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Technical Lead, Lending & Savings

London💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-03 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead engineering direction and architecture for crypto savings and crypto-backed lending platforms, ensuring scalable, secure, and highly available distributed systems.

Role type

Senior hands-on technical lead (backend systems)

Builds

Crypto savings and crypto-backed lending products

Domain

Fintech / Cryptocurrency / Lending & Savings

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Kotlin or Java, distributed event-driven systems (Kafka), PostgreSQL, Redis/NoSQL, microservices architecture, cloud-native applications, monitoring/observability, debugging, performance optimization, financial transaction systems

Preferred skills

fintech/crypto product experience, lending/borrowing/savings/custody infrastructure, collateral management, interest calculations, liquidation engines, financial risk systems, AI-assisted development tools

Technologies

Kotlin, Java, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis, microservices, cloud-native

Responsibilities

Define technical architecture and make key architectural decisions; design and build scalable distributed systems; remain hands-on with code and review critical changes; mentor engineers and raise engineering standards; own delivery of technical initiatives from design to production; partner with business leads and cross-functional teams to translate product requirements into solutions

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with team leadership

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