Engineering Manager - Remote

As an Engineering Manager, your first task will be to familiarize yourself with the engineering team and our core technology so you can help the team grow and thrive. The engineering team’s goal is to prioritize features that drive the most value, and the engineering leader will be responsible for validating ideas with other managers and ECC leadership. We’re looking for a collaborative, humble, self-starter who can come onboard and make an immediate impact.

Requirements

We have few concrete requirements. We're flexible, but we're looking for someone with experience managing engineering teams in a fast-paced, high-quality, distributed environment. The ideal candidate also has experience working with customer-focused product organizations. We are looking for someone who is extremely organized and has strong program management skills in an Agile environment; you never drop a ball. The ideal person for this position has experience growing teams to meet specific strategic needs, and has strong skills managing both upward and downward. Our engineers come from a variety of backgrounds so we need someone who has empathy, is comfortable with extreme transparency while protecting privacy, and has a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion.

A successful candidate for this position has strong process-building skills and has a proven record balancing on-time product delivery while also able to quickly pivot when priorities are changed. The individual in this role will be responsible for acting as a bridge between product, engineers, and leadership, and will be an advocate for engineering while managing expectations between those teams and leadership. The ideal candidate has proven experience managing distributed teams and is an effective communicator across multiple communication platforms.

Benefits

Why take this job? Why not join some other startup? Here are a few reasons:

• Electric Coin Company is on a mission to give everyone on Earth an open, secure, and inclusive financial system through the power of exotic math.
• We believe in self-care. We commonly move meetings for colleagues' personal obligations. Your life comes first.
• Flexible work arrangements--live where you want and work remotely.
• Code review and testing are concrete parts of our development culture.
• Everything we do is open source.

Some explicit non-requirements are:

• Any particular credentials, educational or title-related.
• Knowledge of cryptocurrencies in particular. We will happily teach you.

We have a strong ethos of professional conduct. We're looking for people who can work in the professional environment we want our company to be. This means you need the empathy to be a supportive colleague and collaborate well with people of widely different backgrounds, personalities, and skill sets.