Engineering Manager (Fiat & Crypto) at Quidax

About the Role

• We’re on the lookout for an Engineering Manager who’s hungry to lead the tech team behind our Fiat and Crypto products — the literal core of Quidax. This role is perfect for someone who knows how to ship great products fast, lead a team of brilliant engineers, and design systems that scale like magic. You’ll be owning a high-impact area that affects millions of dollars in value exchange and is key to our Q4 growth goals.

What You’ll Be Owning

• Drive Team Performance & Delivery
• Platform & Infrastructure Evolution
• Build & Grow a Rockstar Team
• Own Quality, Reliability & Experimentation
• Biggest Challenges You’ll Tackle
• Here’s what will keep you up at night, it’s very exciting but you will want to get it solved like yesterday

What We’re Looking For

• You’re a builder, a coach, and a systems thinker. You’ve seen scale and have battle scars to prove it. You know how to ship, lead, and grow.

Nice-to-haves:

• In your first 90 days: assess the current team, structure, and delivery processes; align product and engineering to ship reliably and fast
• By Q1 2026: Contribute to and take ownership of processes that drive engineering quality and meet our engineering SLAs.
• First 30 days: Work with technical leads to conduct a full-stack audit of our Fiat and Crypto platforms — think architecture, observability, and scalability
• By month 6: Collaborate with technical leads to implement a 12-month roadmap for evolving our core systems, reducing tech debt, and supporting 10x growth
• Be a thoughtful technical voice and support your team in making diligent architectural decisions.
• By Q1 2026: ship 3+ experiments tied to improving exchange experience — track usage, improve UX, and iterate
• Keeping up with the speed of product and market shifts while ensuring system stability
• Building a truly multi-currency infrastructure that works across borders and bank partners
• Juggling regulation, risk, and security while staying customer-first
• Up-levelling an already smart team without micromanaging
• You have at least 7 years of experience in software engineering.
• You have at least 2 years of engineering management experience.
• You possess a strong understanding of what constitutes high-quality code and effective software engineering processes, creating an environment that fosters these principles.
• You have an execution-focused mindset, capable of navigating through ambiguity and delivering results.
• You have an ability to balance long-term strategic thinking with short-term planning.
• You can be hands-on when needed – whether that’s writing/reviewing code or technical documents, participating in on-call rotations and leading incidents, or triaging/troubleshooting bugs.
• You know how to hire, coach, and level up engineers
• You’ve led backend-heavy engineering teams in fintech or crypto
• You’re fluent in Java or Kotlin (bonus if you’ve touched Go)
• You’ve built payment/crypto systems and know what great infra looks like

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