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Ledger

Hardware wallets and institutional crypto custody

Engineering Manager - Cloud Wallet

Full-Time
No salary listed
Mid
Montpellier, France
Hybrid
Engineering ManagementEngineering Leadership

About the job

Requirements
  • Proven experience managing backend engineering teams for at least 3 years in a product-driven, distributed environment.
  • Strong technical background in backend systems, including the ability to challenge architectural decisions, review design documents, and unblock engineers on difficult technical problems.
  • Experience operating services at scale and familiarity with high-availability architectures, event-driven systems, and observability tooling such as RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, Flink, NATS, and Datadog or equivalent tools.
  • Sufficient depth across polyglot stacks to lead effectively, including TypeScript and Scala.
  • Experience navigating complex multi-team dependencies and influencing across organizational boundaries without direct authority.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
Responsibilities
  • Lead and grow the team by owning hiring, onboarding, performance management, and professional development; conduct regular one-on-one meetings, support career growth, and build a high-performing, engaged team.
  • Drive technical delivery by owning the team's roadmap and PI planning commitments, ensuring on-time and high-quality delivery across the service portfolio and architectural initiatives, and coordinating dependencies with partner teams.
  • Maintain operational excellence by owning service-level indicators and objectives, leading incident-response posture, and establishing observability standards for production-critical systems.
  • Architect for scale and reliability by partnering with technical leads and staff engineers, driving technical decisions across TypeScript and Scala, reviewing architecture decision records, and ensuring architectural coherence.
  • Champion engineering practices, including continuous integration and delivery, testing such as end-to-end testing on testnets, code-review quality, technical-debt management, and artificial-intelligence-assisted engineering workflows.
  • Contribute to organization-level initiatives, including cross-business-unit architectural working groups, PI planning, and engineering-efficiency programs.
  • Collaborate with the Blockchain Platform team on data-model alignment, indexing, and event streaming.
  • Collaborate with the Coin Integration team on coin-module ownership and new blockchain integrations.
  • Collaborate with the Ledger Enterprise team on enterprise wallet features and operational alignment.
  • Collaborate with the Ledger Live and Wallet XP teams as consumers of the team's backend application programming interfaces.
  • Collaborate with Infrastructure and site reliability engineering teams on platform reliability and scalability.
  • Collaborate with the Product team on roadmap prioritization and customer-driven requirements.
  • Collaborate with the Security team on vulnerability analysis and compliance.
Desired Qualifications
  • Exposure to blockchain or cryptocurrency infrastructure, including account indexing, transaction lifecycle, and unspent transaction output versus account-based models.
  • Genuine interest in the Web3 space.

About the company

Ledger provides hardware wallets and an accompanying app to securely manage digital assets and Web3 activities for individuals and institutions. Their hardware wallets store private keys offline and sign transactions via Ledger Live, reducing exposure to online hacks. They differentiate by offering a broad ecosystem (Ledger Live, Ledger Market for secure minting and first-sale distribution, Ledger Enterprise for institutional custody) with wide adoption across millions of devices and many countries. Their goal is to help people and organizations buy, store, grow, and manage crypto assets securely to support financial freedom and wider crypto adoption.

Company Size

501-1,000

Company Stage

Series C

Total Funding

$584.4M

Headquarters

Paris, France

Founded

2014

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What believers are saying

  • Circle’s Arc launched with Ledger as a Day 1 partner on September 16, 2026.
  • Payward and Ledger partnered on offline xStocks storage, expanding tokenized-asset utility.
  • Ledger completed a $50 million secondary sale in Q4 2025 and hired CFO John Andrews.

What critics are saying

  • Douglas Kim’s Manhattan class action seeks $500 million over the 2023 Connect Kit compromise.
  • Ledger’s 2026 Ethereum app signing flaw shows security bugs still surface before disclosure.
  • 2020 breach data still fuels phishing; one existential class-action loss could cripple trust.

What makes Ledger unique

  • Ledger’s hardware-signing model keeps private keys offline, unlike software wallets and exchange custody.
  • Ledger Wallet now natively supports shielded Zcash and Arc Day 1 USDC integration.
  • Ledger Enterprise and the New York hub deepen institutional distribution beyond consumer hardware wallets.

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Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • Stock Options
  • Paid Vacation
  • Hybrid Work Options
  • Wellness Program
  • Company Social Events
  • Commuter Benefits

Growth & Insights and Company News

6 month growth

5%

1 year growth

5%

2 year growth

5%
Yahoo Finance
Oct 15th, 2026
Solana Mobile puts its Seeker app on Ledger's new Atom device

Solana Mobile has named Ledger as its first hardware expansion partner. Ledger's new device, Ledger Atom, will come with Solana Mobile's Seeker app preinstalled, the companies announced on October 15, 2026 at the Ledger Op3n 2026 event. Seeker combines the Solana dApp Store and a wallet. Solana Mobile says Seeker has handled over $13 billion in transaction volume across 154 million transactions, and the store lists more than 1,500 apps. The company says it has sold over 200,000 phones since 2023. Ledger Atom runs on the Android Open Source Project, with a separate Secure Element chip running Ledger's own operating system. It will be sold only on Ledger's website, and reservations are open.

Bloomberg
Oct 15th, 2026
Ledger unveils $899 smartphone-like secure device after $90M crypto theft

Ledger SAS, a maker of crypto hardware wallets, is launching a smartphone-like device for users who want extra protection for their digital assets and online activity. The device costs $899. The launch follows a security incident involving some of the company's products. The title links it to a $90 million crypto theft.

Fortune
Sep 24th, 2026
Payward and Ledger partner to enable offline storage of tokenised stocks

Ledger and Payward, Kraken's parent company, have partnered to enable investors to store tokenised stocks offline using hardware wallets. The integration allows customers using Payward's xStocks platform to require a signature on their Ledger device before completing transactions. Ledger devices will also include an xStocks integration on their trading platform. Ledger executive Sebastien Badault said the service targets the company's 8 million customers who prefer self-custody and traditional investors concerned about hacking threats. Tokenised stocks received an SEC innovation exemption last year. Ledger is in discussions with Coinbase, Binance, and Robinhood, which have launched their own tokenised stock offerings. Currently, only Payward's tokenised stocks integrate with Ledger devices, including its Stax model designed by former Apple designer Tony Fadell.

Yahoo Finance
Sep 11th, 2026
Ex-Apple Music exec joins $1.5B startup Ledger to build security for crypto and digital identity

Ian Rogers, former head of Apple Music, has joined €1.5 billion security startup Ledger as chief human agency officer. Rogers previously built products at Beats, Apple, and LVMH, helping launch Apple Music in 2015. At Ledger, he's focusing on security and AI strategy for protecting digital assets like Bitcoin using secure hardware chips. The company employs technology similar to credit card security chips. Rogers began his career in the 1990s building early websites before moving into music technology. He sold two music applications to AOL and Yahoo, ran Yahoo Music from 2003 to 2008, and built Beats Music before its 2014 acquisition by Apple. He now works from rural Italy, applying lessons from Apple about ecosystem-building to cryptocurrency security. Rogers believes the next major consumer platform will centre on protecting money and identity.

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