Position: Head of Engineering
Company: Matter Labs
Experience required: 5y
Category: Lead
English level: fluent
Published: 2021-12-01T00:00:00+02:00

**The Role**
As Head of Engineering, you will be in charge of our entire engineering team, with multiple sub-teams focused on different aspects of the platform.

**Your responsibilities will include:**
– Building a result-oriented engineering culture where developers aspire to work.
– Building a strong engineering and technical product leadership team.
– Setting high standards for product quality and developer performance.

**Expectations**
**Technical Leadership: **Act as a check and balance system relative to key architecture decisions and other key technical trade-offs for the success of our long-term mission. Define and enforce high product standards for security, user and developer experience, code quality, documentation, and system performance.
 
**Team Leadership:** Hire, train, motivate, mentor, and empower engineers and engineering leaders. Clearly define individual roles and responsibilities, generate engineering buy-in, allocate engineering resources, and manage progress as well as overall team happiness.
 
**Execution:** Create and maintain development processes that ensure high-quality products can be delivered against your engineering deadlines and achieve product goals/market priorities. As the team and company scale, identify inefficiencies and implement methods to streamline execution.

**Remote work: ** We are a remote-first, results-only organization. Most of the team is based in Europe, and we currently only consider candidates located between EST (UTC-5) and ICT (UTC+7). You are expected to adjust your schedule, managing style, work, and communication methods to such an environment.

**Your Competencies **
– A proven track record of building and scaling high-performing engineering teams.  
– A background of creating successful technical products for the global market.
– Deep understanding of software engineering best practices.
– Background in math, algorithms, and data structures.
– Excellent oral and written communication in English.

**The Offer**
You will work on a deeply mission-driven project, making a significant contribution to the greater economic and political freedom globally. All of our code is open source.

We are a fast-growing startup in the world’s fastest-growing industry. We offer highly competitive cash and equity compensation.

We respect every team member as an individual. We encourage healthy work/life balance without excessive overtime. We will provide you with anything we can to help you grow professionally, be productive and happy.

**About the project**
zkSync is a ZK rollup, a Layer-2 scaling solution that preserves the security properties of the underlying blockchain by leveraging the latest generation of succinct zero-knowledge proofs.