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Wormhole is a platform that provides secure, open-source interoperability for multichain applications. It offers a suite of tools and services to enable developers and institutions to build, transfer tokens, and manage multichain operations across various blockchains such as Solana, Ethereum, and Layer-2 solutions. 

Wormhole's ecosystem supports native token transfers and enables cross-chain communications, paving the way for the next evolution of decentralized finance (DeFi) innovation. It emphasizes security, offering continuous audits and a $5M bug bounty. 

Additionally, Wormhole facilitates governance participation for W token holders and aims to empower the next generation of Web3 applications with its comprehensive ecosystem and community support. 


11 - 50 employees


Founded 2021

🔌 API

₿ Crypto

🌐 Web 3

Backend Engineering Lead
14 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

AWS

Distributed Systems

Google Cloud Platform

JavaScript

Kafka

Kubernetes

MongoDB

Node.js

Postgres

Python

RabbitMQ

Redis

Rust

TypeScript

Web3

Go

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📋 Description
• Lead the backend engineering strategy, ensuring scalability, reliability, and top-tier user experience.
• Architect, design, and implement APIs and data pipelines supporting wallets, transactions, and blockchain integrations.
• Build and maintain high-performance systems for blockchain data indexing, analytics, and event processing.
• Integrate new blockchain ecosystems into Wormhole’s suite of products, building adapters for novel consensus mechanisms, RPCs, and event formats.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Frontend, and other teams to deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Drive technical discussions, code reviews, and architectural decisions for backend components.
• Ensure adherence to best practices in testing, deployment, observability, and documentation.
• Mentor and coach backend engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and ownership.
• Contribute to the evolution of our infrastructure stack and the scaling of the engineering organization.

🎯 Requirements
• Have relevant tertiary qualifications in computer science or a closely related field (bachelors/masters) and/or relevant work experience
• Have at least 5 year+ of experience in backend development, including 2+ years in a lead or senior engineering role.
• Proficiency in TypeScript, Go, Rust, or Python (depending on stack).
• Have a deep understanding of distributed systems, API design, and blockchain consensus & node architecture.
• Experience with databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis) and event-driven systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ).
• Hands-on experience integrating with blockchains, nodes, or smart contracts — e.g., via Web3.js, ethers.js, or JSON-RPC.
• Familiarity with DevOps best practices, deploying high-availability services across multiple regions (Kubernetes, GCP/AWS, or similar).
• Strong focus on security, reliability, and performance optimization.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Be high agency and effect the outcomes they wish to see.
• Demonstrate obsession and feel pride in building great experiences.
• Be highly collaborative with the internal team, other Wormhole collaborators, and customers.
• Care deeply about the business outcomes of your work and challenge priorities when the business impact is unclear.
• Enjoy working remotely with a talented global team and ideally based in the Americas or European time zones.