# Engineering Manager, Blockchain

**Company:** [Anchorage](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/anchorage-digital)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Skills:** Go, Rust, TypeScript, Solidity, Blockchain, Distributed Systems, Applied Cryptography, Kubernetes, Algorithms, Concurrency
**Posted:** 2024-04-17

> Leads Blockchain Integrations team to build secure, scalable systems for blockchain networks, custody, staking, and on-chain features. Manages distributed engineers, drives roadmap, mentors talent, and ensures operational excellence; requires distributed systems experience and strong CS fundamentals.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead a high-performing Blockchain Integrations team responsible for secure, scalable interaction with blockchain networks and assets, powering custody, staking, governance, and on-chain functionality.
- Hire and develop exceptional engineers, partner with cross-functional leaders, and translate roadmap into reliable, scalable systems.
- Refine engineering roadmap, drive operational excellence, create technology strategy.
- Mentor and coach team members, prioritize their health, happiness, and professional progression.
- Work with Product Managers to align product plans with team bandwidth and technical realities.
- Collaborate with other engineering managers, product, recruiting for team growth, retention, and hiring.

## Requirements
- Demonstrated experience managing, mentoring, and growing a geographically distributed team.
- Real-world experience building complex distributed systems (primarily Go; languages can be learned).
- Expertise in engineering and management skills, computer science fundamentals (concurrency, algorithms, data structures).
- Enjoy building and supporting services long-term, care about code quality and test infrastructure.
- Prioritize end-user experience and business value.
- Self-describe as creative, humble, ambitious, detail-oriented, hard-working, trustworthy, eager to learn, methodical, action-oriented, tenacious.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with applied cryptography.
- Background where "crypto" means cryptography, not cryptocurrency.
- Read blockchain protocol white papers, stay updated on cryptoasset innovations.
- Finance industry background.
- Professional experience with **Go**, **Rust**, **TypeScript**, **Solidity**.
- Familiarity with optimistic & zero-knowledge tech.

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