About the company
Kava Labs is a Layer 1 Blockchain company with a 100% distributed workforce with teams in the US, Asia-Pacific, and Europe. While distributed, you will work alongside a team of world class crypto experts on an open-source project that transfers millions of dollars in assets daily, providing the financial primitives for the next evolution in crypto.
Job Summary
What You Will Do.
📍Manage, mentor and coach engineers: Ensure your team is meeting project timelines and deliverables. Ensure that your team follows Engineering best practices – sprints, code reviews, software design docs, or conducting post-mortems. Oversee and manage the implementation of organizational processes and best practices. 📍Review, write and test code: Review and test code. Implement improvements to your team’s technical diligence. Facilitate technical design decisions and drive the team to execute against those goals on time and within scope. Ensure quality code is shipped by the team. 📍Own the full SDLC: You’ll guide the Protocol team through the Planning, Requirements, Design, Building, Documenting, Testing, Deployment and ongoing maintenance of each project. 📍Working Cross-Functionally: Collaborate with other department leaders from Engineering, Product and Design to execute the product life cycle. 📍Communication: You’ll exhibit a high level of autonomy in ambiguous environments and are comfortable establishing and executing upon priorities with a strong sense of urgency. 📍Emotional Intelligence: You’ll navigate through stressful or ambiguous situations and lead your team to continue delivering high quality software under pressure and tight deadlines. 📍Innovation: You’ll identify and tackle hard problems that are considered as major bottlenecks which slow down or prevent innovation. Ensure the quality, security, and scalability of our blockchain solutions.
Who You Are.
đź“Ť7+ years total Engineering experience. đź“Ť3+ year experience managing a team which owned a highly scalable service. đź“Ť3+ years experience as a Backend Engineer, building in Golang or other modern programming languages (java, rust, etc) in their career. đź“ŤAble to adapt and adjust in a high-stakes, high-growth, roll up your sleeves type of work. đź“ŤPrevious experience managing a fully-remote, distributed team.