Hiring: Head of Engineering - SVP Company: Axos Bank Location: San Diego, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-17 02:24:56 Employment Type: Remote Target Skills & Keywords : Accessibility, Blockchain, Business Analysis, CI/CD, LLM, Microservices, Performance Testing, Quality Assurance, Redis, Wealth Management About the job Experience: •10+ years of engineering leadership experience, including direct leadership of development, QA, and/or business analysis organizations of 300+ people. Required Skills: •Development Strategy & Technical Direction •Own the multi-year engineering and technology strategy for the Consumer, Securities & Wealth, AUC, and Philippines-based development organizations, translating business priorities into technical roadmaps. •Own application architecture and engineering standards across your four engineering groups, replacing legacy technical debt with modern, maintainable patterns such as API-first design and service-oriented design. •Set the technology and tooling direction for your organization, ensuring teams build on modern, well-supported platforms that scale, run reliably at low latency, and support 24x7 uptime. •Keep your organization on the cutting edge of relevant technology, evaluating and adopting new tools, frameworks, and architectural patterns ahead of the industry curve rather than after they become standard. •Make build-versus-buy and platform investment decisions for your organization, weighing speed, cost, and long-term technical health. •Partner with peer technology verticals to implement the platform and tooling infrastructure AIDLC requires at scale in a regulated banking environment. •Maintain a 12 to 24 month delivery capacity outlook for your organization that informs product roadmap feasibility and planning. Qualifications: •Bachelor's degree in related field or higher. •Deep working knowledge of how modern financial infrastructure operates, including banking and securities cores, fiat and securities settlement, and crypto and blockchain systems, along with a genuine willingness to rapidly learn as this technology continues to evolve. •Direct, personal experience leading major project delivery rescue: has stepped into a failing initiative themselves and turned it around, not only delegated the turnaround to others. •Track record of setting multi-year technology or engineering strategy for a large development organization, including build-versus-buy and platform investment decisions. •Demonstrated track record of building or transforming delivery operating models at scale, with measurable improvements in velocity, predictability, or quality attributable to organizational and process changes you led. •Applied hands-on capability in AI tooling in the AIDLC, having moved beyond AI-assisted development to deploying autonomous or semi-autonomous agents in testing, code review, or requirements workflows. •Deep expertise building and operating customer-facing digital products where performance, latency, and experience quality are primary engineering concerns. •OutSystems: practical experience building enterprise-grade applications on OutSystems, including architecture patterns, performance tuning, integration design, and ODC vs. O11 tradeoffs. •Background in financial services, fintech, digital banking, payments, or wealth management technology. •Operational familiarity with AIDLC frameworks and autonomous pipeline tooling (e.g., agent-based test generation, LLM-in-the-loop PR review, autonomous deployment validation). Compensation: •Flexible work environment (work from home / hybrid options) Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!