Backend Engineering Lead

As a Backend Engineering Lead at the Wormhole Foundation, you will make significant contributions to Wormhole’s ecosystem of open source smart contracts and protocols. Reporting to our Head of Product, you will own the architecture, development, and evolution of our backend systems. You’ll be responsible for leading a team that delivers intuitive, performant, and secure interfaces across our suite of products. 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.