Job Overview
Job description
- Location:
- Lightning Labs, United States
- Work arrangement:
- Remote
Role Summary
Lightning Labs is seeking to hire a Senior Engineering Manager to help scale our growing engineering organization. The ideal candidate has experience managing remote teams across several time zones, has managed their own open source projects or actively contributed to such projects in the past, and has high level working knowledge of Bitcoin. Due to the nature of our software, our ideal candidate is also highly technical as we regularly face novel and challenging decisions that require nuanced and comprehensive analysis of related tradeoffs. In addition, the ideal candidate should have a passion for our mission, as well as for Bitcoin as a whole. Candidates in this position will work directly with the CTO to scale our engineering organization, as well as work across functional team boundaries to ensure proper resource allocation, product quality, and team agility.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities may include but are not limited to
- Hire, grow, and mentor an engineering team to maximize team harmony and individual satisfaction
- Cross-functional project management, engineering resource allocation, and prioritization
- Software architecture design review and analysis
- Create and own engineering processes to promote delivery of secure, reliable, robust software
Requirements
Preferred experience
- 5 years prior software engineering experience in a systems domain
- 3 years prior engineering management experience
- Experience working with remote teams
- Experience maintaining or contributing to open source projects
- Working knowledge of fundamental Bitcoin design principles
- Role:
- Senior Engineering Manager (Remote)
- Job Type:
- FullTime
Company profile
lightning
lightning.engineeringLightning Labs develops open-source software that powers the Lightning Network, a layer-two system that makes bitcoin payments faster, cheaper and global. Its secure, scalable Lightning systems let users send and receive money efficiently, and it also offers verifiable, non-custodial Lightning-based financial services and promotes L402 as a payments protocol for AI agents.