Engineering Manager - Rust, Cryptography - Bitcoin Devs Company

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