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New York, New York, United States
Hybrid
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HYPR, the Identity Assurance Company, helps organizations create trust in the identity lifecycle. We are a community of bold thinkers and energetic doers who imagined a brand new approach to identity security and, at the same time, are eliminating a pervasive and persistent 60-year old problem – the password. Since being founded in 2014, the company has grown to be the premium provider of authentication security to marquee brands around the globe and are quickly becoming the recognized leader in Identity Assurance. We are looking for exceptional people with the ambition and the will to positively change the world. If that sounds like you, join us on our mission to create a passwordless world and secure the identity lifecycle.
Your Role and Impact
The Director of Engineering is responsible for the technical execution, software quality, and engineering excellence of the HYPR platform. Reporting to the CTO, this leader oversees the end-to-end build lifecycle, ensuring that product investments are translated into secure, scalable, maintainable, and high-quality software releases.
This role owns the engineering disciplines responsible for architecture, software development, AI-enabled engineering practices, quality engineering, test automation, platform services, APIs, SDKs, developer tooling, integrations, technical debt management, and defect resolution. The Director of Engineering establishes the standards, processes, and culture that enable engineering teams to consistently deliver reliable, production-ready software at scale.
A core mandate of the role is transforming HYPR into an AI-first engineering organization, leveraging modern development capabilities to improve engineering productivity, code quality, release predictability, and developer effectiveness while maintaining the highest standards of security, quality, and craftsmanship.
Success in this role is measured by the quality of software released, engineering velocity, defect reduction, technical health, release predictability, developer effectiveness, and the organization's ability to consistently deliver customer value without compromising long-term platform sustainability.
This hybrid role is based out of HYPR's New York City headquarters located conveniently in midtown Manhattan.
Engineering Leadership & Talent Development
Technical Strategy & Architecture
AI-First Engineering Transformation
Software Delivery Excellence
Quality Engineering & Release Readiness
APIs, SDKs & Platform Development
Developer Productivity & Engineering Enablement
Technical Health & Continuous Improvement
Cross-Functional Partnership
The Benefits of Working with HYPR
Note:
This position is hybrid - at least 2-3 days a week at our NYC office.
H1B/Visa support is not currently available for this specific position.
OTE (on-target earnings): $220,000 - $275,000 (USD)
On-target earnings (OTE) is the total compensation an employee can expect to earn if they meet their performance targets. It's a projected salary that includes an employee's base salary plus their variable pay.
Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for our size and industry, and are one part of our total compensation package that also includes meaningful equity, benefits, and other opportunities at HYPR. Individual pay decisions are based on a number of factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skillset, and balancing internal equity relative to other HYPRions. We expect the majority of the candidates who are offered roles at HYPR to fall healthily throughout the range based on these factors.
As the premium provider of identity assurance, HYPR is committed to preventing identity fraud by safely and accurately verifying the identities of our employees. Accordingly, all new employees are required to participate in an automated identity verification process, which includes document verification, location detection, and facial recognition, on their first day of employment with the Company. To learn more about this identity verification process, please contact peopleops@hypr.com.
HYPR is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or any other applicable legally protected characteristic under federal, state or local law.
Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act and certain state and/or local laws. A reasonable accommodation is a change in the way things are normally done which will ensure an equal employment opportunity without imposing undue hardship on HYPR. Please inform peopleops@hypr.com if you need assistance completing HYPR’s application process.
