What You'll Do

📍Lead a team of backend and systems engineers. 📍Set a high technical bar: Lead design reviews, challenge assumptions, and guide architecture of distributed systems, low-latency services, and high-throughput APIs. 📍Hire and grow the team: Own hiring end-to-end for your team with support from founders and recruiting. 📍Work closely with founders to scale the company’s engineering culture, processes, and infrastructure. 📍Execute fast in a demanding environment: Tradeoffs, uncertainty, pressure—we embrace it all. 📍Drive impact on real crypto infrastructure used daily by top Solana teams and protocols. 📍Split your time: 📍60% engineering management (planning/execution, hiring, team health) 📍25% technical leadership (system design, mentorship) 📍15% coding (unblocking critical paths)

You’ll Thrive Here If You…

📍Bring 1–2+ years of engineering management (startup or high-growth org) and know when to coach vs. dive in. 📍Possess 5+ years of backend / systems engineering (Rust, Go, C++, or similar) and can still jump into code for a well-scoped fix or prototype. 📍Have shipped and operated distributed, performance-sensitive systems (queues, caches, databases, pub/sub, low-latency services). 📍Are comfortable hiring, coaching, and occasionally parting ways to keep the bar high. 📍Communicate crisp trade-offs under pressure and keep teams laser-focused on outcomes. 📍Care deeply about developer experience and impacting the Solana & crypto ecosystem. 📍Are excited to shape Solana and broader web3 infra alongside an ambitious team.

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