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# AVP, Engineering

- **Company:** Cross River
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $170,000.0 - $210,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Business Logic, Microsoft Azure, C Sharp (Programming Language), Cloud Computing, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Intrusion Detection and Prevention, Python (Programming Language), NoSQL, Software Engineering, SQL Databases, .NET Core, Caching, Backend, Git, Event Driven Architecture, Real Time Data, Front End Software Development, Terraform
- **Published:** October 20, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.builtincolorado.com/job/avp-engineering/11761247?handler=ApplyRedirect

## About the Role

* 8+ years of experience in software engineering (a mix of front-end, back-end, API, security, and other best practices), with progressive leadership or management responsibilities

 * 6+ years of experience with C#, .NET Core, and the Microsoft development ecosystem deployed via AWS

 * 6+ years of experience in real-time data management (SQL, NoSQL, caching)

 * 4+ years of experience in DevOps disciplines (GIT or Azure Devops, Terraform, Python)

 * 3+ years of experience leading, managing engineering teams and interfacing with product and business organizations

Ideal Candidate:

 * Experience in the financial industry (FinTech or traditional banking)

 * Fully understands the business logic to drive the most relevant engineering solution

## Description

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead and grow our Payments team (official title: "AVP, Engineering").. This is a hands-on leadership role-approximately 60% engineering and 40% people and project management. We are looking for someone who takes ownership, identifies high-impact opportunities, and thrives in a fast-paced environment.

Engineering Responsibilities (~60%):

 * Design, develop, and deliver scalable software modules and components

 * Build backend systems using .NET 10, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, RabbitMQ, Docker and AWS

People & Project Management Responsibilities (~40%):

 * Lead, mentor, and support a team of engineers and QA professionals with empathy, trust, and a focus on individual growth

 * Foster a culture that promotes sharing ideas, taking calculated risks, and learning from setbacks

 * Plan, triage, and prioritize work across multiple initiatives with lifecycles ranging from two weeks to three months, Leads enterprise Quality Engineering automation architecture, including scalable functional, regression, performance, and security testing frameworks. Integrates automation into CI/CD pipelines, establishes QE standards, and drives AI-assisted testing using LLMs, RAG, prompt engineering, and agentic workflows. Partners with engineering teams, mentors architects and engineers, evaluates automation tools, enables quality reporting, and delivers rollout plans and training. The role requires deep software quality, test architecture, automation, AI tooling, systems design, and stakeholder management expertise.
Top Skills: Agentic AiAWSAzureCi/CdCloudbeesGithub ActionsJavaScriptJenkinsLlmsPlaywrightPythonRagRest ApiSeleniumTypescript
Cross River, In-Office or Remote
United States
Senior level
Senior level
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Designs, implements, and refines threat detection and response use cases aligned with MITRE ATT&CK and the Cyber Kill Chain. Collaborates with threat intelligence, incident response, forensics, and security operations teams; analyzes attack patterns; participates in red-team and penetration-testing exercises; develops security metrics and management reports; and leads junior analysts as needed. The role requires expertise in security monitoring, incident response, forensics, network and host controls, cloud security, and multiple forensic and SIEM tools.
Top Skills: Application SecurityCloud Computing SecurityCyber Kill ChainDatabase SecurityEncaseFirewallsFtkHost ForensicsIpsMdsMitre Att&CkMobile Device SecurityNetwork ForensicsNetwork SecurityOperating System SecurityProxyRedlineSiftSplunkTcpdumpVolatilityVpnWafWireshark

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