Head of Engineering

As Head of Engineering at SBI Coinhako, you will lead the product engineering strategy and execution for the organization. You will work closely with the executive team, product managers, and stakeholders to align all product engineering efforts with business objectives, market needs, and technical excellence. You will build, manage, and mentor a high-performing engineering team, overseeing the entire product development lifecycle from ideation to deployment, ensuring the delivery of robust, secure, and user-friendly crypto solutions.

What you'll do

• Define and execute the technical vision and strategy for the platform, ensuring alignment with the company's goals and building scalable, secure, high-performance features for the exchange with a focus on availability, security, and usability.
• Collaborate with executive leadership and product managers to create and refine the engineering roadmap, prioritizing key initiatives to drive business growth.
• Manage, mentor, and inspire a team of product engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, innovation, and accountability. Recruit top talent, develop engineering leadership within the team, and establish career development frameworks.
• Encourage cross-functional collaboration and ensure effective communication between engineering, product, UX/UI, security, and operations teams.
• Oversee the end-to-end product engineering lifecycle, ensuring features are delivered on time, on budget, and to the highest quality standards.
• Provide leadership in the architecture and design of scalable, low-latency systems, ensuring high throughput for trading operations.
• Drive continuous product improvements, responding quickly to market changes and customer feedback, while ensuring regulatory compliance and security standards.
• Ensure the platform is optimized for scalability, with the ability to handle high volumes of transactions, low latency, and seamless performance during peak periods.
• Champion best practices in software engineering, including automated testing, continuous integration, and monitoring.
• Manage and improve the platform's infrastructure, focusing on high availability, redundancy, and disaster recovery processes.
• Ensure platform security is a top priority, implementing best practices and industry standards for data protection, anti-money laundering (AML), and know your customer (KYC) compliance.
• Lead initiatives to continuously evaluate and enhance the platform's security posture, proactively identifying and mitigating risks.
• Work with the legal and compliance teams to ensure that product development and engineering are aligned with regulatory requirements.
• Stay at the forefront of emerging trends in fintech, blockchain, and digital asset exchanges, driving the adoption of new technologies and practices to improve the platform.
• Conduct research and development on innovative solutions to enhance the exchange's capabilities, such as enhanced trading algorithms, risk management tools, and blockchain integrations.
• Establish and refine engineering processes to enhance efficiency, transparency, and collaboration across teams.
• Implement metrics and performance KPIs to measure the success of engineering initiatives and the overall product engineering function.

What you bring

• Minimum of 10+ years of experience in product engineering roles, with at least 5+ years in a leadership capacity managing engineering teams.
• Proven track record of leading the development of broker-dealer trading systems platforms or similar complex financial systems such as quantitative trading systems, order book, or risk management systems.
• Strong understanding of cryptocurrency and digital asset markets, trading systems, and exchange architectures.
• Experience in building highly available, low-latency, and high-performance financial applications.
• Expertise in software architecture and engineering best practices including microservices, APIs, and distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with modern programming languages such as Ruby, Python, Go, Java, or C++.
• In-depth knowledge of cloud platforms including AWS, GCP, and Azure.
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with blockchain technology, smart contracts, and digital asset transaction systems.
• Experience with DevOps practices and tools including CI/CD, automated testing, and monitoring.
• Excellent leadership skills with a history of successfully managing and growing engineering teams.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment and prioritize effectively across multiple initiatives.

What we offer

• Friendly and fun start-up work culture.
• Convenient work location in the heart of the CBD area.
• Generous annual leaves on top of national holidays.
• Medical coverage including GP, Specialist, TCM, and more.
• Self-care benefits and exciting fitness workshops and webinars.
• Vibrant office with a well-stocked pantry.

About SBI Coinhako

SBI Coinhako is a digital asset exchange platform operating in the fintech and blockchain space. Learn more at coinhako.com.