the company is the DeFi ecosystem building financial freedom for everyone. Our products help users and builders trade, hold, and track digital assets with self-custody, comprehensive security, and an intuitive user experience. the company protocols and APIs provide core infrastructure across the DeFi industry and beyond.
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We are looking for a Tech Lead, Backend to lead the technical execution, micro-architecture, and engineering excellence of backend platform services powering the core of the the company DeFi platform. This hands-on technical leadership role is for an experienced backend engineer who combines strong technical expertise with the ability to guide a team in delivering high-quality software. You will own the technical direction of your team’s services, ensuring they are scalable, resilient, secure, and performant while mentoring engineers and raising engineering standards. You will work on distributed backend systems, blockchain integrations, blockchain indexing services, and mission-critical platform capabilities operating under demanding performance and correctness requirements.
Responsibilities:
- Own the technical design and micro-architecture of backend services within your team’s domain.
- Lead technical planning, implementation decisions, and architecture reviews.
- Establish engineering standards, coding practices, and backend architecture patterns.
- Balance feature delivery with long-term maintainability, reliability, and technical debt reduction.
- Act as the primary technical quality gate for production changes, spending approximately 50-80% of your time writing production code in Go and TypeScript.
- Design, build, and operate scalable, resilient, and high-performance backend services across their full lifecycle.
- Build backend systems that integrate with smart contracts, blockchain infrastructure, and Web3 services.
- Design and operate blockchain indexing and data processing systems supporting routing, pricing, execution, portfolio, and analytics capabilities.
- Lead AI-first engineering practices while mentoring engineers and partnering with Product, Blockchain, Infrastructure, Security, and DevOps teams.
Who You Are:
- 6+ years of professional backend software engineering experience, including technical leadership responsibilities.
- Expert-level experience building backend systems with Go and strong professional experience with TypeScript.
- Deep expertise designing and operating distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and cloud-native platforms.
- Strong experience building secure, scalable, and highly available production systems.
- Strong understanding of blockchain infrastructure, smart contracts, blockchain indexing, and Web3 backend development.
- Excellent system design, communication, and technical leadership skills.
- Experience using AI-assisted engineering across architecture, implementation, testing, debugging, documentation, and code review is preferred.
Language Requirements:
- Proficiency in English is expected.
the company is an equal opportunity employer committed to evaluating all candidates based on their skills, experience, and potential, regardless of personal characteristics.
