Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager - Intent-Based Cross-Chain Infrastructure

Location : Remote

Compensation : $180K - $200K

We are building programmable, intent-based infrastructure on a leading Layer 1 protocol, making blockchain interactions smoother, smarter, and more composable. Our work enables intent-driven execution across chains, requiring high-velocity technical delivery and strong team leadership. We are seeking an Engineering Manager to accelerate execution across projects, partner integrations, and cross-team initiatives.

This role is focused on making things happen : ensuring technical projects are delivered on time, partner integrations run smoothly, and internal teams are fully aligned. You will lead and mentor a multidisciplinary engineering team while owning technical guidance, reliability management, and strategic process implementation.

Key Responsibilities :

• Team Leadership : Lead and mentor a multidisciplinary engineering team, fostering a culture of ownership, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.
• Project Delivery : Own delivery pipelines across engineering streams; track progress, identify risks, and keep projects moving toward milestones.
• Technical Guidance : Provide architectural and technical guidance, ensuring best practices in code quality, system design, and scalability (especially for message-based / event-driven systems).
• Integrations : Oversee technical integrations with partners, customers, and ecosystem teams, collaborating closely with Partner Engineers and TPMs.
• Reliability Management : Be responsible for SLI / SLOs, incident response, and postmortems; drive alignment on reliability standards and risk tolerance.
• Execution Focus : Build and maintain delivery dashboards, timelines, and communication cadences for internal and external stakeholders.
• Process & Tools : Introduce pragmatic delivery tools, reporting, and frameworks to help engineering scale efficiently and foster an accountable performance culture.
• Stakeholder Communication : Provide regular delivery and technical updates to leadership and partners, highlighting risks early and proposing actionable solutions.