Senior Engineering Manager - Protocol (Canada - Remote) at Kava Labs

Kava Labs is on a mission to develop the most secure, decentralized, and scalable global blockchain infrastructures. Our vision is to surpass existing financial systems in both security and scalability, fostering a more reliable, inclusive, and efficient financial landscape.

We embrace a Remote-First and People-Centric culture, and provide our team with the freedom and flexibility to thrive professionally and personally within a close-knit, spirited community. Join us in our journey to democratize financial services and make them openly accessible to anyone, anywhere in the world.

We are hiring an Engineering Manager for our Protocol Development team, who will be helping to lead our Protocol team through managing, mentoring, and coaching our Protocol engineers. You will also be reviewing, writing, and testing code while partnering cross-functionally to build and scale our services. This is a full-time, remote position.

What You Will Do.

• Manage, mentor and coach engineers: Ensure your team is meeting project timelines and deliverables. Ensure that your team follows Engineering best practices – sprints, code reviews, software design docs, or conducting post-mortems. Oversee and manage the implementation of organizational processes and best practices.
• Review, write and test code: Review and test code. Implement improvements to your team’s technical diligence. Facilitate technical design decisions and drive the team to execute against those goals on time and within scope. Ensure quality code is shipped by the team. 
• Own the full SDLC: You’ll guide the Protocol team through the Planning, Requirements, Design, Building, Documenting, Testing, Deployment and ongoing maintenance of each project.
• Working Cross-Functionally: Collaborate with other department leaders from Engineering, Product and Design to execute the product life cycle. 
• Communication: You’ll exhibit a high level of autonomy in ambiguous environments and are comfortable establishing and executing upon priorities with a strong sense of urgency.
• Emotional Intelligence: You’ll navigate through stressful or ambiguous situations and lead your team to continue delivering high quality software under pressure and tight deadlines.
• Innovation: You’ll identify and tackle hard problems that are considered as major bottlenecks which slow down or prevent innovation. Ensure the quality, security, and scalability of our blockchain solutions.

Who You Are.

• 7+ years total Engineering experience.
• 3+ year experience managing a team which owned a highly scalable service.
• 3+ years experience as a Backend Engineer, building in Golang or other modern programming languages (java, rust, etc) in their career.
• Able to adapt and adjust in a high-stakes, high-growth, roll up your sleeves type of work.
• Previous experience managing a fully-remote, distributed team.

Nice To Haves.

• Experience Managing a team that owned open source code/repository. 
• Has recently been hands-on with Golang.
• 1+ Year of experience with Web3 development (blockchain).
• Experience working in a Startup environment.

Interview Process.

• Recruiter: 45 minutes
• Hiring Manager: 1 hour
• Technical Assessment: 1 Hour
• Product Manager: 30 minutes 
• Recruiter Debrief: 15 minutes
• *Subject to change

What We Offer.

• A fully remote work environment with an international and diverse team
• Competitive salary; including stipends for home office set-up, wellness, internet and cell phone.
• 100% coverage for Medical, Dental, Vision, LTD, STD and Basic Life insurance for employees
• 401(k) with match
• Unlimited PTO 
• Work in a fast-paced start-up environment with experienced industry leaders
• A learning environment where you can deep-dive into the frontier of blockchain

bout Kava Labs.

• We are a remote-first, globally distributed team that values first principle thinking, experimentation, and learning to ensure long-term success. We are not dogmatic in our approach, but we are relentless in our pursuit to create impactful technology for the future.
• We have a diverse set of backgrounds, skills, and cultures but we're all united in our passion for building new open financial infrastructure - together so that our efforts will make a real impact and create lasting change in the world.

Our Commitment to Diversity

Kava is proudly an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. and celebrates the diversity of its growing team.