Engineering Manager

About Us 

Defuse Labs is building programmable, intent-based infrastructure on NEAR Protocol — making blockchain interactions smoother, smarter, and more composable. 

We’re now looking for an Engineering Manager to accelerate execution across projects, partner integrations, and cross-team initiatives. This role is about making things happen: ensuring technical projects are delivered on time, partner integrations run smoothly, and internal teams are fully aligned.

If you are eager to dive into the competing cross-chain ecosystem and would like to work in an energetic environment, surrounded by highly productive and meticulous engineers, we would be happy to see you in Defuse Labs!

You’ll:

• Team Leadership: Lead and mentor a multidisciplinary engineering team; create an environment of ownership, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.
• Project Delivery: Own delivery pipelines across engineering streams; track progress, identify risks, and keep projects moving toward milestones.
• Technical Guidance: Provide architectural and technical guidance, ensuring best practices in code quality, system design, and scalability.
• Integrations: Oversee technical integrations with partners, customers, and ecosystem teams, collaborating closely with Partner Engineers and TPMs.
• Reliability Management: Be responsible for SLI/SLOs, incident response, and postmortems; drive alignment on reliability standards and risk tolerance across the company.
• Execution Focus: Build and maintain delivery dashboards, timelines, and communication cadences for internal and external stakeholders.
• Cross-Team Coordination: Ensure engineering, product, and partner teams stay aligned through clear processes and structured follow-ups.
• Process & Tools: Introduce pragmatic delivery tools, reporting, and frameworks to help engineering scale efficiently. Foster a dynamic, accountable performance culture.
• Stakeholder Communication: Provide regular delivery and technical updates to leadership and partners; highlight risks early and propose actionable solutions.

You have:

• 5+ years of experience in engineering management, technical delivery, or program management.
• Experience leading software teams and managing technical integrations across products, platforms, or APIs.
• Strong understanding of software delivery lifecycles and systems architecture (message-based, event-driven systems).
• Solid understanding of blockchain or distributed systems, ideally with Ethereum experience.
• Hands-on technical background; able to review code or guide design discussions in TypeScript, Rust, Go, or Solidity.
• Excellent organizational and execution skills — able to balance delivery, people, and process.
• Strong communication — can translate between technical depth and business context.
• Calm, structured, and solution-oriented under pressure.
• Contributions to open-source software.

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