Your Purpose
We are looking for an experienced technical lead to join the Crypto Revolution. In this crucial role, you will manage engineers and other leads, helping them grow while we build scalable, secure, and high-quality products with our users as the center.
You will work closely with product, design, and business stakeholders to define the strategy, set priorities, and align on roadmaps. Your ultimate goal will be to deliver excellent products to our customers, prioritizing security, compliance, user experience, and reliability in a high-volume trading environment.
This role requires deep technical and architectural understanding, with a solid previous background as a developer. While day-to-day coding is not expected, you will need to provide hands-on technical guidance and support your teams in complex situations.
Who You Are
- Passionate about the crypto ecosystem.
- 6+ years of experience managing engineering teams, with at least 2+ years managing managers.
- Strong background in trading or investment platforms.
- Proven ability to scale engineering teams,optimize delivery processes, and handle high-throughput, mission-critical systems. .
- Deep technical expertise in software engineering, architecture, and team building.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across functions, geographies, and remote/distributed teams..
- Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools (e.g., Splunk, Datadog).
- Experience working with Git and automated CI/CD tools.
- Strong ability to coordinate sizeable multidisciplinary product engineering squads.
- Knows how to motivate teams through practical challenges and foster psychological safety..
- Experience building and launching large-scale user-facing products to market.
- Comfortable with modern delivery practices, including DevOps principles.
Nice to Have
The following qualifications are not mandatory but would be valuable:
- Crypto and trading knowledge
- You know your way around Kubernetes, GRPC,REST, microservices, and cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP)
- Experience working on User Facing Products in mobile or web
- Knowledge of Shape Up or similar fixed-cycle product development methodologies
What You Will Do
- Be responsible for the team health and growth of each of its members.
- Identify high performers that need to be nurtured and lower performers that need assistance.
- Run performance reviews, assign promotions, and ensure robust succession planning.
- Provide leadership and technological guidance to your squad and other managers when uncertain.
- Monitoring metrics, goals, and missions for people and teams.
- Oversee and empower engineering teams, ensuring high productivity, technical excellence, and a strong culture of collaboration.
- Oversee and empower engineering teams, ensuring high productivity, technical excellence, and a strong culture of collaboration—delegating execution while maintaining accountability.
- Ensure teams have the proper structure, processes, and resources to succeed..
- Foster a high-performance engineering culture by driving best practices in software development, security, system design, and risk management.
- Contribute to hiring and retaining top engineering talent globally, helping to shape the future of Bitso’s technical organization.
- Challenge the status quo to maximize customer value, delivering innovative and high-quality software solutions.Balance feature delivery with technical debt reduction, providing clear visibility and trade-off discussions to stakeholders.
- Influence cross-functional partners and contribute to the overall technical strategy and roadmap for the Engineering organization.
Research in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion suggests that individuals may hesitate to apply for jobs if they do not meet all the listed criteria. At Bitso, we value diversity and your unique strengths could be just what we're looking for. If this role excites you but you don't match every point in the description, we still want to hear from you.
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Skills Required
- 6+ years of experience managing engineering teams
- At least 2 years managing engineering managers
- Strong background in trading or investment platforms
- Experience scaling engineering teams and optimizing delivery processes
- Experience with high-throughput, mission-critical systems
- Deep expertise in software engineering and architecture
- Experience building and launching large-scale user-facing products
- Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools such as Splunk or Datadog
- Experience with Git and automated CI/CD tools
- Experience coordinating multidisciplinary product engineering squads
- Knowledge of DevOps principles and modern delivery practices
- Crypto and trading knowledge
- Experience with Kubernetes, gRPC, REST, microservices, and cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP
- Experience with mobile or web user-facing products
- Knowledge of Shape Up or similar fixed-cycle product development methodologies
What We Do
Bitso is Latin America’s leading Financial Services company powered by crypto. With millions of clients, we are leading the financial revolution with borderless, secure, transparent, and accessible financial products. With the mission to unlock the power of borderless, secure, and easy-to-use financial products by making crypto useful, we are committed to empowering the region with universal access to the digital economy of the future and enabling a fairer monetary system
