Home Canada Vice President of Blockchain Engineering Remote at Recruiting From Scratch in Canada
Posted on October 17, 2021
Who is Recruiting from Scratch:Recruiting from Scratch is a premier talent firm that focuses on placing the best product managers, software, and hardware talent at innovative companies. Our team is 100% remote and we work with teams across the United States to help them hire. We work with companies funded by the best investors including Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Ventures, Tiger Global Management, A16Z, Accel, DFJ, and more.
If you are a fit, the team will reach out to you about this role or any others that may be a fit for our clients.
Our Client:Our client is a leading market-making and programmatic trading company in the exciting and fast-evolving world of cryptocurrency trading. They provide sophisticated execution and liquidity services to token projects, institutional and HNW investors, and crypto exchanges. The success in this rapidly evolving market is due primarily to staying ahead of the curve and building atop a core technology infrastructure that is purpose-built to serve the ever-changing needs of cryptocurrency markets and builders.
The VP of Blockchain Engineering is fundamental in supporting our client's success in this critical area. Today, we partner with many leading decentralized exchanges and protocols to accelerate their growth and interface with institutional finance.
Responsibilities:Play a critical role working with senior leadership, product management, and business development teams internally focused on deploying capital, developing on-chain infrastructure, and creating products and services to support these growing markets and protocols.Manage and build a global engineering team.Develop recruitment and hiring processes to rapidly scale an elite engineering team in a new product vertical.Guide teams across development efforts, including Frontend/UX, DevOps, Smart Contracts, Blockchain engineering, and Data Engineering.Engage with leading builders across DeFi and blockchain to inform development strategy and advise on the buildout of both internal and third-party product roadmaps.Architect and oversee the build of complex computing infrastructure.Work closely with product, engineering, and corporate teams on product scoping and requirements.Teach and mentor others, maintaining best practices regarding security and efficiency throughout the stack.Assist with leading product development strategy, roadmap planning, and execution.Qualifications:10+ years of experience in Software Engineering, in a management and team leadership role.Track record of managing complexity and producing software using best practices, especially the management of multiple disparate software components.Experience recruiting and managing diverse engineering teams across frontend, backend, and platform build outs.Extensive technical understanding of distributed systems and graph database structures.A Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD degree in a technical or quantitative field.Experience working with blockchain technology and blockchain-based teams and products.Interest in financial markets and investing.Strong analytical, organizational, and interpersonal skills.An obsession with building quality products and focusing on detailed execution.Experience with smart contract development is a plus.To stay safe in your job search, information on common scams and to get free expert advice, we recommend that you visit SAFERjobs, a non-profit, joint industry and law enforcement organization working to combat job scams.
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