Engineering Leadership

Casap; New York, San Francisco (NY, CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Casap is seeking an experienced engineering leader to own a critical area of our platform. You will lead a team of engineers responsible for core products spanning fintech, AI, and real-time decisioning, shaping both architecture and long-term platform evolution.

You will turn ambitious goals into decisive execution, recruit and develop top engineers, and influence engineering culture as Casap scales. This role requires strong leadership and deep technical judgment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years managing teams of 6+ engineers with a track record of developing strong individual contributors and future leaders.
• Strong technical foundation; ability to engage with senior/staff engineers on architecture, system design, scalability, and tradeoffs.
• Owned complex, business-critical products or platforms where reliability, scale, data integrity, security, or real-time decision-making mattered.
• Operates beyond a single team: influences technical direction, partners across functions, shapes broader engineering strategy.
• Comfortable in high-ambiguity, high-ownership environments and helps define the answer.
• Proven ability to hire and develop exceptional engineers, build pipelines, and maintain a high talent bar.
• Combines technical judgment with product and business intuition; makes thoughtful tradeoffs based on customer and company impact.
• Communicates effectively across levels, from engineers to executives, and advocates for engineering perspectives.

Responsibilities

• Own a critical engineering area at Casap; lead a team of 8–12 engineers responsible for core products and systems.
• Build systems at fintech, AI, and real-time decisioning intersections; tackle complex problems across card networks, fraud/risk, and data.
• Set technical direction with architecture and design tradeoffs for scalability, reliability, speed, and evolution.
• Turn ambitious goals into execution; shape priorities and lead from ambiguous problems to shipped products with measurable impact.
• Build and develop an exceptional engineering team; recruit, raise hiring bar, and foster leaders.
• Help shape how engineering operates as Casap scales; influence culture, design, standards, and practices.
• Operate as a technical and organizational leader; stay close to tech while enabling teams to move fast.
• Be a strong voice in company decisions; surface risks, challenge assumptions, and provide engineering perspectives.

Skills

Team leadership

Architecture

System design

Scalability

Technical judgment

Product collaboration

Interviewing talent

Cross-functional leadership

Job description

What You\'ll Do

• Own a critical engineering area at Casap. Lead a team of 8–12 engineers responsible for products and systems at the core of our platform, with meaningful ownership over technical direction, execution, and team strategy.


• Build systems that operate at the intersection of fintech, AI, and real-time decisioning. Your team will tackle technically complex problems spanning card network integrations, fraud and risk decisioning, AI/ML-powered automation, financial data, and highly regulated workflows.


• Set the technical direction, not just the roadmap. Partner closely with senior engineers and engineering leadership on architecture and system design, making thoughtful tradeoffs around scalability, reliability, speed, and long-term platform evolution.


• Turn ambitious company goals into exceptional execution. Work directly with Product and company leadership to shape priorities, identify the highest-leverage technical investments, and lead your team from ambiguous problems through shipped products and measurable customer impact.


• Build and develop an exceptional engineering team. Recruit outstanding engineers, raise the hiring bar, develop future technical and people leaders, and create an environment where high-performing engineers can do the best work of their careers.


• Help shape how engineering operates as we scale. We\'re still early enough that you\'ll have significant influence over our engineering culture, organizational design, development practices, technical standards, and how we build teams as the company grows.


• Operate as a technical and organizational leader. Stay close enough to the technology to contribute meaningfully to design and architecture discussions while creating the clarity and leverage that allows your engineers to move quickly and make great decisions independently.


• Be a strong voice in company-level decisions. Surface risks early, challenge assumptions, push back when necessary, and bring an engineering perspective to decisions that span product, customers, and company strategy.

What You\'ve Done

• You\'ve built and led high-performing engineering teams, with 3+ years managing teams of 6+ engineers and a track record of developing strong individual contributors and future leaders.


• You have a strong technical foundation and can go deep with senior and staff-level engineers on architecture, system design, scalability, and technical tradeoffs—even if you\'re no longer writing production code every day.


• You\'ve owned complex, business-critical products or platforms where reliability, scale, data integrity, security, or real-time decision-making mattered.


• You\'ve demonstrated that you can operate beyond the boundaries of a single team: influencing technical direction, partnering across functions, and helping shape broader engineering strategy.


• You\'re comfortable operating in environments with high ambiguity and high ownership, where the path isn\'t predetermined and engineering leaders are expected to help define the answer.


• You have a strong track record of hiring and developing exceptional engineers, including building pipelines, running rigorous interview processes, closing great candidates, and maintaining a high talent bar.


• You combine technical judgment with product and business intuition. You understand that the best engineering decision isn\'t always the most technically sophisticated one and can make thoughtful tradeoffs based on customer and company impact.


• You communicate exceptionally well across levels—from detailed technical discussions with engineers to product strategy and tradeoffs with executives—and you\'re comfortable taking a strong point of view when the situation calls for it.

Especially compelling, but not required

Experience building fintech, payments, fraud/risk, AI/ML infrastructure, or other high-scale and highly reliable systems is valuable, but we care more about your ability to learn quickly and lead exceptional engineering teams than checking every domain box.