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# Director of Engineering, Product at Turnkey

- **Company:** Turnkey
- **Location:** United States
- **Compensation:** $250k–$290k
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-24
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-17
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/turnkeycareers/jobs/4420394009

## Job description

## About Us

Machines will make decisions, move value, and coordinate on behalf of organizations, instantly, autonomously, and at unprecedented scale. But the systems that govern today’s economy weren’t designed for that world. Turnkey is building the infrastructure for this future: programmable guardrails that enable autonomy without sacrificing control.

Founded by the team that scaled Coinbase Custody to $100M+ in ARR and secured more than $100B in crypto assets, we know how to move at pace without ever compromising on security.

Our mission is to help the world operate an economy on autopilot, safely. We're low-ego, high-agency, and deeply technical. Our team consists of experts in cryptography, security, and systems who believe great infrastructure is invisible. We're building the trustless, programmable foundation for the autonomous economy, and we're hiring people who understand what that requires.

We are seeking a Director of Engineering to lead our Product Engineering organization, the team responsible for Turnkey's core product. This spans our TEE- and HSM-based key verification and signing systems, the APIs, SDKs, and interfaces built on top of them, and the infrastructure that makes our security guarantees independently verifiable. This is a senior leadership role reporting to our CTO/Co-Founder Jack Kearney, owning both the technical direction and the people leadership of the org. If you're excited about the potential that web3 has to radically change the world for the better and have a sincere desire to help facilitate that change, join us as we redefine decentralized development.

## What You'll Do

Strategic Vision and Leadership

- Own the engineering strategy and technical vision for Turnkey's Product Engineering organization, spanning key management, the APIs and interfaces built on top of it, transaction processing, and the infrastructure that makes our security guarantees independently verifiable.
- Build, manage, and grow a high-performing engineering org, including hiring and developing engineering managers and senior ICs
- Partner closely with Product and Design leadership to translate customer and market needs into a clear technical roadmap
- Identify and evaluate emerging technologies and trends in web3 and guide their integration into our product
- Contribute to company-wide strategic planning and technical decision-making as a member of the engineering leadership team

Organizational & People Leadership

- Define and evolve the org structure, leveling, and career paths for the Product Engineering team as it scales
- Drive recruitment, onboarding, and retention of top engineering talent across the org
- Set and uphold engineering rituals (planning, incident review, on-call, etc.) that keep the org fast-moving and accountable
- Coach and develop managers and senior engineers, building a durable leadership bench

Architectural Oversight & Technical Direction

- Provide technical guidance across security-critical product systems, ensuring intelligent architectural decisions that scale with customer demand without compromising trust
- Oversee the design and implementation of TEE- and HSM-based key management and signing systems, the APIs, SDKs, and dashboards built on top of them, transaction construction and broadcast systems, and the infrastructure that makes our security guarantees independently verifiable
- Ensure the scalability, security, and reliability of product infrastructure, addressing the complexities of decentralized systems and adversarial threat models
- Define and drive processes that ensure quality and consistency across product development, from design through deployment

## What We're Looking For

- Proven experience managing engineering managers and/or leading a multi-team engineering org (not just individual teams)
- Deep understanding of modern application architectures and security-critical systems (e.g., HSMs, TEEs, key management), with the ability to lead in-depth technical discussions and make final calls on tradeoffs
- A track record of shipping security-critical or developer-facing products (key management, signing infrastructure, APIs, or SDKs) at scale
- Excellence at holding a high bar on software quality and engineering process, even while moving fast
- A healthy amount of paranoia :-)

Style Points

- Prior experience working in fast-paced crypto/web3 and/or FinTech companies, especially with exposure to custody, key management, or HSM/enclave-based systems
- Experience scaling an engineering org through a significant growth stage (e.g., Series B → C, or comparable)
- Actively tracking developments in the crypto ecosystem and opinionated on where it's going

Turnkey is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We encourage individuals of all backgrounds to apply.

## Compensation range

$250,000—$290,000 USD

## About Turnkey

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Turnkey provides secure, scalable, and programmable crypto wallet infrastructure—including embedded wallets, transaction signing, and onchain automation—through a single API.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B; total funding $52.5M)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2022 (launched product 2023)
- **Founders**: Bryce Ferguson (CEO & Co-Founder) and Jack Kearney (Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Industry**: Crypto wallet infrastructure / private key management
- **Target customers**: B2B – developers, fintechs, crypto exchanges, DeFi platforms, and enterprises building crypto‑native products
- **Mission**: To secure the open internet by building verifiable infrastructure that powers crypto for generations to come.

