Director of Engineering

Department: Engineering

Location: New York City

Employment Type: FullTime

About Greenboard

At Greenboard, we’re building the future of financial compliance. Greenboard is the unified, AI-native compliance operating system for RIAs, fintechs, private funds, hedge funds, and more. It replaces the fragmented mix of legacy tools and automates more than previously possible. By centralizing data and workflows, Greenboard helps firms reduce regulatory risk, simplify their technology stack, modernize how they run compliance, and save money.

Our founding team includes engineers who have scaled products at Amazon, Google, and multiple unicorn startups. We’re backed by Y Combinator, General Catalyst, Base10, and other top-tier investors, and have raised over $20M to date. Brand-name financial institutions already rely on Greenboard — and we’re growing fast.

About the role:

As Director of Engineering, you’ll lead both technical execution and engineering culture. This is a hands-on role, especially in the early months — you’ll be deep in the codebase, owning systems end-to-end, and setting the bar for quality, speed, and reliability as we scale.

This is a full-time, on-site role located in NYC.

What You’ll Work On

• Lead and scale Greenboard’s engineering function

• Write, review, and ship production code (especially early on)

• Own system reliability, uptime, and incident response

• Make architectural decisions that balance speed and durability

• Build and scale secure, high-volume systems for regulated financial data

• Partner closely with product and leadership on execution and prioritization

• Hire, mentor, and develop a high-performing engineering team

• Establish a culture of accountability and extreme ownership

Who Are You?

• A proven senior engineer who still loves being hands-on

• Comfortable getting into the weeds when systems break

• Obsessed with ownership — you don’t let problems linger

• Able to move fast in ambiguous, early-stage environments

• A strong communicator who values in-person collaboration

• Located in (or willing to relocate to) NYC

Qualifications

Required

• Significant experience as a senior engineer (Staff / Principal / Senior IC background)

• Strong backend or full-stack engineering experience

• Experience architecting and operating production systems

• Experience owning on-call and production reliability

• Willingness to be hands-on in an on-site startup environment

Preferred

• Startup experience (Series A–Series B) or previous founder

• Experience building or scaling early engineering teams

• AWS or similar cloud infrastructure experience

• Experience working with regulated or data-intensive systems

Benefits

• 401(k) with 5% company match

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage

• 15 days PTO + 11 company holidays + flexible sick time

• 2 additional PTO days for each year of service (up to 10 additional days)

• 10 remote days per year plus additional around the holidays

• Bi-annual off-sites and team retreats

• Front-row seat to building the operating backbone of modern finance