Engineering Manager - Identity, Compliance & Risk; NYC​/MIA)

About Crossmint

Global financial rails are undergoing a once-in-a-generation transformation. Instant settlement. Programmable. Agent-first. Crossmint is the infrastructure helping companies build for that future.

We are the leading all-in-one stablecoin and wallet infrastructure platform, enabling fintechs, enterprises, and agentic platforms to integrate stablecoin rails with speed, compliance, and scale. Crossmint provides everything enterprises need to ship smart financial rails, including smart wallets, cross-chain stablecoin orchestration, on/offramps, token checkout, and more, all through a single developer-friendly API.

Trusted by more than 40,000 clients including global leaders like Money Gram, Western Union, and Paga to nation states like the Marshall Islands, Crossmint powers stablecoin flows that move billions from cross-border remittances, global payroll, to the world's first digital UBI program.

MiCA-authorized, PSD2-licensed, and SOC2 Type II certified, Crossmint serves 150+ countries globally across 50+ blockchains. Backed by Ribbit Capital, Franklin Templeton, NYCA, First Round, and Lightspeed Faction.

We're building the infrastructure for the era of programmable finance. Join us!

NYC or Miami. Hybrid office setting.

Full-time

8+ years building production systems, with 2+ years managing engineers.

Base salary range: $250,000 - $280,000

Note:

This range reflects base salary only. Final level, team assignment, and compensation are determined during the interview process based on experience and fit.

• Stock options are part of every full-time offer, granted on top of the base salary range above. We want everyone here to be a genuine stakeholder in what we're building.

• We conduct two performance reviews annually. The first addresses performance ratings, bonuses, and promotions. The second encompasses these elements along with salary adjustments reflecting inflation and market conditions.

We are hiring a senior Engineering Manager to own identity, compliance and risk as a single engineering horizontal.

Every Crossmint product depends on the same set of questions. Who is this user or business, and what have we proven about them? What is this client allowed to do, in this market, under this licence? Is this transaction one we should accept? Today those answers are built into each product. This role brings them together into shared services that every team builds on.

This is a player-coach role. You will lead a team and own the roadmap, and you will stay close enough to the systems to review a domain model, challenge an architecture decision, and read the code. No delegation without comprehension.

The work is regulated. Crossmint operates under MiCA, DORA, and SOC 2, and our licences depend on the systems your team owns. Compliance here is a design constraint on the product, not a policy document. We are looking for someone who treats it that way.

You will report to the CTO and work closely with Product, Compliance, Legal, Security and Risk Operations.

Own the horizontal (from an engineering standpoint)

• Own the engineering roadmap for identity, compliance and risk, and align it with the product and compliance roadmaps.

• Define the shared services other teams build on: identity and account models, verification and onboarding, authentication and authorization, screening and monitoring, and risk decisioning.

• Set the domain models that hold across clients, projects, jurisdictions, and regulatory regimes. This is the central technical problem of the role.

• Decide what we build, what we buy, and what we retire, and defend those decisions with evidence.

Lead the team

• Manage, grow, and develop a team of engineers. Run performance reviews, career development, and mentorship.

• Forecast hiring needs, write the roles, and run the hiring process. Raise the technical bar with every hire.

• Set the standards your team works to: design review, testing, on-call, and incident response.

• Participate in the on-call rotation.

• Plan for the team's capacity honestly, including PTO and handoffs.

Stay technical

• Review architecture and design documents before they ship, and write your own when the problem warrants it.

• Lead threat modelling and failure-mode analysis for the systems your team owns.

• Step in hands-on during incidents and high-stakes reviews.

• Keep current on identity standards, fraud and AML tooling, and the AI-native workflows we use across engineering.

Work across functions

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