Engineering Team Lead
Financial infrastructure for Bitcoin-native markets, secured by zero-knowledge proofs.
Maintainer signals as of 9/2/2026
Funding history
About Alpen
Alpen is developing an EVM-compatible Bitcoin rollup and financial infrastructure for programmable BTC markets. Its current public Testnet III runs on Bitcoin Signet, supports partner integrations, and uses a decoupled Alpen execution layer with the Strata orchestration and bridging layer. The network is progressing toward mainnet and enables applications such as borrowing, lending, yield, trading, and stablecoins.
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Candidate Availability
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About the Role
Lead a high-impact engineering team delivering production-grade protocol infrastructure. Set technical direction, guide architecture and planning, contribute to the codebase, mentor engineers, run performance reviews, hire and onboard team members, and collaborate with product and protocol stakeholders on roadmap priorities.
Requirements
- 6+ years of software engineering experience including 2+ years in a technical management role
- Experience with Rust
- Experience with EVM-compatible chains and L2 technologies
- Strong experience with systems programming using Rust, Go, or similar and/or full-stack development
- Experience contributing to open source projects or building public-facing developer tools
- Experience leading projects from architecture to deployment in fast-paced environments
- Experience with crypto, distributed systems, infrastructure, reliability, and performance
- Appreciation for developer experience and clear documentation
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow a team of engineers working on core infrastructure and protocol components
- Set and uphold engineering best practices including code quality, testing, and documentation
- Collaborate with product, protocol, and infrastructure teams to define and deliver roadmap priorities
- Participate in architecture design and technical planning across the stack
- Coach engineers, support career growth, and lead performance reviews
- Hire and onboard new engineers
- Ensure the team is focused, unblocked, and shipping high-impact work on time
Benefits
- Professional development and learning resources to support learning and growth
- Resources and tools necessary for productivity
