The Fleet Head of Engineering plays a key role in the success of the fleets by leading the technical strategy and creating and organizing the teams that will bring it to fruition.
You will hire top talent across the world to create a state of the art multidisciplinary product engineering organization that will create, launch and improve technology products that will help Bitso make crypto useful.
**Your impact**:
- Recruitment and capacity planning should start from this position
- Provide guidance when there is uncertainty
- Understand the pain points being experienced by the team
- Identify high performers that need to be nurtured and lower performers that need assistance
- Provide guidance when there is a threat
- Provider of context when there are changes and the voice of reason when there is debate.
**Who you are**:
- Strong computer science, software architecture and team leadership knowledge. Incredible problem solving abilities
- Experience managing "A type" engineers as direct reports
- Experience coordinating large multidisciplinary product engineering teams
- Experience measuring and continuously improving the performance of the organization
- Knowledge of feedback techniques
- Ability to make decisions quickly
- Incredible problem solving abilities
- Experience managing people and creating the conditions to keep them engaged and happy at work
- Experience building and launching large products to market
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- English language proficiency.
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**About Bitso**:
Bitso is Latin America's leading cryptocurrency platform. Our goal is to evolve how we think about and use money. We believe that we should all have the opportunity to use our money whenever we want it, and how we want it, without boundaries or schedules. To achieve this, we provide individuals with fast, cheap, seamless and user-friendly financial services powered by blockchain technology.
Cryptocurrencies do not rely on intermediaries to give them legitimacy or value. Instead, they are valuable because of the peer-to-peer technology that powers them. We firmly believe in crypto and the use cases it has. It's time for the world to upgrade to a fair, open, transparent, and global financial system for all. **#makecryptouseful.**
Bitso promotes an environment where people are treated fairly and with respect, free of discrimination, bullying, harassment, violence or threats.
**Compensation and Benefits**:
- **Purpose**: You'll be part of something bigger, working towards financial disruption and inclusion across Latin America.
- **Culture**: You'll work in a thriving, friendly, and fun environment that promotes open discussions, jokes, learning, video games, and lots of fun.
- **People**: You'll work with some of the most driven and intelligent people in the crypto space, engaging with a network of diverse talent from 25+ nationalities bound by our quest to #makecryptouseful.
- **Salary**: We pay competitively in the countries where we operate.
- **Venue**:Work from wherever you want, work asynchronously; this role is fully remote to give you maximum freedom.
- **Unlimited Paid Time-Off**: You choose your number of days off. Recharge batteries and enjoy who you are outside the office
- **Employee Stock Option Plan**: we want our team members to be owners of the company. Therefore, as we all together crave for the success of our business, you will be eligible to participate in our stock option plan!
- This role is expected to work remotely.
- These are the applicable requisites, although equivalent competencies in any of the above will also be considered.