About the company
CoinGecko is a global leader in tracking cryptocurrency data. Operating since 2014, CoinGecko has built the world's largest cryptocurrency data platform, tracking over 10,000 tokens across more than 400 exchanges, serving over 300 million page views in more than 100 countries. We are proud to have played a major part in mainstream awareness, adoption, and education of cryptocurrency globally. We at CoinGecko believe that cryptocurrency and blockchain will define the future of finance, bringing greater financial and economic freedom around the world. In anticipation of that future, CoinGecko is building the foundation to scale cryptocurrency market data to serve billions.
Job Summary
Job Responsibilities
📍Strategy and Vision: Define overall technical vision, strategy and roadmap aligned with business goals and objectives. Accomplish high-level outcomes and lead quarterly reviews and OKR planning. Build and lead a high-performing team. 📍Architecture and Delivery: Oversee all software and operational components and develop long-term technical roadmaps and milestones. Establish delivery standards and working processes for all engineering functions. 📍Business Continuity Planning: Align and maintain service-level objectives, compliance and business continuity plans for all systems including financial, brand and regulatory impact. Identify technical risks, develop mitigation plans and address challenges in the process. Provide technical direction to engineering leads. 📍Talent as a Resource: Lead managers to develop management skills, feedback and progression frameworks and implement programs for upskilling and career progression. Review capacity planning to ensure continuous staffing and competencies of the department. Nurture and advocate for staff well-being and uphold company core values. 📍Engineering Leadership: Coordinate engineering staff, workflows and structure based on feedback and synergy with other teams. Communicate team and tech status to internal and external stakeholders. Work closely with human resources and finance to influence resource planning and other requirements. 📍Engineering Excellence: Stay up-to-date with emerging trends and technologies and their impact on the company technical roadmap. Develop and direct R&D projects, communicate insights, and manage resource planning with related lines of business. 📍Partnerships & External Engagements: Represent the company in technical forums and industry events to establish the company’s competencies in tech. Foster working relationships with ecosystem partners, vendors and industry experts on strategic initiatives. 📍Evangelism: Evangelize all aspects of CoinGecko’s engineering while communicating strategic context across and beyond the organization. Support any ad hoc tasks as required by the company.
Job Requirements
đź“ŤProven track record: Up to 12 years of software development experience and leadership. Proven track record over multiple years as a leader responsible for engineering vision, strategy, and managing multiple teams across different domains. Strong general business acumen. Experienced implementing business planning and management frameworks to accomplish meaningful business growth. đź“ŤProduct Knowledge: Demonstrated complete understanding of tech businesses, startup growth, product development with sufficient knowledge of the blockchain/cryptocurrency domain. Demonstrated proven ability to adapt into an organization and pick up overall business and department operations quickly. đź“ŤSoftware Development Knowledge: Breadth of knowledge of software development processes across a variety of organizational structures. Deep, substantial expertise in different technologies and proven experience implementing product and tech-driven changes to achieve business outcomes.
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