Director of Engineering

About the Company

Nexus is the engine for verifiable finance — a blockchain designed to natively embed the world’s financial system into one compounding system. Backed by leading investors like Pantera and Dragonfly, Nexus unifies fragmented infrastructure across the global finance and blockchain stack.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture across the Exchange domain and write production code in high-leverage parts of the system
• Build exchange components including matching engines, risk engines, settlement, and data indexing
• Lead the engineering organization, managing senior engineers, pods, timelines, and roadmaps
• Drive product and customer outcomes with a business-minded approach
• Own end-to-end automation of engineering processes, including agent infrastructure and observability
• Manage an international, distributed workforce and design team structures
• Drive quality infrastructure through telemetry, observability, and thorough automated testing
• Grow individual contributors and tech leads

Requirements

• 8+ years of building production software
• 2+ years in an engineering leadership capacity (Tech Lead, Staff, Principal, or Architect)
• Proven experience with high-throughput, low-latency, and concurrent/parallel systems
• Deep hands-on fluency in Rust, Go, Next.js/TS or Node, and GCP
• Strong architecture skills regarding correctness, latency, and throughput trade-offs
• Experience with exchange-specific or comparable transaction-processing architecture
• Fluent written and spoken English with ability to overlap with US Pacific time
• AI-forward mindset with excitement for using AI tools and automation

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with exchanges or trading systems
• Experience standing up engineering practices (CI/CD, observability, on-call) in fast-growing orgs
• Experience building automation, internal dev platforms, or agentic workflow tooling
• Background as a founding or early engineer at a high-velocity startup
• Contributions to open-source projects in Rust, Go, or systems programming