Tech Lead - Web3 Venture Studio

Tokalent; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Tokalent seeks a Tech Lead to guide a DeFi venture studio focused on cutting-edge fintech projects. You will lead a distributed engineering team, shape product strategy, and drive architecture across web, mobile and backend services.

The ideal candidate has deep Web3 experience, strong leadership, and a track record of delivering mainnet-ready solutions. You will collaborate with leadership to set priorities, manage risks, and scale technology to meet ambitious goals.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in a leadership role within Trading/Fintech/Finance.
• Extensive blockchain/DeFi experience including smart contracts and DEX tech.
• Proficiency with Solidity, Ethereum and related technologies.
• Proven ability to deliver high-quality products to mainnet.
• Experience leading distributed software development teams.
• Excellent relationship-building with leaders and technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Spearhead development and deployment of the DeFi application and lead the tech team in product strategy, architecture, features and functionality.
• Build and scale the technology team and necessary infrastructure to support the company vision.
• Set clear priorities and goals for technology and product teams, balancing long-term and immediate needs with strategic plans and timelines.
• Manage resource allocation, KPIs, and performance metrics across teams.
• Make informed infrastructure decisions to ensure safety, resiliency, and scalable product delivery.
• Oversee data security, governance, and vendor/partner relationships.

Skills

Leadership

Distributed teams

Fintech domain knowledge

Tools

Solidity

Ethereum

React

TypeScript

Next.js

Node.js

ethers.js

web3.js

Job description

About the job Tech Lead - Web3 Venture Studio

Company

- Our client is Asia's leading web3 venture studio focusing on DeFi projects

Responsibilities

• Spearheading the development and deployment of their DeFi application, and leadingtheir technical team in the design and implementation of the products strategy,architecture, features, and functionality
• Building leading and growing the technology team and build out the necessarytechnology infrastructure to support the vision and purpose of the company
• Working with the leadership team to set clear priorities and goals for technology andproduct teams, balancing the long-term and immediate needs, and creating strategicplans and setting timelines for evaluation, development, and deployment of all technical,web, and mobile services.
• Managing resource allocation, goal/KPI setting, and performance metrics
• Making infrastructure decisions, ensuring technical excellence, versatility, safety andsoundness, resiliency and scalability in the architecting and engineering of productsolutions, as well as managing all technical delivery
• Overseeing data security, management, and governance
• Managing strategic vendor and technology partner relationships

Requirements

• Deep knowledge and experience in Trading, Fintech, Finance and Technicaldevelopment, with at least 5 years in a leadership role.
• Extensive experience in blockchain and DeFi, with a strong understanding of smartcontracts, decentralized exchanges, and other related technologies.
• Experience with Solidity, Ethereum, and other blockchain technologies.
• Experience with React, Typescript, Next.js, Node.js, Ether.js, web3.js
• Strong technical background, with a proven track record of delivering high qualityproducts to mainnet
• Experience managing distributed software development teams

Preferred

• Experience in a Project Management / Tech Lead / CTO role for a web3 and/or DeFiprotocol
• Knowledge of fintech / trading product development cycles
• Relationship building skills with leaders and technical teams & the ability to developconsensus and drive stakeholders to a decision
• PMI Body of Knowledge / PMP certification / Experience implementing Scrum and/oragile methodologies

Salary and benefits packages will be on a case by case basis and subject to contractnegotiations.