Job description
Full time - Paris or full remote from Western EU
Kiln is now part of the prestigious French Government program #FT120 from La French Tech! 🎉 🇫🇷
As an Engineering Manager at Kiln, you will lead a cross-functional team of SREs, backend engineers, and blockchain specialists in a remote-first environment. You’ll be responsible for both team performance and technical excellence, helping shape the future of staking infrastructure.
Responsibilities
Lead, mentor, and grow a distributed engineering team, fostering a strong sense of ownership, trust, and collaboration across time zones.
Own the delivery of robust, secure, and scalable systems, balancing reliability with rapid iteration in a high-availability blockchain infrastructure context.
Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and Protocol teams to translate strategic objectives into well-executed engineering initiatives.
Guide architectural and technical decisions, particularly in areas involving infrastructure, validator orchestration, blockchain integrations, and distributed systems.
Establish and improve engineering processes, ensuring high velocity, consistent quality, and strong incident management practices.
Support individual growth through regular 1:1s, performance feedback, and clear career development planning.
Hire and onboard top-tier engineering talent, contributing to a world-class remote-first engineering culture.
Foster a culture of operational excellence, encouraging documentation, automation, observability, and continuous improvement across the delivery pipeline.
Ensure strong communication practices, proactively surfacing progress, risks, and dependencies to internal and external stakeholders.
Stack:
Software: Go, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, REST API…
Smart-contract: Solidity, Foundry
Infrastructure: GCP, AWS, Kubernetes
Requirements
5+ years of experience in engineering management, leading cross-functional backend or infrastructure teams in a fast-paced, high-ownership environment.
2+ years of experience managing remote engineering teams, with the ability to foster collaboration, accountability, and a sense of belonging.
Excellent people management skills, including hiring, performance management, coaching, and career development.
Effective communication and stakeholder alignment, with the ability to translate technical complexity into clear business implications and vice versa.
Bias for action and ownership, you thrive in environments where initiative and autonomy are expected.
Demonstrated ability to deliver complex technical projects, balancing quality, reliability, and speed in high-availability or mission-critical environments.
Strong technical background in backend systems, cloud infrastructure, or distributed systems.
Fluent in English, written and spoken.
Nice-to-have:
Hands-on experience with Golang for backend or infrastructure services.
Familiarity with modern cloud infrastructure, particularly:
GCP or AWS for production environments.
Terraform and infrastructure-as-code.
GitOps workflows (e.g., Flux, ArgoCD).
Genuine interest in Web3, blockchain, cryptocurrency and smart contracts - check our Tech Blog [https://www.kiln.fi/blog] and Open-Source Contribution [https://www.kiln.fi/open-source] .
Contributions to open-source projects or active engagement with the blockchain community.
Business-level French.
About Kiln:
Kiln is the leading enterprise-grade rewards platform that enables institutional customers to stake assets and integrate staking & DeFi functionality into their offerings. Our API-first platform provides fully automated validators, staking & DeFi protocols access, and comprehensive data and commission management.
With $13+ billion in crypto assets staked through our platform, Kiln has established a strong presence on Ethereum, managing over 4.3% of the network through 45,000+ validators — all with zero slashing events.
Kiln serves more than 140 leading customers, including Binance, BitPanda, Bitgo, Fireblocks, VanEck, and TrustWallet.
Our team of 100 ecosystem enthusiasts brings experience from industry leaders like Google, Circle, Ledger, Chainalysis, and other prominent technology and cryptocurrency companies.
We’ve raised $30M in total funding from prominent investors including 1kx, Crypto.com, Illuminate Financial, Consensys, Wintermute, Kraken Ventures…
Join Kiln and help us make the web more secure, stable, decentralized, and fair!
How Kiln will support you:
At Kiln, our values drive us: Technical Excellence ensures top security and usability; Innovation-Driven Meritocracy elevates groundbreaking ideas; Trust and Transparency build reliability through open communication; and People First keeps our team and clients at the heart of everything we do.
A fast-paced, bureaucracy-free work environment
Equity share options in the business: if Kiln succeeds, we all succeed!
Competitive salary
Flexible holiday
Flexible remote working
Choose your IT equipment
Internet connection: €50/month
Significant personal development budget (books, training)
Overseas tech conferences budget
Kiln is an Equal Opportunity Employer
We are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace where everyone is valued and respected. We welcome applications from all backgrounds, including women or persons with disabilities.
Your interview process
Our thorough process ensures the best fit for both you and Kiln, and we strive to make each step valuable and efficient.
First screening with the Engineering Director (50 min)
Technical Interview (60 min)
Management & Values Interview (60 min)
Founders Interview (30 min)
Offer!
Your personal information will be securely stored in our Applicant Tracking System (ATS) and will not be shared with external parties. We comply fully with GDPR regulations to protect your data and privacy.
Please note that we do not sponsor visas for persons without work authorization in your location. This role is for full-time employees only (no B2B or contractors). Thank you!
