Engineering Lead
HEX is a decentralized, blockchain-based cryptocurrency and smart contract protocol that allows users to 'mine' rewards by locking (staking) their HEX tokens for a chosen period of time, with longer commitments yielding larger rewards. It operates on Ethereum and PulseChain with no central entity, middlemen, or minimums, and serves individual crypto holders and investors seeking yield through time-locked staking.
Projects
About HEX
HEX presents itself as a finished, immutable, unstoppable smart contract that has undergone three independent audits from top blockchain auditors. It has no central entity or middlemen — users mint their own rewards by running code to lock their HEX tokens for a period ranging from 1 to 5555 days, then minting the rewards afterward, with longer commitments and larger stakes rewarding higher yields ('Longer Pays Better'). The protocol touts a capped inflation rate of 3.69% and a publicly viewable future locked-supply schedule so users can anticipate large miners' unlock events. HEX operates on both Ethereum and PulseChain, and users interact with it via MetaMask wallets, acquiring PLS on PulseChain and swapping for HEX via PulseX, then mining/minting rewards through go.hex.com. The site markets itself toward individual retail crypto investors interested in long-term, high-yield staking of a decentralized asset, citing dramatic historical price appreciation as a selling point.
Skills
About the Role
You will be a hands-on engineering manager driving the strategy, execution, and growth of Hex's state-of-the-art AI context platform. You'll help build an entirely new development lifecycle for context, blending human insight with automated learning and iteration, while tackling foundational questions like detecting and debugging failures in agent reasoning, structuring business context, and balancing human-in-the-loop systems with autonomous improvement.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience as a full-stack software engineer
- 2+ years experience leading engineering teams working on complex, data-intensive, or AI-driven products and SaaS platforms
- Exceptional ability to identify and design the right technical abstractions to accelerate an ambitious and evolving product vision
- Deep curiosity for, and strong intuition about, state-of-the-art AI agent behavior and context systems
- Proven track record as a people manager, with experience building and operating product engineering teams
- Brings a clear playbook for building high-performing teams: setting clear technical standards, hiring and developing strong talent, and creating environments where extraordinary engineers can do their best work
- Deeply technical leader who is not afraid to roll up your sleeves and get hands-on when necessary
Responsibilities
- Lead a team working on Hex's context platform
- Drive technical strategy, review designs, and directly contribute with hands-on work
- Serve as people manager for the engineers on the team, setting a high bar and empowering them to do their best work
- Recruit exceptional engineering talent
Benefits
- Equity
- Comprehensive health benefits
- Flexible paid time off