Funxyz7mo ago

Backend Engineer Manager

United States·New YorkFull-timemid

EngineeringOtherBackend EngineeringBackend Developer

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At Fun, we’re building the financial infrastructure for internet capital markets.

The systems that power global finance were designed for a different era: slower, fragmented, and constrained by borders. Today, value is digital, global, and moves instantly, but the experience of moving it hasn’t caught up.

Fun offers the highest converting payment solution in the digital asset space – a unified system that enables users to complete any on-chain action using crypto, exchange balances, or fiat from a card or bank account, all in a single, seamless flow.

Our goal is simple: make transacting with any asset feel effortless, anywhere in the world

Role Overview

We're looking for a Backend Engineering Manager to lead and scale our backend infrastructure team. This high-impact role reports to the CTO with significant opportunity to shape our technical architecture and engineering culture as we scale.

You will be drive technical excellence while building a high-performing team - ensuring we deliver robust, scalable backend systems that power seamless Web3 payments. This role is perfect for a crypto-native engineering leader who excels at balancing technical depth with people management.

Own the overall output of the backend engineering team - deliver reliable, scalable infrastructure that supports our growing Web3 payments platform

Lead, mentor, and grow a team of backend engineers while fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning

Collaborate with product and protocol teams to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions

Establish engineering best practices, code quality standards, and deployment processes

Lead incident response and post-mortem processes to continuously improve system reliability

Experience as an IC engineer with staff level output

Strong technical background in distributed systems, APIs, and database design

Opinions on a modern cloud stack

Leadership experience in high-performing engineering teams

Experience with payment systems, financial infrastructure, or fintech applications

Exceptional communicator who can translate technical concepts to cross-functional stakeholders

Data-driven approach to decision making with focus on system performance and team productivity