Engineering Manager

About Us

Parity is one of the world's most experienced core blockchain infrastructure companies, laying the foundation for the new decentralised internet. Parity was founded by Dr. Gavin Wood, co-founder and former CTO of Ethereum, the primary engineer behind the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), inventor of the Solidity programming language, and primary author of the Ethereum Yellowpaper.

We believe in a decentralised web that respects the freedom and data of individuals and empowers developers to create better services. Our vision is to create a world based on truthful, rather than trustful, interactions.

With a remote-first, global team, Parity is building open-source technologies for developers and organisations to implement and build upon. Our Web3 tech stack includes Polkadot, Substrate, and Kusama.

People in Our Collective Are

• Highly motivated to contribute to Parity’s mission and be part of something bigger

• Excited to work on projects that are groundbreaking and complex

• Autonomous workers that self-initiate, but also collaborate well with others

• Taking maximum accountability and having minimum ego at work

• Comfortable with chaos and adapting to the ever-changing Web3 space

• Continuously educating themselves about Parity and the wider ecosystem

About the Team

We are looking for Engineering Managers who can grow and lead a mid-size team (10-20 people). We have several positions available in the Polkadot Runtime department, which is focused on all the on-chain logic that users (both developers and end-users) interact with. Teams in the department are focused on things like developer experience, tools and interfaces for interacting with the Polkadot protocol, smart contract virtual machines, bridges and cross-chain messaging, and more. Our tech stack is mostly Rust and TypeScript. We are looking for leaders who have a user-focused mindset and can lead their team to deliver the highest impact to Polkadot’s success.

About the Position

• Manage and grow a team of software engineers.

• Collaborate across the company to deliver complex projects.

• Work with leadership to define the roadmap and priorities for the team to have the biggest impact.

• Work with customers to understand their needs and help Parity address them better.

• Work with cutting-edge, decentralised protocols. 

About You

• Experience leading and growing teams of 10-20 people or more.

• Engineering background, ability to work effectively with protocol engineers.

• Project management skills, good stakeholder communication.

• Application development experience, you know how to bridge the gap from low-level protocols to make a great higher-level application development experience.

• Ability to prioritise and identify the most impactful projects.

• Can develop solutions and product ideas from scratch and execute on their creation.

About Working With Us

• Competitive remuneration packages based on iterative market research, including tokens (where legally possible)

• “Future of work” environment that’s remote-first and self-initiating with flexible hours

• Teammates that are genuinely excited about their impact and projects

• Access to the brightest minds in this space to learn about Web3 and develop your skills and knowledge while on the job

• Becoming part of the wider ecosystem (career and networking opportunities)

• Team and company-wide retreats

• Work laptop

Those joining our collective as an employee in Germany, Portugal, Switzerland and the U.K. also enjoy benefits such as health care, parental leave, PTO (28 days per year), local team events, yearly L&D budget, and language classes.

Parity is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We welcome diversity in our global team and care about everyone in our collective feeling included and welcome.

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