We are a diverse team that takes pride in understanding the perspectives of others. We fully embrace working remotely and we are eager to act, improve and accelerate progress inside and outside of our organization.
To drive revolutionary changes in society and make crypto useful, we delight our customers with world-class products, deep care, and intentional empathy.
Your Purpose
The Bitso Retail team is expanding, and we are looking for an experienced technical lead to join the Crypto Revolution. In this crucial role, you will manage engineers and other leads, helping them grow while we build scalable, secure, and high-quality products with our users as the center.
You will work with product, design, and business stakeholders to define the strategy and set priorities. Your ultimate goal will be to offer our customers products of excellence, prioritizing security and user experience.
This role requires deep technical and architectural understanding. You must understand architecture and have a solid previous background as a developer. While coding is not expected, there will be situations where you will need to support your team.
Reports To
Director of Engineering
Who You Are
- Passionate about the crypto ecosystem.
- 6+ years of experience managing engineering teams, with at least 2+ years managing managers.
- Strong background in payments or investment.
- Proven ability to scale engineering teams and optimize delivery processes.
- Deep technical expertise in software engineering, architecture, and team building.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across functions and geographies.
- Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools (e.g., Splunk, Datadog).
- Experience working with Git and automated CI/CD tools.
- Strong ability to coordinate sizeable multidisciplinary product engineering squads.
- Knows how to motivate teams through practical challenges.
- Experience building and launching large products to market.
- Proficiency in agile methodologies and DevOps practices
Nice to Have
The following qualifications are not mandatory but would be valuable:
- Crypto and trading knowledge
- You know your way around Kubernetes, GRPC, and REST
- You know React Native or JS
- Experience working on User Facing Products
What You Will Do
- Be responsible for the team health and growth of each of its members.
- Identify high performers that need to be nurtured and lower performers that need assistance.
- Run performance reviews, assign promotions, making sure success planning is a fact.
- Provide leadership and technological guidance to your squad and other managers when uncertain.
- Monitoring metrics, goals, and missions for people and teams.
- Oversee and empower engineering teams, ensuring high productivity, technical excellence, and a strong culture of collaboration.
- Manage managers—providing mentorship, guidance, and strategic direction to engineering leaders.
- Own the execution of engineering initiatives,
- Ensure teams have the proper structure.
- Foster a high-performance engineering culture by driving best practices in software development, security, and system design.
- Contribute to hiring and retaining top engineering talent globally, helping to shape the future of Bitso’s technical organization.
- Challenge the status-quo, seeking customer value at all times, by delivering innovative and quality software solutions.
Research in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion suggests that individuals may hesitate to apply for jobs if they do not meet all the listed criteria. At Bitso, we value diversity and your unique strengths could be just what we're looking for. If this role excites you but you don't match every point in the description, we still want to hear from you.
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With over 9 million users, Bitso is the leading cryptocurrency platform in Latin America. We are developing the cryptocurrency ecosystem in the region and enabling financial inclusion. We believe crypto is the future of finance, and we’re committed to making it useful by providing equal access to safe and intuitive financial products.
When we hire people for our team, we specifically test for the following traits in addition to our cultural values:
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Mission-Driven: We seek individuals who are passionate about crypto and Bitso’s mission and resilient in facing industry challenges
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High Sense of Urgency: We prioritize candidates who demonstrate a high sense of urgency and responsibility.
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Exceptional Hard Skills: We seek individuals who possess exceptional skills in their respective fields, with no room for mediocrity.
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Self-Management: We look for individuals who can independently manage their work, career, and professional development.
Compensation & Benefits
At Bitso, you are taking the front seat on the edge of crypto innovation, creating the next generation of crypto-powered products.
So for those willing to commit, adapt and pioneer the most important change of the century we offer:
- Me Time program, including unlimited paid time off.
- Remote-first work environment.
- Employee Stock Option program.
- Zero trading fees through our Bitso Alpha app.
- Extended Family Leave Policy: all birthing parents, non-birthing parents and adopting parents are eligible for a 4-months leave.
- Premium health, dental and life insurances in Mexico, Gibraltar, Colombia, USA, Brazil and Argentina.
- Monthly stipend for gym memberships, relaxation activities, sports equipment, cooking classes, books, entertainment and more.
Want to leave an undoubtedly legacy with us? Fasten your seatbelt and join this spaceship, where you will find exponential growth and the opportunity to thrive!
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What We Do
Bitso is Latin America’s leading Financial Services company powered by crypto. With millions of clients, we are leading the financial revolution with borderless, secure, transparent, and accessible financial products.
With the mission to unlock the power of borderless, secure, and easy-to-use financial products by making crypto useful, we are committed to empowering the region with universal access to the digital economy of the future and enabling a fairer monetary system
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