Tech Lead, Backend
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About the Role
1inch is seeking a Tech Lead, Backend to lead technical execution and engineering excellence for backend platform services powering the DeFi platform. This hands-on role involves owning micro-architecture, mentoring engineers, and building scalable distributed systems with Go and TypeScript.
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Responsibilities
- Own the technical design and micro architecture of backend services within your team’s domain
- Lead technical planning, implementation decisions, and architecture reviews
- Establish engineering standards, coding practices, and backend architecture patterns
- Balance feature delivery with long term maintainability, reliability, and technical debt reduction
- 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 while mentoring engineers
Requirements
- 6+ years of professional backend software engineering experience including 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
- 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
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Your mission
- We are looking for a Tech Lead, Backend to lead the technical execution, micro architecture and engineering excellence of backend platform services powering the core of the 1inch DeFi platform.
- This is a hands on technical leadership role for an experienced backend engineer who combines strong technical expertise with the ability to guide a team in delivering high quality software.
- You will work on distributed backend systems, blockchain integrations, blockchain indexing services and mission critical platform capabilities.
What You’ll Do
- Own the technical design and micro architecture of backend services within your team’s domain
- Lead technical planning, implementation decisions and architecture reviews
- Establish engineering standards, coding practices and backend architecture patterns
- Balance feature delivery with long term maintainability, reliability and technical debt reduction
- Act as the primary technical quality gate for production changes. Spend approximately 50 80% of your time writing production code in Go and TypeScript
- Design, build and operate scalable, resilient and high performance backend services across their full lifecycle
- Build backend systems that integrate with smart contracts, blockchain infrastructure and Web3 services
- Design and operate blockchain indexing and data processing systems supporting routing, pricing, execution, portfolio and analytics capabilities
- Lead AI first engineering practices while mentoring engineers and partnering with Product, Blockchain, Infrastructure, Security and DevOps teams
Who You Are
- You have 6+ years of professional backend software engineering experience, including technical leadership responsibilities
- You have expert level experience building backend systems with Go and strong professional experience with TypeScript
- You have deep expertise designing and operating distributed systems, event driven architectures and cloud native platforms
- You have strong experience building secure, scalable and highly available production systems
- You have a strong understanding of blockchain infrastructure, smart contracts, blockchain indexing and Web3 backend development
- You have extensive practical experience using Cursor AI or comparable AI native engineering environments
- You have proven experience applying AI assisted engineering across architecture, implementation, testing, debugging, documentation and code review
- You have experience designing or scaling agentic software delivery workflows and helping engineering teams adopt AI effectively
- You understand how AI can accelerate software delivery without compromising engineering quality, security or maintainability
- You have 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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