Location: Remote (APAC) | Open to candidates in the Philippines, Singapore, and Hong Kong
We're partnering with a well-funded digital financial services company to hire a Founding Engineering Manager for a brand-new crypto and digital payments initiative.
This is a unique opportunity to join at the earliest stage of a new business, leading the technical direction, building the engineering team, and delivering secure, scalable financial products in a regulated environment.
What You'll Do
- Lead the end-to-end engineering delivery for a new crypto and payments platform.
- Build and grow the founding engineering team, setting a high bar for hiring and engineering excellence.
- Define technical architecture and make key build-versus-buy decisions.
- Design and implement integrations with third-party platforms and infrastructure providers.
- Partner closely with Product, Design, Compliance, and business stakeholders to deliver customer-focused solutions.
- Establish engineering best practices, CI/CD, observability, and modern software development processes.
- Mentor engineers while remaining hands-on with architecture and technical decision-making.
What We're Looking For
- 10+ years of software engineering experience with at least 4 years leading engineering teams.
- Experience within crypto, blockchain, digital assets, fintech, digital banking, or payments.
- Proven experience delivering production systems in regulated financial environments.
- Strong software engineering background with modern backend or full-stack technologies (Java and/or Python preferred).
- Experience designing distributed systems, APIs, and cloud-native applications.
- Ability to build and scale high-performing engineering teams.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
Nice to Have
- Wallet, custody, or blockchain infrastructure experience.
- MPC, HSM, or digital asset security knowledge.
- Experience with KYC, AML, fraud, payments, or ledger platforms.
- AWS cloud and serverless architecture.
- Experience building greenfield products or leading engineering teams in high-growth environments.
Why Join?
- Founding engineering leadership opportunity.
- Build a new product and engineering organisation from scratch.
- High ownership with significant influence over technical strategy.
- Competitive compensation package, performance bonus, and equity.
- Flexible remote working within APAC.
- Opportunity to work on innovative products at the intersection of fintech and digital assets.
If you're passionate about building scalable financial products and leading engineering teams in a fast-paced environment, we'd love to hear from you.
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