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
About Lightning Labs
Lightning Labs, founded in 2016 by Elizabeth Stark and Olaoluwa Osuntokun in San Francisco, builds core infrastructure for Bitcoin and the Lightning Network. Its flagship implementation LND powers a majority of Lightning nodes, enabling instant, low-fee bitcoin payments, while Taproot Assets extends Lightning to issue stablecoins and tokens on Bitcoin. The company also provides Lightning Loop, Pool and Faraday tools for liquidity management and node operations serving developers, wallets and exchanges worldwide. Headquartered in San Francisco with a distributed team, Lightning Labs is backed by leading investors and stewards open-source development alongside protocol research. The team champions Bitcoin scalability through careful protocol design. Expect an engineering-heavy, research-informed culture that values peer review, reliability and extending Bitcoin for everyday payments globally today.