Director of Engineering, Fiat Gateway
Okcoin
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Posted:
May 2, 2023
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Onsite
About the position
The job overview for this position is labeled as "About the Opportunity". The company is seeking an experienced engineering director to join their team and help deliver the product vision of payments at OKX. The director will be responsible for growing and leading a high-performance team focused on building the OKX Payments platform while collaborating with other leaders across the organization to solve complex, technical, and interdependent problems that directly affect customers' businesses and technical systems. The ideal candidate should have 10+ years of experience in tech and experience providing technical leadership in small teams.
Responsibilities
- Lead a team of 3-8 engineers to develop and design scalable solutions of OKX's Fiat to Crypto platform and tools to support payment processing.
- Integrate with 3rd party systems and implement new solutions to streamline processes.
- Work cross-functionally with our product managers and designers to plan, strategize and execute against the roadmap according to our product principles - think big, start small, ship to learn, give our customers superpowers.
- Review code written by other developers both in and outside of your team.
- Provide technical leadership, feedback and mentorship to the developers on your team.
- Provide regular feedback on career growth, progression towards goals, areas for improvement, and praise as warranted.
- Measure the impact of your team and set clear expectations and goals.
- Share hiring responsibilities with other leaders across the organization.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in tech in either IC and manager roles with 3 years experience of managing, mentoring and teaching other developers
- Experience providing technical leadership in small teams
- Confident in architecting solutions on your own, but takes the time to ask questions about behavior and business results
- Excellent team player with strong interpersonal skills and the ability to function in a cross-functional environment
- Ability to break apart large projects into small incremental steps and can extract the minimum viable product out of an ambitious idea
- Experience shipping, operating, scaling, and supporting applications in a SaaS environment
- Believer in automated testing, TDD, BDD, continuous integration and continuous delivery
- Comfortable working with git and Github
- Deployment and operational experience on platforms like Heroku or AWS
- Experience with an object oriented programming language such as Java, C#, Python, Golang, as well as SQL and NoSQL databases
- Bilingual English and Mandarin
- Experience with Java Spring Boot is preferred
- Familiarity with product management processes and tools
- Experience working with teams across offices and time zones