Engineering Manager

About Us At Félix, we’re building the financial ecosystem for Latin immigrants in the U.S., starting with a revolution in remittances. Our core product is an AI-powered chatbot built on WhatsApp, allowing users to send money home as easily as sending a text message. We leverage cutting-edge technology such as AI, blockchain, and stablecoins to make cross-border payments faster, more affordable, and more accessible. We’re a hyper-growth Series B company backed by over $100 million in funding from top-tier investors, and we’ve been recognized as an Endeavour Entrepreneur and recipient of the CrossTech FinTech Startups Award. Our team is made of high-performers united by a shared obsession: empowering our customers and building sustainable value. About the Role We are seeking a highly technical, hands-on Engineering Manager to lead the team building the core, real-time Risk and Fraud Detection Platform. This mission-critical role protects our financial stability by ensuring a secure platform. You will lead a team of talented engineers, driving high-velocity execution and a platform-first technical strategy while balancing day-to-day management with direct coding on essential risk-mitigation systems. Responsibilities Technical execution: act as a hands-on manager coding and architecting high-priority features for the fraud detection platform (e.g., real-time monitoring, rule engines, ML model deployment pipelines). Metric-driven ownership: take extreme ownership of the technical roadmap for the Risk Platform, translating business goals into clear engineering objectives and holding the team accountable for measurable business impact. Platform scaling & resilience: oversee the design, implementation, and scaling of low-latency, high-throughput systems crucial for real-time risk assessment, ensuring high availability and resilience. Team & talent development: manage team performance, provide mentorship, and lead technical career development. Foster a culture of rigorous code quality, transparent communication, and continuous learning, especially in payments, security, and fraud engineering best practices. Cross-functional alignment: collaborate with Risk Data Scientists, Technical Product Managers, and Operations teams to define and execute the technical strategy that balances effective mitigation with a seamless user experience. Process optimization: champion an agile development process with a bias toward action, developing strategies to optimize development cycles and incident response procedures for high-stakes fraud system failures. Requirements Deep domain expertise: 3+ years building, deploying, and maintaining high-throughput Risk, Fraud, or Trust & Safety platforms in a fast-paced environment. Experience in FinTech or Payments is highly preferred. Technical fluency & execution: proven experience as a senior software engineer with a strong track record delivering high-stakes platform projects and coaching engineers on resilient, data-intensive, real-time systems. Management experience: minimum of 1 year managing an engineering team, inspiring teamwork, urgency, and high quality. Ownership mindset: a track record of operating with extreme ownership in ambiguous environments, making high-impact decisions with incomplete data, and taking accountability for business outcomes. Communication: exceptional ability to communicate complex technical trade-offs and risks clearly to engineering peers, product managers, and executive stakeholders. Willingness to learn and adapt: familiarity with our stack (Python, Flask, REST APIs, Cloud Services) is helpful, but willingness to rapidly acquire deep domain and stack knowledge is paramount. Equivalent competencies in any of the above will also be considered. What We Offer Competitive salary Initial stock options grant Annual performance bonus Health, dental, and vision plans 401(k) Remote work environment, with Miami and México City offices for hybrid interest Continuous learning opportunities Unlimited PTO Paid parental leave Empowering growth opportunities in a dynamic entrepreneurial environment Equal Opportunity Employer At Félix, we are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, or disability. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruitment, hiring, placement, promotion, training, compensation, benefits, and termination. #J-18808-Ljbffr