Engineering Manager - Crypto & Payments

As an Engineering Manager at GoTymeX, you lead technology delivery for a new blockchain and digital asset portfolio within the GoTyme Group, which serves over 20 million customers across South Africa, the Philippines, and Asia. As one of the first technical hires, you recruit and onboard the founding engineering team, establish engineering culture and standards using the GoTymeX playbook, and build the integration framework for best-in-class infrastructure partners. The role is hands-on: you set architecture, make build-vs-buy decisions, lead vendor discussions, and stay close enough to the code to lead credibly from zero to one and beyond.

What you'll do

• Lead engineering delivery end-to-end, covering wallet, payments, custody integration, KYC, ledger and account management, and the broader product layer that ties them together.
• Recruit the founding engineering team and scale it quickly; set the hiring bar and shape the team's culture, rituals, and standards from day one.
• Define and build the integration framework for infrastructure partners.
• Make build-vs-buy calls in partnership with architecture and product teams; own the line between integrating best-in-class partners, building the product layer, and leveraging the existing GoTymeX platform.
• Establish and run an AI-native engineering practice with modern tooling as the default, continuous delivery, feature-flagged rollouts, and synthetic users in production.
• Partner closely with Product, Design, Compliance, Legal, and the existing GoTyme Bank and TymeBank engineering organisations to deliver a coherent, regulated proposition across multiple jurisdictions.

What you bring

• 10+ years of engineering experience, with 4+ years in a leadership role at a digital bank, modern payments company, crypto exchange, regulated fintech, or embedded finance platform.
• Shipped regulated products and on-chain products in financial services and crypto.
• Proven full-stack engineering experience across modern frontend frameworks and backend technologies, with the ability to make and guide architectural decisions across the entire stack.
• Multi-vendor orchestration leadership, including API-first setup approach and ability to run at scale covering roadmaps, SLAs, and support in commercial discussions.
• Demonstrated experience hiring and building remote and hybrid engineering teams across multiple time zones.
• Experience operating inside regulated fintechs across multiple jurisdictions; comfort working with compliance, risk, and regulators (for example, MiCA, CASP, VARA, MAS DPT and equivalents).
• An AI-native operating mode: you use AI tooling as default, you have shipped with it, and you have an opinion on how it changes team shape and delivery cadence.
• A founder-like approach to building: start-up or scale-up experience, hands-on with the product, comfortable with ambiguity, and biased toward shipping.

Nice to have

• Build and configuration of modern distributed-ledger technologies.
• MPC/HSM and signing-infrastructure experience.
• Hands-on production experience across wallet and payment infrastructure, blockchain and distributed-ledger technologies, core banking platforms and ledger management, identity and fraud systems including AML and travel rule tooling, or card issuing and processing.
• Web3 architecture knowledge: wallets, MPC/HSM setups, account abstraction, signing infrastructure, on-chain analytics.
• Deep AWS knowledge and serverless-native experience (Lambda, EventBridge, Step Functions, DynamoDB).
• Experience promoting a data-first architecture as the foundation to define product and developer experience in a complex regulated environment.
• Experience as one of the founding engineers or first engineering leaders on a new product or business line.
• Experience with modern tooling and languages including Java, Python, Swift, Kotlin, Databricks, Datadog, AWS, and LaunchDarkly.

What we offer

• Competitive base salary aligned to seniority and market.
• Performance-based bonus and equity participation in GoTyme Group.
• Hybrid or fully remote working, with the requirement to operate in an APAC timezone.
• Quarterly travel to Ho Chi Minh City (covered by the company) for engineering all-hands and team in-person time.
• Comprehensive private healthcare, life, and disability cover.
• Generous annual leave, plus public holidays in your country of residence.
• A learning and development budget, including paid certifications and conference attendance.
• Latest-generation hardware and a stipend for your home-working setup.

About GoTymeX and GoTyme Group

GoTymeX is the engineering, product, and design organisation building digital products for the GoTyme Group, a fast-growing digital banking group serving over 20 million customers across South Africa, the Philippines, and Asia. The group is backed by investors including Nubank, Tencent, Norrsken22, the Gokongwei Group, and ARC, with headquarters in Singapore, engineering hub in Vietnam, and operating banks in South Africa and the Philippines. GoTymeX operates with an API-first, distributed-systems-literate culture biased toward learning in production.