Head of Engineering — Scalable, Reliable Product Leadership

Step; United States; Remote; USD 250,000 - 400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Job summary

Step is seeking a senior engineering leader to guide a growing, customer-facing fintech platform. You will shape architecture, drive development practices, and partner with executives to align technical direction with business goals.

You will mentor engineers, scale distributed systems, and maintain reliability and security as the product scales, balancing swift delivery with long‑term investments.

Qualifications

• Min 10 years of software engineering experience with leadership of teams.
• Proven track record developing engineering managers and senior engineers.
• Strong CS fundamentals and pragmatic judgment.
• Experience building scalable, customer-facing software.
• Excellent cross-functional communication and product sense.
• Hands-on, low-ego leadership with ownership mindset.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, recruit, and retain engineers and senior leaders.
• Define technical strategy and the engineering roadmap with cross-functional partners.
• Own execution across multiple teams to improve delivery quality and speed.
• Guide architecture decisions for scalability, reliability, security, and debt.
• Establish engineering standards and remove barriers to progress.
• Balance near-term delivery with long-term investment for dependable operation.

Skills

Leadership of engineers

People management

Software fundamentals

Distributed systems

Technical judgment

Communication

Job description

Step is seeking a senior engineering leader to guide a growing, customer-facing fintech platform. You will shape architecture, drive development practices, and partner with executives to align technical direction with business goals.

You will mentor engineers, scale distributed systems, and maintain reliability and security as the product scales, balancing swift delivery with long‑term investments.