Tech Lead, Backend
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About the Role
1inch is looking for a Tech Lead, Backend to lead technical execution and engineering excellence of backend platform services for their DeFi platform. This hands-on role involves designing scalable systems, mentoring engineers, and working with blockchain integrations.
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Responsibilities
- Own technical design and micro architecture of backend services
- Lead technical planning, implementation decisions, and architecture reviews
- Establish engineering standards, coding practices, and backend architecture patterns
- Spend approximately 50 80% of time writing production code in Go and TypeScript
- Design, build, and operate scalable, resilient, and high performance backend services
- Build backend systems integrating with smart contracts, blockchain infrastructure, and Web3 services
- Design and operate blockchain indexing and data processing systems
- Lead AI first engineering practices and mentor engineers
Requirements
- 6+ years of professional backend software engineering experience with technical leadership
- Expert level experience building backend systems with Go
- Strong professional experience with TypeScript
- Deep expertise in distributed systems, event driven architectures, and cloud native platforms
- Strong understanding of blockchain infrastructure, smart contracts, and Web3 backend development
- Experience using Cursor AI or comparable AI native engineering environments
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Your Mission
- Lead technical execution, micro architecture, and engineering excellence of backend platform services
- Hands on technical leadership role for an experienced backend engineer
- Own technical direction of team's services, ensuring scalability, resilience, security, and performance
- Mentor engineers and raise engineering standards
What You'll Do
- Own technical design and micro architecture of backend services
- Lead technical planning, implementation decisions, and architecture reviews
- Establish engineering standards, coding practices, and backend architecture patterns
- Balance feature delivery with maintainability and technical debt reduction
- Act as primary technical quality gate for production changes
- Spend 50 80% of time writing production code in Go and TypeScript
- Design, build, and operate scalable, resilient, high performance backend services
- Build backend systems integrating with smart contracts, blockchain infrastructure, and Web3 services
- Design and operate blockchain indexing and data processing systems
- Lead AI first engineering practices while mentoring engineers
Who You Are
- 6+ years professional backend software engineering experience with technical leadership
- Expert level experience building backend systems with Go
- Strong professional experience with TypeScript
- Deep expertise in distributed systems, event driven architectures, and cloud native platforms
- Strong experience building secure, scalable, highly available production systems
- Strong understanding of blockchain infrastructure, smart contracts, blockchain indexing, and Web3 backend development
- Extensive practical experience using Cursor AI or comparable AI native engineering environments
- Proven experience applying AI assisted engineering across architecture, implementation, testing, debugging, documentation, and code review
- Experience designing or scaling agentic software delivery workflows
- Excellent system design, communication, and technical leadership skills
Nice to Haves
- Experience with MCP based engineering workflows
- Experience building internal AI engineering platforms or developer productivity tooling
- Experience with multiple blockchain ecosystems beyond EVM
- Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes or advanced cloud native infrastructure
- Cloud, Kubernetes, security or blockchain certifications
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