Founding Engineering Manager - Crypto & Digital Payments

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.

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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.

Originally posted on Himalayas