Engineering Manager

Full time - Paris or full remote from Western EU***Kiln is now part of the prestigious French Government program**#FT120** from**La French Tech****:
As an Engineering Manager at Kiln, you will lead a cross-functional team of SREs, backend engineers, and blockchain specialists in a remote-first environment. You’ll be responsible for both team performance and technical excellence, helping shape the future of staking infrastructure.

**Responsibilities**:

- ** Lead, mentor, and grow** a distributed engineering team, fostering a strong sense of ownership, trust, and collaboration across time zones.
- ** Own the delivery of robust, secure, and scalable systems**, balancing reliability with rapid iteration in a high-availability blockchain infrastructure context.
- ** Collaborate closely** with Product, Design, and Protocol teams to translate strategic objectives into well-executed engineering initiatives.
- ** Guide architectural and technical decisions**, particularly in areas involving infrastructure, validator orchestration, blockchain integrations, and distributed systems.
- ** Establish and improve engineering processes**, ensuring high velocity, consistent quality, and strong incident management practices.
- ** Support individual growth** through regular 1:1s, performance feedback, and clear career development planning.
- ** Hire and onboard top-tier engineering talent**, contributing to a world-class remote-first engineering culture.
- ** Foster a culture of operational excellence**, encouraging documentation, automation, observability, and continuous improvement across the delivery pipeline.
- ** Ensure strong communication practices**, proactively surfacing progress, risks, and dependencies to internal and external stakeholders.
- Stack:_
- _ Software: Go, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, REST API _
- _ Smart-contract: Solidity, Foundry_
- _ Infrastructure: GCP, AWS, Kubernetes_

**Requirements**:

- 5+ years of experience in engineering management, leading cross-functional backend or infrastructure teams in a fast-paced, high-ownership environment.
- 2+ years of experience managing remote engineering teams, with the ability to foster collaboration, accountability, and a sense of belonging.
- Excellent people management skills, including hiring, performance management, coaching, and career development.
- Effective communication and stakeholder alignment, with the ability to translate technical complexity into clear business implications and vice versa.
- Bias for action and ownership, you thrive in environments where initiative and autonomy are expected.
- Demonstrated ability to deliver complex technical projects, balancing quality, reliability, and speed in high-availability or mission-critical environments.
- Strong technical background in backend systems, cloud infrastructure, or distributed systems.
- Fluent in English, written and spoken.

**Nice-to-have**:

- Hands-on experience with Golang for backend or infrastructure services.
- Familiarity with modern cloud infrastructure, particularly:

- GCP or AWS for production environments.
- Terraform and infrastructure-as-code.
- GitOps workflows (e.g., Flux, ArgoCD).
- Contributions to **open-source projects** or active engagement with the blockchain community.
- Business-level French.

**About Kiln**:
Kiln is the leading **enterprise-grade rewards platform** that enables institutional customers to stake assets and integrate staking & DeFi functionality into their offerings. Our API-first platform provides fully automated validators, staking & DeFi protocols access, and comprehensive data and commission management.

With **$13+ billion in crypto assets** staked through our platform, Kiln has established a strong presence on Ethereum, managing over 4.3% of the network through 45,000+ validators — all with zero slashing events.

Kiln serves more than 140 leading customers, including Binance, BitPanda, Bitgo, Fireblocks, VanEck, and TrustWallet.

Our team of 100 ecosystem enthusiasts brings experience from industry leaders like Google, Circle, Ledger, Chainalysis, and other prominent technology and cryptocurrency companies.

Join Kiln and help us make the web more secure, stable, decentralized, and fair

**How Kiln will support you**:
At Kiln, our values drive us**:Technical Excellence** ensures top security and usability; **Innovation-Driven Meritocracy** elevates groundbreaking ideas; **Trust and Transparency** build reliability through open communication; and **People First** keeps our team and clients at the heart of everything we do.
- A fast-paced, bureaucracy-free work environment
- Equity share options in the business: if Kiln succeeds, we all succeed
- Competitive salary
- Flexible holiday
- Flexible remote working
- Choose your IT equipment
- Internet connection: €50/month
- Significant personal development budget (books, training)
- Overseas tech conferences budget

**Kiln is an Equal Opportunity Employer**

**Your interview process**:
Our thorough