Senior Engineering Manager, Dev Tools

The role

You will manage two engineering teams, Hardhat and EDR, to power the Ethereum developer tooling stack. You will provide technical leadership, drive product delivery, and build a high-performing team.

What you will do

• Provide technical guidance on architectural and design decisions
• Take ownership of projects and ensure on-time delivery
• Work with the team to define MVPs, set milestones, and assess project feasibility
• Manage project scope by prioritizing tasks and mitigating risks
• Collaborate with product managers to translate user needs into a technical roadmap
• Motivate and guide engineers to achieve their full potential
• Implement and improve processes for performance reviews, career development, and hiring
• Establish a clear team structure with roles and ownership
• Communicate with leadership and stakeholders to ensure alignment
• Articulate a clear vision for the team's mission and milestones

Required qualifications

• 3–5+ years of experience directly managing and growing engineering teams, ideally including senior engineers and/or multiple teams, in a remote or async environment
• 6+ years of experience technically leading projects and driving multi-year roadmaps
• Ability to direct without micromanaging or forcing decisions
• Experience implementing or refining processes around performance reviews, career development, and hiring
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Proven ability to design and implement scalable, maintainable software architectures
• Strong expertise in conducting code, design and product launch reviews

Nice to have

• Prior experience building extensible developer tools, including test environments, deployment systems, build pipelines
• Experience with open source and/or TypeScript/Rust projects

Benefits

• Vesting ETH grant as part of total compensation
• Unlimited PTO
• Budget for IT equipment
• Annual Learning & Development Budget
• Statutory benefits specific to your location

About the company

The Nomic Foundation is a non-profit advancing the Ethereum ecosystem. They build open-source runtimes, compilers, build systems, and deployment solutions.