Blockchain Engineering Manager Job Description
Overview:
The Blockchain Engineering Manager is a key role in driving the execution, ensuring technical excellence, and fostering a high-performance culture that delivers reliable, scalable, and high-quality products aligned with our strategic goals.
Job Description:
This is a leadership position responsible for overseeing the end-to-end software development lifecycle, from planning and design to deployment and maintenance. You will 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, and proactively identify and remove blockers to ensure team productivity and alignment.
Key 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.
Requirements and Qualifications:
* 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.
What We Offer:
We are committed to providing equal opportunity for qualified applicants to contract positions, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status. This is a contract opportunity, not a direct employment role.