Backend Engineering Lead
#удаленка #lead
Company: Wormhole Foundation
Salary: $105k - $150k estimated
🔹What You’ll Do
-Lead the backend engineering strategy, ensuring scalability, reliability, and top-tier user experience.
-Architect, design, and implement APIs and data pipelines supporting wallets, transactions, and blockchain integrations.
-Build and maintain high-performance systems for blockchain data indexing, analytics, and event processing.
-Integrate new blockchain ecosystems into Wormhole’s suite of products, building adapters for novel consensus mechanisms, RPCs, and event formats.
-Collaborate closely with Product, Frontend, and other teams to deliver end-to-end solutions.
-Drive technical discussions, code reviews, and architectural decisions for backend components.
-Ensure adherence to best practices in testing, deployment, observability, and documentation.
-Mentor and coach backend engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and ownership.
-Contribute to the evolution of our infrastructure stack and the scaling of the engineering organization.

🔹The Ideal Candidate will:
-Have relevant tertiary qualifications in computer science or a closely related field (bachelors/masters) and/or relevant work experience
-Have at least 5 year+ of experience in backend development, including 2+ years in a lead or senior engineering role.
-Proficiency in TypeScript, Go, Rust, or Python (depending on stack).
-Have a deep understanding of distributed systems, API design, and blockchain consensus & node architecture.
-Experience with databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis) and event-driven systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ).
-Hands-on experience integrating with blockchains, nodes, or smart contracts — e.g., via Web3.js, ethers.js, or JSON-RPC.
-Familiarity with DevOps best practices, deploying high-availability services across multiple regions (Kubernetes, GCP/AWS, or similar).
-Strong focus on security, reliability, and performance optimization.
-Excellent leadership, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
-Be high agency and effect the outcomes they wish to see.
-Demonstrate obsession and feel pride in building great experiences.
-Be highly collaborative with the internal team, other Wormhole collaborators, and customers.
-Care deeply about the business outcomes of your work and challenge priorities when the business impact is unclear.
-Enjoy working remotely with a talented global team and ideally based in the Americas or European time zones.
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