Director of Engineering — Trust & Safety
Core
Owns the systems protecting every Bitso account and ensuring compliance across Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, and Colombia, covering identity, access, account protection, fraud detection, and internal tooling.
Role type
Director of Engineering (Trust & Safety)
Builds
Identity and access systems, account protection layers, compliance and fraud detection tooling, and back-office systems for operations teams.
Domain
Cryptocurrency / Fintech / Regulatory Compliance
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Leading multi-team engineering organizations (20+ engineers), reliability engineering (SLOs, incident response), regulated environment experience (fintech/payments/crypto), cross-functional leadership in matrixed organizations, AI-native team leadership, hiring and performance management.
Preferred skills
LATAM market experience, Spanish or Portuguese language proficiency.
Technologies
None explicitly stated.
Responsibilities
Own availability and security of identity/access/account-protection systems; own compliance and regulatory reporting across four jurisdictions; drive the fraud-detection roadmap; lead and develop four engineering managers; set engineering standards and hold teams accountable for post-launch quality; lead an AI-native engineering team; operate across functions and countries through influence.
Seniority
Director, hands-on IC with people management