Job Description
Job Description
Salary :
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.
- Proactively manage tech debt and trade-offs; keep the roadmap honest about platform risks and runway.
Delivery & Execution
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.Coordinate with shared QA / DevOps; ensure CI / CD pipelines and environments are healthy and fast.Reliability, Security & Compliance
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.Own the on-call rota for the squad; maintain runbooks and escalation paths.People & Team Health
Mentor engineers; raise the bar on PRs and design docs; pair where it matters.Provide performance signals to engineering leadership; help with interviewing, leveling, and onboarding.Partnering with Product
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 paths20% reliability / security / quality (SLOs, audits, on-call, controls)