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🇪🇺 Europe – Remote

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👮‍♀️ Software Engineering Manager

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Consensys

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501 - 1000 employees

₿ Crypto

🌐 Web 3

💳 Fintech

💰 $1.7M Secondary market on 2022-11

Crypto • Web 3 • Fintech

Consensys is a blockchain software company that builds infrastructure, tools, and services for institutional and enterprise adoption of Ethereum. Founded in 2014 by Ethereum co‑founder Joseph Lubin, Consensys contributes to major Ethereum protocol upgrades and maintains production-grade open-source clients and components (e. g. , Besu, Teku, Web3Signer, Lineth). It provides advisory and technical services, platform extensions, and managed operations tailored to banks, asset managers, central banks, custodians, exchanges and other financial market infrastructures to design, deploy, and operate regulated digital market infrastructure.

📋 Description

• Own the delivery organization across core engineering, smart contracts, and infrastructure/DevOps • Deliver institutional client programs against contractual availability, latency, and evidence commitments • Own availability definitions, maintenance windows, disaster recovery, incident processes, proof, system reliability engineering, and on-call rotations • Operate public, sovereign, and permissioned production networks • Work with the Security Lead to establish security standards • Define and sequence the technical roadmap with Product and Sales • Complete separation from the former parent, including observability, deployment tooling, identity, and infrastructure-as-code • Set engineering standards and release processes for testing, shipping, rollbacks, reviews, and maintenance • Serve as a credible technical voice with institutional clients and partners • Hire, lead, mentor, and develop engineering managers and team leads • Foster a remote-first, high-performing engineering culture • Manage performance and career development • Coordinate priorities, dependencies, resourcing, and delivery across engineering • Contribute to major architecture and investment proposals • Integrate company-wide objectives into measurable engineering OKRs and communicate progress • Establish engineering decision rights and escalation paths with Product, Sales, and Protocols • Delegate delivery, incidents, and design decisions while serving as the exception path • Guide practical AI adoption in engineering work • Reduce operating costs without reducing quality or productivity • Meet customers or partners where engineering involvement is valuable

🎯 Requirements

• Deep Ethereum and EVM experience • Experience leading an engineering team of 20+ across multiple teams as a leader of leaders, at this company stage • Experience owning production systems under contractual SLAs for demanding customers • Personal accountability for an outage in front of a customer • Deep technical expertise and ability to challenge designs and assess estimates • Distributed-systems depth • Experience with blockchain, or strong infrastructure/backend leadership in payments, exchanges, or market infrastructure • Experience hiring well and retaining people through a hard period • Sound technical judgment, strategic thinking, commercial awareness, and prioritization skills • Direct, people-first, empathetic, approachable leadership style • Strong communication and collaboration skills • High emotional intelligence • Ability to coach, delegate effectively, and build autonomous teams • Pragmatic and organized approach • Willingness to use AI daily and make it a default team practice • Useful but not required: L2 or ZK-rollup architecture • Useful but not required: regulated financial infrastructure, audit, change control, evidence, SOC 2 / ISO 27001 • Useful but not required: carve-out, separation, or post-acquisition integration experience

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation • Meaningful equity • Fully remote, globally distributed work • Asynchronous work • Opportunity to work on genuinely open source software at the frontier of web3 • Inclusive environment and equal-opportunity employment • AI Notetaker interview recording may be declined without impacting candidacy

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