Engineering Manager - Intent-Based Cross-Chain Infrastructure

Remote

Compensation: $180K - $200K

We are building programmable, intent-based infrastructure on a leading Layer 1 protocol, making blockchain interactions smoother, smarter, and more composable. Our work enables intent-driven execution across chains, requiring high-velocity technical delivery and strong team leadership. We are seeking an Engineering Manager to accelerate execution across projects, partner integrations, and cross-team initiatives.

This role is focused on making things happen: ensuring technical projects are delivered on time, partner integrations run smoothly, and internal teams are fully aligned. You will lead and mentor a multidisciplinary engineering team while owning technical guidance, reliability management, and strategic process implementation.

Key Responsibilities

• Team Leadership: Lead and mentor a multidisciplinary engineering team, fostering a culture of ownership, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.
• Project Delivery: Own delivery pipelines across engineering streams; track progress, identify risks, and keep projects moving toward milestones.
• Technical Guidance: Provide architectural and technical guidance, ensuring best practices in code quality, system design, and scalability (especially for message-based/event-driven systems).
• Integrations: Oversee technical integrations with partners, customers, and ecosystem teams, collaborating closely with Partner Engineers and TPMs.
• Reliability Management: Be responsible for SLI/SLOs, incident response, and postmortems; drive alignment on reliability standards and risk tolerance.
• Execution Focus: Build and maintain delivery dashboards, timelines, and communication cadences for internal and external stakeholders.
• Process & Tools: Introduce pragmatic delivery tools, reporting, and frameworks to help engineering scale efficiently and foster an accountable performance culture.
• Stakeholder Communication: Provide regular delivery and technical updates to leadership and partners, highlighting risks early and proposing actionable solutions.

Requirements

• Experience: 5+ years of experience in engineering management, technical delivery, or program management.
• Leadership: Experience leading software teams and managing technical integrations across products, platforms, or APIs.
• Systems Understanding: Strong understanding of software delivery lifecycles and complex systems architecture (e.g., message-based, event-driven systems).
• Blockchain Knowledge: Solid understanding of blockchain or distributed systems, ideally with Ethereum experience.
• Technical Background: Hands-on technical background; able to review code or guide design discussions in TypeScript, Rust, Go, or Solidity.
• Execution Skills: Excellent organizational and execution skills—able to balance delivery, people, and process effectively.
• Communication: Strong communication skills—can translate between technical depth and business context.
• Mindset: Calm, structured, and solution-oriented under pressure, with comfort in ambiguity.
• Open Source: Contributions to open-source software.

Benefits

• Impact: Accelerate the development of programmable, intent-based infrastructure that is making blockchain interactions smoother and more composable.
• Environment: Work in an energetic environment, surrounded by highly productive and meticulous engineers eager to dive into the cross-chain ecosystem.
• Compensation & Package: Competitive salary and benefits package (details to be discussed based on experience).
• Challenge: The role offers a constant challenge in driving execution across complex projects and partner integrations.

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