Working At Bitso
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.
<h3><span >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 closely with product, design, and business stakeholders to define the strategy, set priorities, and align on roadmaps. Your ultimate goal will be to deliver excellent products to our customers, prioritizing security, compliance, user experience, and reliability in a high-volume trading environment.
This role requires deep technical and architectural understanding, with a solid previous background as a developer. While day-to-day coding is not expected, you will need to provide hands-on technical guidance and support your teams in complex situations.
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 trading or investment platforms.
- Proven ability to scale engineering teams,optimize delivery processes, and handle high-throughput, mission-critical systems. .
- Deep technical expertise in software engineering, architecture, and team building.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across functions, geographies, and remote/distributed teams..
- 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 and foster psychological safety..
- Experience building and launching large-scale user-facing products to market.
- Comfortable with modern delivery practices, including DevOps principles.
Nice to Have
The following qualifications are not mandatory but would be valuable:
- Crypto and trading knowledge
- You know your way around Kubernetes, GRPC,REST, microservices, and cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP)
- Experience working on User Facing Products in mobile or web
- Knowledge of Shape Up or similar fixed-cycle product development methodologies
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, and ensure robust succession planning.
- 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.
- Oversee and empower engineering teams, ensuring high productivity, technical excellence, and a strong culture of collaborationâdelegating execution while maintaining accountability.
- Ensure teams have the proper structure, processes, and resources to succeed..
- Foster a high-performance engineering culture by driving best practices in software development, security, system design, and risk management.
- Contribute to hiring and retaining top engineering talent globally, helping to shape the future of Bitsoâs technical organization.
- Challenge the status quo to maximize customer value, delivering innovative and high-quality software solutions.Balance feature delivery with technical debt reduction, providing clear visibility and trade-off discussions to stakeholders.
- Influence cross-functional partners and contribute to the overall technical strategy and roadmap for the Engineering organization.
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Who We Are
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 weâre 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 Bitsoâs 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!
- These are the applicable requisites, although equivalent competencies in any of the above will also be considered.
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