Engineering Manager – Financial Services

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom, +2 more countries.

📋 Description

• Report directly to the CTO and assist WalletConnect in building and expanding its Financial Services engineering team.

• Lead a cross-functional team of engineers focused on creating value-added services that encompass DeFi access, treasury management, and security and compliance.

• Oversee the squad's operating rhythm, including planning sessions, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives, in collaboration with the Product Manager.

• Establish team OKRs alongside Product and convert company objectives into squad priorities.

• Ensure the team is held accountable for their goals and proactively remove any obstacles.

• Conduct regular one-on-one meetings, mentor engineers of varying seniority, and develop career progression paths.

• Administer fair performance evaluations and address underperformance promptly.

• Review designs and architectures, challenge trade-offs, and promote high-quality coding practices.

• Take ownership of reliability outcomes, including SLOs, error budgets, alert quality, on-call rotation, and blameless incident reviews.

• Balance the roadmap, technical debt, and operational tasks while clearly communicating decision-making processes.

• Facilitate alignment and mediation among Product, Design, other squads, and leadership.

• Collaborate with the People team on hiring, conducting interviews, closing candidates, onboarding, and ensuring timely productivity.

• Assess team health, delivery risks, and design drift utilizing data and judgment.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 7 years of experience in software engineering, including more than 2 years in a management role.

• Technical expertise in building and operating large-scale distributed systems.

• Proven history of constructing, nurturing, and retaining high-performing teams.

• Experience in leading remote-first, distributed teams effectively.

• Demonstrated experience in delivering business-critical services where precision and reliability are crucial.

• Strong organizational skills and disciplined planning practices.

• Ability to make pragmatic decisions.

• Clear, charismatic communication skills and a natural aptitude for mediation.

• Self-aware, context-aware, coachable, and possessing strong instincts.

• In-depth knowledge of financial infrastructure, including CEX integrations, custody or treasury systems, on-chain swaps, DeFi protocols, reconciliation, or transaction/address screening.

• Personal or professional experience in the crypto/web3 space.

• Familiarity with Rust and TypeScript services on AWS, Grafana for observability, and infrastructure-as-code practices.

• Experience in implementing squad-level operating standards like SLOs, error budgets, and DORA-style delivery metrics.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation package that includes equity and potential tokens.

• Fully remote position with a budget allocated for your home office or work environment.

• Regular team offsites to exceptional locations around the globe.

• Opportunities to attend conferences and community events.

• Generous paid time off and parental leave policies.

• Meaningful learning and development budget.

• The opportunity to innovate at the forefront of on-chain payments with one of the most recognized companies in Web3.