Desired Skills and Experience

  • Drive the engineering team to deliver on product milestones
  • Grow, build, mentor, and motivate the team
  • Work closely with the product team to negotiate feasible product roadmap milestones
  • Advise the team on key architectural and design decisions
  • Technical background in CS or a closely related field
  • Extensive experience developing complex software systems
  • Experience growing, mentoring, and leading highly technical teams
  • Experience working with large C++ codebases
  • Proven ability to learn new technologies
  • Portfolio of complex products and systems and ability to demonstrate role in their delivery
  • Experience working with product management, business teams, and other stakeholders to negotiate feasible and realistic roadmaps
  • Extensive experience developing systems under Unix / Linux
  • Working understanding of best engineering practices in designing cryptographic systems
  • Strong understanding of common software and networking vulnerabilities and the engineering practices to mitigate against them
  • Strong interest in blockchain technologies and cryptocurrencies
  • Record of contributions to open source projects
  • Experience building one or more cryptographic systems
  • Experience contributing to (or building a system on top of) blockchain technology, bitcoin or another cryptocurrency
  • Experience designing and developing peer-to-peer or other highly distributed systems
  • Significant contributions to open source projects
  • Leadership of one or more open source project
  • FinTech experience
  • Startup experience
  • Embedded systems and hardware engineering experience
  • Experience having developed or implemented a formally-specified protocol
  • Experience working with globally distributed teams
  • Experience programming in Rust
  • Tell us why you are excited to work for Blockstream. We read Cover Letters!
  • Please send your resume and cover letter in WORD or PDF format to lilia@blockstream.io. We would like you to focus on your major achievements.
  • Place the text “Lead Technical Engineering Manager” in the subject line.

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