Senior Engineering Manager (Remote)

Lightning (lightning.engineering) · Lightning Labs · First seen 2026-10-29

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  • Full-time
  • Remote from United States
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Senior Engineering Manager role at Lightning Labs to scale the engineering organization and work directly with the CTO.

Core duties: hire and mentor an engineering team, cross-functional project management and resource allocation, architecture review, and owning engineering processes.

Preferred: experience managing remote teams, open source contributions, and working knowledge of Bitcoin design principles.

Remote role; the posting does not state eligible countries, location, or work authorization requirements.

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ATS workplace type: remote
remote eligible countries
ATS location: Lightning Labs
locations
ATS location: Lightning Labs
employment types
full_time
seniority
Senior Engineering Manager
job function
help scale our growing engineering organization
role family
help scale our growing engineering organization
skills
has managed their own open source projects or actively contributed to such projects in the past
skills
has high level working knowledge of Bitcoin
skills
Software architecture design review and analysis
skills
Cross-functional project management, engineering resource allocation, and prioritization
skills
Hire, grow, and mentor an engineering team
skills
Experience working with remote teams
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Lightning Labs is seeking to hire a Senior Engineering Manager

Job description

Lightning Labs is seeking to hire a Senior Engineering Manager to help scale our growing engineering organization. The ideal candidate has experience managing remote teams across several time zones, has managed their own open source projects or actively contributed to such projects in the past, and has high level working knowledge of Bitcoin. Due to the nature of our software, our ideal candidate is also highly technical as we regularly face novel and challenging decisions that require nuanced and comprehensive analysis of related tradeoffs. In addition, the ideal candidate should have a passion for our mission, as well as for Bitcoin as a whole. Candidates in this position will work directly with the CTO to scale our engineering organization, as well as work across functional team boundaries to ensure proper resource allocation,  product quality, and team agility. 

Responsibilities may include but are not limited to:

- Hire, grow, and mentor an engineering team to maximize team harmony and individual satisfaction 

- Cross-functional project management, engineering resource allocation, and prioritization

- Software architecture design review and analysis 

- Create and own engineering processes to promote delivery of secure, reliable, robust software

Preferred experience: 

- 5 years prior software engineering experience in a systems domain 

- 3 years prior engineering management experience 

- Experience working with remote teams

- Experience maintaining or contributing to open source projects 

- Working knowledge of fundamental Bitcoin design principles

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