Job Title: Blockchain Engineering Manager
About the Role
We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated professional to lead, mentor, and grow a distributed team of software engineers. This role is responsible for driving execution, ensuring technical excellence, and fostering a high-performance culture that delivers reliable, scalable, and high-quality products aligned with our strategic goals.
Duties and Responsibilities
* 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.
Product Strategy and Planning
* Oversee the end-to-end software development lifecycle, from planning and design to deployment and maintenance.
* Partner with the CTO and Product Manager to translate product roadmaps into engineering execution plans.
* Manage delivery timelines, resources, and technical dependencies to ensure on-time releases.
* Proactively identify and remove blockers, ensuring team productivity and alignment.
Performance and Improvement
* 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.
Qualifications and Experience
* Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
* 7+ years of software development experience, including 6+ years in an engineering leadership or management role.
* Familiarity with blockchains such as Ethereum and other blockchains preferred.
* Familiarity with DeFi trading a plus.
* Software engineering background in frontend and backend services development.
* An understanding of microservice architecture and cloud-based deployments.
* Experience in modern software development practices such as infrastructure as code, test automation, CI/CD and containerization.
* Proven success leading technical teams through the full product lifecycle in Agile or startup environments.
* Experience with modern programming languages and frameworks (e.g., Java, Python, Node.js, Go, or C#).
* Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
* Ability to balance technical depth with people management and cross-functional alignment.