• 7+ years of software engineering experience, with 2+ years managing engineers; you were a strong engineer first, and you're technically credible with senior ICs.
• Technical depth in building and operating distributed systems at scale; hands-on when needed, whether that's reviewing code, architecture, or technical documents.
• A track record of building, growing, and retaining high-performing teams, and of genuinely caring about the people on them.
• Experience leading remote-first, distributed teams.
• Experience owning delivery of business-critical services where accuracy and reliability are paramount: trading, treasury, exchange, or financial infrastructure strongly preferred.
• Structured and disciplined planning: you turn ambiguous goals into a predictable delivery cadence and hit the commitments you make.
• Pragmatic decision-making: you right-size solutions, balance speed and rigor deliberately, and avoid over-engineering.
• Honest, charismatic communication and natural mediation: you give and receive direct feedback with kindness, simplify complex topics for non-engineers, and turn disagreement into alignment.
• Self-aware, context-aware, and coachable, with strong instincts; a self-starter who owns their work and is motivated by quality and innovation, not just output.

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• Run the squad's operating rhythm (planning, stand ups, and retros) in close partnership with your Product Manager, so delivery is structured, disciplined, and predictable.
• Set team OKRs with Product, and translate company goals and strategic priorities into what they mean for the squad.
• Hold the team accountable to its goals, and clear blockers out of its way.
• Hold regular 1:1s with every engineer; coach across seniority levels with honest, kind feedback, and build career paths people actually follow.
• Run fair performance reviews, and address underperformance early and directly, with kindness.
• Be a strong technical voice: review designs and architecture, challenge trade-offs pragmatically, and foster a culture of high-quality code.
• Own reliability outcomes for your squad's services: SLOs and error budgets, alert quality, a healthy on-call rotation, and blameless incident reviews that are hard on problems, not on people.
• Make pragmatic trade-off calls between roadmap, tech debt, and keep-the-lights-on work, and explain the "why" clearly to engineers and non-engineers alike.
• Align and mediate across Product, Design, other squads, and leadership, protecting the team's focus and surfacing risks and problems early.
• Partner with the People team on hiring: define what great looks like, run calibrated interviews, and close candidates who raise the bar; own their onboarding and time-to-productivity.
• Read the room and act early (on team health, delivery risk, or design drift), using data where it exists and sound judgment where it doesn't.

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• Compensation package including salary, equity, and potentially tokens.
• Fully remote position with a budget for your home office or work environment.
• Regular team offsites to incredible locations around the world.
• Opportunities to travel to conferences and community events.
• Generous PTO and parental leave.
• Meaningful Learning & Development budget.
• The chance to build at the forefront of on-chain payments with one of the most recognised companies in Web3.

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