Engineering Manager, Payments

at  Chainlink Labs

ABOUT US

Chainlink Labs is the primary contributing developer of Chainlink, the decentralized computing platform powering the verifiable web. Chainlink is the industry-standard platform for providing access to real-world data, offchain computation, and secure cross-chain interoperability across any blockchain. Chainlink Labs helps power verifiable applications for banking, DeFi, global trade, and gaming by collaborating with some of the world’s largest financial institutions, notably Swift, DTCC, and ANZ. Chainlink Labs also works with top Web3 teams, including Aave, Compound, GMX, Maker, and Synthetix. Chainlink Labs was ranked in Newsweek’s 100 Most Loved Workplaces 2023 in both the United States and United Kingdom.

REQUIREMENTS

• 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

PREFERRED REQUIREMENTS

• Proficiency in solidity, typescript, golang, 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
  All roles with Chainlink Labs are global and remote-based. Unless otherwise stated, we ask that you try to overlap some working hours with Eastern Standard Time (EST).

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 a software engineering manager on the Payments team, you will lead and grow a team of up to eight engineers to build the on-chain billing and payments protocol within the Chainlink ecosystem. You will work closely with all functions at Chainlink, from engineering, product, operations, finance, and more to ensure the team releases an intuitive backbone that enables Chainlink to quickly scale to many products across even more chains. Your core team will be composed of smart contract and software engineers and you will report to the engineering lead of Economics & Ecosystems.