We\'re building a next-generation consumer fintech platform focused on making a complex financial process dramatically simpler for millions of people. This is founded by the leaders of a unicorn who is building their next big idea (native ai) and has millions of users from current ventures.
This is a high-trust product operating in a regulated environment where security, reliability, privacy, and user experience all matter. We\'re looking for an engineering leader who is excited to build a category-defining product from the ground up alongside experienced founders.
The Role:
- As a Founding Leader / Head of engineering you will own engineering from the earliest stages of the company.
- This is a true player-coach role. You\'ll help define the technical vision, build and ship product, establish engineering best practices, recruit exceptional engineers, and scale the organization as the company grows.
- Serve as the company\'s senior technical leader, helping translate business goals into technical strategy while partnering closely with product, design, and company leadership.
- Hire and mentor a small team of high-performing engineers.
- Establish a strong engineering culture centered on ownership, craftsmanship, collaboration, and execution.
- You\'ve build fintech products where trust, scale, and customer experience were essential.
The Work:
- Lead engineering from early product development through public customer deployment.
- Define the company\'s architecture, engineering standards, development processes, infrastructure, security, and operational excellence.
- Work closely with product and design to deliver an intuitive consumer experience.
- Own the architecture and technical foundation
AI Native product:
- Design systems that prioritize security, privacy, reliability, compliance, and scalability while maintaining exceptional product quality.
- Apply modern AI tools and workflows to improve engineering productivity, code quality, testing, documentation, and developer velocity.
Head of Engineering in new york at Unknown Company
This position is listed as full time and onsite.