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We're building a new engineering team at Ethena to own a money-movement product built on top of our stablecoin infrastructure. You'll take the technical and people leadership of that team, shaping the architecture, setting the engineering bar, hiring the people around you, and shipping the hardest parts yourself.
This is a hands-on player-coach role, not a hands-off manager seat. While the team is small, you'll spend most of your week writing and shipping production code — you'll be one of the strongest individual contributors on the team, take the most critical work yourself, and review everyone else's. Leadership, architecture, and hiring sit on top of that, not in place of it. As the team grows the balance shifts toward leadership, but coding stays a standing part of the job.
It's a rare combination: the scope and autonomy of an early-stage build — you own the architecture, shape the team, and decide how it works — with the backing, treasury, and distribution of one of the largest companies in stablecoins behind you.
We're building a new engineering team at Ethena to own a money-movement product built on top of our stablecoin infrastructure. You'll take the technical and people leadership of that team, shaping the architecture, setting the engineering bar, hiring the people around you, and shipping the hardest parts yourself.
This is a hands-on player-coach role, not a hands-off manager seat. While the team is small, you'll spend most of your week writing and shipping production code — you'll be one of the strongest individual contributors on the team, take the most critical work yourself, and review everyone else's. Leadership, architecture, and hiring sit on top of that, not in place of it. As the team grows the balance shifts toward leadership, but coding stays a standing part of the job.
It's a rare combination: the scope and autonomy of an early-stage build — you own the architecture, shape the team, and decide how it works — with the backing, treasury, and distribution of one of the largest companies in stablecoins behind you.
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You'll lead engineers across backend, platform, and mobile, and set the standard each is built to. You must be deep in backend / distributed systems and genuinely literate across the rest — enough to review the work and make the architecture call in each:
Backend & payments correctness (your core). Strong TypeScript / Node (or a credible senior path from Go / Kotlin / Java); you think natively in idempotency, reconciliation, retries, and consistency under partial failure, across event-driven services and Postgres.
Client-facing APIs & auth. The app-facing API as a product — versioning, idempotency keys, a clean error model — plus the auth backend behind it (OAuth2 / OIDC, session lifecycle, WebAuthn / passkeys).
Platform & reliability. Enough Kubernetes, IaC, and observability (OTel / Grafana-class) to own the deploy/rollback story and hold the reliability bar — you know the difference between a dashboard that exists and an alert that pages.
Native mobile. Enough to review a native iOS app (Swift / SwiftUI) and reason about mobile ↔ backend contracts, failure states, and on-device auth.
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Full-time
Senior
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