Blockchain Engineering Manager Job Description
This role involves leading a distributed team of software engineers, driving execution and ensuring technical excellence while fostering a high-performance culture that delivers reliable, scalable, and high-quality products aligned with strategic goals.
* Lead, coach, and mentor engineers across multiple technical domains.
* Foster a culture of collaboration, ownership, and continuous improvement.
* Support career growth, performance management, and professional development.
* Participate in recruiting, onboarding, and building a diverse, high-performing team.
Key Responsibilities:
The manager will oversee the end-to-end software development lifecycle, from planning and design to deployment and maintenance. This includes partnering with CTO and Product Manager to translate product roadmaps into engineering execution plans, managing delivery timelines, resources, and technical dependencies to ensure on-time releases and proactively identifying and removing blockers to ensure team productivity and alignment.
* Establish and enforce engineering best practices across code quality, smart contract security, and infrastructure reliability.
* Ensure scalability, security, and performance in blockchain and microservice-based environments.
* Drive the adoption of modern DevOps practices (IaC, CI/CD pipelines, containerization, automated testing).
* Stay current with emerging blockchain technologies, protocols, and DeFi developments to guide innovation and continuous improvement.