[Hiring] Engineering Manager, Fiat Payments & Banking Infrastructure @zerohash

Role Description

zerohash is looking for an experienced Engineering Manager with a passion for building highly scalable financial systems to lead our Fiat Payments and Banking Infrastructure team. We're looking for a true technologist with a love of programming, a product mindset, and a drive for technical excellence.

Your team will be responsible for the backbone of our fiat financial operations, including:

• Direct API integrations with top-tier banking partners
• Robust fiat rails integration (such as ACH, RTP, FedNow, RFP in the US, and SEPA in Europe)
• Advanced treasury management software designed to automatically manage and reconcile balances across banking networks

You will be managing a high-performing team of Software Engineers, ensuring they have the technical guidance, processes, and support necessary to scale our gateway to Finance 2.0.

Note: This is a fully remote role.

Responsibilities

• Work with a team to deliver products and features that support zerohash's fiat infrastructure and banking integrations.
• Partner closely with zerohash product and program managers to ensure the roadmap is well understood and the team is able to plan and execute on expected outcomes.
• Lead the team on technical planning to ensure that product requirements are accurately captured in the technical architectural design.
• Partner with other Engineering Managers to drive the overall technical roadmap forward.
• Support the engineering team in achieving a high level of technical excellence and platform resiliency.
• Manage processes to help the team do its best work and interface effectively with the rest of zerohash.
• Recruit, coach, and develop engineers; help engineers establish career development plans.
• Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives as a member of zerohash's engineering management team.
• Participate in essential technical, design, and product discussions with leaders across our product, finance, and operations teams.
• Work with a wide range of stakeholders to build a clear vision for your team.
• Oversee the success of your team's projects and achieve quantifiable results, notably around payment latency, transaction throughput, and system uptime.
• Make consistent development contributions to maintain competency with our codebase and system architecture (primarily Golang).

Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, with significant focus on building and maintaining robust backend systems, APIs, and microservices for B2B integration.
• 2+ years of engineering management experience, including managing senior-level engineers.
• BS or MS degree in Computer Science or Engineering OR equivalent years of work experience.
• Golang expertise, familiar with Go's idiomatic approach and niches.
• Technical domain expertise in Fiat Payments, Banking-as-a-Service, or Fintech (specifically traditional fiat networks like ACH, RTP, FedNow, SEPA, Swift).
• Proven experience overseeing integration with third-party financial services or banking APIs.
• Strong knowledge of financial compliance and security standards related to fiat money movement (e.g., KYC/AML implications for transfers, data privacy).
• Expertise in designing and operating large-scale, distributed systems that handle sensitive financial data and high transaction volumes with high reliability.
• Experience in driving technical strategy and architectural decisions for complex, highly-available systems.

Client-Facing & Cross-Functional Skills

• Exceptional client-facing communication and presentation skills with a proven ability to represent the engineering team to external banking partners, customers, and executive stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience collaborating directly with external engineering teams at partner banks to guide them through complex integrations, troubleshoot connection issues, and gather technical feedback.
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts (like API architecture, security protocols, and banking constraints) into clear, concise language for both technical and non-technical audiences (e.g., Sales, Product, Legal, and external partners).
• Experience partnering closely with Product Management to define product requirements, influence technical roadmaps, and make trade-offs between speed, quality, and technical debt.

Benefits

• Healthcare Insurance: zerohash covers roughly 100% of employee premiums as well as a portion of spouse/children (U.S. only)
• Vision & Dental Insurance (U.S. only)
• Chance to earn equity
• Maternity & Paternity leave (after 6 months)
• WeWork All Access Membership
• WFH Yearly Stipend
• L&D Yearly Stipend (after 6 months)