Engineering Lead, Aragon

• Proven ability to oversee production systems where you owned their quality, from defining done, enforcing tests, managing regressions, and taking responsibility for release reliability
• Senior-level depth in either frontend (JS/TS and a modern framework, ideally React) or backend (Node/TS or similar) or ****both
• CI/CD literacy (e.g., GitHub Actions, CircleCI) and practical understanding of monitoring/alerts and incident handling
• Experience working on open source projects, ideally in blockchain, cryptography, smart contracts, decentralized systems, or any related technology in the web3 ecosystem
• Experience as an engineering manager, tech lead, or similar technical leadership role, ideally for a remote team
• Experience working in agile environment, git flows, and are comfortable in the tools (e.g. Jira, Github)
• Passionate and an active user of web3 applications
• Excellent English communication - both written and oral

Desirable

• As a cross‑functional engineering lead on Aragon’s Platform Team, you’ll code and coordinate across frontend, backend, and our Aragon OSx smart contract frameworking, owning some of our most challenging features, architecture cohesion, operational discipline, and platform reliability so our onchain products ship fast and safely
• Own the coordination ceremonies and touch points across frontend, backend, smart contracts, and SRE/DevOps so engineering stays technically aligned and the efforts grounded in actual product requirements
• Provide guidance on architecture across the stack by aligning interfaces across components and making sure they fit together cleanly, while being mindful of dependencies and how design choices affect future flexibility
• Define and prioritize technical work by balancing roadmap features against refactors and other engineering needs, and collaborate with Product on acceptance criteria so priorities reflect both strategic goals and practical trade-offs
• Promote E2E production health by driving cultural practices and principles - for tests, release discipline, monitoring, and incident response - that make quality and security a default
• Strengthen the team by mentoring engineers at every level and documenting critical knowledge and reference material so the team is always growing and without being dependent on any single person
• Code! Even in a leadership role, the best way to understand and improve the stack is by working with it and writing code - frontend, backend, or contracts - reviewing peers’ work, and getting your hands dirty to help ship features!
• This role reports to Aragon X, a Swiss AG dedicated to advancing the Aragon Project