Engineering Manager

Career Renew is recruiting for one of its clients an Engineering Manager - candidates can be based anywhere.

We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to support our CTO in leading the Core teams.

Core currently includes Client, Sway, SDK and Tooling. 

Our ideal candidate is a former developer or EM, with experience in Web3 and blockchains, a passion for people and smooth delivery, and a track record of successfully integrating in the culture, and bringing teams to perform at their best. Our engineering culture is very specific and one of the main drivers of our success. Our new EM will need to vibe with the nuances, while supporting the growth of everyone around them.

Areas of Ownership

Staffing 

• Short Term: Re-shuffling staffing as teams move onto and off of projects
• Long Term: Hiring planning and budgeting aligned with product priorities

Feedback, Development and Performance 

• Clearly setting expectations for devs at various levels of the organization
• Communicating great work and areas of improvement
• Aligning performance with:
• The needs of the individual dev
• The needs of the organization\
• Defining and helping team-members to achieve personal development goals
• Supporting and following up with team members’ career progression 

Clarifying,Tracking and Communicating Team Plans

• Working with leads to turn plans into general dependencies, order of operations, and rough to specific timelines, given the nature of the work
• Converting plans into digestible and understandable documents for communication throughout the organization
• Tracking progress to plans, escalating issues, and unblocking teams that need help to achieve organizational goals
• Communication with the rest of the org
• Planning of mini-offsites to work on specific, critical deliverables
• Coordination with other leaders across the organization

Requirements

• A senior leader with 5-10 years of experience
• Experience working successfully on complex infrastructure projects (preferably sensitive distributed systems) 
• Experience or strong interest with Rust
• Experience in OS projects and community
• Experience building high-risk software applications

Traits We Look For: 

• Respect
• Understanding of the skillsets and the challenges that go with building Core
• Not overly agreeable
• Cultural / Experience Background
• Experience shipping stable foundational technology (vs instable saas for example)
• Experience with systems that have high uptime SLA’s
• Open source community experience
• High performing with low ego