Engineering Manager

About Sky Mavis

Sky Mavis is building the future of gaming. We’re the creators of Axie Infinity, the most successful Web3 game ever, and Ronin, a purpose-built blockchain that ranked as the 4th most-used chain in 2024, behind Ethereum, Bitcoin, and Solana.

We’ve processed over $4.3 billion in on-chain volume and are backed by more than $170 million from top-tier investors, including a16z, Accel, Libertus Capital, and Paradigm.

Our team moves fast, builds with intention, and believes in a world where players truly own what they earn. If you’re excited by open economies, massive scale, and shaping new digital frontiers, join us.

About the Role

We’re hiring an Engineering Manager to lead a small, high‑performing team building our partner-facing analytics and referral platform on Ronin.

You’ll drive the roadmap, raise the technical bar, and ship 0→1 products that empower ecosystem partners and internal teams.

This is a hands-on leadership role where you’ll coach engineers while contributing to designs and critical reviews.

What You’ll Do

• Own outcomes: define the roadmap, scope MVPs, and deliver measurable impact for partners and internal stakeholders.

• Lead & grow: coach 5–8 engineers, run effective rituals, set a high quality bar (testing, reliability, observability), and hire exceptional talent.

• Be hands-on where it counts: contribute to system design, code reviews, and occasionally code on critical paths (~20–30%).

• Partner cross‑functionally: collaborate with Product, Design, Data, and BD to align business goals, incentives, and partner needs; operate fluently across time zones.

• Architect for scale: drive service boundaries, API design, and data contracts; ensure robust CI/CD, SLOs, and incident response.

• Champion security & web3 best practices: wallet flows, signing, token permissions, on‑chain data ingestion, and privacy‑aware analytics.

What We Look For

• 7+ years building software products; 2+ years leading engineers as an EM or TL in high‑growth product teams.

• Track record shipping 0→1 products and iterating quickly with clear KPIs.

• Technical depth in modern web stacks (TypeScript/React on the front; Go/Node/Java/Python on the back), API design, and SQL data modeling.

• Operational excellence with cloud (AWS/GCP), containers/Kubernetes, observability, and CI/CD.

• Web3 literacy: EVM concepts, wallet integrations, secure key/signing flows, on‑chain data (e.g., ethers/web3).

• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management across remote teams; bias for action, ownership, and kindness.

Nice to Have

• Experience in gaming, creator, or marketplace products.

• Familiarity with event-driven systems, streaming, and analytics platforms.

• Exposure to Rust/Solidity, GraphQL, and real-time websockets.

• Experience partnering with BD/DevRel to grow ecosystems.

• Ability to work and execute with remote teams