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    Engineering Manager - Backend

    • Remote, Hybrid
      • Paris, Île-de-France, France
    • Engineering

    Job description

    About Morpho

    Morpho is a leading Decentralized Finance (DeFi) lending protocol that recently secured $50 million in funding from Ribbit Capital, a16z crypto, Coinbase Ventures, Variant, Brevan Howard, Pantera, Blocktower, and 50 others to support its mission of revolutionizing lending with an open, efficient, and resilient platform. Morpho is experiencing explosive growth, with over $9 billion in assets supplied on the protocol, solidifying itself as the new standard for DeFi lending. Now, Morpho is scaling its team of contributors to establish itself as a cornerstone - not just of DeFi, but of a new internet-native financial system.

    Location

    Paris or remote (from GMT 0 up to GMT +2 to ensure sufficient overlap with the rest of the team) being open to periodical visits to our office.

    Engineering Manager: Backend

    We seek an Engineering Manager to lead our Backend team, handling Infrastructure, API and data processing, a core pillar of Morpho’s engineering organization. This team supports multiple internal products and powers a public-facing API that is becoming its product, complete with strong SLA guarantees and the need for scalability, performance, and reliability to serve institutional-grade partnerships. We are looking for someone who leads and contributes technically, staying hands-on in design, architecture, and implementation work, especially during critical projects.

    You’ll report directly to the Head of Engineering and co-founder (Julien) and work closely with product teams to ensure the infrastructure and APIs meet both internal demands and external, public-facing scale.

    What You’ll Bring

    Leadership Skills

    • Team-First Leadership: You are motivated by enabling your team’s success, visibility, and growth, not just individual wins.

    • Scaling Experience: You’ve directly contributed to scaling backend products and organizations, managing rising complexity, performance needs, and architectural demands.

    • Hands-On Leadership: You stay close to the technical challenges, contributing to architecture, code reviews, and implementation while empowering your team to take ownership.

    • Product oriented: You understand the business requirements expressed by the product team, frontend teams (Consumer and Prime applications) as well as external partners. You are able to handle multiple streams of incoming requirements, while maintaining the stack operational.

    • Mentorship & Coaching: You develop your engineers, helping them scope, plan, and execute projects while maintaining a healthy, high-performing team dynamic.

    • Recruitment & Building: You’ve successfully built and shaped high-performing technical teams, investing time and energy in attracting top talent.

    Technical Skills

    • Backend & Infrastructure Expertise: Deep experience with scalable backend systems, robust APIs, and infrastructure supporting internal and external-facing institutional-graded products.

    • Public API Ownership: Familiarity with delivering externally exposed APIs that require SLA-backed guarantees, high uptime, and strong incident handling.

    • Tech Stack Strength: Strong experience with TypeScript (and optionally Rust), Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, and modern DevOps tooling.

    • Security & Resilience: You build secure, resilient systems without compromising agility.

    • Technical Product Management: You are familiar with product management methodologies and are able to manage and deliver a roadmap of technical features.

    • Fintech & Web3 Appreciation: Experience working in fintech and/or Web3. Regulated environments are a substantial bonus.

    Strategic & Product Thinking

    • Infrastructure as a Product: You see internal and external APIs as products, aligning technical decisions with business value, user needs, and product goals.

    • Long-Term Vision: You design systems and team processes that can scale sustainably with Morpho’s growth.

    Job requirements

    Must-have Experience & Skills

    • Leadership of backend engineering teams (5–6 engineers, including DevOps).

    • Hands-on experience scaling backend products and APIs in a web3 environment.

    • Experience with public-facing APIs under strong SLA expectations.

    • Strong incident management and leadership under pressure.

    • Humble Leadership: You prioritize team success over personal ego.

    • Strong Communication: You explain complex technical topics clearly to both engineers and non-engineers.

    • Adaptability: You thrive in a dynamic, evolving start-up environment.

    Ready to shape the future of finance?

    We are looking forward to receiving your application.

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