Engineering Manager Protocol

What You Will Do.

• Manage, mentor and coach engineers: Ensure your team is meeting project timelines and deliverables. Ensure that your team follows Engineering best practices – sprints, code reviews, software design docs, or conducting post-mortems.
• Review, write and test code: Review and test code. Implement improvements to your team’s technical diligence. Facilitate technical design decisions and drive the team to execute against those goals on time and within scope. Ensure quality code is shipped by the team. 
• Own the full SDLC:  You’ll guide the Protocol team through the Planning, Requirements, Design, Building, Documenting, Testing, Deployment and ongoing maintenance of each project.
• Working Cross-Functionally: Collaborate with other department leaders from Engineering, Product and Design to execute the product life cycle. 
• Communication: You’ll exhibit a high level of autonomy in ambiguous environments and are comfortable establishing and executing upon priorities with a strong sense of urgency.
• Emotional Intelligence: You’ll navigate through stressful or ambiguous situations and lead your team to continue delivering high quality software under pressure and tight deadlines.
• Innovation: You’ll identify and tackle hard problems that are considered as major bottlenecks which slow down or prevent innovation.

Who You Are.

• 6+ years total Engineering experience
• 1+ year experience in Web3 as a Manager or Engineer.
• 2+ years experience being hands-on with Golang or other modern programming languages (java, rust, etc) in their career.
• 3+ years managing a team which owned a highly scalable service.
• 3+ Years experience driving and leading continuous improvements to their team’s core codebase.
• 3+ years leading a team which was security aware and looked for risks and vulnerabilities continuously in their code base. 
• Lead projects, own the relationship with Product and scope processes from start to finish.
• Able to adapt and adjust in a high-stakes, high-growth, roll up your sleeves type of work.

Nice To Haves.

• Experience Managing a team that owned open source code/repository. 
• Prior experience managing a geographically distributed engineering team. (highly preferred)
• Has recently been hands-on with Golang
• 1+ Year of experience with Web3 development (EVM or Cosmos SDK)
• Experience working in a Startup environment.

Interview Process

• Recruiter Screen:             45 minutes
• Head of People:     30 minutes
• Technical Assessment:    45 minutes
• Technical Assessment:    1 hour
• Product:                             30 minutes 
• Head of Engineering:       1 hour
• Recruiter Debrief:             15 minutes

What We Offer.

• A fully remote work environment with an international and diverse team
• Competitive salary; including stipends for home office set-up, wellness, internet and cell phone.
• 100% coverage for Medical, Dental, Vision, LTD, STD and Basic Life insurance for employees
• 401(k) matching
• Unlimited PTO and Holidays
• A fast-paced start-up environment with experienced industry leaders

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