Senior Engineering Manager - Platform (Remote)

Position Summary: Crystal Intelligence is seeking an experienced Senior Engineering Manager to lead our Platform Squads, which form the backbone of our engineering efforts. These squads oversee the Core Platform, Core Data (including blockchain integrations), Developer Experience (DevEx), and DevOps. This is an 80% management role and 20% hands-on, focusing on driving technical excellence, fostering a high-performing team culture, and ensuring efficient processes to deliver scalable and reliable platform solutions that power our products and services. At Crystal Expert, Engineering Managers are accountable for the process, ensuring that workflows run smoothly, priorities are aligned with business goals, and teams adhere to best practices in agile development. The successful candidate will work directly with a team of approximately 20 engineers while being part of a broader engineering organization of 50+ engineers, managing cross-squad dependencies and scaling engineering processes to meet organisational needs. This is a fully remote role, open to candidates across Europe. More details: crystalintelligence.com Duties and responsibilities: Leadership & Team Development: Manage and mentor a team of engineers and engineering leads across multiple squads, fostering growth and professional development. Build a collaborative and inclusive team culture that promotes innovation, quality, and accountability. Set clear goals and expectations, provide regular feedback, and ensure team alignment with company objectives. Process Management & Accountability: Own and refine team processes, ensuring adherence to agile methodologies (e.g., Scrum) and facilitating key ceremonies (standups, sprint planning, retrospectives). Oversee task management in JIRA, ensuring proper prioritization, assignment, and execution of work. Collaborate with stakeholders to define and manage roadmaps, timelines, and deliverables. Drive a culture of accountability for respecting and optimizing team processes. Technical Strategy & Execution: Drive the technical vision and roadmap for the Core Platform, Data Pipelines, DevEx, and DevOps squads. Ensure the delivery of robust, high-performance data pipelines, including blockchain integrations, with a focus on scalability and reliability. Advocate for best practices in software development, DevOps, and developer productivity across all squads. Occasionally contribute hands-on to solve critical challenges or guide technical direction. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with product managers, engineering managers, and other stakeholders to align platform goals with business priorities. Work closely with DevOps and Developer Experience teams to enhance developer productivity and streamline workflows. Collaborate with Core Data Pipeline squads to enable seamless blockchain integrations and data flow. Process & Operational Excellence: Define and implement processes that ensure high-quality, on-time delivery of platform initiatives. Monitor and improve key performance metrics, such as lead time to changes, system uptime, pipeline latency, team velocity, and sprint success rate. Ensure platform components comply with security, compliance, and scalability requirements.

Crystal is a globally distributed team of world-class blockchain analysts, award-winning mathematicians, and professional software developers with headquarters in London and Amsterdam. We design an all-in-one blockchain analytics solution for regulators, financial services, and law enforcement. Our crypto transaction monitoring and risk assessment software enables financial institutions to comply with global anti-money laundering regulations. Law enforcement agencies and regulators use our technology and data to track the movement of cryptocurrencies in real-time to identify illicit fund flows and solve investigations. Our platform, Crystal Expert, is available as a free online blockchain explorer, as SaaS, or API. Founded in 2019 Co-workers 100+