Engineering Manager (Web3)

TL;DR

Engineering Manager (Web3): Leading engineering teams building critical products and platforms for Chainlink's decentralized ecosystem with an accent on driving reliability, scalability, and quality. Focus on shaping roadmaps, influencing product decisions, and coaching engineers across various career stages.

Location: Global remote, with a request to overlap some working hours with Eastern Standard Time (EST).

Company

Chainlink is the industry-standard oracle platform bringing the capital markets onchain and powering the majority of decentralized finance (DeFi).

What you will do

• Lead engineering teams responsible for core Chainlink products and services across the Web3 ecosystem.
• Drive high reliability, scalability, and quality across production systems.
• Partner closely with Product and cross-functional stakeholders to shape roadmaps and deliver meaningful user outcomes.
• Balance short-term execution with long-term platform evolution.
• Coach, develop, and retain engineers, fostering a healthy, engaged team culture.

Requirements

• Exposure to taking products or platforms from early concept through production adoption in a Web3 environment.
• Strong product sense, with the ability to connect engineering decisions to user needs and business impact.
• Demonstrated ability to operate autonomously and lead teams through ambiguity and complexity.
• Clear motivation and capability to support, grow, and develop engineers at multiple career stages.
• Sufficient technical depth to guide architectural discussions, assess trade-offs, and unblock teams.
• Proven ability to plan, prioritize, and execute against a single, high-impact backlog.

Nice to have

• Experience communicating effectively with senior and executive stakeholders.
• Track record of managing and developing senior or staff-level engineers.
• Experience leading teams in high-pressure or operationally intensive environments.
• Background spanning both larger, mature organizations and smaller or fast-scaling teams.

Culture & Benefits

• All roles are global and remote-based.
• Support career growth and progression for engineers.
• Foster a healthy, engaged team culture.
• Commitment to equal opportunity.