Engineering Manager, Foundations

About Us 

Chainlink Labs is one of the primary contributing developers of Chainlink, the industry-standard oracle platform bringing the capital markets onchain and powering the majority of decentralized finance. The Chainlink stack provides the essential data, interoperability, compliance, and privacy standards needed to power advanced blockchain use cases for institutional tokenized assets, Decentralized Finance (DeFi), payments, stablecoins, and more. Since inventing decentralized oracle networks, Chainlink has enabled tens of trillions in transaction value and now secures the vast majority of DeFi.

Many of the world’s largest financial services institutions have also adopted Chainlink’s standards and infrastructure, including Swift, Euroclear, Mastercard, Fidelity International, UBS, ANZ, Aave, GMX, Lido, and many others. Chainlink leverages a novel fee model where offchain and onchain revenue from enterprise adoption is converted to LINK tokens and stored in a strategic Chainlink Reserve. Learn more at chain.link. Chainlink Labs ranked #6 on Fortune’s Best Workplaces in Technology™ 2025.

Your Impact

• Lead a team of seasoned engineers in developing a versatile modular platform for Chainlink.

• Work closely with the product team to outline and plan feature roadmaps and their execution.

• Uphold high standards within the team and mentor engineers in their professional development.

• Engage in the hiring and onboarding process to ensure we recruit top-quality engineers who align with our culture and needs.

• Take initiative to improve the broader engineering organization and processes that influence your team's ability to execute

Requirements

• At least 6 years of experience in software engineering, including a minimum of 3 years in a leadership or managerial position.

• Proven experience in managing the complete engineering and delivery lifecycle of a product, with strong customer empathy and the ability to balance product direction with engineering best practices.

• Experience with complexities of developing large, distributed systems, and operating production platforms.

• Excellent communication skills, enabling close collaboration with both internal and external partners on a wide range of technical and business topics.

• Demonstrated servant leadership with a natural talent for inspiring and motivating others.

• Capability to work effectively in a globally-distributed team with a strong sense of ownership.

• Experience in coordinating technical stakeholders and making informed product decisions.

• Experience in the blockchain/DeFi/Web3 space.

All roles with Chainlink Labs are global and remote-based. Unless otherwise stated, we ask that you try to overlap some working hours with Eastern Standard Time (EST).

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