The Role
Leads the infrastructure engineering team, designing scalable backend systems, APIs, data pipelines, indexers, and data warehouses for a DeFi protocol. The role establishes deployment, observability, reliability, security, and performance practices; manages technical priorities and incidents; mentors and recruits engineers; and aligns infrastructure strategy with business objectives.
Summary Generated by Built In
The employer is a leading Decentralized Finance (DeFi) lending autonomous algorithm protocol deployed on secure, efficient, flexible lending protocol based on the Ethereum blockchain enabling lending and borrowing services.
They are opening a Lead Web3 Software Engineer role (Remote EU) on a permanent basis.
MISSIONS :
As the Team Lead of the Infra team, you will lead a central pillar of the company’s engineering organization. Your mission is to enable product teams with resilient, scalable infrastructure, delivering APIs, data pipelines, and backend systems that meet the needs of one of the fastest-growing DeFi protocols.
You will work closely with the Head of Engineering to align infrastructure goals with business objectives while mentoring and scaling a high-performing team.
Leadership
Foster Team Success: Prioritize team impact and recognition over individual achievements.
Drive Projects: Manage priorities, address technical debt, and deliver high-quality solutions.
Mentor & Coach: Develop team members’ skills and foster a growth-oriented culture.
Monitor Team Health: Identify misalignments or morale issues early and resolve them effectively.
Recruit Top Talent: Build and onboard a world-class infrastructure team.
Set Objectives: Define clear goals and metrics for team success.
Technical Excellence
Infrastructure Expertise: Guide the design of scalable, reliable systems powering all of Morpho’s products.
Streamline Delivery: Establish best practices for deployments, observability, and system reliability.
Web3 Mastery: Leverage deep blockchain knowledge to build data-intensive systems (e.g., indexers, data warehouses).
Security & Performance: Balance agility with robust security and performance.
Strategic Thinking
Long-Term Vision: Design infrastructure that scales with Morpho’s growth trajectory.
Product Orientation: Align technical decisions with business objectives for maximum value delivery.
Profil
Experience
- Proven leadership of web3 infrastructure teams with 5+ engineers.
- Demonstrated success in building and scaling backend/infrastructure systems.
- Experience in incident management with solid leadership under pressure.
Technical Skills
- Languages & Tools: Advanced expertise in TypeScript (and optionally Rust), Kubernetes, and Terraform.
- Blockchain Knowledge: Deep understanding of blockchain technologies and EVM-based systems.
- Architecture: Experience designing sustainable, scalable infrastructure.
Leadership
- Foster Team Success: Prioritize team impact and recognition over individual achievements.
- Drive Projects: Manage priorities, address technical debt, and deliver high-quality solutions.
- Mentor & Coach: Develop team members’ skills and foster a growth-oriented culture.
- Monitor Team Health: Identify misalignments or morale issues early and resolve them effectively.
- Recruit Top Talent: Build and onboard a world-class infrastructure team.
- Set Objectives: Define clear goals and metrics for team success.
Technical Excellence
- Infrastructure Expertise: Guide the design of scalable, reliable systems powering all of Morpho’s products.
- Streamline Delivery: Establish best practices for deployments, observability, and system reliability.
- Web3 Mastery: Leverage deep blockchain knowledge to build data-intensive systems (e.g., indexers, data warehouses).
- Security & Performance: Balance agility with robust security and performance.
Strategic Thinking
- Long-Term Vision: Design infrastructure that scales with Morpho’s growth trajectory.
- Product Orientation: Align technical decisions with business objectives for maximum value delivery.
Informations contractuelles
Contract : Permanent
Location : Paris or Remote ( can be based anywhere in Europe / EU Timezone )
Salary : 200 to 300k USD
Benefits : Tokens, medical insurance, coworking membership, relocation packages and additional benefits.
Recruitment process : HR Call + Technical Interview
Skills Required
- Proven leadership of Web3 infrastructure teams with 5 or more engineers
- Demonstrated success building and scaling backend and infrastructure systems
- Experience with incident management and leadership under pressure
- Advanced expertise in TypeScript
- Experience with Kubernetes
- Experience with Terraform
- Deep understanding of blockchain technologies and EVM-based systems
- Experience designing sustainable, scalable infrastructure
- Advanced Rust expertise
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The Company
What We Do
The company is a Web3 trading business building a builder-code product on Hyperliquid. Its decentralized technology aims to broaden access to global financial markets spanning crypto, equities, commodities, and other assets. The platform supports on-chain perpetuals trading and has processed more than $65 billion in cumulative volume with over 400,000 registered traders, while scaling backend infrastructure, APIs, data pipelines, real-time delivery, and databases.
