Backend Engineer Manager

At Fun, we’re building the financial infrastructure for internet capital markets.

The systems that power global finance were designed for a different era: slower, fragmented, and constrained by borders. Today, value is digital, global, and moves instantly, but the experience of moving it hasn’t caught up.

Fun offers the highest converting payment solution in the digital asset space – a unified system that enables users to complete any on-chain action using crypto, exchange balances, or fiat from a card or bank account, all in a single, seamless flow.

Our goal is simple: make transacting with any asset feel effortless, anywhere in the world

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