Engineering Technical Lead
27 days ago
New York
Job DescriptionSalary: Engineering Technical Lead CreatorFi (Platform/Infra) Remote must align with 9:00am5:00pm Eastern Time (New York) core hours Position Overview Insomnia Labs is hiring anEngineering Technical Lead for CreatorFi, our on-chain credit platform for creators and rights-holders. This role leads a 48 person squad and focuses on Platform/Infrastructure and technical delivery leadership. Youll partner closely with Product to turn business goals into resilient, secure, and scalable systemswhile still coding on the most critical paths (~20%). Reporting line: Partners day-to-day with the Head of Product; reports into the CreatorFi Engineering leadership. Emphasis: Platform/Infra leadership with preferred experience across payment systems, data platforms, and Web3. Key Responsibilities Technical Direction (hands-on but leveraged) • Own target architecture, patterns, and guardrails for CreatorFi platform services (auth, data, orchestration, observability)., • Write and/or review design docs; spike tricky pieces; set code-quality bars; merge complex PRs., • Convert product asks into a cohesive Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), estimates, sequencing, and risk plan., • Run the engineering side of delivery: daily flow, unblocking, dependency management, and predictable on-time releases., • Define and own SLIs/SLOs and error budgets; instrument dashboards and alerts., • Enforce CI/CD gates, automated testing thresholds, code-review standards, and security scanning., • Lead operational readiness and incident response; drive fixes to completion., • Auditability & SOC 2: ensure structured logging, change control, access reviews, evidence collection, and control ownership., • Key custody: design and operate secrets, KMS/HSM integration, and least-privilege patterns across services., • Mentor engineers; raise the bar on PRs and design docs; pair where it matters., • PM brings the problem, user context, and success metrics; TL owns how we build and run it., • Co-author a plan/roadmap with clear milestones, exit criteria, and risk mitigation. Required Qualifications • 610 years total software experience, including 3+ years as a Tech Lead over a 48 engineer squad., • Proven track record leading platform/infra initiatives for SaaS or fintech-like systems (availability, scale, security)., • Deep AWS expertise (professional-level certification preferred) and hands-on with core services (e.g., IAM, VPC, ECS/EKS/Lambda, KMS, RDS/aurora, S3, CloudWatch)., • Strong systems design skills; excellent written design docs and crisp verbal walkthroughs., • Pragmatic coder capable of owning the critical 20% (TypeScript/Node, Python, or Go preferred)., • Comfortable leading in a distributed, async-friendly environment; fluent English communication., • Ability to work 9am5pm ET core hours, regardless of location. Preferred Qualifications • Payments or financial systems (idempotency, reconciliation, ledgers, PSP integrations)., • Data platforms (eventing, Kafka/Kinesis, CDC, warehouse/Lakehouse, DBT, schema governance)., • Web3 stack familiarity (Solidity/Foundry/Hardhat, custodial vs. non-custodial flows, chain interaction patterns)., • Infra-as-code (Terraform), containers (Docker/Kubernetes), observability (OpenTelemetry, Datadog/Prometheus)., • Security and privacy patterns (threat modeling, least privilege, client-side encryption). Working Model • 30% design & architecture (docs, reviews, spikes), • 30% delivery leadership (planning, unblocking, cross-team dependencies), • 20% hands-on coding of critical paths, • 20% reliability/security/quality (SLOs, audits, on-call, controls)