About Sky Mavis
Sky Mavis is building the future of gaming. Were the creators of Axie Infinity, the most successful Web3 game ever, and Ronin, a purpose-built blockchain that ranked as the 4th most-used chain in 2024, behind Ethereum, Bitcoin, and Solana.
Weve processed over $4.3 billion in on-chain volume and are backed by more than $170 million from top-tier investors, including a16z, Accel, Libertus Capital, and Paradigm.
Our team moves fast, builds with intention, and believes in a world where players truly own what they earn. If youre excited by open economies, massive scale, and shaping new digital frontiers, join us.
About The Role
Were hiring an Engineering Manager to lead a small, highperforming team building our partner-facing analytics and referral platform on Ronin.
Youll drive the roadmap, raise the technical bar, and ship 01 products that empower ecosystem partners and internal teams.
This is a hands-on leadership role where youll coach engineers while contributing to designs and critical reviews.
What Youll Do
- Own outcomes: define the roadmap, scope MVPs, and deliver measurable impact for partners and internal stakeholders.
- Lead & grow: coach 58 engineers, run effective rituals, set a high quality bar (testing, reliability, observability), and hire exceptional talent.
- Be hands-on where it counts: contribute to system design, code reviews, and occasionally code on critical paths (2030%).
- Partner crossfunctionally: collaborate with Product, Design, Data, and BD to align business goals, incentives, and partner needs; operate fluently across time zones.
- Architect for scale: drive service boundaries, API design, and data contracts; ensure robust CI/CD, SLOs, and incident response.
- Champion security & web3 best practices: wallet flows, signing, token permissions, onchain data ingestion, and privacyaware analytics.
What We Look For
- 7+ years building software products; 2+ years leading engineers as an EM or TL in highgrowth product teams.
- Track record shipping 01 products and iterating quickly with clear KPIs.
- Technical depth in modern web stacks (TypeScript/React on the front; Go/Node/Java/Python on the back), API design, and SQL data modeling.
- Operational excellence with cloud (AWS/GCP), containers/Kubernetes, observability, and CI/CD.
- Web3 literacy: EVM concepts, wallet integrations, secure key/signing flows, onchain data (e.g., ethers/web3).
- Exceptional communication and stakeholder management across remote teams; bias for action, ownership, and kindness.
Nice to Have
- Experience in gaming, creator, or marketplace products.
- Familiarity with event-driven systems, streaming, and analytics platforms.
- Exposure to Rust/Solidity, GraphQL, and real-time websockets.
- Experience partnering with BD/DevRel to grow ecosystems.
- Ability to work and execute with remote teams
