Engineering Manager - Rust, Cryptography (USA based, 100% Remote)

Overview The Engineering Manager - Rust, Crypto plays a crucial role in driving innovation and excellence within our engineering team.

This position is ideal for a visionary leader who possesses extensive experience in Rust programming and has a deep understanding of cryptocurrency protocols.

In this 100% remote role, you will lead a team of talented engineers, guiding them in the design, development, and deployment of robust and secure software solutions for our crypto-related products.

Your leadership will be instrumental in fostering a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement, and technical excellence.

As a critical member of the organization, you will ensure that our engineering practices align with industry standards and help shape the future of our products in a rapidly evolving market.

Key Responsibilities • .Facilitating and contributing to deliverables in a team that is dedicated to integrations for institutional custody • Help scale the team by hiring and growing passionate engineers committed to excellence • Lead by example and nurture talent in an integration focused team, focusing on the growth of developers and ensuring their workload leaves them both challenged and fulfilled • Help identify, analyze, and resolve bottlenecks and inefficiencies in processes and codebases • Design and implement low-latency, high-availability, super secure applications and data protection systems • Spend about 80% of your time managing risks across different domains who have distinct domain experts • Manage stakeholder expectations in Security, Compliance, Product, Finance, Design, and Client Experience, to ensure seamless integration of new features and improvements • Maintain a security-first mindset by staying informed of the latest trends in blockchain technologies, and Web3 in general • Own, develop and maintain existing integrations Required Qualifications • Experience as a backend developer and leading teams of 7+ engineers writing code exclusively in Rust • Proficiency in Rust • Leans heavy into process, optimization and always has security at the forefront of decision making • Strong proficiency with basic cryptographic concepts • Familiarity with modern build pipelines and tooling • Deep knowledge of software development and delivery best practices; you can identify bottlenecks and/or obstacles holding back your team and find ways to help them move faster • Experience driving solutions to key business problems, especially navigating and resolving ambiguity • Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds • Understanding accessibility and security compliance • Understanding user authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments • Strong passion for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies • Strong written skills in English is required