Engineering Manager (Financial Services)

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

We believe great engineering managers were strong engineers first. This is not primarily a hands-on coding role, but you'll have the technical depth to understand and challenge engineering decisions, and to 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 to ensure 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 its 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
• Make pragmatic trade-off calls between roadmap, tech debt, and keep-the-lights-on work, and explain 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 you're technically credible with senior individual contributors
• Technical depth in building and operating distributed systems at scale, with hands-on capability in code reviews, architecture, and 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

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 incredible 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 building on-chain payments infrastructure at the forefront of Web3, with one of the most recognized companies in the crypto ecosystem. The WalletConnect Network powers value-added services spanning DeFi access, treasury management, and security and compliance.