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Live · Open·Digital Assets·Senior

Engineering Manager — LATAM at a crypto-payments fintech.

Engineering Manager reporting to the firm's VP Engineering. The role runs the LATAM engineering function against a regional payments roadmap, with hiring authority over the LATAM team rather than a dotted line into a global engineering org.

About the firm

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A crypto-payments fintech. The firm operates a crypto-funded card product and is building an agentic-finance layer alongside it. Around 90 staff across APAC, Europe, and the Americas. Profitable in its core card product; investing materially in the agent platform.

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What this seat exists to do.

Engineering Manager reporting to the firm's VP Engineering. Owns the firm's LATAM engineering bench end-to-end.

Direct line management of ten engineers across two squads — the regional card-issuing integration and the partner-banking onboarding workflow. Hiring three further engineers in the first nine months.

Works closely with the firm's regional commercial lead on the LATAM partner-banking pipeline and with the platform engineering team in APAC on the firm's shared infrastructure.

Brazil-based, remote-first within LATAM. Travel to the firm's APAC engineering hub each quarter.

What we are assessing for

  • A current or recent engineering manager from a regulated payments or crypto-card firm with verifiable regional remit.
  • Strong engineering hiring track record. The seat is half delivery, half hiring; the firm is explicit about expecting both.
  • Comfort working across time zones with a remote-first culture — the firm's engineering centre of gravity is in APAC and the LATAM bench needs an EM who can hold the line without daily overlap.
  • Patterns: a current EM from a peer crypto-card firm with LATAM responsibility; an EM from a regional payments firm with crypto product exposure; a senior IC ready to step up at a firm that builds in the open.
The firm's read

Spectrum's read on this search.

The role runs the LATAM engineering function against a regional payments roadmap, with hiring authority over the LATAM team rather than a dotted line into a global engineering org. The remit covers both the crypto-funded card product in-region and the agentic-finance layer being built alongside it, with engineering decisions taken locally rather than escalated. The two product surfaces have different shapes — the card product is in production at scale, the agent layer is being built — and the EM owns both inside the region.

— Craig Oliver, Founder & CEO

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StatusLive · Open
IndustryDigital Assets
SenioritySenior
LocationBrazil
PartnerCraig Oliver
OpenedApr 2026
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