Hi, we’re Particula - the prime rating provider for digital assets. Our mission is to make
the market for digital assets more accessible, secure, and transparent for institutional
investors. We support issuers, trading facilities, banks and asset managers to create trust, minimize risks and allocate capital effectively. Join our team and shape the future of the financial world with us!

👋 About the Role

We’re building the infrastructure layer that makes risk in tokenised finance machine-
readable, onchain, and composable: an AI-driven risk scoring engine, a cross-chain
risk protocol, and an institutional-grade analytics platform.

For that reason, we're hiring a Head of Engineering to own and scale our engineering function. This is a leadership role at the intersection of people management, product delivery, and infrastructure excellence.

You will lead our engineering team day-to-day - running 1:1s, driving execution, and building a high-performing team culture. You'll work directly with the CTO and Head of AI to translate a big technical vision into reliable, scalable systems. Your mission is to stabilize our core infrastructure, establish engineering discipline, and grow the team's velocity and output.

You'll report directly to the CTO and work cross-functionally with product, AI, and strategy to shape the technical backbone of our business.

Tasks

• Own the engineering team - run all 1:1s, manage performance, unblock engineers, and drive accountability across frontend, backend, and cloud infrastructure.
• Stabilize and scale core infrastructure - identify and resolve critical gaps in our existing systems, establish engineering standards, and build toward a resilient, production-grade architecture.
• Drive delivery - translate product and business priorities into clear engineering roadmaps, sprint structures, and shipping cadences.
• Coordinate with the Head of AI - ensure smooth integration between the AI pipeline and the broader platform infrastructure, from data ingestion to API delivery.
• Build engineering culture - introduce the right processes (code review, incident response, documentation, testing) without creating bureaucracy.
• Hire and grow the team - own recruiting, onboarding, and team composition decisions in close alignment with the CTO.
• Represent engineering in leadership discussions - bridge the gap between technical reality and business expectations.

Requirements

• 7-12 years in software engineering, with 3+ years in an engineering leadership role owning a team directly (not just tech lead).
• Proven track record managing and growing small-to-mid-size engineering teams in a fast-moving startup environment.
• Strong full-stack understanding: backend systems, frontend delivery, cloud infrastructure (AWS), and API design.
• Experience inheriting and stabilizing broken or scaling infrastructure - not just greenfield builds.
• Excellent people manager: you do 1:1s properly, give direct feedback, and create clarity in ambiguous environments.
• Strong communicator upward (founders/CTO) and downward (engineers) - you translate between vision and execution fluently.
• Highly structured and process-oriented, but pragmatic - you ship, then you improve.
• Entrepreneurial by nature: you build, you own, you drive.
• Bonus: familiarity with data-heavy platforms, analytics infrastructure, or financial/fintech products.
• Bonus: exposure to blockchain or Web3 infrastructure.

Benefits

• Offsites with the team in exciting locations
• Flexible working hours in a company that relies on remote work
• Exciting product in a very dynamic market environment as well as founding-level ownership of a key growth function.
• Values-based start-up culture
• Many opportunities to develop further and network with committed people
• Flat hierarchy
• Cash salary: gross annual salary & potential share options for outstanding performance

You’re joining at the most consequential moment in Particula’s history. The team is
assembled, the roadmap is clear, and the rebuild is underway. What’s missing is the
person who makes sure it actually ships - with discipline, pace, and care for the
engineers doing the work.

If you’ve stabilised a team under pressure or rebuilt something that was broken, we
want to hear about it