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Senior Engineering Manager (Remote)

Lightning Labs logoLightning Labs
TypeFull-time
WorkplaceRemote
SenioritySenior
LocationLightning Labs
Posted12/16/2021
Engineering

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 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

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

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Company info

Lightning Labs logo

Lightning Labs

At Lightning Labs, we build the software that powers the Lightning Network — including Taproot Assets, a protocol for issuing and transferring assets such as stablecoins on the Lightning Network with instant, low-fee transactions. Our open-source software and non-custodial liquidity services make Bitcoin the foundation for scalable, next-generation financial applications.

Private companySeries BIn the news
Founded2016
HQSan Francisco, United States
Size11–50 employees
Unlock human wisdom
ThesisTermsPrivacy
Industry
Software Development
Funding
  • Series B · $70M · Apr 5, 2022
  • Series B · $10M · Feb 5, 2020
Investors
RRE VenturesCraft VenturesRibbit CapitalValor Equity PartnersM13
Tech stacknext-js, protobuf, jest, telegram, mobx, nodejs, bootstrap, golang, claude-code, amazon-web-services
News
  • Lightning Labs launches pi402 so AI agents can buy inference with Bitcoin
  • Lightning Labs Releases LND Mitigation for Critical Linux Flaw
  • Matt Corallo Flags Critical Linux Kernel Flaw; Lightning Labs Ships LND Mitigation
  • Lightning Labs opens Wavelength for AI bitcoin payments on mainnet

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