VP of Engineering - Spree

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

• 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

• 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