Engineering Manager - Crypto Payments

IO TECH SOLUTIONS LIMITED; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 800,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Job summary

IO TECH SOLUTIONS LIMITED seeks an Engineering Manager to lead technology delivery for a new portfolio. You will recruit and onboard the founding engineering team, set engineering culture and standards, and build an integration framework to plug in top-tier infrastructure partners rapidly.

The role remains hands-on: you will set the architecture, guide build vs. buy, and stay close to code from zero to one and beyond, partnering with Product, Design, Compliance, Legal, and Bank teams across

Qualifications

• 10+ years in engineering with 4+ years in a leadership role.
• Experience in financial services or crypto, regulated products.
• Proven full-stack capability across frontend and backend; Java or Python.
• Experience leading multi-vendor collaborations with API-first approach.
• Experience building remote/hybrid teams across time zones.
• Comfort operating in regulated fintechs across multiple jurisdictions.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end engineering delivery for wallet and payments ecosystems.
• Recruit founding team and scale a remote/hybrid engineering org.
• Set engineering culture, standards, and onboarding.
• Define integration framework for partner ecosystems.
• Make build-vs-buy decisions with architecture and product teams.
• Establish AI-native practices with modern tooling and CD.
• Collaborate with Compliance, Legal, and regulatory bodies.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Full-stack engineering

Regulated fintech

Java/Python

Multi-vendor orchestration

Remote/hybrid teams

Architecture governance

AI-native engineering

Job description

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead technology delivery for the new portfolio. As one of the first technical hires in the team, you will recruit and onboard the founding engineering team, establish the engineering culture and standards, leveraging the client playbook, and build the integration framework that lets us plug in best‑in‑class infrastructure partners at speed.

The role is hands‑on. You will set the architecture, make the build‑vs‑buy calls, lead vendor discussions and stay close enough to the code to make calls credibly from zero to one and beyond.

Responsibilities

• Lead the 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; initially a tight pod, scaling quickly.
• Set the bar for hiring and shape the team's culture, rituals, and standards from day one.
• Define and build our integration framework for infrastructure partners.
• Make build‑vs‑buy calls. Partner with our architecture and product teams to define our approach to integrating best‑in‑class partners / building the product layer / leveraging the existing platform to support. You will own that line and defend it.
• Establish and run an AI‑native engineering practice with modern tooling as the default, continuous delivery, feature‑flagged rollouts, synthetic users in production.
• Partner closely with Product, Design, Compliance, Legal, and the existing Bank and engineering organisations to deliver a coherent, regulated proposition across multiple jurisdictions.

Must haves

• 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.
• Financial services and crypto experience. You have shipped regulated products, and you have shipped on‑chain products.
• 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. Ideally Java and/or Python.
• Multi‑vendor orchestration leadership, including an API‑first setup approach and 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 (e.g. MiCA, CASP, VARA, MAS DPT and equivalents).