Director of Engineering, Dynamic Platform

Fireblocks is a digital asset infrastructure platform that helps financial institutions, fintechs, and businesses store, transfer, issue stablecoins, and manage digital assets securely.

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Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026

United States
About Fireblocks

Fireblocks provides digital asset infrastructure for financial institutions, fintechs, and businesses handling digital assets at scale. Users can secure custody, issue stablecoins, tokenize assets, process payments, and manage wallets through a unified platform. The platform uses multi-party computation cryptography with policy-based governance to secure private keys and automate transaction workflows.

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About the Role

Lead the core technology behind highly distributed platform systems, including wallet, authentication, balances, events, and integrations, while driving secure, scalable engineering practices.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of engineering management experience leading multiple teams
  • At least 10 years of hands-on backend development experience
  • Experience architecting and operating large-scale secure distributed systems
  • Security and attack-vector design experience
  • Expertise in crypto, financial services, or high-security authentication platforms
  • Experience scaling platforms for millions of users and high transaction throughput
  • Experience hiring and developing senior and principal engineers
  • Familiarity with cloud technologies
  • Proficiency in TypeScript and AWS infrastructure
  • TEE experience is a plus

Responsibilities

  • Define the technical roadmap, architecture, and standards for the Platform team
  • Contribute to critical design reviews and set coding standards
  • Oversee the design and implementation of complex distributed systems
  • Lead, mentor, and expand the engineering organization
  • Work with customers to understand technical integration and performance needs
  • Drive adoption of modern engineering practices and AI technology

Benefits

  • Target bonus for some roles
  • Equity grant for some roles