Tech lead "Wallet"

Startup Talents; Deutschland; Hybrid; EUR 80.000 - 120.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A technology innovation company in Berlin is seeking a Tech Lead for its wallet product team. The role requires an individual with over 8 years of experience in software engineering and leadership, responsible for driving technical strategies and managing a diverse engineering team. The ideal candidate should have strong skills in leading scalable systems and working within a blockchain environment. This is a full-time permanent position with hybrid working options and offers benefits including vacation days and a personal budget for education.

Leistungen

30 annual vacation days

Hybrid working budget

Personal education budget

Friday afternoons for research or side projects

Qualifikationen

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering.
• Experience leading teams and mentoring junior staff.
• Proven ability to build scalable systems in a cloud environment.

Aufgaben

• Lead the company's wallet tech team and tech thought leadership.
• Ensure technical quality, scalability, and security of the wallet.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, design, and QA.

Kenntnisse

Leadership

Software engineering

System architecture

AWS

CI/CD

Team mentoring

Blockchain concepts

Tools

TypeScript

Python

React.js

Kubernetes

Cypress

Jobbeschreibung

The company offers one of the most trusted decentralized custody protocol, smart wallet infrastructure and platfom, as well as aflagship wallet for the ecosystem on Ethereum and the EVM.

With 25 Millions transactions handled worth 65 Billion dollars they are on a mission to unlock digital ownership for the world b y continuing building robust and accessible tools that adress web3’s biggest challenges.

Size : 50 people

Location : Berlin (Germany)

Other locations : team s in the UK, Switzerland , Spain and Portugal

TECH STACK

• Backend services: Written in TypeScript and Python, hosted at AWS, orchestrated via Kubernetes
• Web app: Modern web tech stack with React.js and Next.js
• Mobile apps: Currently Kotlin and Swift, potentially ReactNative or similar in the future
• Extensive test suites: E2E via Cypress, Postman, Unit tests in TypeScript/Jest

MISSIONS

You will be responsible for scaling and leading the company’s wallet tech team and actively driving technical thought leadership for all things related to the company’s Wallet product which manages many high-value safes, giving you the opportunity to work on a project that is used by teams and individuals managing digital assets that have real value.

As tech lead, you will significantly influence the future of the entire project.

You will support the team with setting up and maintaining services that support the wallet’s infrastructure on many Ethereum networks.

Your role will involve ensuring all services stack is up and running by providing bug fixes and infrastructure updates.

• Ensure technical quality, scalability, and security of the company’s Wallet.
• Closely collaborate with stakeholders and leads across product, engineering, design and QA on the product strategy and roadmap processes.
• Provide in-depth feedback on strategy, roadmap and other product topics.
• Add own ideas wherever suitable.
• Provide feedback on the “What?”, Own/Drive the “How?” .
• Own roadmap and product development process and coordinate with product team on new epics.
• Lead and direct the wallet engineering team through technical challenges and performance goals.
• Propose improvements to existing processes.
• Coordinate with the Core team and external partners on technical decisions.
• People management of mobile, web and backend leads.

Profil

• Strong technical background in software engineering with progression to a strategic level (8+ years experience in various programming languages).
• Experience architecting scalable systems.
• Can transition systems through the different life cycles (simple low throughput service to complex highly scalable system).
• Experience leading an engineering team within a startup or bigger organization including mentoring responsibilities, interviewing for team growth and Objectives and Key Results (OKR) outlining.
• Ability to build systems on scale using AWS/infrastructure/devops.
• Experience leading a software product development process.
• Leadership experience in CI/CD across multiple teams.
• Nice to have: Familiarity with Solidity, EVM, EIPs, blockchain projects and smart contract concepts.
• Full time permanent role
• Based in Berlin - Germany - Hybrid remote
• Open to relocation (relocation packages / VISAs are available)
• Hardware and home working budget
• Personal education and conference budgets
• 30 annual vacation days (on top of National holidays)
• Friday afternoons on research or on a side project in the company’s ecosystem
• Flexible working schedules and hybrid work policies