Lead Backend Engineer - Enablement Team

About us

Welcome to Tenderly, where we're not just participating in the blockchain revolution – we're defining it. Our mission is to empower developers worldwide with cutting-edge tools to create groundbreaking blockchain products. As a full-stack Web3 infrastructure platform, we provide multi-network support and a comprehensive ecosystem, guiding developers from initial exploration to advanced Node solutions and serverless cloud compute functions.

Tenderly has empowered tens of thousands of developers to navigate the complex blockchain landscape effortlessly. By pushing the boundaries of innovation, from custom Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) implementations to advanced blockchain node solutions, we are shaping the future of blockchain technology.

About the Role

Ready to shape the future of blockchain? As a Senior Backend Engineer at Tenderly, you’ll take on the role of technical lead for a highly skilled team. You’ll drive the design and implementation of key backend systems like billing, usage tracking, and access control, ensuring our platform remains scalable, secure, and reliable. While you'll lead technical direction and decisions, this is not a people management role—your focus is on delivering exceptional engineering solutions.

What you'll do:

Lead Technical Direction:

Act as the technical authority for your team, setting the standard for system architecture, code quality, and best practices.

Build Core Systems:

Design and implement critical backend components, including internal billing and usage tracking, distributed rate-limiting engines, and real-time audit logging.

Engineer for Security and Scale:

Develop systems for authorization and verification, access control mechanisms, and anti-abuse tools, ensuring robust performance for 10,000+ users and beyond.

Own End-to-End Solutions:

Lead the development of complete product features, from concept to deployment. Build the “plumbing” for mission-critical systems with reliability and scalability in mind.

Modernize Legacy Systems:

Upgrade and evolve existing systems to align with future growth, ensuring they are efficient, scalable, and secure.

Collaborate Across Teams:

Work closely with cross-functional stakeholders, aligning on priorities and fostering a culture of innovation and technical excellence.

About You

A track record as a technical leader in backend engineering, with experience driving key decisions and delivering impactful systems.

Deep expertise in billing systems, usage-based platforms, or streaming systems.

Hands-on experience building products for 10,000+ users or larger audiences.

Proficiency in developing systems for fine-grained access control, anti-abuse mechanisms, and real-time auditing.

Demonstrated ability to take products from concept to completion, including modernizing legacy systems.

Strong collaboration skills with the ability to work across teams to drive technical alignment and success.

A passion for solving complex technical challenges while maintaining a focus on quality and performance.

Why Tenderly?

Join us at Tenderly, where our values are not just words on a page but the driving force behind our innovative journey.

Fanatic Drive

We're passionately driven to solve our users' problems, tackling challenges with intensity and speed. Our work is our obsession, and we thrive on the fast-paced world of Web3. As team members, we take breaks, but we understand that Web3 and Tenderly do not.

Underdog Mentality

We love defying the odds, rejecting the status quo, and achieving the impossible. We're on a mission to revolutionize blockchain technology, constantly pushing boundaries.

Inward Responsibility

We hold ourselves accountable, always striving to improve. We embrace feedback, knowing it drives personal growth and collective success.

Intentional Collaboration

Our success relies on individual contributions and mutual support. We share ideas openly, trust each other completely, and continuously push each other to excel.

Tenderly Transparency™️

We believe in open, honest communication. We share knowledge and opinions freely, fostering a culture of accountability and trust.

What We Offer

Finance

Stock Options - We believe that everybody should own a part of the company and we want our team members to benefit from our shared success.

Transparent compensation - To ensure fair and equal pay for all employees, salaries within the company are completely transparent.

Yearly bonus - Non-performance-based bonus amounting to 10% of the team member's annual base salary is given at the end of each year.

Support in Life Changes

Fully covered maternity leave - The leave is fully covered, in the amount of the last salary person received during the regular engagement.

Paternity leave - Four weeks of paid time off after a baby has arrived to help share the joys & responsibilities.

Working environment

In-office breakfast, lunch & drinks (Belgrade Office)

Company equipment - Standard equipment includes a MacBook laptop, monitor, and a keyboard and mouse of your choice.

Welfare

Flexible, no less-than vacation policy - We know that unlimited vacation policies usually have the opposite effect, so we encourage people to actually take and use their time off for rest and relaxation. We have established a minimum of 21.5 days that should be used in a given time of 12 months.

Flexible working hours - You are fully entrusted to effectively manage your working hours, the only important thing is that it allows for collaboration with your team.

Health insurance for you and your dependants - Medical insurance to keep you and your spouse, partner, and children healthy.

Tenderly is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.