Senior Director, Digital Technology Services - London, United Kingdom - Blockchain Ventures

Description

is the world's leading software platform for digital assets.

Offering the largest production blockchain platform in the world, we share the passion to code, create, and ultimately build an open, accessible and fair financial future, one piece of software at a time.

At , we are building the foremost innovative crypto ecosystem for institutional clients across trading, lending, custody, staking and DeFi services.

We are on the search for an experienced Engineering Manager to join and lead our Development Community in London.

In this role, you will actively participate in developing next generation software systems to meet the growing demands of the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry.

Since 2017, has run a successful Institutional business and has been the leading strategic capital partner to the largest trading, investment, and mining companies in the crypto space, providing lending, OTC and electronic trading, custody, asset management funds, and other financial products and services.

You will be responsible for leading and growing the engineering team that delivers the user experience for our Institutional platform
Lead and work closely with Senior Engineers to develop innovative software solutions for our global cryptocurrencies institutional businesses and operations
Design, develop and own high-performance solution stacks for our backend
Maintain and optimize existing systems for scalability, extensibility and performance
Keep abreast of the latest and emerging technologies in the blockchain and technology space
Scale and up-skill the engineering team
Accelerate delivery and increase quality by making smart infrastructure and process investments and tradeoffs
You will work across the organization with product, engineering, marketing, and design teams to define the mobile product roadmap and guide decisions on architecture, system design, and technical strategy
As an engineering leader and manager at Blockchain you will be responsible for ensuring proper planning and delivery of complex projects, setting clear goals and best practices for your team, delivering timely feedback and helping recruit great engineers
Experience leading cross functional engineering teams rapidly delivering features at web-scale
Prior leadership, management, and coaching skills through experience as an engineering manager. This should include experience building and leading productive, high functioning teams
Strong technical expertise and hands on experience in at least one of: web development, mobile development, or back-end development
Built, shipped, and scaled consumer facing, software products with at least two successful product launches to speak of
Active participation in a team's career development, having managed engineers and manager's performance with proper mentorship and coaching
Experience with Agile software development methodologies and short release cycles
Desire to foster a hardworking, collaborative and creative team culture in one of the most challenging and dynamic industries in tech
COMPENSATION & PERKS
Competitive full time salary based on experience and meaningful equity in an industry-leading company
The opportunity to be a key player and build your career at a rapidly expanding, global technology company in an emerging field
Performance based bonuses paid in fiat
Referral bonuses
Unlimited paid time off policy; work hard and take time off when you need it
Apple equipment provided by the company
Bi-yearly performance reviews and regular 1:1 sessions for professional development
Flexible work culture
Assurance of being backed by international investors and being in the blockchain industry for over a decade
Link to Github, StackOverflow, personal website and/or blog (if applicable).
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