The Role
Manage and scale the backend infrastructure team, ensuring reliable systems for Web3 payments while mentoring engineers and leading technical solutions.
Summary Generated by Built In
Capital markets are undergoing a fundamental shift. Assets that live in fragmented systems and manual workflows are moving onto blockchains -systems designed to move and store value more transparently and efficiently.
While this unlocks more open and programmable financial systems, it also introduces significant complexity. For most users, interacting with this new infrastructure is still too difficult.
Fun builds the infrastructure that powers consumer-facing fintech applications - handling onboarding, account access, and money movement so users can interact with blockchain-based systems as seamlessly as they do with traditional finance.
For fintech builders, Fun provides a best-in-class onboarding and deposit stack that drives conversion and unlocks user growth. We operate at the intersection of financial infrastructure, complex engineering, and product experience.
While this unlocks more open and programmable financial systems, it also introduces significant complexity. For most users, interacting with this new infrastructure is still too difficult.
Fun builds the infrastructure that powers consumer-facing fintech applications - handling onboarding, account access, and money movement so users can interact with blockchain-based systems as seamlessly as they do with traditional finance.
For fintech builders, Fun provides a best-in-class onboarding and deposit stack that drives conversion and unlocks user growth. We operate at the intersection of financial infrastructure, complex engineering, and product experience.
Role Overview
We're looking for a Backend Engineering Manager to lead and scale our backend infrastructure team. This high-impact role reports to the CTO with significant opportunity to shape our technical architecture and engineering culture as we scale.
You will be drive technical excellence while building a high-performing team - ensuring we deliver robust, scalable backend systems that power seamless Web3 payments. This role is perfect for a crypto-native engineering leader who excels at balancing technical depth with people management.
Responsibilities
- Own the overall output of the backend engineering team - deliver reliable, scalable infrastructure that supports our growing Web3 payments platform
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of backend engineers while fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning
- Collaborate with product and protocol teams to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions
- Establish engineering best practices, code quality standards, and deployment processes
- Lead incident response and post-mortem processes to continuously improve system reliability
Requirements
- Experience as an IC engineer with staff level output
- Strong technical background in distributed systems, APIs, and database design
- Opinions on a modern cloud stack
- Leadership experience in high-performing engineering teams
- Experience with payment systems, financial infrastructure, or fintech applications
- Exceptional communicator who can translate technical concepts to cross-functional stakeholders
- Data-driven approach to decision making with focus on system performance and team productivity
Nice to Have
- Previously worked at crypto startup or Web3 infrastructure company
- Experience with blockchain integrations, smart contracts, or DeFi protocols
- Background with high-scale payment processing or financial compliance systems
- Track record scaling backend systems at a high-growth startup
Skills Required
- Experience as an IC engineer with staff level output
- Strong technical background in distributed systems, APIs, and database design
- Leadership experience in high-performing engineering teams
- Experience with payment systems, financial infrastructure, or fintech applications
- Exceptional communicator who can translate technical concepts to cross-functional stakeholders
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The Company
What We Do
Fun.xyz envisions a tokenized world where anyone, anywhere, can buy anything, with anything. We are a crypto payments company focused on removing the technological barrier of value exchange.
