Engineering Manager (Financial Services)

As an Engineering Manager at WalletConnect, you'll lead the Financial Services engineering team reporting to the CTO. You'll manage a cross-functional squad building systems for DeFi access, treasury management, and security and compliance, where accuracy and reliability are paramount. You'll own the squad's delivery and technical outcomes, shape the roadmap with your Product partner, and uphold WalletConnect's engineering standards while developing the engineers on your team.

What you'll do

• Run the squad's operating rhythm (planning, standups, and retros) in close partnership with your Product Manager to ensure delivery is structured, disciplined, and predictable
• Set team OKRs with Product and translate company goals and strategic priorities into squad-level objectives
• Hold the team accountable to goals and clear blockers out of its way
• Hold regular 1:1s with every engineer, coach across seniority levels with honest and kind feedback, and build career paths people follow
• Run fair performance reviews and address underperformance early and directly with kindness
• Be a strong technical voice by reviewing designs and architecture, challenging trade-offs pragmatically, and fostering a culture of high-quality code
• Own reliability outcomes for your squad's services: SLOs and error budgets, alert quality, a healthy on-call rotation, and blameless incident reviews
• Make pragmatic trade-off calls between roadmap, tech debt, and keep-the-lights-on work, and explain the reasoning clearly to engineers and non-engineers
• Align and mediate across Product, Design, other squads, and leadership, protecting the team's focus and surfacing risks and problems early
• Partner with the People team on hiring: define what great looks like, run calibrated interviews, and close candidates who raise the bar; own their onboarding and time-to-productivity
• Read the room and act early on team health, delivery risk, or design drift, using data where it exists and sound judgment where it doesn't

What you bring

• 7+ years of software engineering experience with 2+ years managing engineers; you were a strong engineer first and you're technically credible with senior individual contributors
• Technical depth in building and operating distributed systems at scale, with hands-on capability in code review, architecture, or technical document assessment
• A track record of building, growing, and retaining high-performing teams with genuine care for the people on them
• Experience leading remote-first, distributed teams
• Experience owning delivery of business-critical services where accuracy and reliability are paramount (trading, treasury, exchange, or financial infrastructure strongly preferred)
• Structured and disciplined planning: you turn ambiguous goals into a predictable delivery cadence and hit the commitments you make
• Pragmatic decision-making: you right-size solutions, balance speed and rigor deliberately, and avoid over-engineering
• Honest, charismatic communication and natural mediation skills; you give and receive direct feedback with kindness, simplify complex topics for non-engineers, and turn disagreement into alignment
• Self-awareness, context-awareness, and coachability with strong instincts; a self-starter who owns their work and is motivated by quality and innovation

Nice to have

• Financial infrastructure domain depth: CEX integrations, custody or treasury systems, on-chain swaps and DeFi protocols, reconciliation, or transaction and address screening
• Personal or professional experience with crypto and web3: you've used wallets, interacted on-chain, or built in the space
• Experience with Rust and TypeScript services on AWS, Grafana-based observability, and infrastructure-as-code
• Experience introducing squad-level operating standards such as SLOs, error budgets, and DORA-style delivery metrics across teams

What we offer

• Competitive compensation package including salary, equity, and potentially tokens
• Fully remote position with a budget for your home office or work environment
• Regular team offsites to locations around the world
• Opportunities to travel to conferences and community events
• Generous PTO and parental leave
• Meaningful Learning and Development budget

About WalletConnect

WalletConnect is a recognised company in Web3 building the Financial Services engineering team behind value-added services on the WalletConnect Network, spanning DeFi access, treasury management, and security and compliance.