Tech Lead, Backend (Go & TS) — DeFi & Blockchain

1inch; Dubai; On-site; AED 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Job summary

1inch is seeking an experienced Tech Lead, Backend (Go, TypeScript) to guide the technical direction and micro-architecture of backend platform services powering its DeFi platform. The role combines hands-on coding with leadership to ensure scalable, secure and high-performance systems while mentoring engineers across Product, Blockchain, Infrastructure and DevOps teams.

You will own the technical direction of the team's services, design and operate blockchain indexing and data processing

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional backend software engineering experience with technical leadership responsibilities.
• Recent experience in a Defi / Blockchain or Web3 company as a Tech Lead or Senior engineer seeking a Tech Lead role.
• Expert-level Go backend development and strong TypeScript experience.
• Deep expertise designing and operating distributed systems, event-driven architectures and cloud-native platforms.
• Experience building secure, scalable, highly available production systems.
• Understanding of blockchain infrastructure, smart contracts, and Web3 backend development.
• Experience using AI-native engineering environments and applying AI-assisted engineering across architecture and delivery.

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 debt reduction; spend significant time writing production code in Go and TypeScript.
• Design, build and operate scalable, resilient backend services across their full lifecycle.
• Build backend systems that integrate with smart contracts and blockchain infrastructure.
• Lead AI-first engineering practices across engineering teams.

Skills

Go

TypeScript

Technical leadership

Distributed systems

Cloud-native platforms

AI engineering practices

AI-assisted engineering

Backend architecture

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Job description

1inch is seeking an experienced Tech Lead, Backend (Go, TypeScript) to guide the technical direction and micro-architecture of backend platform services powering its DeFi platform. The role combines hands-on coding with leadership to ensure scalable, secure and high-performance systems while mentoring engineers across Product, Blockchain, Infrastructure and DevOps teams.

You will own the technical direction of the team's services, design and operate blockchain indexing and data processing