Remote Backend Team Lead at CoW Protocol

About CoW DAO

CoW DAO is on a mission to guard Ethereum customers from the risks of DeFi. It does this by supporting the event of CoW Protocol, CoW Swap, MEV Blocker, and CoW AMM, and by funding values-aligned tasks via the CoW Grants Program. 

CoW Protocol is the second-largest DEX aggregator by month-to-month quantity and the first-largest intents-based alternate. MEV Blocker is presently concerned in ~4% of all Ethereum transactions, making it the class chief. CoW AMM is the solely reside AMM that protects LPs from LVR (loss-versus rebalancing). 

As a member of CoW DAO’s core crew, you should have the chance to form these important merchandise, and contribute to the Ethereum ecosystem extra broadly.

Concerning the Position

Location: We’re a completely distant crew, and though we rent nearly globally, there’s a choice for this function to be based mostly in Europe or distant +/- 4 hours CEST time

Please word we’re not hiring from the US, Australia, or New Zealand

Place: Full-time contractor

We’re in search of an skilled Backend Crew Lead who will handle and information our engineering crew whereas additionally being extremely technical. This particular person will assist resolve issues, provide mentorship, and make sure the crew delivers clear, maintainable code whereas avoiding over-complication. You’ll work carefully with our Tech Lead, collaborating on each high-level technical choices and hands-on execution to drive the crew’s success.

What you’ll do

• Lead, help, and mentor the backend crew: Information crew members in growing their technical expertise, bettering efficiency, and overcoming challenges whereas offering mentorship, suggestions, and alternatives for profession development
• Encourage clear and easy options: Foster a growth tradition that prioritizes simplicity, effectivity, and streamlined workflows to boost productiveness and maintainability
• Code critiques and technical steering: Carry out code critiques, present constructive suggestions, and make sure that the crew’s code adheres to greatest practices and high-quality requirements
• Work carefully with the Tech Lead: Collaborate carefully with the Tech Result in help the crew in implementing options, overcoming obstacles, and making certain clean growth processes
• Drawback-solving: Establish roadblocks or inefficiencies within the crew’s processes and assist resolve them in a manner that aligns with CoW’s long-term targets
• Collaborate with cross-functional groups: Work carefully with product, analysis, and different engineering groups to make sure clean supply of options and high-quality outcomes

Our Tech Stack

• Backend Code: Rust, Tokio, Cargo, Git (https://github.com/cowprotocol/services)
• Infrastructure: Pulumi, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Grafana, Prometheus, Elasticsearch, Flux
• Different codebases: Typescript, Python, Solidity

Who you’re

• Technical experience: You could have expertise in backend growth (languages similar to Rust, Go, Python, and so forth.) and constructing distributed techniques. Whereas Web3 expertise is a plus, it’s not a requirement.
• Folks-oriented chief: You could have expertise main groups, offering mentorship, and fostering a growth-oriented setting. You understand how to inspire folks, resolve conflicts, and construct belief inside a crew
• Tech-Savvy Chief: You’ll be able to step in and assist with advanced technical challenges, however your important focus is on the folks and processes
• Simplifying Options: You care about and perceive the significance of preserving issues easy and making certain that the crew follows greatest growth practices
• You’re employed properly with others: You could have a collaborative mindset and may work with each technical and non-technical crew members and guarantee everyone seems to be aligned with the crew’s targets
• Code high quality: You might be skilled in code critiques and are enthusiastic about serving to crew members enhance via constructive suggestions
• Distant crew management expertise: As a remote-first firm, we want a Crew Lead with a powerful monitor file of managing absolutely distant groups, fostering collaboration, and sustaining excessive engagement and productiveness throughout completely different time zones
• Enthusiastic about web3: Whilst you don’t want prior web3 expertise, you’re wanting to discover the house, particularly with EVM chains, and be taught extra about DeFi and blockchain applied sciences

What we are able to give you

• Versatile work setting: Be a part of our hub in Lisbon or work remotely
• Token plan: Have a stake in our mission and form the way forward for CoW DAO
• Periodic gatherings: Take pleasure in alternatives to attach with the remainder of the crew via common journeys
• Convention allocation: Keep up-to-date with ecosystem developments utilizing our convention finances
• Studying finances: Use our studying finances to help your increased ambitions
• {Hardware} finances: Make the most of a {hardware} finances for buying needed tools
• Make an affect: You might be becoming a member of a startup the place you may make an enormous distinction. Your work issues!
• Flat hierarchies imply fewer processes and forms – see extra of your concepts come to life!
• Versatile work and trip occasions: Prioritize work-life stability via our strong versatile work coverage and trip allowance
• Progress: When you’re somebody who loves taking the initiative and getting issues executed, CoW provides numerous alternatives on your particular person development

Referral Program

Tradition

Life inside the CoW Protocol is an unimaginable journey! We take pleasure in our collaborative strategy, embracing autonomy and fostering a tradition of huge pondering and steady development. We worth affect, possession, simplicity, and crew spirit. Plus, we’re all about suggestions, coming collectively, and having fun with the journey alongside the way in which!

At CoW Protocol, we try to create an area the place everybody feels included and empowered. We consider that our services and products profit from our numerous backgrounds and experiences. All certified candidates are thought of for positions no matter race, ethnic origin, age, faith or perception, marital standing, gender identification, sexual orientation, or bodily capability