[Remote] Engineering Manager (Remote)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cyclops enables payments companies to use stablecoin settlement, payins, payouts, and treasury optimization through a single API. The Engineering Manager will lead and shape a new engineering squad, owning delivery, team development, quality, technical debt, risk management, AI-assisted development practices, security and compliance hygiene, and stakeholder collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery and predictability: realistic commitments the team meets, a stable delivery rhythm you own, and progress that is visible to stakeholders without micromanagement or surprises
• Build and grow the team: hire and onboard new engineers, set expectations from day one, maintain development paths and regular feedback for every team member, and monitor workload to prevent burnout
• Own quality and stability habits: incident response with follow-through, postmortems that lead to real changes, low bug leakage to production, and no same mistake should happen twice
• Keep technical debt visible and managed: track and prioritize it with Product, protect a stable share of team time for improvements, and raise structural risks before they become production issues
• Own risks and transparency: know the top risks of your team at any moment, escalate early and calmly, and own both decisions and outcomes
• Establish team practices for AI-assisted development: review standards and quality gates that keep AI-generated slop out of the codebase, documentation, and product, while using AI tooling to raise team throughput
• Maintain a strong remote and async culture: documented decisions, productive 1:1s and retros, shared context, and psychological safety to raise issues
• Ensure day-to-day security and compliance hygiene in a regulated environment: least-privilege access, proper handling of data and secrets, immediate transparency on incidents
• Act as a designated backup for the Director of Engineering in incident management and regulatory incident reporting, as defined in the internal policies of a regulated entity, including completion of the associated compliance training
• Manage stakeholders: work closely with Product on priorities, defend engineering concerns, and keep cross-functional collaboration with QA, Infra, and Support smooth

Skills

• 4-5+ years of engineering leadership experience (Engineering Manager, Team Lead), including owning a team without close supervision from above
• Prior hands-on backend engineering background (TypeScript or similar modern stack) with a strong grasp of system design: able to hold architecture discussions with senior engineers, challenge technical decisions credibly, and raise valid concerns
• Understanding of the crypto and stablecoin domain: prior crypto experience is optional, and deep on-the-job learning of the domain is a mandatory part of the role
• Confident use of AI tools in your own management workflow (analysis, documentation, decision preparation), and the ability to build team practices around AI-assisted development, keeping unreviewed or low-quality AI-generated output out of documentation and product
• Track record of hiring and onboarding engineers, and of evaluating performance honestly, including hard conversations
• High agency: you run the team without close supervision, surface problems before they are found for you, and own the outcomes of your decisions
• Understanding of the SDLC and familiarity with key non-functional requirements: performance, reliability, security, observability, scalability
• Ability to operate in a distributed, async-first team environment across timezones
• Excellent communication skills in English, both written and verbal
• Remote. USA, Argentina, or Brazil
• The role works US business hours (Eastern Time)
• A minimum of 4 hours of daily overlap with Central European working hours is a standing company requirement
• Experience in fintech, payments, or crypto
• Experience in regulated environments (licensing, audits, compliance-driven engineering requirements)
• Experience building a team or squad from scratch, including defining its composition
• Experience managing teams distributed across timezones
• Familiarity with the TypeScript / Node.js ecosystem

Benefits

• Flexibility to determine how and when you deliver your work as an independent contractor
• Company issued laptop
• Technology Accessories
• Annual In-Person Full-Team Meetup

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