Work format
Remote (Remote - Europe)
What we're looking for in candidates
•Deep Ethereum and EVM experience
•Has run an engineering team of 20+ across multiple teams, as a leader of leaders — and has done it at this company stage
•Has owned production systems under contractual SLAs for demanding customers, and has personally been accountable for an outage in front of one
•Deeply technical. You don't need to be the best engineer here, but you need to earn the respect of people who are — challenge a design, know when an estimate is optimistic
•Distributed-systems depth. Blockchain experience is a real advantage; strong infrastructure and backend leaders from high-integrity domains (payments, exchanges, market infrastructure) will be taken seriously
•Has hired well and retained people through a hard period
•Someone with sound technical judgment, strategic thinking, commercial awareness, and strong prioritization skills
•Direct. This team has a low tolerance for polish over substance. Say the hard thing early, and say it kindly, more light, less heat
•People-first leader — empathetic, approachable, and committed to mentoring and developing others
•Strong communicator — builds trust and communicates clearly across engineering and the wider business
•Collaborative — works closely with team leads to align priorities, coordinate dependencies, and keep teams moving together
•High emotional intelligence — self-aware, thoughtful, and comfortable navigating difficult conversations and change
•Coach and multiplier — develops strong leaders, delegates effectively, and builds high-performing, autonomous teams
•Pragmatic and organized — brings clarity and structure without unnecessary process
Useful, not required
•L2 or ZK-rollup architecture
•Regulated financial infrastructure — audit, change control, evidence, SOC 2 / ISO 27001
•Experience of a carve-out, separation or post-acquisition integration
What this role is not
•Not a box-checker, don't add process for process sake
•Someone who does not challenge or seek clarity
•Someone who does not seek to understand why and what the value is for a task
•Someone who feels like they have to be the loudest voice in the room and does not seek to listen first and leverage the intelligence of others
•Someone who has not had experience managing engineering teams and who feels comfortable being a single IC
•A 100% hands-on engineering role
