Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager at ledger. About the role Join Ledger as an Engineering Manager to guide the Cloud Wallet team, focusing on backend services for blockchain account management and transaction processing. You will lead a team dedicated to building scalable platforms using functional programming principles. This role involves fostering team growth, driving technical delivery, and maintaining operational excellence for critical systems. Key facts Location: Montpellier, France Engagement: FullTime Compensation: Not provided Team: Cloud Wallet team

What you'll do

• Oversee the professional development of your engineering team, including hiring, onboarding, and performance management.
• Manage the team's roadmap and ensure timely, high-quality delivery of services and architectural initiatives.
• Maintain service level indicators and objectives, leading incident response and observability standards for production systems.
• Partner with technical leads to make sound architectural decisions for a polyglot stack handling high throughput and multi-chain complexity.
• Champion strong engineering practices, including CI/CD, testing, code reviews, and technical debt management.
• Contribute to broader organizational initiatives, such as architectural working groups and engineering efficiency programs.

Requirements

• At least three years of experience managing backend engineering teams in a product-focused, distributed setting.
• Solid technical background in backend systems, enabling you to challenge architectural decisions and support engineers.
• Experience operating services at scale, with familiarity in high-availability architectures, event-driven systems, and observability tools.
• Comfortable with polyglot stacks, specifically TypeScript and Scala, with sufficient depth to lead effectively.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex dependencies across multiple teams and influence without direct authority.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.

Nice to have

• Exposure to blockchain or crypto infrastructure, such as account indexing or transaction lifecycle.
• A genuine interest in the Web3 space.

Skills & tools

• TypeScript
• Scala
• RabbitMQ
• PostgreSQL
• Flink
• NATS
• Datadog

This is a hybrid role. The company has offices in Paris, Vierzon, Grenoble, Montpellier, London, Portland, Geneva, Zurich, and Central Singapore.