Engineering Manager
Parity Technologies is a global software engineering company building blockchain infrastructure and developer tooling for the Polkadot ecosystem, including the Polkadot network and Polkadot SDK.
Funding history
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About Parity Technologies
Parity Technologies was founded as ETHCore in late 2015 and is now a remote-first engineering organization focused on distributed systems, cryptography, blockchain frameworks, protocol engineering, smart-contract infrastructure, and developer tooling. Working with the Web3 Foundation, it helped launch Polkadot in 2020 and continues developing the network's technical stack, including the Polkadot SDK and related infrastructure.
Skills
About the Role
Lead and coach engineers, foster a healthy collaborative environment, drive planning and execution across complex technical workstreams, translate architectural decisions into actionable plans, collaborate with technical leaders to unblock delivery, and support hiring and ongoing development.
Requirements
- Experience leading engineering or highly technical teams as an Engineering Manager or Technical Project Manager.
- Strong people management skills and a track record of building healthy teams.
- Excellent project and delivery management skills, including planning, dependency management, and stakeholder communication.
- Sufficient technical depth to understand complex system architecture.
- Comfort focusing on leadership and delivery rather than hands-on coding.
- Strong judgement balancing technical complexity, team wellbeing, and delivery outcomes.
- Experience working with distributed teams, ideally across Europe or closely aligned European time zones.
- Experience in technical or infrastructure-heavy environments is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, and support engineers within the Runtime function.
- Create a healthy, high-trust team environment focused on people management and team care.
- Drive planning, prioritisation, and execution across complex technical workstreams.
- Negotiate timelines and delivery trade-offs with stakeholders.
- Translate architecture discussions into executable plans.
- Partner with technical leaders to unblock delivery.
- Improve team communication, ways of working, and delivery predictability.
- Support hiring, onboarding, and ongoing development of engineers.
Benefits
- Remote and flexible work.
- Team and company-wide retreats throughout the year.
- Contractor engagement via Parity's UK entity.
- Equal opportunity workplace.
Hiring Process
"Talent Partner reviews all candidates... If your profile stands out, you'll start with a call with our Talent Partner, who will tell you more about the stages involved." Process includes "structured interviews, skills assessments, and a hiring committee review to ensure fairness and inclusivity." "Upon receiving an offer, candidates are asked to complete a background check through Zinc" to verify "employment history, education, and identity."
