VP of Engineering - Spree

Job Description

About Spree

Spree is a Web3 native rewards and commerce network that lets any Web2 brand issue stable coin denominated points, settle instantly, and unlock composable loyalty across millions of users. Think: Stripe Air Miles stablecoins—but open, programmable, and merchant agnostic.

About The Role

This is a full-time remote role for a Vice President of Engineering at Spree.Finance. Spree Finance / Engaged Labs has completed the protocol design and early proofs of concept. What we need now is relentless execution: ship the production stack, harden security, and scale to the first 50 enterprise issuers—all inside a year.

Your Impact

Architecture Owner – Define system boundaries across smart contracts, micro services, and front end gateway; document ADRs and threat models.

Product to Delivery – Work closely with the product team to translate business requirements into working technology.

Experimentation and Velocity – We prioritize excellence in speed and execution. Move fast and push others to move fast with you. We don’t know what will work, and speed is our moat.

Hands on Delivery – Write production code (Node / Go / Rust preferred) and review PRs; unblock the team.

Security First – Coordinate external audits, run adversarial game days, own the vulnerability disclosure program.

Stakeholder Partner – Translate merchant requirements into sprint ready epics; work closely with Product, BD, and token economics leads.

Talent Magnet – Source, close, and onboard engineers who thrive in ambiguity; champion an inclusive, feedback rich culture.

Velocity & Quality – Track DORA metrics, set SLAs/SLOs, maintain CI/CD, perf, and observability dashboards.

This role is fully remote with immediate start.

Requirements

Requirements

3 + yrs running 10 person teams; hiring, coaching, org design

8 + yrs architecting cloud native, event driven systems; deep knowledge of queues (Kafka/NATS/PubSub)

Proficiency in at least one: TypeScript/Node, Go, Rust, or Python; strong async & concurrency patterns

Modern React (Next.js) and component architecture; performance optimization

Knowledge and understanding of tradeoffs in Cloud Architectures and tooling: IaC (Terraform/CDK), Kubernetes, AWS or GCP; observability (OpenTelemetry, Grafana)

Security Engineering fluency: OAuth2/OIDC, JWT, key management (HSM / MPC), threat modeling

Web 3 fundamentals (2 yrs experience minimum): Interacting with EVM JSON RPC, ERC 20/721/1155 standards, stable coin economics.

Solidity or Rust smart contract development with at least one main net deployment

Nice to Haves

Zero knowledge proofs or account abstraction exposure for a web2 audience

Prior work on loyalty, payments, or fintech compliance

Data infra chops (ClickHouse, dbt, experimentation frameworks)

Benefits

Benefits

Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage

100% remote with Quarterly On-Sites

Significant Token Allocation and competitive salary.

Significant Media Exposure across podcasts, conferences, TV appearances and more

Full-time

Fully remote