Head of Engineering

Overview

CoinsPaid offers ready-to-use crypto payment solutions tailored to business’ every need. Standing at the forefront of mass adoption, our products help businesses gear up for the new era of digital assets. We showed a tremendous growth in terms of transactions and volumes since 2019 and in 2023 were marked by Forbes as the “Best Crypto Payment Gateway for High-Volume Transactions”.

Headquartered in Estonia and having 3 international hubs, we are still a remote-first company with employees working from 30+ countries around the world. At CoinsPaid, we are passionate about crypto, fintech and are putting great effort into building a team that will get the world ready for every-day crypto use. If these feel close to you – give us a shout!

We are looking for an experienced and pragmatic Head of Engineering to lead and scale our engineering department, with a laser focus on delivery excellence, process efficiency, and engineering leadership. This is a mission-critical role that ensures stable, predictable, and fast delivery across three engineering teams building core parts of our crypto payment infrastructure.

This role is well fitted for those, who likes working in fast-paced environments, balances business and technical perspectives and builds high-accountability teams

Responsibilities: Leadership & People Management

Manage and develop Engineering Managers and Tech Leads, building a strong second line of leadership and identifying successors for your own role

Provide structured performance feedback and career guidance (PDPs), aligning individual growth with team and business goals

Promote a high-trust engineering culture focused on ownership and cross-functional collaboration

Champion company values and ensure high engagement and clarity of direction across the engineering teams

Delivery Process Ownership:

Review existing and propose improvements in delivery processes that optimise time to market, minimise waste and improve flow efficiency (lead time, plan-fact, defect rate)

Drive data-informed decision-making by implementing and using delivery metrics (velocity, WIP, incidents rate, stakeholder feedback)

Ensure consistent execution of cross-team projects, manage delivery risk and enable effective escalation paths

Follow and contribute to improve our operational rituals: quarterly planning, OKRs, retrospective feedback loops and delivery health reviews

Team Structuring & Resourcing:

Own organisational design of the department: team structures, headcount planning, growth forecasting

Make decisions on hiring priorities, team composition, and when to split, merge, or sunset teams

Manage capacity allocation and drive resource flexibility in a highly paced environment

Process & Platform Governance:

Lead the adoption of engineering standards, reliability targets, and quality metrics in collaboration with Tech Leads

Ensure best practices in incident response, cost management and DevOps tooling are followed consistently across teams

Promote knowledge sharing via tech sessions and hackathons to reduce silos and enable innovation

Stakeholder & Business Alignment:

Translate technical strategy into engineering execution plans, working closely with Product, Compliance, and Finance

Provide regular visibility into delivery status, risks, and goals to stakeholders

Participate in company-wide planning, contributing engineering perspective to product strategy and long-term roadmap

Requirements:

3+ years of proven experience in managing multiple engineering teams through Engineering Managers and Tech Leads

Track record of improving delivery processes (Lean/Agile) based on metrics approach

Understanding of organisational scaling, cross-team coordination, and metrics-driven leadership

Experience setting up or improving secure SDLC processes

Strong communicator with the ability to build alignment, influence up/down/across

Experience defining and implementing delivery KPIs and using them to identify process bottlenecks and waste

Ability to balance speed and quality in a high-stakes product environment (financial systems, crypto, payments)

Good level of spoken and written English (at least B2) and Russian

Nice to have:

Background indevelopment

Experience mentoring Engineering Managers

Experience in fintech or highly regulated environments

Budgeting experience

Hands-on experience creating dashboards or tracking frameworks for engineering org health

Previous experience in crypto, payments, or financial automation platforms

Understanding of security and platform reliability in crypto/fintech domains

Why should you choose CoinsPaid?

To become a part of this solid team, passionate about their jobs and the crypto industry as a whole. To feel a great team spirit and meet people supporting each other’s growth and development. To become a part of a rapidly developing international company and a crypto payments leader. Only in 2024 CoinsPaid was awarded more than 10 times:

• Acquisition International 2024 – Best Crypto-payment Solutions Firm 2024 – Europe;
• World Business Annual Awards 2024 – Leading Blockchain & Cryptocurrency Firm in Europe 2024;
• World Business Annual Awards 2024 – Best Blockchain Initiative Europe 2024;
• World Business Annual Awards 2024 – Best Blockchain Fintech Company Europe 2024;
• Global Brands Magazine Awards – Leading Cryptocurrency Payment Solutions;
• ICA Compliance Awards – Development of Automated Real-time Risk Assessment System;
• Europe Fintech Awards – Crypto Award;
• EiGE Awards – Best Payment Provider 2024;
• World Business Annual Awards 2024 – Best Cryptocurrency Payment Solution Provider Europe 2024;
• World Economic Magazine 2024 – Best Digital Payments Solutions Provider;
• Malta Fintech Awards by Dynamic Events – Payment Services Provider of the Year;
• Global Brands Magazine Awards – Best Crypto Payment Gateway;
• Business Awards UK – Best Cryptocurrency Tech;
• EGR B2B – Best Cryptocurrency Service Supplier 2024;
• Global Cards & Payments Innovation Awards – Best B2B Payments Initiative;
• International Investor Award – Most Advanced Crypto Payment Processing Firm 2024.

Solid facts about CoinsPaid:

• Private and profitable company, registered and licensed in Estonia;
• Secure business, with regular financial and regulatory audits;
• Over 10 years of experience in the blockchain development;
• Over €700M processed in crypto monthly;
• Over 1M transactions processed monthly;
• Over 800 merchants accounts serviced;
• Over 270 team members across 30+ countries.

By joining CoinsPaid now, you’ll participate in building the world’s best crypto payment ecosystem, conquering new markets, and popularising cryptocurrencies.

Sounds good? Well then, we can’t wait to see your resume!

To learn more please visit: https://coinspaid.com/about-us/ & https://coinspaid.com/careers/

Tagged as: 3-5 Years, 5+ Years