VP of Engineering - New York, NY, United States
Originally posted 31 August 2026 by the employer.
Own engineering strategy and architecture across card issuing, wallets, ledger, money movement, onchain settlement, and integrations with card networks and banking partners.
About the role
This role involves owning the craft, quality, and technical direction of Rain Neuromorphics' engineering organization as it scales.
What you'll do
- Own engineering strategy and architecture across card issuing, wallets, ledger, money movement, onchain settlement, and integrations with card networks and banking partners.
- Set and own the engineering quality bar across system design, code review, testing, observability, documentation, and technical decision-making.
- Drive reliability, scalability, and operational excellence by establishing SLOs, improving incident response, and designing resilient systems.
- Build security, compliance, and correctness into the platform by design, partnering with Risk, Compliance, and Security to meet PCI, SOC 2, fraud-control, regulatory, and blockchain infrastructure requirements.
- Increase engineering velocity without sacrificing quality through improvements to CI/CD, developer tooling, and architecture.
- Build and develop a high-performing engineering organization by hiring and coaching engineering managers and technical leads.
What you'll need
- 15+ years building production software, including 8+ years leading engineers and meaningful time leading managers.
- Current technical credibility, adding value in architecture reviews.
- Deep experience with distributed backend systems at scale: data modeling, consistency and idempotency, queues and event-driven design, and operational reality.
- A track record of raising an engineering bar with measurable changes in quality, velocity, or reliability.
- Real reliability ownership, including carrying a pager, running incident command, and building follow-through.
- Experience in payments, fintech, banking infrastructure, or a domain with money, ledgers, or regulatory obligations requiring correctness.
- Experience hiring and developing engineering managers.
- Clear written communication to explain technical tradeoffs to various stakeholders.
- Executive range in board, partner, and design review conversations, holding a technical position under commercial pressure.
- Comfort with ambiguity and speed, preferring to ship something correct this quarter over designing something perfect for next year.
Nice to have
- Hands-on experience with card issuing, processing, or the Visa and Mastercard network stack.
- Working knowledge of stablecoins, onchain settlement, custody and key management, or EVM and Solana infrastructure.
- Experience operating under SOC 2, PCI DSS, or bank and program-manager oversight.
- Experience leading distributed or multi-region teams.
Skills: engineering strategy, architecture, distributed backend systems, reliability, scalability, operational excellence
This role has been open 47 days — well below the 60-day median for Systems Software Engineering roles.
Systems Software Engineering · Systems Software
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Open roles in category
682
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Median days open
60 d
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Median salary
$213k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Rain Neuromorphics | All employers we track in this specialty (682 roles · 71 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 3 | 682 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 6 | 6118 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 114 d | 60 d (+54 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $213k |
Skills observed across this category: engineering strategy, architecture, distributed backend systems, reliability, scalability, operational excellence
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 169 open roles · median 79 d
- NVIDIA · 130 open roles · median 46 d
- AMD · 63 open roles · median 52 d
- Mobileye · 27 open roles · median 73 d
- Broadcom · 22 open roles · median 54 d
- Arm Holdings · 20 open roles · median 115 d
How we counted: 682 open Systems Software Engineering (Systems Software) roles from 71 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 18 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.