Lead Java Back End Developer — Digital Assets Platform - Vice President

Actively write, review, and ship production-quality code alongside the team — this is not a purely managerial or coordination role.

Personally take ownership of the most complex, high-risk, or ambiguous engineering problems on the platform.

Set the technical direction for the team's day-to-day implementation work, ensuring consistency with overall platform architecture.

Perform rigorous, detailed code reviews across the team's pull requests, catching subtle logic errors, concurrency issues, security gaps, performance bottlenecks, and maintainability problems before they reach production.

Establish and enforce coding standards, review checklists, and best practices (clean code, SOLID principles, secure coding, testability).

Act as the final technical quality gate prior to merge/release for critical components.

Drive low-level design sessions, translating high-level architecture and requirements into detailed, implementable technical designs (class/module structures, API contracts, data models, sequence flows, error handling strategy).

Review and challenge design proposals from other engineers, ensuring designs are scalable, resilient, and aligned with platform standards.

Document key design decisions and trade-offs for traceability and knowledge sharing.

Directly manage and/or technically lead a squad of backend/platform engineers, providing day-to-day technical guidance and unblocking impediments.

Mentor junior and mid-level engineers, raising the overall technical bar of the team through pairing, reviews, and structured feedback.

Identify skill gaps and growth opportunities within the team; contribute to hiring and technical interviewing.

Drive the team's sprint/iteration execution — decomposing epics into well-scoped technical tasks, estimating effort, and ensuring on-time, high-quality delivery.

Proactively identify technical risks, bottlenecks, and debt; escalate and resolve issues before they impact delivery timelines.

Partner closely with the Engineering Team Lead (SVP), Architect, and Product/Business stakeholders to translate requirements into a sound technical execution plan.

Champion automated testing (unit, integration), CI/CD discipline, observability, and operational readiness for everything the team ships.

Identify and remediate technical debt, legacy pain points, and recurring production issues.

Stay current on backend engineering, distributed systems, and platform reliability best practices (deliberately not a smart contract/Web3-first role — the emphasis is core software engineering excellence).

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent practical experience).

Prior exposure to blockchain, distributed ledger, or digital asset platforms (as context, not as a primary skill requirement — this role is intentionally weighted toward core engineering depth over Web3/smart contract specialization).

Experience with CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes/OpenShift), and cloud-native architectures.

Experience operating in an Agile/Scrum delivery model.

Prior formal people-management experience (performance reviews, career development conversations).

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