IO TECH SOLUTIONS LIMITED

Role Description 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. - 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. Qualifications - 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. Requirements - 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. Benefits - 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.