Engineering Manager - Crypto & Payments

About GoTyme

The GoTyme Group is one of the world's fastest-growing digital banking groups. We serve over 20 million customers across South Africa, the Philippines and Asia. We lead distribution with a mobile and ‘phygital’ experience to bring fair, simple banking to people the industry has historically underserved. GoTyme is backed by world-class investors including Nubank, Tencent, Norrsken22, the Gokongwei Group, ARC and others.

About GoTymeX

GoTymeX is our engineering, product, and design organisation that builds the digital products powering the GoTyme Group. Our engineering culture is API-first, distributed-systems-literate, and biased toward learning in production.

About the Product

We are establishing a new portfolio which will leverage blockchain and digital asset technology to deliver a new customer experience to customers in expansion markets. The business line will operate with the speed of a startup, but with the regulatory and operational substance of a bank and the resources of a multi-country group in support.

The Role

We are looking for a Head of Engineering to lead technology delivery for the new portfolio. As one of the first technical hires in the team, you will recruit and onboard the founding engineering team, establish the engineering culture and standards, leveraging the GoTymeX playbook, and build the integration framework that lets us plug in best-in-class infrastructure partners at speed. The role is hands-on. You will set the architecture, make the build-vs-buy calls, lead vendor discussions and stay close enough to the code to make calls credibly from zero to one and beyond.

What you will do

• Lead the engineering delivery end-to-end, covering wallet, payments, custody integration, KYC, ledger and account management, and the broader product layer that ties them together.
• Recruit the founding engineering team; initially a tight pod, scaling quickly. Set the bar for hiring and shape the team's culture, rituals, and standards from day one.
• Define and build our integration framework for infrastructure partners.
• Make build-vs-buy calls. Partner with our architecture and product teams to define our approach to integrating best-in-class partners / building the product layer / leveraging the existing GoTymeX platform to support. You will own that line and defend it.
• Establish and run an AI-native engineering practice with modern tooling as the default, continuous delivery, feature-flagged rollouts, synthetic users in production.
• Partner closely with Product, Design, Compliance, Legal, and the existing GoTyme Bank and TymeBank engineering organisations to deliver a coherent, regulated proposition across multiple jurisdictions.

Why join

• A zero-to-one opportunity inside a fast-growing group; the upside of greenfield and the support of an experienced team.
• A clear mandate with ExCo-level visibility.
• Best-in-class partners across the infrastructure stack.
• Join a company that is scaling globally and responsibly, with access to tier-1 partners and vendors.
• Compensation aligned to a regulated fintech with quality benefits.