Join Tether and shape the future of digital finance. We are seeking a highly experienced Technical Lead to spearhead the development of our cutting-edge crypto wallets. This unique opportunity allows you to join a fast-growing company operating in the dynamic and rapidly evolving Web3 space. This role requires hands-on leadership, coordinating with Product managers and project managers to reach intended development targets.
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Responsibilities:
- Lead and mentor a team of Backend and Wallet developers, ensuring adherence to coding standards, best practices, and technical excellence.
- Design, architect, and implement scalable, secure wallets and reusable wallet libraries.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product and design, to deliver end-to-end technical solutions.
- Work with a project manager to define the technical roadmap, prioritize tasks, and drive sprint planning to ensure timely delivery of project milestones.
- Identify technical risks early, propose effective solutions, and ensure continuous improvement of the system architecture.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership in developing peer-to-peer (P2P) applications, ensuring efficient data synchronization, decentralized communication, and network resilience.
- Perform regular code reviews, architectural reviews, and optimization initiatives for both performance and scalability.
- Stay ahead of emerging Web3, blockchain, and DeFi trends and integrate relevant innovations.
Qualifications:
- 6+ years of software engineering experience with at least 2-3 years in a technical leadership role.
- Strong experience building and deploying crypto wallets, DeFi protocols, and working with Web3 tech stacks (e.g., EVM, Solidity, ethers.js/web3.js).
- Strong NodeJS and React Native mobile development experience with experience launching and maintaining successful applications.
- Good C++ development experience and understanding of OS, Cryptography, and Networking primitives; experience building Native addons in NodeJS is a plus.
- Experience in building peer-to-peer (P2P) applications or distributed systems and decentralized communication models is desirable.
- Solid grasp of software architecture principles, system design patterns, and API integrations.
- Excellent leadership, problem-solving, and communication skills.
- Experience working in a high-growth, fast-paced startup environment.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.
Language Requirements:
- Excellent English communication skills.
If you’re passionate about making a mark in the fintech space and ready to contribute to the most innovative platform on the planet, join us at Tether.
