Backend Engineering Manager, Morpho Labs
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Autonomous algorithm deployed on the Ethereum blockchain
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Autonomous algorithm deployed on the Ethereum blockchain
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
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21-100 employees
Company mission
To revolutionise lending with an open, efficient, and resilient platform.
Role
Who you are
- Proven leadership of web3 infrastructure teams with 5+ engineers
- Demonstrated success in building and scaling backend/infrastructure systems
- Experience in incident management with solid leadership under pressure
- Languages & Tools: Advanced expertise in TypeScript (and optionally Rust), Kubernetes, and Terraform
- Blockchain Knowledge: Deep understanding of blockchain technologies and EVM-based systems
- Architecture: Experience designing sustainable, scalable infrastructure
- Humility: Team-first approach with no ego
- Communication: Clear articulation of complex ideas to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Adaptability: Thrives in dynamic, fast-paced environments
What the job involves
- As the Team Lead of our Infrastructure team, you will lead a central pillar of Morpho’s engineering organization
- Your mission is to enable product teams with resilient, scalable infrastructure, delivering APIs, data pipelines, and backend systems that meet the needs of one of the fastest-growing DeFi protocols
- You will work closely with our Head of Engineering to align infrastructure goals with business objectives while mentoring and scaling a high-performing team
- Leadership
- Foster Team Success: Prioritize team impact and recognition over individual achievements
- Drive Projects: Manage priorities, address technical debt, and deliver high-quality solutions
- Mentor & Coach: Develop team members’ skills and foster a growth-oriented culture
- Monitor Team Health: Identify misalignments or morale issues early and resolve them effectively
- Recruit Top Talent: Build and onboard a world-class infrastructure team
- Set Objectives: Define clear goals and metrics for team success
- Technical Excellence
- Infrastructure Expertise: Guide the design of scalable, reliable systems powering all of Morpho’s products
- Streamline Delivery: Establish best practices for deployments, observability, and system reliability
- Web3 Mastery: Leverage deep blockchain knowledge to build data-intensive systems (e.g., indexers, data warehouses)
- Security & Performance: Balance agility with robust security and performance
- Strategic Thinking
- Long-Term Vision: Design infrastructure that scales with Morpho’s growth trajectory
- Product Orientation: Align technical decisions with business objectives for maximum value delivery
- Your First 6 Months
- 1 Month
- Understand the team’s strengths, weaknesses, and processes
- Familiarize yourself with the state of the infrastructure
- Build relationships with stakeholders and align on long-term objectives
- 3 Months
- Establish a reliable cadence of production releases (e.g., daily release capability)
- Improve observability and manage technical debt
- Delegate effectively, fostering ownership within the team
- 6 Months
- Scale infrastructure to meet increasing product demands
- Ensure availability, accuracy, and performance set industry benchmarks
- Achieve clear, measurable goals for individual contributors
Our take
Morpho Labs’ Morpho Blue is a blockchain layer for protocols and apps to be built upon. With the ability to externalise risk management, it allows blockchain creators to integrate the layer into their own risk and compliance systems. Ultimately, Morpho is a lending protocol built upon open-source algorithms.
Originally founded as an optimisation layer for interest rate improvements, it has now evolved into a base layer for builders of crypto lending applications. With the intention of making DeFi protocols more accessible and easy to use through a user-controlled risk assessment platform, the company has attracted significant interest from big-hitting investors such as Coinbase Ventures and Variant. Morpho intends to use these funds to accelerate its mission to make financial infrastructure a public good.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Aug 2024
$50m
LATE VC
Jul 2022
$18m
SERIES B
Total funding: $69.3m
Company benefits
- A flexible work environment, with options to work remotely (US Eastern & Europe time zone) or from our new office in Paris (75002) and associated co-working spots around the world
- An attractive compensation package, including MORPHO tokens
- Engaging team events, such as offsites, boot camps, and after-work activities, even for remote team members
Company HQ
Place Vendôme, Paris, France
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Leadership
Paul Frambot
(CEO)Previously Studied Parallel & Distributed Systems and Blockchain at Institut Polytechnique de Paris.
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