Engineering Manager / Tech Lead

Ethena Labs is seeking an Engineering Manager / Tech Lead to build a new engineering team for a money-movement product. This hands-on role involves technical leadership, coding, and team building in a remote setting. 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.

• •Write and ship production code most days as one of the team’s top ICs, taking on the hardest and most critical-path work and unblocking the team members you’re responsible for.
• •Own the architecture. Hold the whole system in your head — services, money-paths, data model, infrastructure, on-chain settlement — and make the design calls that keep it correct, legible, and extensible as it scales.
• •Build the team. Run a rigorous, humane hiring loop; raise the bar; onboard new engineers with real plans; grow a small senior team that works in the open.
• •Set and hold a high engineering bar. Non-author review on money paths, CI required to merge, small PRs, disciplined testing (TDD / BDD as the default, not an afterthought), always-on automated review, idempotency and correctness treated as non-negotiable.
• •Establish safe, effective agentic-development practices as the team’s default.
• •Own the delivery cadence. Run a tight, high-velocity delivery process — sprints or kanban, whatever fits the team — with predictable, versioned releases, a healthy backlog, and short lead time from idea to production.
• •Ship fast without lowering the bar.
• •Make it reliable. Drive real production alerting, an on-call rotation that pages a human, tested runbooks, and incident response — so the team can build, ship, and run the product with confidence.