Engineering Manager

What you’ll be doing:

• Lead a fully remote team of cross-functional engineers. 
• Establish best practices to ensure a high-quality product & consistent delivery of working systems on time.
• Design, implement, and document product development, testing, and deployment processes. 
• Collaborate with Leadership & Product Management on roadmapping, technical planning & prioritization. 
• Grow engineers’ skills, experience and confidence through regular 1:1s, coaching, actionable feedback, work and peer alignment, and career advocacy. 
• Manage, support, and evaluate engineers’ performance. 
• Maintain and strengthen Zerion’s culture of growth, openness, trust, mutual support, and care. 
• Hire new talent for the team.

What we are looking for:

• Experience managing and scaling an engineering team at a fast-growing organization or early-stage company. 
• Technical knowledge to discuss issues, approaches, and solutions in depth. 
• Desire to manage a fully-remote geographically distributed team. 
• At least 4 years of experience in back-end development, preferably in Python and Golang. 
• At least 2 years of Engineering Management experience.

What you need to succeed:

• Ability to do both long term thinking and short term planning. 
• Experience working with modern distributed systems at scale. 
• Passion about efficient engineering processes & practices and desire to foster an environment that creates them. 
• Experience attracting, retaining, and growing great engineering talent.
• Advocacy for change and competency in driving improvements.

Bonus points:

• Worked at a growth stage startup. 
• Actively coached, mentored and sponsored team members in their careers remotely. Have passion for building products to the highest standards across many dimensions (user experience, performance, reliability, security). 
• Have a people-first leadership style.
• Founder / Startup experience. 
• Commercial Web3 experience.
• Experience in trading tokens or NFTs yourself.
• Experience scaling products through constant learning and experimentation, in fast-paced and rapidly changing industries.