Recruiting From Scratch Hiring for Software Engineering Manager, Crypto Wallet at Ottawa, ON Full Time

Who is Recruiting from Scratch:
Recruiting from Scratch is a premier talent firm that focuses on placing the best product managers, software, and hardware talent at innovative companies. Our team is 100% remote and we work with teams across the United States to help them hire. We work with companies funded by the best investors including Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Ventures, Tiger Global Management, A16Z, Accel, DFJ, and more.

If you are a fit, the team will reach out to you about this role or any others that may be a fit for our clients.

Our client

Ou r client is a crypto exchange and custodian that allows customers to buy, sell, store, and earn more than 30 cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, bitcoin cash, ether, litecoin, and Zcash. Our client is a New York trust company that is subject to the capital reserve requirements, cybersecurity requirements, and banking compliance standards set forth by the New York State Department of Financial Services and the New York Banking Law. Our client was founded in 2014 by twin brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss to empower the individual through crypto.

Crypto is about giving you greater choice, independence, and opportunity. We are here to help you on your journey. We build crypto products that are simple, elegant, and secure. Whether you are an individual or an institution, we want to help you buy, sell, and store your bitcoin and cryptocurrency. Crypto is not just a technology, it’s a movement.

The Department: Software Engineering

Our client is regulated and licensed like a bank, but it’s run like a tech startup, and engineering is the core of the company. There’s a wide range of tough problems to solve– from properly securing hundreds of millions of dollars worth of customer funds, to developing innovative new blockchain products, to finding new techniques to combat fraud, to shaving microseconds off our API response times, and everything in between.

All of our client’s engineers are able to work across the software platform, not just on their own specialization or subteam. We value a thoughtful, collaborative software development process, coupled with a pragmatic approach to problem solving and delivering software.

The Role: Engineering Manager for Wallet

Our client has about one hundred software engineers spread across a dozen project teams. We are seeking an Engineering Manager for the backend developers on one of those teams. In this role, you’ll be responsible for helping your team define their roadmap, plans, and goals, helping them achieve those goals, and guiding each team member to develop their career.

Join the team responsible for adding digital assets to the platform, working with different blockchain protocols, and developing custody and storage systems. Recent projects include work in the decentralized finance (deFi) space and partnering with Filecoin as a network launch partner

Responsibilities:
Create and evolve a structure and organization design for your team

Drive performance for your team and hold them accountable to externally and internally imposed deadlines and targets

Make hiring plans and hiring decisions

Give frequent feedback and coaching to your team members, coordinating with people from around the company to get a full understanding of your team’s performance

Provide a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment for your team to execute on its priorities and evolve its capabilities over time.

Communicate at all levels from senior leaders to individual contributors, including technical and non-technical audiences.

Adapt the team’s plans and goals to changing realities in a fast-moving industry

Effectively resolve ambiguity, helping the team to analyze complex requirements and break down features and initiatives into tasks

Own the team’s output, taking responsibility for everyone’s performance

Quickly ramp up on relevant industry and competitive trends

Qualifications:
8+ years of experience in software development & delivery

3+ years of managing engineering teams, delivering high quality software for customers

Technical aptitude to ask engineers good questions about architecture and product decisions

Experience with modern software engineering concepts

Expertise in Scala or in a similar backend programming languages, such as Java or C#

Experience establishing successful partnerships with key stakeholders such as product managers, project managers, and business owners.

It Pays to Work Here

We take a holistic approach to compensation at our client, which includes:

Competitive Compensation and Profit-Sharing Equity

Flexible vacation policy

Retirement Plan Matching

Generous Parental leave

Comprehensive health plans

Training and professional development