Freelance à France

Engineering Manager: Infrastructure & API

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Infrastructure & API team, a core pillar of Morpho’s engineering organization. This team supports multiple internal products and powers a public-facing API that is becoming its own product, complete with strong SLA guarantees and the need for scalability, performance, and reliability to serve institutional-graded partnerships.

We want someone who leads and contributes technically, staying hands-on in design, architecture, and even some implementation work, especially during critical projects.

You’ll report directly to the Head of Engineering and co-founder (Julien) and work closely with product teams to ensure the infrastructure and APIs meet both internal demands and external, public-facing scale.

The Infrastructure & API team comprises 5 engineers, including DevOps & backend engineers that provide the data warehouse for the different products, accessible through https://blue-api.morpho.org/graphql. Their work ensures internal teams can move fast without being blocked by backend limitations, while the public API upholds the highest availability, performance, and scalability standards, including SLA commitments.

Leadership Skills

• Team-First Leadership: You are motivated by enabling your team’s success, visibility, and growth, not just individual wins.
• Scaling Experience: You’ve directly contributed to scaling backend products and organizations, managing rising complexity, performance needs, and architectural demands.
• Hands-On Leadership: You stay close to the technical challenges, contributing to architecture, code reviews, and implementation while empowering your team to take ownership.
• Mentorship & Coaching: You develop your engineers, helping them scope, plan, and execute projects while maintaining a healthy, high-performing team dynamic.
• Recruitment & Building: You’ve successfully built and shaped high-performing technical teams, investing time and energy in attracting top talent.

Technical Skills

• Backend & Infrastructure Expertise: Deep experience with scalable backend systems, robust APIs, and infrastructure supporting internal and external-facing institutional-graded products.
• Public API Ownership: Familiarity with delivering externally exposed APIs that require SLA-backed guarantees, high uptime, and strong incident handling.
• Tech Stack Strength: Strong experience with TypeScript (and optionally Rust), Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, and modern DevOps tooling.
• Security & Resilience: You build secure, resilient systems without compromising agility.
• Fintech & Web3 Appreciation: Experience working in fintech, Web3, or regulated environments is a substantial bonus.

Strategic & Product Thinking

• Infrastructure as a Product: You see internal and external APIs as products, aligning technical decisions with business value, user needs, and product goals.
• Long-Term Vision: You design systems and team processes that can scale sustainably with Morpho’s growth.

Must-have Experience & Skills

• Leadership of backend engineering teams (5–6 engineers, including DevOps).
• Hands-on experience scaling backend products and APIs.
• Experience with public-facing APIs under strong SLA expectations.
• Strong incident management and leadership under pressure.
• Humble Leadership: You prioritize team success over personal ego.
• Strong Communication: You explain complex technical topics clearly to both engineers and non-engineers.
• Adaptability: You thrive in a dynamic, evolving start-up environment.

We operate mainly through warm introductions, no formal case studies. Instead, we prefer evaluating candidates based on their real capabilities (freelance, mentorship) and structured technical discussions.

Typical Steps

• Warm intro and initial conversation.
• Leadership & technical deep dive with the Hiring Manager.
• Remunerated Freelancing or Mentorship on the scaling plan.
• Internal discussions or references (if applicable).

Study the API and provide a plan to make it scalable and more resilient in terms of data accuracy & data availability. Compare with our current scaling plan and apply the plan to scale.

• Work with the Best: Collaborate with top researchers and engineers in the DeFi space.
• Stimulating Environment: Weekly “DeFi School” sessions and access to the best tools on the market.
• Flexibility: Work remotely or from our Paris office.
• Team Events: Off-sites, bootcamps, and afterworks (even remote-friendly).
• Attractive Compensation: Competitive package, including Morpho tokens.