Engineering Manager
Parity Technologies is a remote-first software engineering company building blockchain infrastructure, frameworks, protocol technology, and developer tooling for the Polkadot ecosystem. It serves developers, Web3 startups, and enterprises adopting decentralized technology.
About Parity Technologies
Parity Technologies is a global collective of software engineers and the technical force behind Polkadot’s ongoing development. The company builds distributed-systems and blockchain infrastructure, including the Polkadot SDK, protocol and smart-contract infrastructure, developer tools, libraries, testing frameworks, node telemetry, and related open-source projects. Parity focuses on making it easier for developers to build, test, deploy, and operate decentralized applications and networks, while supporting Web3 startups and enterprise adoption of resilient, scalable infrastructure.
Skills
About the Role
You lead and coach engineers, ensure 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 of engineers.
Requirements
- Experience leading engineering or highly technical teams in an Engineering Manager or Technical Project Manager capacity
- Strong people management skills with a track record of building healthy teams and supporting individual growth
- Excellent project and delivery management skills including planning dependency management and stakeholder communication
- Sufficient technical depth to understand complex system architecture and work effectively with senior engineers
- Comfort operating in a role that is more focused on leadership and delivery than hands on coding
- Strong judgement when balancing technical complexity, team wellbeing, and delivery outcomes
- Experience working with distributed teams ideally across Europe or closely aligned European time zones
- Nice to have experience in similarly technical or infrastructure heavy environments
Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, and support engineers within the Runtime function
- Create a healthy high trust environment with a strong focus on people management and team care
- Drive planning, prioritisation, and execution across complex technical workstreams
- Negotiate timelines and delivery trade-offs with stakeholders in a clear and pragmatic way
- Build enough technical context to understand architecture discussions and translate them into executable plans
- Partner closely with technical leaders and contributors to keep projects moving and unblock delivery
- Improve team ways of working, communication, and delivery predictability in a distributed environment
- Support hiring, onboarding, and ongoing development of engineers as the organisation grows
