Engineering Manager

We're building something audacious, something global, in next tech at Mai Labs: a new digital infrastructure layer, an internet architectural rail that puts users, builders, creators and developers first. Our mission? To distribute participatory power to billions of people in the digital economy.

What this actually means: We have built our own L1 blockchain, and a backend technical structure for protocols and ecosystem to make digital infrastructure efficient, secure and more accessible. Our global products and tools are natively built for web 3.0 world. You will work with teams working on tech products across blockchain, and distributed systems – for a real-world problem solving.

We're taking on established paths and conventional wisdom about how the Tech and Internet should work. Underlying principle is to solve the hard problem of protecting user rights, digital intellectual property rights and protection of assets in an age of AI and instant replication.

Cultural Expectations: Our start-up journey involves constant evolution and adaptation to market dynamics. People work on strategizing entirely new systems with a hands-on approach, within short time frames. Resources consciousness is high, and you get the freedom to operate across products, do your best work, and stand ahead in the tech curve. You can expect:

• Thriving in decision-making in an ambiguous, fast-paced environment

• To exhibit exceptional integrity and reliability in promise delivery

• Will collaborative and have an inclusive attitude

• A value outcome driven thinking with resource optimization

If above resonates with you, we will love to have a discussion with you.

Role:

You will take the role of Engineering Manager. Expectations from the Role holder is to be a tech expert, to lead sprints with capable tech teams with a high people management quotient, and to prioritize tasks. You will manage multiple products/ tools and a team of 10+ members. You will be the owner of product delivery, sprint optimization and architecture development.

Location:

What will you get to do?

• Drive technical design remodeling, and refactoring of layer 1 blockchain, smart contracts and systems for robustness and scalability.
• Partner with cross-functional teams, to create technical vision, detailed roadmap, and drive critical design discussions.
• Lead technology & architectural decisions to drive teams for implementation & code reviews.
• Build engineering processes for the team and champion product thinking.
• Provide technical leadership with a focus on quality & security.
• Robust documentation and knowledge management across the blockchain ecosystem.

Skills & Qualification

• Bachelor’s degree in computer sciences or equivalent stream.
• Relevant and progressive 10+ Years of experience, with good projects in Blockchain products
• Hands-on experience in Software Development using ReactJS and Node.js
• Hands-on experience in various databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL and MongoDB
• Strong Knowledge of algorithms and data structures.
• Preferred: Designed, developed and deployed large-scale web applications on the cloud.
• Good understanding of Docker/Containerized application development.

Hiring Process:

• 3-4 rounds of interviews with Function, HR & senior leaders.