Backend Engineering Lead

Description

• 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.

Requirements

• 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, javascript, 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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