Responsibilities

● Define the engineering culture and what it means to be an engineer on the team.

● Establish engineering-wide structure, processes, and systems. Identify opportunities for improvement or new teams that should be created.

● Develop a hiring plan that allows our team to achieve its vision. Prioritize hiring and staffing to attract top engineering talent from a diverse spectrum of backgrounds, helping Myna get even stronger as we grow.

● Set engineering-wide goals and help the team to deliver on those metrics. Measure and improve team engagement and productivity.

● Break down barriers for our organization, in particular those that span teams, functions, or departments. Lead engineering-wide initiatives to drive successful outcomes now and over time by ensuring our teams have the context, capabilities, rituals and resources to deliver effectively.

● Collaborate with product management and design leadership to guide the overall technical

direction for products and achieve shared goals.

● In the short term mentor, coach, and grow our current developers/engineers, with a focus on developing future leaders. In the medium and long term build out our full engineering

organization which may include Director(s) of Engineering.

● Budget and manage costs for engineering.

Requirements

● 10+ years engineering experience

● At least 2+ years of people management experience

● Strong product instincts

● Project management experience with a track record of multi-tasking and coordinating efforts across multiple stakeholders

● Desire to influence and foster relationships with different teams within the company

● Experience managing teams in a globally distributed organization

● Experience recruiting for top engineering talent

● Comfortable with ambiguity and change

● Excellent verbal and written communication skills

● Highly organized with excellent attention to detail

● Interest in crypto and decentralized finance (DeFi)

Preferred

● At least 5+ years of engineering leadership experience

● Demonstrated ability to effectively lead and grow managers and engineers

● Has experience fostering career development for an engineering organization

● Experience implementing training and development programs.

● Ideally has managed at least 15 engineers overall

● Start-up and/or scaling experience preferred