Engineering Lead

Aragon is building unstoppable tooling for the next generation of onchain organizations. As a cross‑functional engineering lead on Aragon’s Platform Team, you’ll code and coordinate across frontend, backend, and our Aragon OSx smart contract frameworking, owning some of our most challenging features, architecture cohesion, operational discipline, and platform reliability so our onchain products ship fast and safely.

Overview

Department

Engineering

Job type

Full time

Compensation

Salary not specified

Location

Global

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What You’ll Do

Own the coordination ceremonies and touch points across frontend, backend, smart contracts, and SRE/DevOps so engineering stays technically aligned and the efforts grounded in actual product requirements

Provide guidance on architecture across the stack by aligning interfaces across components and making sure they fit together cleanly, while being mindful of dependencies and how design choices affect future flexibility

Define and prioritize technical work by balancing roadmap features against refactors and other engineering needs, and collaborate with Product on acceptance criteria so priorities reflect both strategic goals and practical trade-offs

Promote E2E production health by driving cultural practices and principles - for tests, release discipline, monitoring, and incident response - that make quality and security a default

Strengthen the team by mentoring engineers at every level and documenting critical knowledge and reference material so the team is always growing and without being dependent on any single person

Code! Even in a leadership role, the best way to understand and improve the stack is by working with it and writing code - frontend, backend, or contracts - reviewing peers’ work, and getting your hands dirty to help ship features!

Minimum Requirements

Proven ability to oversee production systems where you owned their quality, from defining done, enforcing tests, managing regressions, and taking responsibility for release reliability

Senior-level depth in either frontend (JS/TS and a modern framework, ideally React) or backend (Node/TS or similar) or both

CI/CD literacy (e.g., GitHub Actions, CircleCI) and practical understanding of monitoring/alerts and incident handling

Experience working on open source projects, ideally in blockchain, cryptography, smart contracts, decentralized systems, or any related technology in the web3 ecosystem

Experience as an engineering manager, tech lead, or similar technical leadership role, ideally for a remote team

Experience working in agile environment, git flows, and are comfortable in the tools (e.g. Jira, Github)

Passionate and an active user of web3 applications

Excellent English communication - both written and oral

Bonus Skills

Ethereum/EVM mastery

Experience building or working with blockchain indexers.

Experience acting as Scrum Master

Experience building monitoring systems yourself

Experience working on a project with a module or plugin system

Passionate about the possibilities of decentralized autonomous organizations and the impacts they may have on how humans work together to solve problems

Closing Description

We value freedom and responsibility among our contributors. In practice, this means that we're a remote distributed organization that's flexible as to where you want to work and your schedule. We will trust you to accommodate and support your team, and communicate if you ever feel stretched thin. You will get all of the resources needed to be effective, whether its for setting up your remote work environment or a personal development budget.

This role reports to Aragon X, a Swiss AG dedicated to advancing the Aragon Project. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer supporting a community of DAO builders, developers, and users experimenting with new forms of social coordination and governance.