Engineering Manager
Cyclops provides crypto and stablecoin infrastructure exclusively for payments companies. Its platform supports settlement, payins, payouts, treasury management, and custom payment solutions through a unified integration.
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About Cyclops
Cyclops is a payments infrastructure company offering stablecoin and fiat settlement, crypto acceptance, payouts, treasury management, virtual accounts, custody, compliance, liquidity, FX conversion, and wallet infrastructure. Its API-based platform is designed for PSPs, payment networks, orchestrators, gateways, acquirers, PayFacs, and ISOs, supporting operations across more than 150 countries and 400+ assets.
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About the Role
You will lead a new engineering squad working US hours on a crypto payment platform. You will own delivery, team health, quality, technical debt, risk management, security and compliance practices, AI-assisted development standards, stakeholder management, and hiring and onboarding engineers. You will also serve as backup for the Director of Engineering during incidents and regulatory reporting.
Requirements
- 4-5+ years of engineering leadership experience
- Hands-on backend engineering experience with TypeScript or a similar modern stack
- Strong system design knowledge
- Understanding of crypto and stablecoin domains
- Experience using AI tools in management workflows and building AI-assisted development practices
- Experience hiring, onboarding, and evaluating engineers
- Understanding of the software development life cycle
- Knowledge of performance, reliability, security, observability, and scalability requirements
- Ability to work in distributed async-first teams across time zones
- Excellent written and verbal English communication
Responsibilities
- Own delivery commitments and maintain a stable delivery rhythm
- Hire and onboard engineers
- Set expectations and provide development paths and regular feedback
- Monitor workload and prevent burnout
- Establish incident response and postmortem practices
- Manage technical debt with Product
- Identify and escalate team risks
- Establish AI-assisted development standards and quality gates
- Maintain remote and asynchronous team practices
- Ensure security and compliance hygiene
- Act as backup for the Director of Engineering in incident management and regulatory reporting
- Manage stakeholders across Product, QA, Infrastructure, and Support
Benefits
- Flexible work schedule as an independent contractor
- Company-issued laptop
- Technology accessories
- Annual in-person full-team meetup
