VP of Engineering - Spree

Superlogic

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About The Position

This is a full-time remote role for a Vice President of Engineering at Spree.Finance. Spree Finance / Engaged Labs has completed the protocol design and early proofs‑of‑concept. What we need now is relentless execution: ship the production stack, harden security, and scale to the first 50 enterprise issuers—all inside a year.

Requirements

• 3+ years running ≥10‑person teams; hiring, coaching, org design.
• 8+ years architecting cloud‑native, event‑driven systems; deep knowledge of queues (Kafka/NATS/PubSub).
• Proficiency in at least one: TypeScript/Node, Go, Rust, or Python; strong async & concurrency patterns.
• Modern React (Next.js) and component architecture; performance optimization.
• Knowledge and understanding of tradeoffs in Cloud Architectures and tooling: IaC (Terraform/CDK), Kubernetes, AWS or GCP; observability (OpenTelemetry, Grafana).
• Security Engineering fluency: OAuth2/OIDC, JWT, key‑management (HSM / MPC), threat‑modeling.
• Web 3 fundamentals (2 years experience minimum): Interacting with EVM JSON‑RPC, ERC‑20/721/1155 standards, stable‑coin economics.
• Solidity or Rust smart‑contract development with at least one main‑net deployment.

Nice To Haves

• Zero‑knowledge proofs or account‑abstraction exposure for a web2 audience.
• Prior work on loyalty, payments, or fintech compliance.
• Data‑infra chops (ClickHouse, dbt, experimentation frameworks).

Responsibilities

• Define system boundaries across smart‑contracts, micro‑services, and front‑end gateway; document ADRs and threat‑models.
• Work closely with the product team to translate business requirements into working technology.
• Prioritize excellence in speed and execution; move fast and push others to move fast.
• Write production code (Node / Go / Rust preferred) and review PRs; unblock the team.
• Coordinate external audits, run adversarial game‑days, own the vulnerability disclosure program.
• Translate merchant requirements into sprint‑ready epics; work closely with Product, BD, and token‑economics leads.
• Source, close, and onboard engineers who thrive in ambiguity; champion an inclusive, feedback‑rich culture.
• Track DORA metrics, set SLAs/SLOs, maintain CI/CD, performance, and observability dashboards.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage.
• 100% remote with Quarterly On-Sites.
• Significant Token Allocation and competitive salary.
• Significant Media Exposure across podcasts, conferences, TV appearances and more.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees