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Technical Lead — Blockchain Infrastructure

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We are looking for a Technical Lead to spearhead the design, development, and advancement of our core services powering blockchain-based applications. This position requires a strong combination of technical leadership, hands-on engineering, and team management. You’ll guide a skilled team in building scalable, secure backend systems while also playing an active role in defining architecture and writing code.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership:

  • Design and implement core backend services for blockchain applications, including APIs, messaging systems, identity/auth, wallet integration, storage, and data services.
  • Define and enforce engineering best practices and coding standards.
  • Drive architectural decisions in collaboration with senior engineers and stakeholders.
  • Stay abreast of blockchain trends and translate those into strategic opportunities for the team.

Team Management:

  • Provide direct line management to a team of engineers: hiring, performance management, mentoring, and career development.
  • Foster a culture of accountability, continuous learning, and engineering excellence. Balance resource allocation across development, support, and innovation initiatives.

Cross-functional Collaboration:

  • Work closely with Solution, DevOps, and Security teams to align technical capabilities with business needs.
  • Translate product requirements into actionable technical plans.
  • Champion communication and transparency between technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Hands-On Contribution:

  • Spend a significant portion of your time writing and reviewing code (minimum 30-40%).
  • Lead by example: actively troubleshoot, refactor, and optimize systems for performance and reliability. Participate in incident response and postmortem analysis to improve system resilience.

Requirements:

  • 6+ years of backend or systems engineering experience with at least 2+ years in a technical leadership or line management role.
  • Strong proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g., Go, Rust, Java, Python).
  • Proven experience building distributed systems or backend infrastructure, ideally for blockchain or decentralized applications.
  • Solid understanding of cryptographic principles, consensus algorithms, or related blockchain components is a strong plus.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead engineering teams while staying technically hands-on.
  • Strong communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience in Web3, DeFi, or other blockchain-related domains.
  • Familiarity with containerized microservices (Docker, Kubernetes), cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Contributions to open-source blockchain projects are a big plus.
  • Knowledge of performance profiling, observability, and scalability techniques.

We offer:

  • Competitive compensation.
  • Social package (24 working days of annual leave, 5 paid sick days).
  • Flexible working hours.
  • Challenging projects in diverse business domains and a variety of tech stacks.
  • Personal development and professional growth opportunities.
  • Work with talented, ambitious and family-feel teams.
  • Educational possibilities: corporate courses, knowledge hubs, and in-house English classes.
  • Compensation for your professional certification & support for your learning activities.
  • Opportunity to choose IT equipment you like.
  • Corporate social responsibility.
IdeaSoft.io
Outsource
10 - 50
Industry
Blockchain, Fintech/Banking
Founded
2016

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