Head of Engineering, Scroll
The most secure and performant network for the Open Economy
Job no longer available
The most secure and performant network for the Open Economy
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
21-100 employees
Company mission
To deliver fast and cost-effective transactions, all while maintaining the top-notch security offered by Ethereum.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of Engineering experience
- 2+ years of experience simultaneously managing multiple Engineering Managers / Leads
- Proficiency in Golang or Rust is highly preferable
- Experience leading an Engineering team at a fast-growth tech start-up
- Proven leader who is able to inspire and manage multiple globally distributed teams
- Assured Manager who can organise and track performance against OKRs for complex, international teams
- Efficient executor who can work across multiple tasks, at pace, in a start-up environment
- Ability to think and work strategically
- Proficient at using data and metrics to review performance of tasks and projects
- Able to define, track and manage team OKRs accordingly
- You are a responsive, collaborative and committed leader with a high work ethic
- You strive to help develop your teams and their leaders
- You are a high class communicator who can articulate their views succinctly on calls or async across a globally distributed team
- You have strong interest in decentralized system and open source collaboration
- You are a people person, a great listener who engages well with colleagues and team members
- You are a resilient and driven individual who is able to continually develop and iterate to succeed
- You have an empathetic and kind disposition
What the job involves
- Scroll is hiring a Head of Engineering to lead and continue the build of our globally distributed, world class Engineering team
- Reporting directly to our co-founders we are looking for a proven and hands-on leader that can help scale, refine and improve our Engineering teams
- Work closely with the co-founders to implement the best technical solutions to support the product roadmap and company vision
- Build, shape and lead Scroll’s development roadmap
- Direct and support our existing teams
- Manage all Engineering teams including Infra, Protocol, zk
- Work with our recruiter to hire the best tech talent in web3
- Use your technical lens and knowledge to help influence product decisions and strategy
- Design and implement meaningful and challenging OKRs that will drive success and foster a culture of high performance
- Manage team goals, project timelines, and delivery dates while ensuring proper allocation of resources and budgets within the team
Our take
One of the biggest challenges in crypto today is getting blockchains to be fast, affordable, and secure (all at the same time). Most networks end up having to sacrifice one for the other and that's a trade-off that's making it hard for developers to build real, usable products that people can actually rely on.
Scroll is trying to fix that. It's a secure, high-performance network that's fully compatible with Ethereum but offers faster speeds and super low fees (we're talking less than half a center per transaction). And it already supports over 100 decentralized apps and has handled more than 110M transaction.
But what really sets the company apart is its focus on builders. From easy-to-follow developer docs to learning tools and community programs, it's giving developers everything they need to ship fast and scale big. With a growing ecosystem and along-term mindset, Scroll is certainly shaping up to be a serious force in the future of the onchain world.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Mar 2023
$50m
EARLY VC
Apr 2022
$30m
SERIES A
Total funding: $80m
Leadership
Sandy Peng
(Co-Founder)A Cambridge graduate who went on to work as a Management Associate at the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission, and then a Partner at Fission Capital before co-founding Scroll in 2021.
Haichen Shen
(Co-Founder)Previously worked in Software at Microsoft and Google, alongside serving as a Research Assistant at the University of Washington (where he completed his PhD in Computer Science). Subsequently worked as a Senior Applied Scientist for Amazon.
Ye Zhang
(Co-Founder)Previously worked as a Research Assistant at Peking University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, before taking up an R&D role at Conflux.
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