Engineering Manager

Location: Remote (US)

Position: Full-Time

Salary: $264,000 - $297,000 USD + Significant Equity + Benefits

Company Overview

This company is a foundational pillar of the cryptocurrency ecosystem, providing millions of users with the tools to track their portfolios and achieve tax compliance with confidence. Its mission is to empower everyone in the world to use cryptocurrency with peace of mind. The organization is a high-growth, globally distributed team, backed by the world's leading investors.

Notable Achievements:

1. Tracks over $80 billion in cryptocurrency assets, representing a significant portion of the global crypto market.
2. Has generated over one million tax forms for a rapidly expanding user base.
3. Maintains key partnerships with industry leaders such as Coinbase, Intuit TurboTax, MetaMask, and OpenSea.
4. Founded by proven entrepreneurs with a history of building massively scalable products.
5. Secured over $100 million in venture funding from top-tier firms, including Accel, General Catalyst, and Y Combinator.

Position Summary

The company is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead its Infrastructure and Platform teams. This leader will be responsible for providing the secure, scalable, and intuitive foundations that enable the entire engineering organization to ship reliable, high-quality products quickly and confidently. This is a critical leadership role that directly impacts the company's ability to scale and execute its product vision.

Key Responsibilities

The Engineering Manager will be accountable for the following outcomes:

1. Team Leadership & Development: Lead, mentor, and grow a team of 5-6 skilled engineers across Infrastructure and Platform, fostering a culture of ownership, learning, and technical excellence.
2. Strategic Roadmap: Define and drive the long-term strategy and roadmap for infrastructure reliability, scalability, developer productivity, and core platform services.
3. Architectural Guidance: Guide the evolution of the company's architecture toward modular, service-oriented systems, ensuring sustainable and scalable growth.
4. Platform Delivery: Oversee the delivery of key shared services—such as authentication, audit logging, and observability—that are adopted as standard across all product teams.
5. Developer Velocity: Implement foundational improvements to the developer experience, including tooling and ephemeral environments, that result in measurable gains in team velocity and satisfaction.

Ideal Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate is a strategic leader who is equally passionate about people management and technical architecture. They are driven by the mission to create leverage for other engineers and are adept at navigating ambiguity to deliver high-impact outcomes.

Required Qualifications:

1. 2+ years of engineering management experience directly leading infrastructure or platform teams.
2. 6+ years of hands-on, individual contributor experience in infrastructure, platform, or backend engineering.
3. A strong understanding of cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS, or Azure), observability tools, CI/CD pipelines, and modern Infrastructure-as-Code practices.
4. Proven experience in building or scaling shared platform services, such as authentication systems, internal service frameworks, or API gateways.
5. Familiarity with architecting systems to meet enterprise-grade requirements for security, governance, and compliance.
6. Excellent communication skills, with the ability to develop a clear vision, articulate technical strategy to diverse audiences, and make pragmatic trade-offs.

Preferred Qualifications:

1. Experience in the cryptocurrency, fintech, or other highly regulated financial systems.
2. A track record of scaling platform systems to support a rapidly growing user base and data volume.

Compensation and Benefits

The company offers a competitive starting salary of $264,000 - $297,000 USD. The actual compensation will be based on relevant skills, education, and experience. This senior leadership role includes a significant equity component, comprehensive benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k), life insurance), and generous PTO.