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.
Spend 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.

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.
Extensive practical experience using Cursor AI or comparable AI-native engineering environments.
Proven experience applying AI-assisted engineering across architecture, implementation, testing, debugging, documentation and code review.
Experience designing or scaling agentic software delivery workflows and helping engineering teams adopt AI effectively.
Understanding of how AI can accelerate software delivery without compromising engineering quality, security or maintainability.
Excellent system design, communication and technical leadership skills.

Tech Lead, Backend

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