Founding Engineering Manager

IO Tech Solutions Limited

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.

• 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.

Required Skills

• Payments

• Engineering