About the Company
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've built the systems trusted to move and protect billions in value.
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.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Vision and Leadership
- Develop and articulate the overarching engineering strategy and technical vision
- Manage a high-performing engineering team and guide the development of Turnkey's product and infrastructure
- Identify and evaluate emerging technologies and trends in web3 and guide their integration into our product and infrastructure
- Collaborate with leadership to drive recruitment and onboarding of top engineering talent
- Contribute to overall strategic planning and technical decision making
Architectural Oversight & Technical Direction
- Provide strategic technical guidance and leadership, ensuring intelligent architectural decisions that support our long-term goals
- Oversee the design and implementation of modern application architectures, optimized for the unique challenges of web3
- Ensure the scalability, security, and reliability of our infrastructure, addressing the complexities of decentralized systems
- Contribute to defining and delivering processes that drive quality & consistency to our product & infrastructure development
Qualifications & Requirements
- Previous managerial experience
- An understanding of modern application architectures and ability to lead in-depth discussions on how they should be developed and deployed
- Excellence at holding a high-bar on software and the requisite engineering processes
- A healthy amount of paranoia:-)
Style points
- Prior experience working in fast-paced crypto/web3 and/or FinTech companies
- Actively tracking developments in the crypto ecosystem and opinionated on where it's going
Perks & Compensation
- Full benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, HSA/FSA, 401(k) - detailed benefits overview available as we get further in the process
- Paid parental leave
- Unlimited PTO
- $3,000/yr learning and development budget to attend industry conferences
- Multiple team offsites per year
- Lunch stipend
We encourage individuals of all backgrounds to apply.
Compensation range
$200,000 - $275,000 USD
About Turnkey
Turnkey, founded in 2022 by Bryce Ferguson and Jack Kearney, former Coinbase engineers, in New York, provides low-level wallet infrastructure for developers. Its API abstracts private key generation, signing and policy enforcement into secure, scalable enclaves, letting apps spin up millions of non-custodial wallets with flexible permissions, social recovery and session keys. Used by exchanges, fintechs and on-chain games, Turnkey emphasizes sub-100ms signing, audited cryptography and fine-grained policies without exposing raw keys. Backed by leading investors including Sequoia and Variant, the company focuses on invisible infrastructure that makes crypto UX feel like Web2. Headquartered in New York with a remote US team, Turnkey operates with deep security expertise. Expect a high-trust engineering culture focused on key management rigor, developer experience and reliable operations.