Engineering Manager Tech Lead
Ethena is a DeFi protocol enabling the creation of USDe, a synthetic dollar, and offering internet-native yield through staking.
Maintainer signals as of 8/12/2026
Funding history
About Ethena
Ethena is a decentralized finance protocol that allows users to mint USDe, a synthetic dollar, using liquid staking tokens as collateral. The platform also offers staking of USDe to earn yield in the form of sUSDe. Ethena aims to provide a stable, high-yield asset for the crypto ecosystem, combining the stability of a dollar-pegged token with the benefits of decentralized finance.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You lead a hands-on engineering team building a money-movement product. You own the architecture, write and ship critical production code, hire and develop engineers, establish engineering and delivery standards, and drive reliability, observability, incident response, and secure agentic development practices.
Requirements
- Lead engineering for a consumer money product with real financial stakes
- Lead a small team of approximately 3 to 8 engineers while shipping code
- Ship production code within the last year
- Own production operations for a money system
- Manage on-call, incidents, observability, secrets, and keys
- Integrate regulated financial rails
- Lead agile delivery using sprints or kanban
- Use test-driven and behavior-driven development
- Use agentic development safely
- Know TypeScript or Node and backend distributed systems
- Understand idempotency, reconciliation, retries, and consistency under partial failure
- Know Postgres, event-driven services, and API authentication
- Understand Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, and observability
- Review native iOS work and mobile-backend contracts
Responsibilities
- Write and ship production code
- Own the system architecture across services, money paths, data, infrastructure, and settlement
- Hire and onboard engineers
- Develop a senior engineering team
- Set engineering, testing, review, and correctness standards
- Establish agentic development practices
- Own the delivery cadence and release process
- Manage the backlog and lead time to production
- Establish production alerting and on-call operations
- Create and test runbooks
- Lead incident response
- Set backend, API, authentication, platform, reliability, and mobile engineering standards
