VP Engineering

About The Position

FundGuard is making headlines in the global asset management space.

Our AI‑powered, cloud‑native investment accounting platform transforms the industry and facilitates safer and more efficient asset growth for all financial investors.

We are currently seeking an experienced and passionate senior manager to head our groups of applications and lead the development of our SaaS solution tailored for large-scale customers in the financial service domain.

This role calls for a seasoned professional who will play a major role in elevating our platform to the next level, assuming responsibility for the development and execution plans, establishing development routines, and fostering continuous improvement and innovation while guiding our application development groups.

We offer a dynamic and collaborative work environment with a firm emphasis on technical excellence, and fintech innovation in a fast-growing company.

If you’re a forward-thinking leader with a passion for fine engineering, AI, Big data, and effecting change in the financial services industry, we want to meet you!

Key Responsibilities

As a senior member of our R&D organization, you will own and be at the forefront of building our applicative solutions that integrate big data technologies and multi-services architecture designed for production at scale. 

You will lead by example to nurture, inspire, and motivate the application groups (~60 engineers) to accomplish their development targets by fostering a culture of excellence, collaboration, innovation, and positive thinking. 

You are expected to balance technical products and business requirements across multiple feature developments and customer projects. To do that you will closely collaborate with product and Customer Success teams (based in Tel Aviv and the U.S.).

In this role, you will report to the CTO and partner with Platform, Product, and Delivery leaders to define the architecture and technological roadmap.

Requirements:

• Successful experience in leading R&D SW groups in SaaS/web applications companies
• At least 10 years of SW leadership positions, managing at least 60 engineers
• Have successful experience in executing vast technical product developments, from concept to production
• Experience managing groups in startups; and working in a fast-paced growth environment
• Exceptional strategic thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities 
• Strong technical development background; hands-on mentality 
• Experienced with large-scale, cloud-based applications, including diverse cloud based technologies (such as Kafka, Spark, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL) and frameworks in the Java ecosystem (a must)
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams
• Bachelor or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field from leading universities
• Knowledge in the fields of Finance and Accounting – a big advantage
• Fluent in English and Hebrew

About FundGuard: 

Located in Tel Aviv’s Azrieli Center, FundGuard is the new generation investment accounting utility for asset managers and their service providers. Our cloud-native, AI-powered operating system and technology platform are transforming investment operations to enable reduced fees and the ability to offer new and innovative products, including crypto-asset services, while scaling for the future.

The company is led by an experienced team with successful exits and has raised more than $150 million, backed by strategic partners including Citi and State Street, and investment firms Blumberg Capital, Key1 Capital, LionBird Ventures, and Team8 among others

Our Last Round was on March 2024 and secured $100 million!

https://www.globes.co.il/news/article.aspx?did=1001474603#google_vignette

https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/b1dbvkjya

We offer an exciting work opportunity where you’ll develop one of the more robust enterprise applications with deep financial engines while using cutting-edge cloud technologies.

We are also delighted to share that we have been selected as one of the “50 Most Promising Israeli Startups for 2023” by Calcalist and as one of the “21 Most Promising Israeli Startups for 2023” by N12.