Requirements:
- Deep Ethereum and EVM experience.
- Experience leading 20+ engineers across multiple teams, including leading other leaders, at a company of a similar stage.
- Experience owning production systems under contractual SLAs for demanding customers and being accountable for outages.
- Strong technical judgment and distributed-systems depth. Blockchain experience is an advantage; strong infrastructure and backend leaders from high-integrity domains such as payments, exchanges, or market infrastructure will also be considered.
- Experience hiring well and retaining people through challenging periods.
- Strategic thinking, commercial awareness, prioritization skills, and clear communication.
- A people-first leadership style, with a focus on mentoring, developing leaders, delegating effectively, and building autonomous teams.
- Collaborative, empathetic, pragmatic, and organized; able to navigate difficult conversations and change.
Useful, but not required: L2 or ZK-rollup architecture; regulated financial infrastructure, including audit, change control, evidence, SOC 2, or ISO 27001; experience with a carve-out, separation, or post-acquisition integration.
About the role: This is a leadership role, not a 100% hands-on engineering position. The company values substance over unnecessary process, constructive challenge, listening, and understanding the purpose and value of work.