Director of Engineering, Gitcoin Labs

As the Director of Engineering for Gitcoin Labs, you'll lead our day-to-day engineering function, managing a team and driving key technical decisions. You will work directly with product and design to drive discovery of new customer needs, understand the market, and identify new opportunities for us to succeed in a rapidly-changing environment. Last year, we launched our all-in-one grants tooling (Grants Stack), built on top of the Allo Protocol, and are poised for enormous growth and adoption this year. This position is perfect for a seasoned engineering leader who is excited to seize a market-defining opportunity.

All roles at Gitcoin are customer-facing, and you should be equally comfortable chatting with users on Twitter and Discord as you are prioritizing work with the team. This position will have considerable exposure to leaders in our organization and report to the GM of Labs.

While some of our other openings require deeply specialized knowledge of the crypto & blockchain industry, the primary requirement for this role is a 5+ years of experience in engineering management and prior ownership of a product line or significant revenue-generating feature set. Experience working with EVM-based protocols, B2B SaaS, or marketplace products will translate well into our environment, and experience working in open-source or Unix-style environments is a huge bonus.

Responsibilities:
Work directly with the engineering team to make them more efficient and effective in their day to day work. Act as a mentor and multiplier, enhancing team capabilities and promoting a constructive engineering culture.

Lead from the front. Code every week, submit a PR every week.
Take ownership of solving “wicked problems” – things that are holding back the team or product, but they can’t figure out how to solve on their own.
Drive technical architecture decisions and implementation, gathering input from the CTO, engineering leaders, and product leadership.
Define and implement a strategic technology roadmap that balances our needs for flexibility and rapid innovation with customer-facing reliability and robustness.
Partner with product leadership, CTO, and GM to develop ways of working that encourage innovation and intrapreneurship while keeping our core functionality reliable
Becoming an expert in the Web3 grants space to understand the changing market landscape, and develop strategies to maximize our advantages, address risks and deliver measurable outcomes.

Hazards:
Navigating the rapidly evolving blockchain landscape while ensuring product and system reliability.
Balancing innovation with the need to maintain robust, secure, and scalable services.
Balancing the technology we have vs the technology we want.
Managing a diverse and distributed team in a highly dynamic and asynchronous environment.

Requirements:
5+ years of experience as an engineering leader for software products
Proficiency in modern software development practices, devops methodologies, and infrastructure automation.
Demonstrated ability to drive technical strategy and make data-driven decisions that balance short-term needs with long-term goals.
Exceptional leadership and communication skills, with the ability to inspire and motivate a team.
One day in crypto can be more eventful than a year in other industries. You’re cool with change, but know how to create stability for your team in this crazy environment.
This role requires business fluency in English. You’re able to structure working hours within GMT-5 to GMT +1 and be online daily from 1pm UTC to 6pm UTC.
Strong interest in Web3. Previous work experience in Web3 or a relevant field (marketplace products, open source) is an advantage.

About Gitcoin
Since 2017, Gitcoin has been building tools that enable communities to fund what matters to them. Through our Gitcoin Grants Program, we've distributed over $50M to early stage builders championing projects across DeFi, Ethereum infrastructure, open source software, and beyond. We’ve taken the success and learnings of the Gitcoin Grants Program and used it to build our open-source, on-chain Grants Stack product that anyone can use to create and manage grants programs in Web3.

Gitcoin Labs is a contributor to the Gitcoin DAO and Ethereum ecosystem. Our charter is to support the growth of Gitcoin through product development and adoption. We’re a leading organization in Web3 that’s trusted by partners across the ecosystem; including Polygon, zkSync, Base, Avalanche, and more.

We welcome all qualified persons to apply regardless of race, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. Compensation will be competitive and commensurate with experience.