Engineering Lead

Aragon is a small team of people that spans a broad range of backgrounds, interests, and geographies. We're entrepreneurs and degens, technologists and skeptics, troublemakers and problem solvers, who are building unstoppable tooling for the next generation of onchain organizations.

Aragon launched the first DAO framework in 2017, securing over $35 billion in assets for the likes of Lido and Curve. We are currently building Aragon OSx, a toolkit for launching secure and modular organizations, and which is used by projects such as Polygon and Taiko.

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.

For more info about what we’re up to, check out our latest blog, The Next Generation of Onchain Organizations.

• 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!

• 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

• 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

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.