## Products & Services
- **Wallets & Signing** – Create, manage, and sign transactions from non‑custodial wallets with low latency (50–100ms) and 99.9% uptime.
- **Embedded Wallets** – Seamless, in‑app wallets that increase conversion rates.
- **Smart Wallet Signer** – Use Turnkey as the signing layer for smart contract wallets (account abstraction).
- **Transaction Management with Gas Sponsorship** – Production‑ready execution layer for building, sending, and tracking blockchain transactions, with optional fee sponsorship.
- **Onchain Automation** – Automate complex multi‑step crypto transactions at scale (millions in minutes).
- **Policy Engine** – Write granular policies for transaction limits, user permissions, and operational security.
- **Sessions** – Create user sessions to sign transactions without additional approvals, using familiar auth methods (OAuth, passkeys, email).
- **Turnkey Verifiable Cloud** (beta) – Brings verifiable execution to sensitive workloads.
- **Packaged solutions** (announced 2026): Agentic Wallets, Payment Orchestration, Smart Contract Management.

All products are delivered as an API or set of composable primitives, running inside Trusted Execution Environments (secure enclaves). SOC 2 Type II certified and audited by Trail of Bits, Zellic, and Cure53.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$52.5M**; surpassed **$100B in stablecoin volume** as of June 2026.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Sequoia Capital, Bain Capital Crypto, Lightspeed Faction, Galaxy, Coinbase Ventures, Circle Ventures, Archetype.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount grew **101.7% YoY** to 61 employees.
  - Trusted by Moonshot, Alchemy, Bridge, Magic Eden, Polymarket, Azura, Dynamic, Zora, Mysten Labs, Aptos, DIMO, Squads, Infinex, and others.
  - Expanded chain support (BNB Chain, Tempo) and launched new packaged solutions and Verifiable Cloud beta.
  - Named **Inc. Best Workplaces 2026** (people‑first culture recognized nationally).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Team pedigree**: Founders and engineers built **Coinbase Custody**, the world’s largest crypto custodian, protecting $100B+.
- **Verifiable & open‑source**: Code can be independently verified, replacing blind trust with cryptographic proof.
- **Non‑custodial by design**: Users always retain full control of their private keys.
- **Hardware security**: All operations run inside secure enclaves (TEEs) with end‑to‑end encryption.
- **Chain‑agnostic**: Supports arbitrary signing for any blockchain or asset.
- **Performance**: Sub‑100ms signing latency and ability to sign millions of transactions in minutes.

## Strategic Focus
- **Expand verifiable computing** with the beta launch of Turnkey Verifiable Cloud.
- **Grow packaged workflows** (Agentic Wallets, Payment Orchestration, Smart Contract Management) to reduce implementation friction for enterprises.
- **Deepen institutional trust** via SOC 2, audits, and strategic investments from Circle Ventures and Archetype.
- **Scale hiring** across engineering, product, operations, and sales to support rapid customer growth.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Low‑ego, high‑slope, crypto‑native team. Everyone is a builder. Emphasis on ownership, low hierarchy, and minimal meetings.
- **Remote/Hybrid**: Engineering is **remote‑first**; non‑technical roles are based in NYC with in‑person collaboration and regular offsites.
- **Recognition**: Inc. Best Workplaces 2026, reflecting a strong people‑first culture.
- **Team depth**: Over **100 years of combined experience** in cryptography, security, and low‑level systems. Many hires come from Coinbase, OP Labs, Consensys, and other crypto leaders.
- **Open roles**: Engineering Manager, Senior Software Engineer (Backend), Account Executive (remote), Business Operations (NYC), Sales Management (NYC) – as of July 2026.

## Sources
1. [Turnkey About Page](https://www.turnkey.com/about)
2. [Turnkey Homepage](https://www.turnkey.com/)
3. [Turnkey Blog – Inc. Best Workplace](https://www.turnkey.com/blog/turnkey-recognized-inc-best-workplace)
4. [Turnkey LinkedIn Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/turnkeyhq)
5. [Turnkey Careers on Greenhouse](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/turnkeycareers)

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