Aztec is hiring a

Software Engineering Manager (Cryptography)

Role Focus:

Aztec’s world-class cryptography team designs and builds state of the art cryptographic libraries which are relied-upon internally and by projects around the world. The successful cryptography engineering manager will oversee the day-to-day management of our cryptography engineers.

• You’ll develop operational goals of the cryptography team, based on the company’s product roadmap
• Ensuring the cryptography team delivers secure, high-quality and well-documented code on time.
• Managing the expectations of the leadership team, with regards to the timelines and features of deliverables being developed by the crypto team.
• Hosting sprint planning and retrospective sessions to improve overall technology process
• Mentor and grow engineers while conducting annual performance and compensation reviews for the team.
• Unblocking cryptography engineers
  • Pairing on problems.
  • Finding experts within the company to help on problems.

Desired experience and attributes:

• A background in low-level software engineering.
• Experience implementing production code as a software engineer.
• 2+ years of experience managing a team of software engineers.
• Experience managing a team in a fast growing environment.
• Self starters - We expect teammates to be adaptable to meet the needs of the organization and complete the tasks at hand.
• Deep thinkers - We take the time to rigorously collect data and understand the consequences of different approaches before building the solution.
• Passion learners - We are passionate about technology and love to learn and build.
• Considerate teammates - We are mindful of how our work is interconnected and the importance of communication

Our internal tech stack:

• C++ for the core cryptography library (<-- the cryptography team works here)
• Rust for our smart contract language Noir
• Solidity for our Ethereum based smart contracts
• TypeScript for our developer toolkits
• TypeScript for our node software
• TypeScript for all higher level code. (jest, koa, ethers, react)
• WebAssembly builds of our crypto library in Web Workers for in-browser operability
• Terraform used for defining all infrastructure on AWS
• CircleCI pipeline developed for all builds and deployments

Nice to haves:

• A background in cryptography or mathematics.
• Experience implementing cryptographic software.

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