Engineering Manager, Mysten Labs
Wallet
$180-260k
Eligibility to participate in the annual equity and token refresh grant programs
Foundational infrastructure for Web 3.0
Job no longer available
Foundational infrastructure for Web 3.0
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$180-260k
Eligibility to participate in the annual equity and token refresh grant programs
201-500 employees
Company mission
To create foundational infrastructure for Web 3.0.
Role
Who you are
- You should have direct experience building wallets and be an active, informed DeFi user
- Experience managing and developing software engineers, including senior engineers, in a high-ownership product environment
- Direct experience shipping production blockchain wallet functionality. You understand self-custody, private-key security, signing, recovery, transaction lifecycle, chain and RPC failure modes, and wallet-to-dApp interaction patterns
- Hands-on DeFi fluency. You regularly use onchain products and can reason about liquidity, routing, slippage, staking, lending, bridges, protocol and smart-contract risk, and the user protections required for financial transactions
- Strong systems judgment across client applications, backend services, APIs or SDKs, distributed dependencies, monitoring, and operational response
- A record of setting direction in ambiguous environments, improving execution, and delivering reliable products across multiple platforms or surfaces
- Ability to partner closely with product, design, security, and senior technical leaders while maintaining clear engineering accountability
Desirable
- Experience integrating decentralized exchanges, aggregators, bridges, staking, lending, or fiat on- and off-ramps into a wallet
- Familiarity with Sui, Move, programmable transaction blocks, zkLogin, Wallet Standard, or another modern smart-contract platform
- Experience leading products through rapid growth, high transaction volume, security review, or asset-impacting incidents
What the job involves
- We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead engineers building wallet and DeFi experiences for the Sui ecosystem
- This person will support Slush, Mysten Labs' wallet available across web, browser extension, iOS, and Android, and will help shape how users discover, understand, and execute onchain actions
- You will own team health and engineering outcomes for a product where errors can affect user assets and trust
- You will partner with product, design, security, protocol, and ecosystem teams to set direction, make sound technical tradeoffs, and ship dependable experiences
- Lead, hire, coach, and retain a team of engineers working across wallet clients, supporting services, and onchain integrations
- Set technical direction with senior engineers for account creation and recovery, key management, signing, transaction construction and simulation, dApp connectivity, asset management, swaps, and other DeFi experiences
- Create clear ownership and execution plans across web, browser extension, iOS, Android, backend services, SDKs, and protocol dependencies
- Raise standards for architecture, testing, release safety, observability, incident response, and post-incident learning in an asset-sensitive product
- Partner with product and design to simplify complex onchain workflows without hiding material fees, permissions, risks, or transaction outcomes from users
- Work with security and protocol teams to evaluate threats, manage dependencies, and make informed tradeoffs between usability, decentralization, privacy, and protection of user assets
- Use data, user research, support feedback, and ecosystem context to prioritize work and measure product and engineering outcomes
Our take
Mysten Labs was created with the ambition to build a blockchain comparable to Ethereum or Solanan - but with even greater capabilities. That means tackling pain points currently found in blockchain technology, like scaling transactions and speed to meet growing demand.
To do this, Mysten is building foundational infrastructure for Web 3.0 which supports the accelerated development and adoption of decentralized services. The startup is determined to build a platform that finally lets Web 3.0 developers focus on UI, without compromising on security.
The company has focussed on expanding partnerships with existing networks such as Ethos and Orange Comet Partners, who have integrated Mysten technology, as well as open protocols based on Mysten-designed components. Ensuring that it assigns developer and community outreach resources in the right places will be crucial to building a sustainable business in this relatively young space.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Sep 2022
$300m
SERIES B
Dec 2021
$36m
SERIES A
Total funding: $336m
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Evan Cheng
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously Director of R&D for Novi Financial at Meta. Also worked as Director of Engineering at Facebook and spent over a decade in senior engineering positions at Apple.
Adeniyi Abiodun
(Co-Founder & CPO)Former Product Lead at Novi for Meta. Also worked as Head of Product for VMware's Blockchain division and led the Blockchain Cloud Platform team at Oracle.
Sam Blackshear
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously Principal Engineer for Novi Financial working on the Move language and Diem platform. Also worked as a Staff Engineer for Facebook. Ex-Microsoft and University of Colorado Research Assistant.
George Danezis
(Co-Founder & Chief Scientist)Professor of Security and Privacy Engineering in the Information Security Group at University College London. Previously a Research Scientist at Facebook, and has a Cryptography PhD from the University of Cambridge.
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