Technical Manager

Job Summary

A. Engineering leadership

• 10+ years in software engineering, including 3+ years managing engineering teams with experience managing tech leads.
• A track record of delivering and running mission-critical, high-volume, low-latency systems in production.
• Strong stakeholder management with product, risk, compliance and senior executives. Able to explain technical risk to non-technical decision-makers.

B. Payments domain expertise (must have)

• Deep understanding of payment lifecycles: initiation, authorization, clearing, settlement, reconciliation, returns and exceptions.
• Hands-on experience with at least some of the following: SEPA (SCT, SCT Inst), SWIFT (MT and MX/ISO 20022) or similar.
• Working knowledge of ISO 20022 message structures (pacs.008, pacs.002, camt.053/054) and how to map on-chain events to them.
• Understanding of correspondent banking, nostro/vostro accounts, liquidity management, FX and cross-border settlement risk
• Experience with real-time, double-entry ledger design, including idempotency, exactly-once semantics, event sourcing and immutable audit trails.

Key Responsibilities

Blockchain and digital assets (must have)

• Solid understanding of distributed ledger fundamentals: consensus mechanisms, finality.
• Production experience with at least one major smart contract ecosystem:
• Familiarity with smart contract development and testing tools, invariant testing, and formal verification concepts.
• Understanding of stablecoin mechanics
• Understanding of cross-chain interoperability
• Familiarity with DORA, PCI DSS, SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, and model and outsourcing risk requirements in regulated banks.
• An understanding of how GDPR regulations that come into play

Skill Requirements

Core technology stack

• Languages: Strong in at least one of Java/Kotlin, Go or Rust for backend services. TypeScript for APIs and tooling. Solidity and/or Rust (for Solana) for on-chain components.
• Architecture: Event-driven microservices, CQRS/event sourcing, saga and outbox patterns for distributed transactions, and API-first design (REST/OpenAPI, gRPC, webhooks).
• Data: PostgreSQL (or another strongly consistent RDBMS), Kafka or a comparable streaming platform, Redis, and on-chain indexing (The Graph, custom indexers).
• Cloud and platform: AWS, Azure or GCP in a regulated configuration; Kubernetes; Infrastructure as Code (Terraform); GitOps CI/CD.
• Observability: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana, Datadog or Splunk. SLO-based alerting that covers both off-chain services and on-chain state.

Other Requirements

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience at a stablecoin issuer, a tokenization platform, or a bank digital-asset unit (e.g. Circle, Kinexys, Citi Token Services, HSBC, Stripe/Bridge etc).
• Experience with tokenized money market funds or tokenized collateral as part of reserve or liquidity management.
• Familiarity with privacy-enhancing technologies for on-chain payments, such as zero-knowledge proofs and confidential transfer extensions.
• Experience presenting to regulators or supervisory technical teams.
• Contributions to open-source blockchain projects or published security research.
• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or a related field. Relevant certifications such as AWS/Azure Professional, CISSP or a blockchain security certification are a plus.