hiring training motivating monitoring and coaching teams of employees.
- Ability to hold others accountable
- Experience with Agile SDLC methodologies
Nice to haves:
- Understanding of blockchain fundamentals and distributed ledger technologies
- Handson experience working with digital assets (e.g. Bitcoin Ethereum stablecoins)
- Familiarity with custody settlement and clearing of crypto transactions
- Knowledge of cryptospecific regulatory environments (e.g. SEC CFTC MiCA etc.
- Exposure to crypto trading platforms market data and DeFi protocols
- Experience integrating with or building services using crypto infrastructure providers (e.g. Fireblocks Zero Hash Anchorage)
- Awareness of Web3 trends including NFTs DAOs and Layer 2 solutions
- Prior work in or collaboration with cryptonative companies or fintechs
- Comfort with cryptographic concepts such as wallets keys and signatures
- Enthusiasm for the evolving digital asset ecosystem and its potential impact on financial services
Required Experience:
Director
Employment Type
Full Time
