Team Lead - Distributed Systems, Blockchain

Posted on October 2, 2025
Zurich
Permanent
Posted on October 2, 2025

About this role

Salary: CHF 130’000 - 140’000 per year

Requirements:
  • Architecture-minded lead engineer with a strong grasp of how systems fit together
  • Excellent communicator and technical decision-maker
  • Excited to work on cutting-edge blockchain infrastructure in the financial space
  • Pragmatic problem-solver with the ability to balance innovation and stability
Responsibilities:
  • Own the architecture and system design of new products and infrastructure within the blockchain ecosystem
  • Define consensus and distributed systems frameworks, ensuring scalability, resilience, and security
  • Collaborate closely with engineering leads and product stakeholders to align on technical solutions
  • Provide technical leadership
  • Evaluate design trade-offs across performance, reliability, and security criteria
  • Drive architectural reviews and ensure compliance with industry and security best practices
Technologies:
  • Backend
  • Blockchain
  • Cryptography
  • Golang
  • Rust
  • Security
  • Java

More:

The ideal candidate will bring strong systems-level thinking and play a critical role in high-level technical architecture, with occasional hands-on coding. While direct coding is secondary, the ability to understand and evaluate solutions in Golang, C, or Rust will be highly valued.

last updated 40 week of 2025

Salary

CHF 130’000 - 140’000 per year
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