Director of Engineering

Director of Engineering Remote, North America · Reports to the CEO About Pipe Pipe builds embedded capital for small businesses. We deliver credit products inside the software platforms SMBs already use to run their business: vertical SaaS, payments platforms and marketplaces. A merchant sees a pre-approved offer on the platform, reads the terms in seconds, accepts in four clicks, and repays as they earn. Behind that sit credit risk models, partner APIs and SDKs, money movement, and capital markets systems. Our capital is live inside Uber Eats Manager, Boulevard, Housecall Pro, GoCardless and other partners, across the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Pipe ’s revenue has accelerated almost 2.5 times year on year and is on track for profitability in the next few quarters. This candidate will work directly with the management team, have a core impact on the P&L and evolve an already model tech stack for new use cases in five countries. We are remote-first. We ship fast, hold each other to a high bar, and leave egos at the door. The role You own Pipe 's engineering output. This is a hands-on leadership role. You are in the codebase, in the architecture decisions, and in the incident channel when something breaks. You find the technical gaps, build the systems that scale with the business, and match engineering speed to what the business needs. You lead about 10 engineers and stay technical enough to pair with an engineer or debug a production issue yourself. What you'll do Technical leadership and architecture Own the health, scalability and reliability of Pipe 's systems end to end, from partner-facing APIs and SDKs to money movement, capital markets infrastructure and AI/ML model infrastructure for credit underwriting. Make and defend architectural decisions. Stay close enough to the code to know when a proposed design will not hold. Set standards for code quality, testing, deployment and incident response that the team follows. Sequence the technical roadm