About the role
Lightning Labs is seeking to hire a Senior Engineering Manager to help scale our growing engineering organization. The ideal candidate has experience managing remote teams across several time zones, has managed their own open source projects or actively contributed to such projects in the past, and has high level working knowledge of Bitcoin. Due to the nature of our software, our ideal candidate is also highly technical as we regularly face novel and challenging decisions that require nuanced and comprehensive analysis of related tradeoffs. In addition, the ideal candidate should have a passion for our mission, as well as for Bitcoin as a whole. Candidates in this position will work directly with the CTO to scale our engineering organization, as well as work across functional team boundaries to ensure proper resource allocation, product quality, and team agility.
Responsibilities may include but are not limited to: Hire, grow, and mentor an engineering team to maximize team harmony and individual satisfaction Cross-functional project management, engineering resource allocation, and prioritization Software architecture design review and analysis Create and own engineering processes to promote delivery of secure, reliable, robust software Preferred experience: 5 years prior software engineering experience in a systems domain 3 years prior engineering management experience Experience working with remote teams Experience maintaining or contributing to open source projects Working knowledge of fundamental Bitcoin design principles
About Lightning Labs
Lightning Labs is building the next generation of decentralized, resilient financial infrastructure. We believe systems based on cryptography, blockchains, and smart contracts will enhance financial cooperation around the world in unprecedented ways at scales both large and small.
At Lightning Labs, we develop software that powers the Lightning Network. Our open source, secure, and scalable Lightning systems enable users to send and receive money more efficiently than ever before. We also offer a series of verifiable, non-custodial Lightning-based financial services. We bridge the world of open source software and the next generation of Bitcoin financial software.
We have developed Lightning Network Daemon (LND), the most advanced and most developer-friendly implementation of the Lightning Network protocol. Along with Neutrino, an open platform that enables users with mobile devices to conduct blockchain and Lightning Network transactions quickly and easily.
We’re hiring. See our open positions: http://lightning.engineering/careers.html. Get involved: http://dev.lightning.community/.
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Job details
Location
San Francisco, CA
Funding
Total raised
$82.5M
Last stage
Series B
Investors
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