Zerion is a wallet for everything on-chain. It’s the safest & easiest way to explore web3. We're looking for an experienced and driven Engineering Manager to help us grow the skills of our engineering team. You will focus on people and the engineering process so that we can continue shipping best-in-class Web3 applications.
About the role: You will play a key role for organising our engineering team. We are looking for someone who can establish efficient processes and create a comfortable environment for everyone. You'll be focusing on personal growth & success of every individual and help Zerion’s team reach its full potential. This role is a great opportunity to contribute to the company’s culture in a pre-growth stage startup. You’ll oversee a team of cross-functional engineers and partner with Leadership & Product Management to define meaningful metrics, processes, and practices.
What you’ll be doing:
- Lead a distributed team of cross-functional engineers.
- Establish best practices to ensure a high-quality product & consistent delivery of working systems on time.
- Design, implement, and document product development, testing, and deployment processes.
- Collaborate with Leadership & Product Management on roadmapping, technical planning & prioritization.
- Grow engineers’ skills, experience and confidence through regular 1:1s, coaching, actionable feedback, work and peer alignment, and career advocacy.
- Manage, support, and evaluate engineers’ performance.
- Maintain and strengthen Zerion’s culture of growth, openness, trust, mutual support, and care.
- Hire new talent for the team.
What we are looking for:
- Experience managing and scaling an engineering team at a fast-growing organization or early-stage company.
- Technical knowledge to discuss issues, approaches, and solutions in depth.
- Passion about Web3 & open financial systems.
- Desire to manage a fully-remote geographically distributed team.
- At least 4 years of experience in back-end development, preferably in Python and Golang.
- At least 2 years of Engineering Management experience.
What you need to succeed:
- Ability to do both long term thinking and short term planning.
- Experience working with modern distributed systems at scale.
- Passion about efficient engineering processes & practices and desire to foster an environment that creates them.
- Experience attracting, retaining, and growing great engineering talent.
- Advocacy for change and competency in driving improvements.
Bonus points:
- Worked at a growth-stage startup.
- Actively coached, mentored and sponsored team members in their careers remotely.
- Have a passion for building products to the highest standards across many dimensions (user experience, performance, reliability, security).
- Have a people-first leadership style.
- Founder / Startup experience.
- Experience in trading tokens or NFTs yourself.
- Experience scaling products through constant learning and experimentation, in fast-paced and rapidly changing industries.
