Toku is hiring a

Web3 Engineering Manager

In an environment of increasing regulatory scrutiny, Toku offers solutions to employ and compliantly compensate global teams in both fiat and tokens in over 100 teams globally. Toku’s growing list of customers includes Aragon, Astar, Filecoin Foundation, Gitcoin, Gnosis, Hedera Hashgraph, Protocol Labs, Teller, Safe, Storyverse, and others. 

Toku’s comprehensive suite of services includes: Token-based payroll, token-based grant administration, employment and tax compliance – services tailored to the needs of every crypto-native organization. 

There are clear laws and regulations around how people get employed and compensated that have been around for hundreds of years. These laws aren’t going away, and organizations need to follow them for the industry to grow. Our vision is to make it simple for organizations, from traditional companies to DAOs, to compensate their employees and contractors with tokens globally.

Toku recently raised $20 million from a consortium led by Blockchain Capital with Protocol Labs, GMJP, OrangeDAO, Orrick, Reverie, Quantstamp, Next Web Capital and prominent angel investors including Protocol Labs founder Juan Benet and Alchemy co-founders Nikil Viswanathan and Joe Lau. Read more about Toku in Fortune, Yahoo Finance, and CoinDesk.

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You will be the first engineering manager that will be responsible for leading and managing our team of young, ambitious engineers. You will work closely with the CEO, the technical advisors, and the leadership team on our products that enterprise customers currently use.

You will be setting and achieving technical goals, coordinating with other departments, and expected to be hands-on. You will lead our engineering efforts to create robust and scalable web apps that serve as the backbone of a delightful user experience for our customers, globally

Strong written and verbal communication will be critical to the success of this role.

Timezone requirement: EST +/- 7 hours

Responsibilities

• Design and architect frontend and backend
• Work closely with the sales and product team on decisions and strategy. We expect a collaborative partner who wants to find solutions
• Work alongside the CEO and founders to shape our engineering culture
• Recruit and build a world-class engineering team
• Establish best practices ensuring that systems and processes are well documented to ensure the scalability of the engineering team

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering at a startup or similar faced paced environment.
• 2+ years of experience in engineering management
• Prior experience growing and managing engineering teams at a high growth startup
• Mastery of multiple languages and frameworks, and the ability to move across the tech stack
• You have experience building full-stack web experiences from the data layer to the front end
• Ability to write quality, maintainable code in a fast-paced, agile software engineering environment
• You know what high-quality code and software engineering processes look like and know how to foster an environment that creates them
• You have an interest or experience in working in a fast-paced remote-first startup, across multiple geographic locations and time zones where priorities can shift quickly

What Makes You Great

• You’re scrappy and want to roll your sleeves up,
• Have designed front-end and back-end systems, written the first lines of code, launched and scaled a product to a high level of impact
• You have experience designing relational database schemas, data modeling, and data access patterns
• You have experience architecting fault-tolerant, multi-tiered web apps
• You have exceptional teamwork, analytical/problem-solving, project management, and communication skills
• You hold an interest in and knowledge of product roadmap development and execution
• You have experience leading engineers in a remote environment
• You're passionate about the mass adoption of Web3 in payments and payroll contexts.

Benefits and Compensation

• Remote anywhere in the world
• Remote-first work culture
• Flexible working hours
• Ultra competitive salary
• Equity
• Apple laptop

Toku is an equal opportunity employer, and we are committed to being a diverse team that reflects a broad range of background, thought, and experience. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, national origin, status as an individual with a disability, status as protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristics. Women, minorities, LGBTQ+, and people from underrepresented backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply.