Manager, Software Engineering

About the Company Our client is a global financial technology company at the forefront of the new internet of money. Their infrastructure, including a widely used blockchain based dollar stablecoin, powers payments, commerce and financial applications worldwide. They help businesses, institutions and developers use blockchain technology to drive global economic prosperity and digital inclusion. Responsibilities • Run day to day activities of a dynamic engineering team, including requirements grooming, scrums, retrospectives and team events • Design, build and maintain APIs, user facing experiences, services and systems • Provide technical and architectural direction for the development, design, integration, testing and maintenance of the platform • Lead agile software processes for engineering teams and introduce best in class industry practices • Partner with stakeholders to ensure the team's contributions align with company objectives, develop technology roadmaps and set realistic product release schedules • Perform the full lifecycle of team management to attract, engage, retain, coach and performance manage teams of exceptional engineers, including mentoring, recruiting, training and development, and performance evaluation • Act as an internal ambassador for the engineering team to other groups, communicating the opportunities and constraints technology offers • Manage technical debt so development velocity stays responsive and predictable while minimising production incidents • Contribute to engineering wide initiatives as a member of the engineering management team • Coordinate the execution of these activities working with cross functional teams Required Skills • Three or more years of technical leadership experience • Seven or more years of software engineering experience • Three or more years coding in Go, Java or JavaScript • A hands on technical manager, experienced in designing, building and deploying secure, scalable products and services What Makes a Strong Fit • A builder manager: a former Staff Engineer, tech lead manager or startup CTO who moved into management but still reviews architecture and goes deep technically. This is a hands on first line manager role, not a manager of managers • Meaningful ownership of backend, infrastructure, platform or transactional systems, rather than delivery or optimisation alone • Concrete, current use of AI tooling: you can name the tools, describe how your workflow changed, explain how you are upskilling the team, and hold a view on how AI changes the software lifecycle • An AI forward or web3 and crypto background. Payments and general fintech are learnable here rather than a differentiator • Someone who still owns technical decisions directly rather than delegating them to tech leads • You love the idea of coaching and building leaders, both inside and outside your direct team • You work well cross functionally and can think rigorously and make hard trade offs • Experience managing remote teams, and comfort with a fast pace, high autonomy and real responsibility