Engineering Manager, Chainlink Labs

Economics

Salary not provided
SQL
React
AngularJS
CSS
TypeScript
HTML
JavaScript
Jasmine
Mocha
Solidity
Golang
Senior level
Remote in US

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Chainlink Labs

Open-source blockchain oracle solutions

Open for applications

Chainlink Labs

Open-source blockchain oracle solutions

501-1000 employees

B2BPaymentsDeep TechInternet of ThingsAPIBlockchain

Open for applications

Salary not provided
SQL
React
AngularJS
CSS
TypeScript
HTML
JavaScript
Jasmine
Mocha
Solidity
Golang
Senior level
Remote in US

More information about location

501-1000 employees

B2BPaymentsDeep TechInternet of ThingsAPIBlockchain

Company mission

Chainlink Labs’ mission is to accelerate smart contract innovation and adoption by empowering developers to build feature-rich decentralized applications and providing global enterprises with a universal gateway to all blockchains.

Role

Who you are

  • 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

Desirable

  • Proficiency in solidity, typescript, golang, React, 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

What the job involves

  • 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 an Engineering manager on the Economics team, you will lead and grow a team of up to eight engineers to build the economics protocol that further secures Chainlink products while rewarding participants
  • You will work closely with all functions at Chainlink, from engineering, product, operations, community, finance, and more to ensure the team releases easy to use and manage smart contract driven products that furthers the crypto-economic security of the Chainlink ecosystem
  • Your core team will be composed of smart contract and software engineers and you will report to the engineering lead of Economics & Ecosystems
  • 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 an economics protocol that adds crypto-economic security to Chainlink products
  • Building economic products end to end, including tooling, monitoring and alerting, and user facing UI
  • Work closely with product, leadership, and a wide breadth of non-technical stakeholders 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
  • Work closely with engineers on team process, project management, and team health to ensure high productivity and morale
  • Contribute technically to projects, including code reviews and occasionally coding
  • Hire great engineers that level up the team and Chainlink Labs

Our take

Smart contracts are slated to be the future of transparent, fair, and efficient digital dealings across industries as diverse as lending, real estate, and international trade. Historically, the application of smart contracts was limited to on-chain data, but oracle mechanisms like Chainlink can be used to import off-chain data (like those required for the broader application of smart contracts) onto the chain.

Chainlink Labs' work has marked a significant step forward in the progress of blockchain technologies - and has proven a remarkable success story for the company. It is responsible for the largest global decentralized oracle network in the world, used by hundreds of projects spanning online gaming and cryptocurrency. It has also received its fair share of critique - but blockchain technology at large remains a work in progress, and Chainlink has been quick to develop solutions.

All in all, the benefits of Chainlink’s work look set to become even more pronounced, as smart contracts become more applied across the globe. In late 2022, the company launched the staking of its native token LINK, to increase the security of the protocol and enable the Chainlink system to grow.

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-4% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Company values

  • Being part of an idea meritocracy: We take ownership in the work we do and value real impact. There are no limits to what you can get involved in.
  • An open-source software ethos: We’re driven by creating a public good. What we build is by everyone, for everyone.
  • Being immersed in excellence: We hold ourselves to the highest standards—for our teams, our product, and our position in the ecosystem.
  • Building a world changing product: Smart contracts are redefining major industries, and we’re at the forefront of this global shift.
  • Being part of a high growth startup: Experience rapid personal and professional growth by accessing a broad scope of work and exceptional mentorship.
  • Autonomous, remote & flexible work: We’re a remote-first workplace that values autonomy, flexibility, and results.

Company HQ

Financial District, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Sergey Nazarov

(Co-Founder)

Co-founded P2P travel network ExistLocal, and served as a general partner at QED Capital during its pivot towards cryptocurrency. Subsequently co-founded CryptaMail, Secure Asset Exchange, and SmartContract.

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