Engineering Manager; Financial Services

This Engineering Manager will report to our CTO to help Wallet Connect build and scale the Financial Services engineering team: the team behind the value-added services packaged on top of the Wallet Connect Network, spanning DeFi access, treasury management, and security & compliance.

You'll lead a cross-functional squad of engineers building systems where accuracy and reliability are paramount. You'll be accountable for the squad's delivery and technical outcomes: shaping the roadmap with your Product partner, keeping a high bar for quality and velocity, and holding the team to Wallet Connect's engineering standards. We believe great engineering managers were strong engineers first, and never stopped thinking like one.

This is not primarily a hands‑on coding role, but you'll have the technical depth to input on, understand, and challenge engineering decisions, and to get hands‑on (in code, reviews, or design docs) when it helps, without becoming the team's bottleneck. Above all, you'll be the person who makes the team better: hiring well, coaching honestly, mediating clearly, protecting focus, and caring about the humans doing the work.

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, with 2+ years managing engineers; you were a strong engineer first, and you're technically credible with senior ICs.
• Technical depth in building and operating distributed systems at scale; hands‑on when needed, whether that's reviewing code, architecture, or technical documents.
• A track record of building, growing, and retaining high‑performing teams, and of genuinely caring about the people on them.
• Experience leading remote‑first, distributed teams.
• Experience owning delivery of business‑critical services where accuracy and reliability are paramount: trading, treasury, exchange, or financial infrastructure strongly preferred.
• Structured and disciplined planning: you turn ambiguous goals into a predictable delivery cadence and hit the commitments you make.
• Pragmatic decision‑making: you right‑size solutions, balance speed and rigor deliberately, and avoid over‑engineering.
• Honest, charismatic communication and natural mediation: you give and receive direct feedback with kindness, simplify complex topics for non‑engineers, and turn disagreement into alignment.
• Self‑aware, context‑aware, and coachable, with strong instincts; a self‑starter who owns their work and is motivated by quality and innovation, not just output.

• Financial infrastructure domain depth: CEX integrations, custody or treasury systems, onchain swaps and DeFi protocols, reconciliation, or transaction/address screening.
• Personal or professional experience with crypto/web3: you've used wallets, interacted onchain, or built in the space.
• Experience with our kind of stack:
  Rust and Type Script services on AWS, Grafana-based observability, infrastructure-as-code.
• Experience introducing squad‑level operating standards (SLOs, error budgets, DORA‑style delivery metrics) across teams.

• Run the squad's operating rhythm (planning, stand ups, and retros) in close partnership with your Product Manager, so delivery is structured, disciplined, and predictable.
• Set team OKRs with Product, and translate company goals and strategic priorities into what they mean for the squad.
• Hold the team accountable to its goals, and clear blockers out of its way.
• Hold regular 1:1s with every engineer; coach across seniority levels with honest, kind feedback, and build career paths people actually follow.
• Run fair performance reviews, and address underperformance early and directly, with kindness.
• Be a strong technical voice: review designs and architecture, challenge trade‑offs pragmatically, and foster a culture of high‑quality code.
• Own reliability…