Engineering Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Mexico.

📋 Description

• Technical leadership of the Xborder squad, establishing architecture, standards, and design decisions for pay-in, payout, FX, and settlement flows.

• Build proprietary cross-border payment infrastructure, designing the migration from the current provider to direct integrations with banks, liquidity providers, and rails on stablecoins, without disrupting customer operations.

• Drive AI development by leading the adoption of Claude Code and defining flows, standards, and repeatable patterns.

• Develop the team by mentoring engineers, providing continuous feedback, creating growth plans, and fostering ownership and accountability.

• Execute predictably by collaborating with Product to transform business objectives into concrete plans while balancing speed, quality, and regulatory compliance.

• Operate reliably by promoting observability, idempotency, and reconciliation from the design stage.

• Actively participate in incident management and resolution of critical issues.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 7 years of software development experience and more than 2 years of leading squads or engineering teams.

• A balance between people leadership and hands-on execution.

• Experience in cross-border payment companies, remittances, or crypto/exchanges.

• Proven experience in building distributed transactional systems: ledgers, reconciliation, idempotency, state management, and retry handling in money flows.

• Practical knowledge of crypto rails: stablecoins (C/T), integration with blockchains and custodians, wallet management, on/off-ramps, and on-chain monitoring.

• Experience integrating and/or replacing payment or liquidity providers with proprietary infrastructure.

• Strong backend skills, B2B API design, event-driven architectures, and cloud-native solutions.

• Ideally experienced with Node.js/TypeScript, Go, or Kotlin; PostgreSQL; Kafka; AWS; Kubernetes.

• Experience operating in regulated environments: AML/KYC, compliance controls, and relationships with financial partners.

• Clear communication skills, technical influence, pragmatism, and autonomy in ambiguous contexts.

• Professional English proficiency to work with international partners and suppliers.

• Nice to have: experience in FX and multi-currency treasury, smart contracts, settlement across multiple jurisdictions, or having built a cross-border product from scratch.

🏝️ Benefits

• Indefinite contract.

• 3-month trial period.

• 40 hours per week.

• 24 days of annual vacation.

• 100% remote work from any LATAM country.

• Real ownership over the cross-border payments vertical at Monato.

• Opportunity to design and build our own international payment infrastructure from the ground up.

• Direct exposure to B2B payments in Mexico and international and crypto rails.

• Small teams with high impact, working closely with Product, Security, Platform, and Leadership.

• Flexible culture focused on execution.