Technical Lead, Lending & Savings

The role

You will lead the engineering direction for crypto savings and crypto-backed lending products. You will define technical architecture, lead a small team of engineers, and partner with the Business Lead to build scalable systems.

What you will do

• Lead the technical direction and architecture of the Lending & Savings platform.
• Design and build scalable, secure, and highly available distributed systems.
• Make key architectural decisions.
• Contribute production-quality code and review critical changes.
• Drive engineering best practices across system design, testing, deployment, observability, and operational excellence.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews, technical coaching, and day-to-day leadership.
• Own the delivery of technical initiatives from design through production.
• Work with the Business Lead and designers to translate product requirements into technical solutions.
• Partner with Product Design, Treasury, Trading, Risk, Compliance, and Infrastructure teams.
• Help recruit exceptional engineering talent.

Required qualifications

• Strong experience building backend systems using Kotlin or Java.
• Experience designing distributed, event-driven systems using Kafka or similar messaging technologies.
• Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL and relational database design.
• Experience working with Redis or other NoSQL technologies.
• Deep understanding of microservices architecture, APIs, distributed systems, and cloud-native applications.
• Experience with monitoring, observability, incident response, and production operations.
• Strong debugging and performance optimisation skills.
• Demonstrated experience shipping reliable production systems that process financial transactions.
• Experience leading engineering teams while remaining hands-on.
• Strong system design and architectural decision-making skills.
• Experience owning technical delivery from planning through production.
• Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences.

Nice to have

• Experience building fintech or crypto products.
• Experience with lending, borrowing, savings, custody, payments, or other financial infrastructure.
• Understanding of collateral management, interest calculations, liquidation engines, or financial risk systems.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, or similar as part of your engineering workflow.

Benefits

• Full-time salary based on experience and meaningful equity
• Work from Anywhere Policy: work remotely from anywhere in the world for up to 20 days per year
• ClassPass
• Unlimited vacation policy
• Apple equipment
• Flexible work culture

About the company

Blockchain is a global crypto company that helps millions of people safely access cryptocurrency. Since 2011, it has facilitated over $1 trillion in crypto transactions.