Technical Lead - Wallets

Summary

Join Tether, a global leader in digital finance, and spearhead the development of cutting-edge crypto wallets. This role involves hands-on leadership of a team of backend and wallet developers, ensuring adherence to best practices and technical excellence. You will design, architect, and implement scalable, secure wallets and reusable wallet libraries, collaborating with cross-functional teams. The position requires strong experience in building and deploying crypto wallets, DeFi protocols, and working with Web3 tech stacks. As a Technical Lead, you will also be responsible for defining the technical roadmap, prioritizing tasks, and driving sprint planning. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to a fast-growing company in the dynamic Web3 space.

Requirements

• 6+ years of software engineering experience with at least 2–3 years in a technical leadership role
• Strong experience building and deploying crypto wallets, DeFi protocols, and working with Web3 tech stacks (e.g., EVM, Solidity, ethers.js/ web3.js)
• Strong NodeJS and React Native mobile development experience with experience launching and maintaining successful applications
• Good C++ development experience and understanding of OS, Cryptography and Networking primitives. Experience building Native addons in NodeJS is great to have
• Solid grasp of software architecture principles, system design patterns, and API integrations
• Excellent leadership, problem-solving, and communication skills
• Experience working in a high-growth, fast-paced startup environment
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of Backend and Wallet developers, ensuring adherence to coding standards, best practices, and technical excellence
• Design, architect, and implement scalable, secure wallets and reusable wallet libraries
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product and design to deliver end-to-end technical solutions
• Work with a project manager to define technical roadmap, prioritize tasks, and drive sprint planning to ensure timely delivery of project milestones
• Identify technical risks early, propose effective solutions, and ensure continuous improvement of the system architecture
• Provide hands-on technical leadership in developing peer-to-peer (P2P) applications, ensuring efficient data synchronization, decentralized communication, and network resilience
• Perform regular code reviews, architectural reviews, and optimization initiatives for both performance and scalability
• Stay ahead of emerging Web3, blockchain, and DeFi trends and integrate relevant innovations

Preferred Qualifications

Desirable to have experience in building peer-to-peer (P2P) applications or distributed systems and decentralized communication models