Engineering Manager, Tokenization

Zerohash is looking for an experienced Engineering Manager, Tokenization with a passion for digital assets and blockchain products to lead the development of our asset tokenization and RWA (Real World Asset) infrastructure. We’re looking for a true technologist with a love of programming and a drive for technical excellence. We believe that the best managers are technologists first with a product mindset who seek to make a larger impact in their organizations.

Responsibilities

1. Work with a team of talented engineers and product managers to deliver tokenization products and features that support zerohash’s business.
2. Partner closely with product and program managers to ensure the tokenization roadmap is well understood and the team is able to plan and execute on expected outcomes.
3. Work with the team on technical planning to ensure that product requirements—such as smart contract logic and asset lifecycle management—are captured in the technical solution.
4. Partner with other Engineering Managers to drive the broader technical roadmap forward.
5. Support the engineering team in achieving a high level of technical excellence in blockchain development and integration.
6. Manage processes to help the team do its best work and interface effectively with the rest of zerohash.
7. Recruit, coach, and develop engineers, specifically those specializing in smart contracts and distributed ledger technology.
8. Help engineers establish career development plans within the evolving digital asset space.
9. Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives as a member of zerohash’s engineering management team.
10. Participate in essential technical, design, and product discussions with leaders across our product and operations teams.
11. Work with a wide range of stakeholders to build a clear vision for your team’s role in the tokenization ecosystem.
12. Oversee the success of your team's projects and achieve quantifiable results regarding asset issuance and throughput.
13. Introduce industry-leading engineering patterns and practices that give us the confidence to do bold things in the RWA space.
14. Make consistent development contributions so as to maintain competency with our codebase and system architecture.

Required Experience

1. 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, with a significant focus on building and maintaining robust APIs and SDKs for B2B integration.
2. 5+ years of engineering management experience, including managing staff and principal-level engineers.
3. BS or MS degree in Computer Science or Engineering OR equivalent years of work experience.
4. Proven track record of managing teams that have delivered complex, production-grade blockchain or financial products.
5. Golang expertise, familiar with Go’s idiomatic approach and niches.
6. Familiarity with TypeScript and React for frontend services and dashboarding.
7. Deep Understanding of Tokenization & Blockchain:
8. Expertise in smart contract development (Solidity, Rust, or Go-based chaincode).
9. Experience with token standards (e.g., ERC-20, ERC-721, ERC-1155, and security token standards like ERC-1400).
10. Knowledge of on-chain transaction flows, minting/burning logic, and oracle integration.
11. Domain Knowledge:
12. Solid understanding of the lifecycle of Real World Assets (RWAs) and their transition to digital ledgers.
13. Familiarity with custody solutions, multi-sig architectures, and MPC (Multi-Party Computation).
14. Understanding of regulatory requirements relevant to digital securities and tokenized assets (e.g., KYC/AML triggers on-chain).
15. Core Infrastructure & Distributed Systems:
16. Experience building and managing mission-critical backend systems such as high-throughput accounting/ledger systems.
17. Experience with distributed system design and messaging frameworks (e.g., Kafka, NATS, or ZeroMQ) for data distribution and persistence.
18. Expertise in writing highly concurrent, multi-threaded code and optimizing for high-throughput environments.