Lead Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Tenderly as a Senior Backend Engineer and become a technical lead for a skilled team, driving the design and implementation of key backend systems. You will be responsible for building core systems, ensuring security and scalability, owning end-to-end solutions, and modernizing legacy systems. This role focuses on technical leadership and delivering exceptional engineering solutions, not people management. Tenderly offers a unique work environment with a focus on collaboration, transparency, and innovation within the Web3 space. The company provides a comprehensive benefits package including stock options, transparent compensation, yearly bonuses, fully covered maternity leave, paternity leave, flexible working hours, and health insurance.

Requirements

• A track record as a technical leader in backend engineering, with experience driving key decisions and delivering impactful systems
• Deep expertise in billing systems, usage-based platforms, or streaming systems
• Hands-on experience building products for 10,000+ users or larger audiences
• Proficiency in developing systems for fine-grained access control, anti-abuse mechanisms, and real-time auditing
• Demonstrated ability to take products from concept to completion, including modernizing legacy systems
• Strong collaboration skills with the ability to work across teams to drive technical alignment and success
• A passion for solving complex technical challenges while maintaining a focus on quality and performance

Responsibilities

• Act as the technical authority for your team, setting the standard for system architecture, code quality, and best practices
• Design and implement critical backend components, including internal billing and usage tracking, distributed rate-limiting engines, and real-time audit logging
• Develop systems for authorization and verification, access control mechanisms, and anti-abuse tools, ensuring robust performance for 10,000+ users and beyond
• Lead the development of complete product features, from concept to deployment. Build the “plumbing” for mission-critical systems with reliability and scalability in mind
• Upgrade and evolve existing systems to align with future growth, ensuring they are efficient, scalable, and secure
• Work closely with cross-functional stakeholders, aligning on priorities and fostering a culture of innovation and technical excellence

Benefits

• Stock Options
• Transparent compensation
• Yearly bonus - Non-performance-based bonus amounting to 10% of the team member's annual base salary is given at the end of each year
• Fully covered maternity leave
• Paternity leave - Four weeks of paid time off after a baby has arrived to help share the joys & responsibilities
• In-office breakfast, lunch & drinks (Belgrade Office)
• Company equipment - Standard equipment includes a MacBook laptop, monitor, and a keyboard and mouse of your choice
• Flexible, no less-than vacation policy - We know that unlimited vacation policies usually have the opposite effect, so we encourage people to actually take and use their time off for rest and relaxation. We have established a minimum of 21.5 days that should be used in a given time of 12 months
• Flexible working hours - You are fully entrusted to effectively manage your working hours, the only important thing is that it allows for collaboration with your team
• Health insurance for you and your dependants - Medical insurance to keep you and your spouse, partner, and children healthy