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Overview
Join Xapo as the Head of Engineering and lead a remote team in delivering high-quality software solutions in a Bitcoin-native, regulated environment. Drive engineering standards, manage teams, and ensure delivery predictability. Diversity is at the heart of who we are at Xapo Bank. We’re a fully distributed team of over 160 Xapiens that work remotely from 50+ countries around the world. Our beginning: A world that enjoys economic freedom and wealth protection, no matter where you live or who is running your country. To achieve that, we search the world for the best people for the job. We work hard, think globally, and inspire each other to learn and grow. We are committed to changing the way things are done. Although we are headquartered in Gibraltar, this is a full time, 100% remote position. Work from anywhere!
What you'll do
- •Delivery predictability across the engineering function - accountable for the function consistently shipping committed scope on committed dates, per tribe and function-wide. You own the practices that surface shortfalls early and the remediation that closes the gap.
- •Engineering standards and practice - you set and enforce the engineering bar: code review standards, retrospectives, and the feedback loops that keep them healthy across the tribes.
- •People management of Engineering Managers - performance management, growth, 1:1 cadence, and engineering hiring across the function. You are accountable for the EMs you develop and the standard they operate to.
- •Unified SDLC ownership - you own and define the unified SDLC end to end. Engineering Managers run it day-to-day in their tribes.
- •Backend change management - you own the governance of our deployment pipeline. You ensure 100% of changes generate a regulator-ready audit trail automatically, while designing a frictionless, risk-tiered approval process that subjects material changes to rigorous, formal review without gridlocking daily production velocity.
- •AI-first engineering standard - accountable for driving genuine adoption of AI tooling across engineering: coding assistants, AI-assisted code review, and AI-assisted test generation as standard practice. You set the direction, decide where it adds real value versus where it doesn't, track adoption, and ensure teams get measurable productivity benefits - not tooling for its own sake.
- •Blocker clearance - accountable for fast escalation and resolution of blockers, in-sprint and in engineers' backlogs. Blockers are surfaced early and cleared with discipline rather than allowed to age.
- •Engineering incident response and post-mortems - own the engineering function's response to production incidents: timely escalation, structured post-mortem facilitation, and ensuring action items close.
- •Tech-debt roadmap - own the function-level tech-debt roadmap: prioritising remediation, partnering with the Solutions Architect on architectural debt, and tracking progress against plan.
- •Capacity planning - accountable for engineering capacity matching committed work; EMs execute the operational planning.
- •Cross-department standard execution - implementing the quality framework defined by the Head of Quality Engineering, the security standards owned by Security, and the architecture standards agreed at the Architecture Advice Forum.
- •Engineering OKR ownership - rolled up from Engineering Managers, with function-level accountability sitting here.
- •Cross-functional initiative delivery - ensuring engineering does not become the blocker for initiatives spanning product, technology, and operational teams; coordinating on cross-division prioritisation and dependency management.
Conditions
- •Impact Globally, Work Remotely.
- •Shape the Future: Improve lives through cutting-edge technology, work 100% remotely from anywhere in the world.
- •Great work-life balance: Build amazing things with a balance of autonomy and collaborative teamwork. Set your own work schedule and make use of a flexible PTO plan when you need to recharge.
- •Expect Excellence: Collaborate, learn, and grow with a high-performance team. Learn how you learn best - from books to conferences, you’ll get a yearly budget for your individual learning and development goals.