Backend Engineer Manager

About Us

At Fun.xyz, we believe a tokenized future is a beneficial inevitability, granting financial emancipation to everyone with an internet connection. For a blockchain-first global economy to exist, value exchange must become intuitive, secure, and seamless.

Enter Checkout - the highest converting payment solution in web3. By integrating Checkout, dApps enable users to complete any on-chain action using crypto from a wallet, centralized exchange, or on-ramped fiat from a card or bank account. With access to market-leading routing and their asset portfolio at the point of sale, users are faster, stickier, and more engaged.

We built Checkout because we envision a world where anyone, anywhere, can purchase anything with any asset. If that sounds like a vision you can get behind, we want to hear from you.

Role Overview 

We're looking for a Backend Engineering Manager to lead and scale our backend infrastructure team. This high-impact role reports to the CTO with significant opportunity to shape our technical architecture and engineering culture as we scale.

You will be drive technical excellence while building a high-performing team - ensuring we deliver robust, scalable backend systems that power seamless Web3 payments. This role is perfect for a crypto-native engineering leader who excels at balancing technical depth with people management.

• Own the overall output of the backend engineering team - deliver reliable, scalable infrastructure that supports our growing Web3 payments platform
• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of backend engineers while fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning
• Collaborate with product and protocol teams to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions
• Establish engineering best practices, code quality standards, and deployment processes
• Lead incident response and post-mortem processes to continuously improve system reliability

• Experience as an IC engineer with staff level output
• Strong technical background in distributed systems, APIs, and database design
• Opinions on a modern cloud stack
• Leadership experience in high-performing engineering teams
• Experience with payment systems, financial infrastructure, or fintech applications
• Exceptional communicator who can translate technical concepts to cross-functional stakeholders
• Data-driven approach to decision making with focus on system performance and team productivity

• Previously worked at crypto startup or Web3 infrastructure company
• Experience with blockchain integrations, smart contracts, or DeFi protocols
• Background with high-scale payment processing or financial compliance systems
• Track record scaling backend systems at a high-growth startup