Engineering Manager - Cloud Wallet

Ledger; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Ledger is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Cloud Wallet team. You will guide backend engineers working on account management, transaction processing, and data aggregation across Ledger Live and Enterprise platforms.

You'll own the team's roadmap, drive scalable architectures in a polyglot TypeScript/Scala stack, and foster an on-call, high-availability culture with strong CI/CD and testing practices. Excellent English communication is required.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of backend engineering team management in a product-driven, distributed environment.
• Strong backend systems background; able to challenge architecture and unblock engineers.
• Experience at scale with high-availability architectures, event-driven systems, and observability tooling.
• Comfort with polyglot stacks (TypeScript and Scala) and leadership across both.
• Track record of navigating multi-team dependencies and influencing without direct authority.
• Excellent written and verbal English communication.
• Bonus: blockchain/crypto infrastructure exposure and interest in Web3.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow your team, manage hiring, onboarding, performance, and development.
• Own the team's roadmap and PI planning commitments.
• Ensure on-time, high-quality delivery across services.
• Maintain operational excellence with SLIs/SLOs and on-call culture.
• Advise on architecture for scale and polyglot stack with TypeScript/Scala.
• Champion CI/CD, testing, code review, and technical debt management.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align architecture and priorities.

Skills

Backend leadership

Backend architecture

Systems at scale

TypeScript & Scala

Cross-team coordination

English communication

Blockchain exposure

RabbitMQ

PostgreSQL

Flink

NATS

Datadog

Tools

RabbitMQ

PostgreSQL

Flink

NATS

Datadog

Job description

Were a team of experts pushing the limits of whats possible, united by our common goal to unlock true freedom through digital ownership, making technology accessible for all. We believe in a world where users, creators and enterprises manage their value with ownership and freedom. Our curiosity drives us to innovate, empowering individuals on a global scale. We believe change is constant and our team moves forward as one, with a culture of problem-solving where every employee is empowered and supported to challenge tradition and create solutions. Our mission is simple: to make self-custody accessible and give people the keys to their own financial futures. If you want to make a true impact, we want you to join us at Ledger.

At Ledger, were proud to be the global platform for digital assets and Web3, with over 20% of the worlds crypto assets secured through our Ledger devices. With our headquarters in Paris, and offices in Vierzon, Grenoble, Montpellier, London, Portland, Geneva, Zurich and Central Singapore, we have a team of around 600 professionals developing a variety of products and services to enable individuals and companies to securely buy, store, swap, grow and manage crypto assets or including the Ledger hardware wallets line with more than 7.5 millions units already sold in 200 countries.

The team

To sustain the companys growth, Ledger is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Cloud Wallet team. This team is responsible for the backend services that power blockchain account management, transaction processing, and on-chain data aggregation across all Ledger wallet surfaces, from Ledger Live to the Ledger Enterprise platform. We believe in the power of functional programming to build robust and scalable platforms. We take time to share, challenge, and grow together through bi-weekly knowledge-sharing sessions, meetups, conferences, and open source contributions.

What youll be doing

• Lead and grow your team. Own hiring, onboarding, performance management, and the professional development of your engineers. Run regular 1:1s, support career growth, and build a high-performing, engaged team.

• Drive technical delivery. Own the teams roadmap and PI planning commitments. Ensure on-time, high-quality delivery across the teams service portfolio and ongoing architectural initiatives while coordinating across dependencies with Coin Integration, Ledger Enterprise, Ledger Live, and Infrastructure teams.

• Maintain operational excellence. Own SLIs/SLOs for team services. Lead incident response posture, on-call culture, and observability standards for production-critical systems.

• Architect for scale and reliability. Partner with tech leads and staff engineers to drive sound technical decisions on a polyglot stack (TypeScript, Scala) handling high throughput, multi-chain complexity, and strict reliability requirements. Review ADRs and ensure architectural coherence.

• Champion engineering practices. Drive strong standards on CI/CD, testing (including end-to-end on testnets), code review quality, technical debt management, and AI-assisted engineering workflows.

• Contribute to org-level initiatives. Participate in cross-BU architectural working groups, PI planning, and engineering efficiency programs.

You will collaborate cross-functionally with:

• The Blockchain platform team for data model alignment, indexing and event streaming

• The Coin Integration team for coin module ownership and new blockchain integrations

• The Ledger Enterprise team for enterprise wallet features and operational alignment

• The Ledger Live / Wallet XP teams as consumers of the teams backend APIs

• The Infrastructure and SRE teams for platform reliability and scalability

• The Product team for roadmap prioritization and customer-driven requirements

• The Security team for vulnerability analysis and compliance

What were looking for

• Proven experience (3+ years) managing backend engineering teams in a product-driven, distributed environment

• Strong technical background in backend systems. You can credibly challenge architectural decisions, review design documents, and unblock engineers on hard technical problems

• Experience operating services at scale and familiarity with high-availability architectures, event-driven systems, and observability tooling (RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, Flink, NATS, Datadog or equivalent)

• Comfortable with polyglot stacks. The team works across TypeScript and Scala; you dont need to be an expert in both but need enough depth to lead effectively

• Track record of navigating complex multi-team dependencies and influencing across organizational boundaries without direct authority

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English

• Bonus points: exposure to blockchain or crypto infrastructure (account indexing, transaction lifecycle, UTXO vs account-based models), and a genuine interest in the Web3 space