Head of Engineering

Its rare that a new asset class emerges, but the rise of digital assets represents exactly that. Over the past several years, this market has grown rapidly and continues to evolve into a major force within global finance.

Our client is a fast-growing digital asset investment and technology firm at an inflection point in their journey. With an established track record across a range of investment products and services, they partner with financial advisors, family offices, and institutional investors to help them understand and access opportunities in this space. Well-known for deep research, strong client relationships, and close ties to the broader digital asset ecosystem.

This is a close-knit team, globally distributed group of professionals that blends the rigor of a traditional asset manager with the pace and mindset of a technology start-up. They are backed by experienced investors from both venture capital and financial services and are entering an exciting phase of growth.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the engineering organization across multiple geographic regions.

• Provide hands-on guidance, coaching, and detailed feedback to senior engineers and first-time managers.
• Set engineering standards and technical direction, with clear expectations for quality, communication, and execution.
• Build and scale the engineering team, including hiring, onboarding, performance management, and retention.
• Act as a calm, steady leader in a fast-paced, high-growth environment with evolving processes.

• Write production-quality code across modern frontend and backend systems.

• Architect systems and engineering foundations that support current needs and future innovation, including AI-assisted development.

• Drive high-impact technical decisions with clarity and confidence.

• Partner closely with cross-functional business stakeholders.

• Translate business requirements into practical, scalable engineering solution

• Empower engineers to operate with strong product ownership and accountability.

Who You Are

• A proven problem-solver who is often the go-to person for diagnosing and resolving complex technical and operational challenges.
• Experienced in designing holistic systems and internal tools that improve efficiency and unlock new capabilities.
• A leader who models a solutions-oriented mindset and fosters a culture of curiosity, ownership, and low ego.
• Comfortable architecting and scaling internal platforms or systems with complex dependencies.
• Hands-on and willing to write code regularly while managing and mentoring engineers.
• Experienced leading small to mid-sized engineering teams in high-growth or high-complexity environments.
• A low-ego leader who leads from the front and enjoys being deeply involved in the work.
• Experienced in managing or coaching early-career engineers and first-time managers.
• Thrives in flat organizational structures where leaders remain individual contributors.
• A strong communicator who enjoys working directly with business stakeholders.
• Motivated by solving real problems and building tools that provide meaningful leverage to users and teams.

For more information please contact: Joseph@techchaintalent.xyz