Summary

Chainlink decentralized oracle networks provide tamper-proof inputs, outputs, and computations to support advanced smart contracts on any blockchain. As the ecosystem continues to grow at an explosive pace we are building the infrastructure to further secure the reliability of our networks and incentivize good behavior.

As a software engineering manager on the Data Feeds team, you will lead and grow a team of up to eight software engineers to build on-chain data products that ensures the integrity of a significant amount of decentralized finance

You will work closely with all functions at Chainlink, from engineering, product, go-to-market, operations, finance, and more to ensure the team releases highly reliable and performant products across hundreds of blockchains and users. Your team will be composed of software and smart contract engineers.

Your Impact

1. Supporting up to eight engineers, enabling them to be high impact and catalyzing their growth
2. Leveraging a deep understanding of both product and engineering to ensure the teams are building data products that meet the security, reliability, and performance demands of decentralized finance
3. Building data products end to end, including tooling, monitoring and alerting, and orchestrating decentralized oracle networks
4. Partner closely with product, leadership, and go-to-market to build winning products that secures a significant amount of value across decentralized finance
5. Work closely a wide breadth of non-technical stakeholders to ensure the team is meeting business goals, aligning on scope and setting clear expectations on delivery timelines
6. Ensuring continuity of work and focus in an ecosystem that evolves quickly and demands adaptability
7. Work closely with engineers on team process, project management, and team health to ensure high productivity and morale
8. Hire great engineers that level up the team and Chainlink Labs

Requirements

1. Minimum of 5 years experience in software engineering, with at least 2 years in a leadership or managerial role
2. Delivered and supported mission-critical online services that are highly available and reliable
3. Servant leadership mindset and an ability to inspire and motivate others
4. Ability to work on a globally-distributed team with a high degree of ownership
5. Experience leading the delivery of multiple highly impactful products end to end, on time with a high quality bar
6. Experience working with technical and non-technical stakeholders, successfully aligning and setting expectations on scope and delivery
7. Experience navigating ambiguous and changing product requirements and successfully delivering a winning product

Desired

1. Familiarity with financial data sets and experience in working with or producing high-quality finance/fintech data from multiple sources
2. Knowledge of complex financial products
3. Technical expertise in designing and scaling data infrastructure and distributed systems architecture
4. Strong operational skills and the ability to balance speed and quality pragmatically
5. Experience developing smart contracts that secured meaningful value on-chain
6. Experience working with a team located across multiple time zones
7. Active participant in the blockchain ecosystem as a user
8. Proficiency in solidity, golang, SQL

All roles with Chainlink Labs are global and remote-based. Unless otherwise stated, we ask that you try to overlap some working hours with Eastern Standard Time (EST).

Skills

• Leadership
• Software Engineering
• Team Collaboration