Technical Lead - Wallets

At Tether, solutions empower businesses (from exchanges and wallets to payment processors and ATMs) to integrate reserve-backed tokens across blockchains, enabling users to store, send, and receive digital tokens instantly, securely, and globally. Tether's product suite features USDT, the world's most trusted stablecoin, alongside ventures in energy (Bitcoin mining), data (the KEET app), education, and emerging technology. The team is a global, fully remote talent powerhouse. Tether is seeking a highly experienced Technical Lead to spearhead the development of its crypto wallets, a hands-on leadership role coordinating with product and project managers to reach development targets in the fast-moving Web3 space.

• 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 the technical roadmap, prioritize tasks, and drive sprint planning; identify technical risks early 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 performance and scalability, and stay ahead of emerging Web3, blockchain, and DeFi trends.

• 6+ years of software engineering experience with at least 2 to 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 a track record of launching and maintaining successful applications.
• Good C++ development experience and understanding of OS, cryptography, and networking primitives; experience building native addons in NodeJS is a plus.
• Desirable: experience building peer-to-peer (P2P) applications or distributed systems and decentralized communication models.
• Solid grasp of software architecture principles, system design patterns, and API integrations; excellent leadership, problem-solving, and communication skills; experience in a high-growth, fast-paced startup environment.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.

Tether's team works remotely from every corner of the world. Excellent English communication skills are required. This is a 100% remote role.