What you'll be doing

📍Understanding what resources, people, and technology the teams need to share versus where they need to run independently. 📍Holding frequent syncs with the team managers and diving deep into tech and product independently. 📍Monitoring ongoing activities on different channels and meetings, and intervening when things don't go well. 📍Working closely with product, quant, and business strategy departments to develop strong relationships and ensuring smooth inter-departmental collaborations. 📍Constantly spotting problems and helping managers make better decisions. 📍Being able to jump in and assist when there are concerns or gaps in the team's work. 📍Taking a hands-on approach to managing, not just based on secondary information but by understanding the product and technology deeply. 📍Being able to operate in a resource-constrained situation and make significant progress before escalating issues. 📍Balancing the need to support a live product whilst still building new features.

Requirements

📍10+ years experience in high-performing software engineering organizations 📍5+ years experience directly managing talented engineers 📍2+ years experience managing managers 📍Experience in FinTech (ideally focused on institutional trading) 📍Experience in Blockchain/Crypto or a strong passion for it 📍Experience managing at all employment phases: interviewing, hiring, onboarding, evaluating and improving performance, promotions, and terminations 📍Deep technical and product understanding of the problems your team solves, resulting from a product engineering background prior to, or alongside, management 📍Passion for making wonderful products that customers love. This implies that you are an expert on every product you've worked on, obsessed with all relevant details. You also never blindly delegate and enjoy immense credibility and respect among your team. 📍Real-world experience with success and failure shipping scalable cloud products and, most importantly, a wealth of resulting learning to draw upon and a relentless drive to continue improving