Senior Engineering Manager

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

📋 Description

• Lead and mentor engineers and engineering managers, fostering their professional development.

• Create scalable, secure, and user-centric products that meet high-quality standards.

• Collaborate with product, design, and business stakeholders to establish strategy, prioritize objectives, and align roadmaps.

• Deliver outstanding products while emphasizing security, compliance, user experience, and reliability in a fast-paced trading environment.

• Offer hands-on technical support and guidance to teams during complex challenges.

• Take ownership of team dynamics and the development of individual team members.

• Recognize high achievers for growth opportunities and identify lower performers who may require additional support.

• Conduct performance evaluations, manage promotions, and ensure effective succession planning.

• Provide leadership and technical direction to teams and managers.

• Track metrics, objectives, and missions for individuals and teams.

• Supervise and empower engineering teams while maintaining accountability.

• Ensure teams have the right structure, processes, and resources to succeed.

• Advocate for best practices in software development, security, system architecture, and risk management.

• Participate in the recruitment and retention of global engineering talent.

• Challenge existing norms to enhance customer value and deliver innovative, high-quality software solutions.

• Balance the delivery of new features with the reduction of technical debt, facilitating trade-off discussions with stakeholders.

• Influence cross-functional partners and contribute to the technical strategy and roadmap of Engineering.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 6 years of experience in managing engineering teams.

• At least 2 years of experience managing managers.

• Strong expertise in trading or investment platforms.

• Demonstrated ability to scale engineering teams, optimize delivery processes, and manage high-throughput, mission-critical systems.

• In-depth technical knowledge in software engineering, architecture, and team development.

• Exceptional oral and written communication abilities.

• Capable of effective collaboration across functions, locations, and remote/distributed teams.

• Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools, including Splunk and Datadog.

• Experience with Git and automated CI/CD methodologies.

• Strong coordination skills for large multidisciplinary product engineering teams.

• Ability to inspire teams through practical challenges and promote a culture of psychological safety.

• Experience in building and launching large-scale user-facing products.

• Comfortable with modern delivery practices, including DevOps principles.

• Passionate about the crypto ecosystem.

• Nice-to-have: knowledge of crypto and trading.

• Nice-to-have: experience with Kubernetes, gRPC, REST, microservices, and cloud platforms such as AWS and GCP.

• Nice-to-have: experience with user-facing mobile or web applications.

• Nice-to-have: familiarity with Shape Up or similar fixed-cycle product development methodologies.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexibility of remote work.

• Chance to be part of the Crypto Revolution.

• Support for employee growth, coaching, and development.

• A culture that prioritizes psychological safety and collaboration.

• Opportunity to influence hiring and help shape Bitso’s technical organization.