Engineering Manager (Financial Services)

As an Engineering Manager at WalletConnect, you'll report to the CTO and lead the Financial Services engineering team, building value-added services across DeFi access, treasury management, and security and compliance on the WalletConnect Network. You'll own a cross-functional squad where accuracy and reliability are paramount, shaping the roadmap with your Product partner, maintaining a high bar for quality and velocity, and upholding WalletConnect's engineering standards.

We believe great engineering managers were strong engineers first and never stopped thinking like one. This is not primarily a hands-on coding role, but you'll have the technical depth to input on, understand, and challenge engineering decisions, and get hands-on in code, reviews, or design docs when it helps. Above all, you'll make the team better: hiring well, coaching honestly, mediating clearly, protecting focus, and caring about the humans doing the work.

What you'll do

• Run the squad's operating rhythm (planning, stand-ups, and retros) in close partnership with your Product Manager, ensuring delivery is structured, disciplined, and predictable.
• Set team OKRs with Product and translate company goals and strategic priorities into what they mean for the squad.
• Hold the team accountable to its goals and clear blockers out of the way.
• Hold regular 1:1s with every engineer, coach across seniority levels with honest, kind feedback, and build career paths people actually follow.
• Run fair performance reviews and address underperformance early and directly, with kindness.
• Be a strong technical voice: review designs and architecture, challenge trade-offs pragmatically, and foster 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 that are hard on problems, not on people.
• Make pragmatic trade-off calls between roadmap, tech debt, and keep-the-lights-on work, explaining the "why" clearly to engineers and non-engineers alike.
• 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 are technically credible with senior ICs.
• Technical depth in building and operating distributed systems at scale; hands-on when needed, whether that's reviewing code, architecture, or technical documents.
• A track record of building, growing, and retaining high-performing teams, and of genuinely caring about the people on them.
• Experience leading remote-first, distributed teams.
• Experience owning delivery of business-critical services where accuracy and reliability are paramount, with 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: 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, not just output.

Nice to have

• Financial infrastructure domain depth: CEX integrations, custody or treasury systems, onchain swaps and DeFi protocols, reconciliation, or transaction and address screening.
• Personal or professional experience with crypto and web3: you've used wallets, interacted onchain, or built in the space.
• Experience with the WalletConnect stack: Rust and TypeScript services on AWS, Grafana-based observability, infrastructure-as-code.
• Experience introducing squad-level operating standards (SLOs, error budgets, 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 incredible locations around the world.
• Opportunities to travel to conferences and community events.
• Generous PTO and parental leave.
• Meaningful Learning and Development budget.
• The chance to build at the forefront of on-chain payments with one of the most recognised companies in Web3.

About WalletConnect

WalletConnect builds the WalletConnect Network, providing value-added services on top of it spanning DeFi access, treasury management, and security and compliance. It is one of the most recognised companies in Web3.