Engineering Manager, Wallet
Role in brief
Mysten Labs seeks a Senior Engineering Manager for their wallet and DeFi projects within the Sui ecosystem. This role involves leading a team and setting technical direction. Candidates with experience in blockchain wallet functionality and DeFi are encouraged to apply.
✓ Direct apply: you message the hiring person on Telegram. No ATS.
About the role
At Mysten Labs, the Engineering Manager will be responsible for overseeing the development of wallet clients and DeFi experiences. This role requires collaboration with various teams to create efficient and secure user experiences, focusing on key management and transaction processes.
The ideal candidate will lead a team of engineers, ensuring high standards in architecture, testing, and incident management. Success in this role involves not only technical leadership but also the ability to simplify complex workflows while maintaining transparency for users.
The salary range for this role is between $180,000 and $260,000.
Who this role suits
- A person with a strong background in managing software engineers and leading technical projects.
- Someone who has direct experience with blockchain wallet functionalities and DeFi concepts.
- A candidate who thrives in ambiguous environments and can make informed decisions on product direction.
- An individual who values collaboration with cross-functional teams and maintains accountability in engineering.
From the employer
- Lead, hire, coach, and retain a team of engineers working across wallet clients, supporting services, and onchain integrations
- Set technical direction with senior engineers for account creation and recovery, key management, signing, transaction construction and simulation, dApp connectivity, asset management, swaps, and other DeFi experiences
- Create clear ownership and execution plans across web, browser extension, iOS, Android, backend services, SDKs, and protocol dependencies
- Raise standards for architecture, testing, release safety, observability, incident response, and post-incident learning in an asset-sensitive product
- Partner with product and design to simplify complex onchain workflows without hiding material fees, permissions, risks, or transaction outcomes from users
- Work with security and protocol teams to evaluate threats, manage dependencies, and make informed tradeoffs between usability, decentralization, privacy, and protection of user assets
- Use data, user research, support feedback, and ecosystem context to prioritize work and measure product and engineering outcomes
- Experience managing and developing software engineers, including senior engineers, in a high-ownership product environment
- Direct experience shipping production blockchain wallet functionality: self-custody, private-key security, signing, recovery, transaction lifecycle, chain and RPC failure modes, and wallet-to-dApp interaction patterns
- Hands-on DeFi fluency — able to reason about liquidity, routing, slippage, staking, lending, bridges, protocol and smart-contract risk, and the user protections required for financial transactions
- Strong systems judgment across client applications, backend services, APIs or SDKs, distributed dependencies, monitoring, and operational response
- A record of setting direction in ambiguous environments, improving execution, and delivering reliable products across multiple platforms or surfaces
- Ability to partner closely with product, design, security, and senior technical leaders while maintaining clear engineering accountability
Questions about this role
What is the remote policy?
The position is remote.
What is the seniority level of this role?
This is a senior-level position.
How do I apply for this position?
Candidates can apply through the Mysten Labs website.
✓ Direct apply: you message the hiring person on Telegram. No ATS.