About the company
Blockchain.com (formerly Blockchain.info) is a cryptocurrency financial services company. The company began as the first Bitcoin blockchain explorer in 2011 and later created a cryptocurrency wallet that accounted for 28% of bitcoin transactions between 2012 and 2020. It also operates a cryptocurrency exchange and provides institutional markets lending business and data, charts, and analytics.
Job Summary
WHAT YOU WILL DO
šYou will be responsible for leading and growing the Singapore engineering team of SREs and developers that delivers the user experience for our Institutional platform šLead and work closely with Engineers to develop innovative software solutions for our global cryptocurrencies institutional businesses and operations šThe institutional team is split between the UK and Singapore. You will act as a bridge to the UK engineering team, fostering communication, collaboration across locations and continuous improvement. šOpportunity to travel to collaborate with colleagues in our UK and other international offices (depending on business needs) šActively support the design and development processes, and building high-performance solutions based on our company standards and general best practices Scale and up-skill the engineering team šAccelerate delivery and increase quality by making smart infrastructure and process investments and tradeoffs šYou will work across the organization with product, engineering, trading and middle office teams to deliver the institutional product roadmap and guide decisions on architecture, system design, and technical strategy šYou will be a hands-on manager, responsible for inspiring, managing, and providing constructive feedback to direct reports šProvide hands-on SRE support when needed, troubleshooting and resolving complex technical issues šAs an engineering leader and manager at Blockchain you will be responsible for ensuring proper planning and delivery of complex projects, setting clear goals and best practices for your team, delivering timely feedback and helping recruit great engineers
WHAT YOU WILL NEED
šProven experience leading and managing a team of engineers, including both SREs and developers šStrong technical expertise in SRE principles and practices, with experience in infrastructure management, cloud platforms (AWS, GCP), CI/CD, DB (preferably MySQL and/or PostgreSql) and monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana) šStrong python hands-on experience with the ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex issues šPrior leadership, management, and coaching skills through experience as an engineering manager. This should include experience building and leading productive, high functioning teams šBuilt, shipped, and scaled consumer facing, software products with at least two successful product launches to speak of šActive participation in a teamās career development, having managed engineers and managerās performance with proper mentorship and coaching šThe highest of standards regarding security practices and a desire to mentor your team on keeping our user base safe šExperience with Agile software development methodologies and short release cycles šDesire to foster a hardworking, collaborative and creative team culture in one of the most challenging and dynamic industries in tech