Engineering Lead - Crypto and DeFi
9.0/10
Kast
$175,000 – $250,000 USD
Remote
lead
about 2 months ago
cryptodefidevweb3GoPythonNode.jsSolanaEVMAWSSolidityRust
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Description
What you'll do
- •Own the DeFi architecture across backend services, blockchain integrations, and supporting systems.
- •Build and integrate DeFi products including lending, borrowing, yield, and liquidity strategies.
- •Design secure blockchain interactions, including wallet infrastructure, signing flows, and custody integrations.
- •Develop backend systems for transaction management, protocol integrations, and onchain/offchain coordination.
- •Lead engineering execution — define architecture, review code, and ensure systems remain reliable, scalable, and secure.
- •Hire and mentor engineers as the team grows, establishing strong technical standards.
- •Collaborate closely with product and design to deliver high-quality user-facing financial products.
Requirements
- •8+ years of software engineering experience, with experience leading technical projects or teams.
- •Strong backend engineering experience in one or more of the following: Go, Python, or Node.js.
- •Experience building production systems that integrate with blockchain networks.
- •Familiarity with Solana and/or EVM-compatible chains.
- •Strong understanding of DeFi systems, including lending/borrowing protocols, swaps, liquidity aggregation, and yield strategies.
- •Knowledge of DeFi risk mechanics such as collateral management, liquidations, staking, and yield generation.
- •Experience designing APIs, distributed services, and database-backed systems.
- •Experience building or operating cloud-based systems (AWS or similar).
- •Strong communication skills and ability to drive engineering execution in a fast-moving environment.
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