Job Description

Engineering Manager, Backend

You will be a great match if you:

• You have a minimum of 10 years of overall experience. Have experience with performance and optimization problems, a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent such problems, and a desire to share your knowledge and scale through others 
• Enjoy leading the engineering team in a fast-paced startup environment where the team can be autonomous and experimental, be part of a truly global team, and can work up and down the stack. 
• Have strong experience of leading the team in delivering production quality products according to industry standards.
• Have expertise in leading development of external APIs and SDKs.
• Good understanding of asynchronous cryptography
• Have strong technical documentation skills, including the C4 Model and Architectural Decision Records 
• Desire to move forward the state of the art by delivering solutions to unlock data ownership with a strong focus on decentralized technology
• Are a passionate developer with extensive experience using Javascript, Typescipt, Node.js and React. Other languages (CSharp, C++, GoLang, Rust for example) are also attractive skills for this role.
• Have expertise in cloud computing and native environments (AWS serverless preferred)
• Understand design patterns and have working experience in leading development and deployment of microservices in the cloud, and have a proven track-record in doing so 
• Are hands-on with REST APIs and are able to apply Test Driven Development principles effectively. 
• Care about privacy by design, security, testing, high-performance systems, and mentoring others, and have an inclination towards clear communication, inclusion and visibility