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Job description
At Tether, we are not just building products; we are pioneering a global financial revolution. Our cutting-edge solutions empower businesses—from exchanges and wallets to payment processors and ATMs—to seamlessly integrate reserve-backed tokens across blockchains.
Responsibilities
- Architect, design, and implement scalable backend services in Node.js.
- Lead system design for complex, distributed backend initiatives.
- Own technical decisions around performance, reliability, and scalability.
- Collaborate closely with infrastructure, platform, and product teams.
- Establish and uphold engineering standards: code quality, testing, observability, and documentation.
- Mentor senior and mid-level engineers.
- Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, scaling limitations, and architectural debt.
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional backend engineering experience, with deep expertise in Node.js.
- Proven track record of architecting and scaling distributed backend systems in production.
- Strong system design skills: microservices, API design, data modeling, async patterns, event-driven architectures.
- Experience with relational and non-relational databases, message queues, and caching layers.
- Excellent English communication skills (written and verbal).
- Based in a timezone with 4–6 hours of overlap with IST working hours (10am–7pm IST).
About Tether Operations Limited
Tether Operations Limited is the issuer of Tether's family of fiat-pegged stablecoins, most notably USD₮ (USDT), the largest U.S. dollar-linked stablecoin by circulation and trading volume. It operates a blockchain-enabled platform launched in 2014 to facilitate digital use of fiat currencies, offering stablecoins backed by reserves and used for transactions across multiple blockchains in markets like cryptocurrency, DeFi, and cross-border payments.[1][3][7]