Director of Engineering, Assets & Issuance

Paxos has spent over a decade building the blockchain infrastructure that tokenises, custodies, trades and settles assets for PayPal, Venmo, Mastercard, Interactive Brokers and Charles Schwab, and this role runs the engineering organisation behind Assets and Issuance.

It is a director job over both managers and senior ICs, and the posting is unusually direct about what that means: you will not be writing production code day to day, but you will review designs, pressure-test tradeoffs and lead the hard technical decisions alongside your teams. The systems are the ones that move real money, which here means stablecoin issuance, wallets and key management, ledgers, settlement and blockchain integrations, across chains, customers and jurisdictions. The brief includes hiring senior engineers and managers, setting the standard for on-call and incident response, and designing systems that are auditable by construction, with the controls built into the software rather than layered on afterwards.

Paxos asks for 12+ years in engineering including 8+ years leading teams and experience managing managers, then says it cares more about the career pattern than the exact numbers. It wants someone who has built money-moving infrastructure before and who can break ambiguous problems into shippable pieces with limited existing structure to lean on. One thing to note before applying: the posting opens with a recruitment-fraud warning, because paxos.com/careers is its only careers site and its recruiters only write from paxos.com addresses. Remote, US, with the East Coast named.