Role overview
About The Role:
The Pagoda Engineering team is looking for a person to lead the work on improving the user and developer experience through development of the NEAR Protocol. You will not only be working with complex concurrent systems, low-level code, complicated state machines, and novel algorithms, but also interact and collaborate with product managers and product teams to understand what could and should be done on the protocol level to improve the experience of end users and developers. You will be expected to project technical excellence, accountability, and empathy for the rest of the team.
What we're looking for
- Building great engineering teams, ensuring the happiness and productivity of the individuals. Collaborating with recruiting on hiring and sourcing exceptional candidates;
- Establishing and following the minimal necessary processes, like technical roadmaps, OKRs, milestones, regular team meetings;
- Communicating with the dependent parties, which includes internal teams, the external partners, and the engineering community;
- Establishing resilient team culture that can overcome any turbulence without burnout;
- We expect you to have experience with complex distributed and concurrent systems; being able to reason about game-theoretic concepts, incentives, and adversarial scenarios;
- We expect you to have experience working closely with product managers and product-focused engineering teams.
- While you should have a zeal for technical excellence, you should be very comfortable with balancing degrees of risk and business needs;
- You should be a great communicator and remain calm under pressure or when juggling multiple priorities;
- You should be a humble and inspirational leader who is comfortable leading by example;
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related fields is a must
We'd Love If You Have:
- We prefer if you have familiarity with blockchains or cryptography
Here’s What Our Interview Process Looks Like:
Depending on calendar availability, from the first stage to the final stage, we do our best to keep the entire process to under three weeks. Our interviews take place via Zoom and typically consists of the following stages:
- Internal Recruiter Call (30 to 45 minutes)
- Meet with the Hiring Manager (30-45 minutes)
- Technical Interviews (4 x 60 minutes)
- Pagoda Values Interview (30 to 45 minutes)
Please let us know if you require any special requirements for your interview and we’ll do our best to accommodate.
Ideal Location For This Role
This is a fully remote role, so that your timezone matches or overlaps with our leadership for this role, you’ll ideally be located in US or Europe.