Backend Engineering Lead

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November 6

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Wormhole

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API • Crypto • Web 3

Wormhole is a platform that provides secure, open-source interoperability for multichain applications. It offers a suite of tools and services to enable developers and institutions to build, transfer tokens, and manage multichain operations across various blockchains such as Solana, Ethereum, and Layer-2 solutions. Wormhole's ecosystem supports native token transfers and enables cross-chain communications, paving the way for the next evolution of decentralized finance (DeFi) innovation. It emphasizes security, offering continuous audits and a $5M bug bounty. Additionally, Wormhole facilitates governance participation for W token holders and aims to empower the next generation of Web3 applications with its comprehensive ecosystem and community support.

11 - 50 employees

Founded 2021

🔌 API

₿ Crypto

🌐 Web 3

📋 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, 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.