1inch
Tech Lead, Backend (Go, Typescript)
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Tech Lead, Backend @ 1inch
About 1inch
1inch is the DeFi ecosystem building financial freedom for everyone. Our products empower users and builders to trade, hold, and track digital assets with self-custody, comprehensive security, and intuitive user experiences, unlocking the potential of true crypto ownership. Our protocols and APIs provide core infrastructure for the DeFi industry and beyond.
Your Mission
We are seeking a Tech Lead, Backend to lead the technical execution, micro-architecture, and engineering excellence of backend platform services that power 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
- The ability to guide a team in delivering high-quality software
Your responsibilities will include:
- Owning the technical direction of your team’s services, ensuring scalability, resilience, security, and performance
- Mentoring engineers and raising engineering standards
You will work on:
- Distributed backend systems
- Blockchain integrations
- Blockchain indexing services
- Mission-critical platform capabilities operating under demanding performance and correctness requirements
Key Responsibilities
Technical Direction & Execution
- Own the technical design and micro-architecture of backend services within your domain
- Lead technical planning, implementation decisions, and architecture reviews
- Establish engineering standards, coding practices, and backend architecture patterns
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Quality & Architecture
- Balance feature delivery with long-term maintainability, reliability, and technical debt reduction
- Act as the primary technical quality gate for production changes
- Spend 50-80% of your time writing production code in Go and TypeScript
System Development & Operations
- 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
- Web3 services
- Design and operate blockchain indexing and data processing systems supporting:
- Routing
- Pricing
- Execution
- Portfolio and analytics capabilities
AI & Leadership
- Lead AI-first engineering practices
- Mentor engineers in integrating AI across:
- Architecture
- Implementation
- Testing
- Debugging
- Documentation
- Code review
- Partner with Product, Blockchain, Infrastructure, Security, and DevOps teams
Requirements
Core Qualifications
- 6+ years of professional backend software engineering experience, including technical leadership responsibilities
- Expert-level experience building backend systems in Go
- Strong professional experience with TypeScript
- Deep expertise in designing and operating:
- Distributed systems
- Event-driven architectures
- Cloud-native platforms
- Proven experience building secure, scalable, and highly available production systems
- Strong understanding of:
- Blockchain infrastructure
- Smart contracts
- Blockchain indexing 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
- Code review
- Experience designing or scaling agentic software delivery workflows
- Ability to help engineering teams adopt AI effectively without compromising:
- Engineering quality
- Security
- Maintainability
- Exceptional system design, communication, and technical leadership skills
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Nice to Have
- 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
- Advanced cloud-native infrastructure
- Cloud, Kubernetes, security, or blockchain certifications
Our Commitment
1inch is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to evaluating candidates on the basis of their skills, experience, and potential, regardless of:
- Race
- Ethnicity
- Nationality
- Gender
- Age
- Religion
- Disability
- Any other characteristic
We believe diverse teams build better products, and welcome applications from all backgrounds.
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