Web3 Engineering Manager Job Description Template

The web3 engineering manager leads a team building on chain systems, which adds security review, audit coordination and deployment risk to the usual responsibilities of hiring, delivery and development. The role has to hold a high bar under commercial pressure, because in this domain shipping something that has not been properly reviewed is a decision with permanent consequences.

Typical Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of blockchain and application engineers
• Own delivery of the engineering roadmap
• Ensure security review is built into the development process
• Coordinate audits and hold the bar on remediation
• Manage deployment and upgrade procedures and their approvals
• Hire engineers in a market with an unusually wide skill distribution
• Support career development and technical growth
• Work with product on scope, sequencing and realistic timelines
• Lead incident response and post incident review
• Represent engineering to leadership and, where relevant, the community

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field

Required Skills and Experience

• 5+ years of engineering experience with 2+ managing engineers
• Hands on background in blockchain development
• Experience shipping systems that custody value
• Ability to assess smart contract engineering skill when hiring
• Judgment about when something is not ready to deploy
• Experience running or supporting a security incident
• Clear delivery planning without over promising
• Strong communication with product and leadership

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience scaling a team through rapid growth
• Background in security or infrastructure