Tech Lead, Backend

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. We provide core infrastructure across the DeFi industry and beyond. If you are someone who thinks big, moves fast, and wants to make an impact right from day one, then get ready to join our industry-changing team.

In this hybrid, full-time role in the United Arab Emirates, 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 company DeFi platform. This is a hands-on technical leadership role 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, and mission-critical platform capabilities operating under demanding performance and correctness requirements.

What You’ll Do:

• 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:

• You have 6+ years of professional backend software engineering experience, including technical leadership responsibilities.
• You have expert-level experience building backend systems with Go and strong professional experience with TypeScript.
• You have deep expertise designing and operating distributed systems and cloud-native platforms.
• You have strong experience building secure, scalable, and highly available production systems.
• You have a strong understanding of blockchain infrastructure, smart contracts, blockchain indexing, and Web3 backend development.
• You have extensive practical experience using Cursor AI or comparable AI-native engineering environments.
• You have proven experience applying AI-assisted engineering across architecture, implementation, testing, debugging, documentation, and code review.
• You have excellent system design, communication, and technical leadership skills.

Nice to Haves:

• Experience with MCP-based engineering workflows.
• Experience building internal AI engineering platforms or developer productivity tooling.
• Experience with multiple blockchain ecosystems beyond EVM.
• Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, or advanced cloud-native infrastructure.
• Cloud, Kubernetes, security, or blockchain certifications.

the company is an equal opportunity employer, committed to evaluating all candidates based on their skills, experience, and potential, regardless of any characteristic. We believe that diverse teams build better products and encourage applications from all backgrounds.