Head of Identity and Access

The Role

This is a foundational leadership role, reporting directly to the CTO. We are looking for a hybrid leader to build and manage our Tenants team, which is responsible for the most critical component of our platform: Identity & Access Management.

Our management philosophy is unique. The Manager is the single owner of a business vertical, responsible for the Why (the product vision), the What (the features and roadmap), and the Who (the people management and hiring).

You will act as both the Product Manager and the Engineering Manager for all user and company identity services. You will be a highly technical leader, but your primary focus will be on product strategy and team execution, not on being the deepest technical expert. You will partner with a dedicated Senior Engineer (who will own the deep how—the technical architecture) to bring your product vision to life.

Your mission is to define the future of our identity platform, build your team, and lead the technical migration from our legacy codebase to a modern, secure, and MiCA-compliant architecture.

This is a full-time, remote leadership role.

What You'll Do

• Product Ownership (The "Why" & "What"):
  • Define and own the complete product vision, strategy, and roadmap for all identity and access management services.
  • Own the product backlog and prioritize all features related to:
    • User Management: Registration, KYC verification, authentication, 2-factor auth, password reset, session management, and user-level API keys.
    • Company Management: Company creation, KYB verification, member management, and company-level API keys.
    • Notifications: The core service for managing and delivering user notifications.
• People & Team Leadership (The "Who"):
  • Build Your Team: You will have the mandate to hire and build your team of full-stack engineers.
  • People Management: Lead, mentor, and grow your engineers through 1-on-1s, goal setting, and career development.
  • Define Culture: Establish a world-class engineering culture focused on security, reliability, and precision.
• Engineering Execution (The "How"):
  • Lead the planning and execution of the strategy for all identity-related systems.
  • In partnership with your Senior Engineer, guide the team in making high-level technical decisions for security and scalability.
  • Ensure your team delivers high-quality, secure, and reliable services using our stack (Node.js, Nest.js, React, PostgreSQL).
  • Collaborate with all other Managers to provide secure, seamless, and reliable identity services that the entire platform depends on.

What We're Looking For

• Hybrid Experience: 5+ years in software engineering with 2+ years in a leadership role (e.g., Engineering Manager, Team Lead, or a technical Product Manager).
• Domain Expertise: Direct, hands-on experience building and leading teams that manage identity, authentication (e.g., OAuth, JWT), or KYC/KYB systems is a huge advantage.
• Highly Technical: You must come from a strong engineering background (ideally with Node.js or similar) and be able to lead technical discussions on security, authentication, and database design.
• Product Mindset: You must have experience with product management fundamentals: creating roadmaps, managing backlogs, and making data-driven priority calls.
• People Leader: Demonstrable experience hiring, managing, and mentoring engineers.
• Legacy Systems Experience: You are not afraid of a brownfield project. You have experience planning and executing the migration of a critical legacy system.
• Communication: Excellent ability to articulate the "Why" to your team and report progress to the CTO.

What We Offer

• Foundational Leadership Role: A rare opportunity to build the most critical team (identity and security) from scratch, reporting directly to the CTO.
• Full Ownership: Complete autonomy over your product vertical (Why, What, Who).
• Clear Ambition: The chance to join a company with a clear goal of becoming the #1 crypto platform in the EU.
• Greenfield Culture, Brownfield Code: A rare chance to join a new company culture with no baggage, while solving the interesting technical challenges of a mature product.