Own the core earnings service that drives reward calculation, rate setting, and distribution across all Earn products
Lead development and operation of asynchronous systems that power earnings pipelines, including background jobs, event processing, and reward distribution flows
Own all blockchain and staking services, including on-chain integrations and off-chain coordination for staking flows
Drive correctness, scalability, resiliency, and recovery of reward pipelines, including reconciliation and monitoring
Own the Earn Control Center (Admin/ECC) surface used to safely configure, operate, and audit earnings systems
Partner with other Earn squads and platform teams to define ownership boundaries and ensure reliable system integration
Set and uphold engineering standards for distributed systems, asynchronous architectures, and blockchain integrations
Lead incident response, postmortems, and long-term reliability improvements for core earnings infrastructure
Coordinate necessary changes across Krak, Consumer, and Pro applications to support Core Pod initiatives

Proven experience leading backend or platform-focused engineering teams
Deep experience owning and operating mission-critical distributed systems in production
Strong understanding of asynchronous architectures, event-driven systems, and background processing
Experience designing and running high-throughput, fault-tolerant pipelines with strong correctness guarantees
Hands-on experience with blockchain integrations and on-chain/off-chain coordination
Strong understanding of staking mechanisms, reward calculation, and yield-generating systems
Experience managing services interacting with smart contracts and blockchain nodes
Fluency in Rust, Go, or similar systems-level languages
Strong operational mindset, including incident response, monitoring, reconciliation, and failure recovery
Ability to collaborate across multiple teams and surface risks, tradeoffs, and decisions clearly

Engineering Manager

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