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As the most trusted and fastest-growing global crypto company, it helps millions of people worldwide safely access cryptocurrency. Since its inception in 2011, Blockchain has earned the trust of over 90 million wallet holders and more than 40 million verified users, facilitating over $1 trillion in crypto transactions.\nWe're looking for a Technical Lead, Lending & Savings to lead the engineering direction for two of our core Consumer products: crypto savings and crypto-backed lending.\nThis is a hands-on technical leadership role for an experienced engineer who enjoys building products from the ground up. You'll define the technical architecture, lead a small team of engineers, and partner closely with the Lending & Savings Business Lead to turn product vision into scalable, reliable systems.\nYou'll be expected to remain close to the code while providing technical leadership, making architectural decisions, mentoring engineers, and ensuring the team delivers high-quality software. You should have strong product instincts and enjoy working with cross-functional partners, but your primary responsibility is engineering excellence and execution.\nWHAT YOU WILL DO\nTechnical Leadership\nLead the technical direction and architecture of the Lending & Savings platform.\nDesign and build scalable, secure, and highly available distributed systems.\nMake key architectural decisions balancing scalability, performance, security, and maintainability.\nRemain hands-on, contributing production-quality code and reviewing critical changes.\nDrive engineering best practices across system design, testing, deployment, observability, and operational excellence.\nMentor engineers through code reviews, technical coaching, and day-to-day leadership.\nEngineering Delivery\nOwn the delivery of technical initiatives from design through production.\nWork closely with the Business Lead and designers to translate product requirements into technical solutions.\nBreak down complex initiatives into clear engineering milestones and execution plans.\nIdentify technical risks early and propose pragmatic solutions.\nEnsure services remain resilient, performant, and secure as the platform scales.\nProduct Collaboration\nPartner closely with the Lending & Savings Business Lead to understand customer problems and product priorities.\nProvide technical input into product planning, helping shape solutions that balance customer value, engineering complexity, and delivery timelines.\nCollaborate with Product Design, Treasury, Trading, Risk, Compliance, and Infrastructure teams to build customer-focused solutions.\nContribute to improving user journeys, performance, and platform reliability through continuous iteration.\nTeam Leadership\nLead, mentor, and grow a small team of engineers.\nFoster a culture of ownership, collaboration, and technical excellence.\nHelp recruit exceptional engineering talent.\nRaise engineering standards across code quality, documentation, testing, and operational maturity.\nEngineering Innovation\nContinuously improve engineering productivity through automation and modern development practices.\nDrive adoption of AI-assisted engineering tools where they improve developer efficiency while maintaining high standards for quality and security.\nChampion continuous improvement across architecture, tooling, and engineering processes.\nWHAT YOU WILL NEED\nTechnical Experience\nStrong experience building backend systems using Kotlin or Java.\nExperience designing distributed, event-driven systems using Kafka or similar messaging technologies.\nStrong knowledge of PostgreSQL and relational database design.\nExperience working with Redis or other NoSQL technologies.\nDeep understanding of microservices architecture, APIs, distributed systems, and cloud-native applications.\nExperience with monitoring, observability, incident response, and production operations.\nStrong debugging and performance optimisation skills.\nDemonstrated experience shipping reliable production systems that process financial transactions.\nLeadership\nExperience leading engineering teams while remaining hands-on.\nStrong system design and architectural decision-making skills.\nExperience owning technical delivery from planning through production.\nComfortable working with cross-functional stakeholders to translate product requirements into engineering solutions.\nExcellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences.\nA collaborative mindset with strong ownership and bias for execution.\nPreferred\nExperience building fintech or crypto products.\nExperience with lending, borrowing, savings, custody, payments, or other financial infrastructure.\nUnderstanding of collateral management, interest calculations, liquidation engines, or financial risk systems.\nExperience using AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, or similar as part of your engineering workflow.\nCOMPENSATION & PERKS\nFull-time salary based on experience and meaningful equity in an industry-leading company\nThis is a role based in our London office, with a mandatory in-office presence four days per week.\nWork from Anywhere Policy: You can work remotely from anywhere in the world for up to 20 days per year.\nClassPass \nUnlimited vacation policy; work hard and take time when you need it\nApple equipment\nThe opportunity to be a key player and build your career at a rapidly expanding, global technology company in an emerging field\nFlexible work culture \nBlockchain is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law. This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, and apprenticeship. Blockchain makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.\nYou may contact our Data Protection Officer by email at . Your personal data will be processed for the purposes of managing Controller’s recruitment related activities, which include setting up and conducting interviews and tests for applicants, evaluating and assessing the results thereto, and as is otherwise needed in the recruitment and hiring processes. 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Because the European Union Commission has determined that United States data privacy laws do not ensure an adequate level of protection for personal data collected from EU data subjects, the transfer will be subject to appropriate additional safeguards under the standard contractual clauses. \nYour personal data will be retained by Controller as long as Controller determines it is necessary to evaluate your application for employment. Under the GDPR, you have the right to request access to your personal data, to request that your personal data be rectified or erased, and to request that processing of your personal data be restricted. You also have the right to data portability. 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