Your Purpose

At Bitso, our mission is to make crypto useful. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will drive the design and delivery of features across the entire stack — from database schemas to backend services, BFFs, and frontend interfaces. You are not defined by a single technology; you are defined by your ability to think critically, make sound technical decisions, and leverage AI tools (LLMs like Claude, Copilot, Cursor) as force multipliers to ship high-quality software at speed. You understand how modern products work, what users expect, and how to translate market standards into concrete implementations. Your impact will be visible immediately, and your judgment will shape the systems that power Bitso's financial infrastructure.

Reports To

As part of the Guardians service unit, you'll work on the systems that protect Bitso's users and platform — KYC, account security, user security, fraud prevention, and the internal tools that support account management. Guided by visionary leaders, your work will shape the next wave of financial innovation and influence the future of global finance.

Who You Are

You are a resourceful, adaptable engineer who operates across system boundaries rather than within a single layer. You combine solid software engineering fundamentals with the ability to explore problems deeply using AI, challenge assumptions, and drive features end-to-end.

Core Requirements

• Clear and effective communication in English.
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience across backend and frontend systems, including mobile.
• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (required).
• Available to work in a GMT-6 to GMT-3 timezone.

Engineering Fundamentals

• Strong understanding of software engineering principles: data structures, algorithms, design patterns, and designing for performance, scalability, and availability.
• Experience with cloud architectures (AWS), microservices, and distributed systems.
• Proficiency with relational databases (especially PostgreSQL) and familiarity with caching layers (Redis) and asynchronous processing (Kafka or similar).
• Ability to read, understand, and contribute to codebases in multiple languages — Java and TypeScript are our primary stacks, but we value adaptability over narrow specialization.

Product and Market Awareness

• Ability to understand what "good" looks like in modern products — you can look at a feature, identify industry-standard patterns, and drive implementation decisions based on what users expect.
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity: you can take a loosely defined requirement, research how the market solves it, and propose a concrete technical approach across DB, BE, BFF, and FE layers.

AI-Augmented Engineering

• Comfortable and effective working with LLMs (Claude, GPT, Copilot, Cursor) as part of your daily workflow — not as a novelty, but as a core tool for exploration, code generation, debugging, and architectural reasoning.
• Ability to critically evaluate AI-generated output: you know when to trust it, when to push back, and when to iterate on a prompt to get better results.
• Experience (or strong aptitude) using AI to accelerate work across unfamiliar domains — you don't need to be an expert in every layer to deliver across all of them.
• Ability to leverage AI and MCP-connected tools (observability, incident management, databases) to troubleshoot and resolve production issues efficiently.

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with security, identity, fraud prevention, or fintech domains — but curiosity and the ability to ramp quickly in unfamiliar domains matters more.
• Deep experience in some of the technologies in our stack is valued, but we prioritize engineers who can learn and operate across them over specialists in any single one:
• Backend: Java (Spring Boot), microservices, event-driven architectures (Kafka).
• BFF: Server-driven UI, API aggregation, and orchestration.
• Frontend: TypeScript, Next.js, React, React Native.
• Infrastructure: AWS, containerization, CI/CD pipelines.
• Data: PostgreSQL, Redis.

What You Will Do

• Design and deliver features end-to-end across database, backend, BFF, and frontend layers.
• Use AI tools strategically to explore solutions, generate code, review implementations, and accelerate delivery without sacrificing quality.
• Troubleshoot production issues using AI-assisted workflows and MCP-connected observability and incident management tools.
• Make technical decisions grounded in engineering principles and market awareness — you understand trade-offs and can articulate them clearly to your team.
• Challenge existing processes and propose improvements. You are not a passive executor; you actively shape how the team works.
• Provide technical insights during planning: assess feasibility, identify risks, and help prioritize work with a deep understanding of the product domain.
• Mentor and support teammates by sharing knowledge, reviewing code thoughtfully, and raising the bar for the team's engineering standards.
• Take ownership of outcomes, not just tasks. You care about what ships, how it performs, and whether it solves the actual problem.

Your Purpose

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 collaboration—delegating 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 Bitso’s 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.