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.
Skills
About the Role
Lead a high-impact engineering team focused on production-grade protocol infrastructure. Define technical direction, participate in architecture design, contribute code across the stack, mentor engineers, conduct performance reviews, support hiring and onboarding, and ensure reliable, well-tested, well-documented software ships on schedule.
Requirements
- 6+ years of software engineering experience
- 2+ years in a technical management role
- Experience with Rust, EVM-compatible chains, and L2 technologies
- Strong experience with systems programming or full-stack development
- Experience contributing to open source projects or building public-facing developer tools
- Experience leading projects from architecture through deployment
- Experience with crypto, distributed systems, or infrastructure teams focused on reliability and performance
- Understanding of 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
- Provide coaching, support career growth, and lead performance reviews
- Help with hiring and onboarding new engineers
- Keep the team focused, unblocked, and shipping high-impact work on time
