Engineering Manager, Payments

Chainlink Labs; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as an Engineering Manager in the Payments team, where you'll lead a talented group of engineers to develop an innovative on-chain billing and payments protocol. This role is pivotal in ensuring the scalability of the Chainlink ecosystem across multiple chains and products. You'll have the opportunity to inspire your team, contribute technically, and work closely with various functions to align on business objectives. If you're passionate about blockchain technology and have a track record of delivering high-quality products, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software engineering, 2+ years in leadership roles.
• Experience delivering impactful products on time with high quality.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of engineers to build a payments protocol.
• Collaborate with product and leadership to meet business goals.

Skills

Software Engineering

Leadership

Solidity

TypeScript

Golang

SQL

Project Management

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About Us

Chainlink Labs is the primary contributing developer of Chainlink, the decentralized computing platform powering the verifiable web. Chainlink is the industry-standard platform for providing access to real-world data, offchain computation, and secure cross-chain interoperability across any blockchain. Chainlink Labs helps power verifiable applications for banking, DeFi, global trade, and gaming by collaborating with some of the world’s largest financial institutions, notably Swift, DTCC, and ANZ. Chainlink Labs also works with top Web3 teams, including Aave, Compound, GMX, Maker, and Synthetix. Chainlink Labs was ranked in Newsweek’s 100 Most Loved Workplaces 2023 in both the United States and United Kingdom.

About The Role

Chainlink decentralized oracle networks provide tamper-proof inputs, outputs, and computations to support advanced smart contracts on any blockchain. As the ecosystem continues to grow at an explosive pace, we are building the infrastructure to further secure the reliability of our networks and incentivize good behavior.

As a software engineering manager on the Payments team, you will lead and grow a team of up to eight engineers to build the on-chain billing and payments protocol within the Chainlink ecosystem. You will work closely with all functions at Chainlink, from engineering, product, operations, finance, and more to ensure the team releases an intuitive backbone that enables Chainlink to quickly scale to many products across even more chains. Your core team will be composed of smart contract and software engineers, and you will report to the engineering lead of Economics & Ecosystems.

Your Impact

• Supporting up to eight engineers, enabling them to be high impact and catalyzing their growth
• Leveraging a deep understanding of both product and engineering to ensure the team is building a payments protocol that enables Chainlink to quickly scale across many chains and products
• Working closely with product and leadership to ensure the team is meeting business goals, aligning on scope, and setting clear expectations on delivery timelines
• Ensuring continuity of work and focus in an ecosystem that evolves quickly and demands adaptability
• Working closely with engineers on team process, project management, and team health to ensure high productivity and morale
• Contributing technically to projects, including code reviews and occasionally coding
• Hiring great engineers that level up the team and Chainlink Labs

Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years experience in software engineering, with at least 2 years in a leadership or managerial role
• Servant leadership mindset and an ability to inspire and motivate others
• Ability to work on a globally-distributed team with a high degree of ownership
• Experience leading the delivery of multiple highly impactful products end to end, on time with a high quality bar
• Experience working with technical and non-technical stakeholders, successfully aligning and setting expectations on scope and delivery
• Experience navigating ambiguous and changing product requirements and successfully delivering a winning product

Preferred Requirements

• Proficiency in Solidity, TypeScript, Golang, SQL
• Experience developing smart contracts that secured meaningful value on-chain
• Experience building highly reliable products that served a global user base
• Experience working with a team located across multiple time zones
• Active participant in the blockchain ecosystem as a user

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