Engineering Manager, O(1) Labs
Blockchain technology company
Posted today
Blockchain technology company
21-100 employees
Posted today
21-100 employees
Company mission
To build a private and secure way to access Web 3.0.
Role
Who you are
- The successful candidate will be a great communicator who can effectively prioritize, socialize and establish culture and process norms that empower our remarkable team of cross-functional engineers
- Strong leadership and problem-solving skills
- A clear and solid grasp of the merits, pitfalls, and guiding philosophies of various engineering methodologies, and a lack of dogma in applying them
- Experience managing engineering teams alongside technical leads
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with a collaborative leadership approach
- A sufficient grasp of technical architecture and system design to understand the working context of the team
What the job involves
- O1Labs is seeking an empathetic and caring Engineering Manager to guide and uphold our engineering culture on this quest
- As an o1Labs’ Engineering Manager, you will manage and care for engineers across multiple teams, providing a stable and consistent base of support. You will attend team meetings and work closely with technical Team Leads to evaluate and propose practices that best support an autonomous and empowered team
- At o1Labs, our engineering teams are structured to place decision-making responsibility with those who have the best context. Engineers at o1Labs are empowered to make meaningful decisions about the scope and priority of their work, with guidance from technical and engineering leads
- We avoid knowledge silos by working cross-functionally on multiple codebases, and encourage engineers to periodically move between teams to gain and exercise greater domain knowledge
- Our Engineering Managers hold a special place in this setup, providing continuity and a stable source of support, regardless of which team their reports are currently working in. As such, Engineering Managers are not scoped to a specific team. They work with multiple technical team leads and hold a wide perspective on overall engineering practice and culture
- Manage, support and grow a team of talented engineers
- Represent the needs and sentiment of the team to inform decisions pertaining to structure and process within the engineering department
- Participate in these structural and process decisions by proposing and monitoring specific changes and solutions
- Observe team ceremonies and develop best practices in collaboration with technical Team Leads
- Manage performance through objective observation, assessment and feedback
- Foster a collaborative, inclusive environment that enables engineers to do their best work
- Attend to and champion the wellbeing of the team
Our take
Blockchain technology is an essential part of Web 3.0 infrastructure, but it is currently limited by problems of scalability. The constantly growing size of any blockchain's ledger requires expensive node infrastructure, which poses technical problems as well as undercutting Web 3.0's promise of decentralisation.
0(1) Labs, in response to this, incubated the Mina Protocol, which is a lightweight blockchain that can scale to any size, while remaining small enough for cell phones to act as nodes. This has since grown into a thriving ecosytem of Zero-Knowledge (ZK) developers (drawn in both by the promise of the technology, and by grants provided through token sales) while 0(1) Labs continues to work on several other ZK projects.
Despite crypto and blockchain spaces experiencing some troubles of late, O(1)'s infrastructure has been shown to work, which means it can continue to drive acceptance of ZK products into the mainstream. With strong funding at its back, it can be expected that O(1) Labs will continue investing in engineering and product development as it pursues its goal of bringing Web 3.0 to the general public.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Oct 2020
$10.9m
EARLY VC
Apr 2019
$15m
SERIES A
Total funding: $28.9m
Company benefits
- Employee governance
- Tokens and equity options
- Work from anywhere (timezones permitting)
- Company offsites
- 12-weeks parental leave
- 401(K) matching
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents
- Professional development program
- Unlimited vacation policy
- Home office set up program
- Wellness program
Company values
- Default to transparency: We default to transparency, and we discuss major decisions publicly
- We are actively inclusive: We make sure everyone is invited to the party
- Play as a team: We win as a team. We compete with other projects, not with other coworkers
- Always be respectful: We treat each other with respect
- We’re all owners: We put ideas before titles. We all have a say in the work we do and the conditions under which we do it
Company HQ
Rincon Hill, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Emre Tekişalp
(CEO, not Founder)Was in Business Development at Coinbase and 0(1) Labs before becoming CEO. Previously Product Manager with Intel.
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