Backend Senior Manager
All-in-one Philippine e-wallet and cryptocurrency exchange combining crypto trading with payments, bills, QR checkout, mobile load, and remittances.
Funding history
About Coins.ph
Coins.ph is a regulated digital-asset and payments platform operating under the Coins.ph brand. Its services include buying, selling, and holding cryptocurrency; peso wallets; bill payments; mobile load; QR payments; money transfers; and remittances. The current user agreement identifies Betur, Inc. and DCPay Philippines, Inc. as the entities doing business as coins.ph.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
Lead the company's backend technical strategy, roadmap, architecture, system lifecycle, security, compliance, and development organization supporting digital currency trading, payments, authentication, and settlement.
Requirements
- 10+ years of backend development and management experience.
- 5+ years of senior backend team management experience.
- Experience in fintech, digital currency, payments, or large-scale financial institutions preferred.
- Experience leading large-scale, high-concurrency, highly available backend systems.
- Proficiency in Java, Go, Python, or Node.js.
- Experience with distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-native technologies.
- Strong system architecture design capabilities.
- Knowledge of encryption, authentication, authorization, anti-attack measures, and digital asset security compliance.
- Experience with DevOps, CI/CD, containerization, monitoring, and alerting.
- Proficiency with Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, and Prometheus.
- Knowledge of digital currency exchange business, including spot and derivative trading, fund flows, and settlement.
- Strong leadership, strategic thinking, decision-making, and resource integration skills.
- Strong technical research and learning ability.
- Excellent Chinese and English communication skills.
- Bachelor's degree or higher in a relevant field.
- PMP, CKA, CKAD, or AWS Certified Solutions Architect certifications preferred.
Responsibilities
- Formulate backend technical strategy, roadmap, and system architecture plans.
- Lead design and optimization of core backend architecture and technology stack.
- Research and introduce backend technologies, tools, and methodologies.
- Evaluate technical solutions for core business scenarios.
- Oversee backend development from design through deployment and operation.
- Supervise trading, payment settlement, user, asset, risk control, and API gateway modules.
- Manage system iteration, maintenance, performance monitoring, and bottleneck resolution.
- Coordinate with DevOps on CI/CD pipeline optimization.
- Establish backend security management, audits, vulnerability scans, and penetration tests.
- Ensure compliance with FATF, MiCA, and local regulations.
- Establish disaster recovery and emergency response mechanisms.
- Build, manage, and develop the backend engineering team.
- Assign work, resolve complex technical issues, and organize training.
- Manage team performance and professional growth.
- Collaborate with product, app development, trading, compliance, risk, operations, data, and external technical partners.
- Manage backend projects, budgets, costs, quality, risks, and technical resources.
Benefits
- Meaningful cross-functional collaboration.
- Opportunities for career advancement in a fast-growing organization.
- Culture that welcomes data-backed ideas and innovation.
