About CoW DAO

CoW DAO is on a mission to protect Ethereum users from the dangers of DeFi. It does this by supporting the development of CoW Protocol, CoW Swap, MEV Blocker, and CoW AMM, and by funding values-aligned projects through the CoW Grants Program.

CoW Protocol is the second-largest DEX aggregator by monthly volume and the first-largest intents-based exchange. MEV Blocker is currently involved in ~4% of all Ethereum transactions, making it the category leader. CoW AMM is the only live AMM that protects LPs from LVR (loss-versus rebalancing).

As a member of CoW DAO’s core team, you will have the opportunity to shape these essential products, and contribute to the Ethereum ecosystem more broadly.

About the Role

Location: We are a fully remote team, and although we hire almost globally, there is a preference for this role to be based in Europe or remote +/- 4 hours CEST time

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

Position: Full-time contractor

We’re looking for an experienced Backend Team Lead who will manage and guide our engineering team while also being highly technical. This person will help resolve problems, offer mentorship, and ensure the team delivers clean, maintainable code while avoiding over-complication. You’ll work closely with our Tech Lead, collaborating on both high-level technical decisions and hands-on execution to drive the team’s success.

This position is a mix of technical expertise and people management—ensuring that the team has everything they need to succeed, both technically and personally.

What you will do

• Lead, support, and mentor the backend team: Guide team members in developing their technical skills, improving performance, and overcoming challenges while providing mentorship, feedback, and opportunities for career growth
• Encourage clean and simple solutions: Foster a development culture that prioritizes simplicity, efficiency, and streamlined workflows to enhance productivity and maintainability
• Code reviews and technical guidance: Perform code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and ensure that the team’s code adheres to best practices and high-quality standards
• Work closely with the Tech Lead: Collaborate closely with the Tech Lead to support the team in implementing solutions, overcoming obstacles, and ensuring smooth development processes
• Problem-solving: Identify roadblocks or inefficiencies in the team’s processes and help resolve them in a way that aligns with CoW’s long-term goals
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams: Work closely with product, research, and other engineering teams to ensure smooth delivery of features and high-quality results

Our Tech Stack

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

Who you are

• Technical expertise: You have experience in backend development (languages such as Rust, Go, Python, etc.) and building distributed systems. While Web3 experience is a plus, it’s not a requirement.
• People-oriented leader: You have experience leading teams, providing mentorship, and fostering a growth-oriented environment. You know how to motivate people, resolve conflicts, and build trust within a team
• Tech-Savvy Leader: You can step in and help with complex technical challenges, but your main focus is on the people and processes
• Simplifying Solutions: You care about and understand the importance of keeping things simple and ensuring that the team follows best development practices
• You work well with others: You have a collaborative mindset and can work with both technical and non-technical team members and ensure everyone is aligned with the team’s goals
• Code quality: You are experienced in code reviews and are passionate about helping team members improve through constructive feedback
• Remote team leadership experience: As a remote-first company, we need a Team Lead with a strong track record of managing fully remote teams, fostering collaboration, and maintaining high engagement and productivity across different time zones
• Excited about web3: While you don’t need prior web3 experience, you’re eager to explore the space, especially with EVM chains, and learn more about DeFi and blockchain technologies

What we can offer you

• Flexible work environment: Join our hub in Lisbon or work remotely
• Token plan: Have a stake in our mission and shape the future of CoW DAO
• Periodic gatherings: Enjoy opportunities to connect with the rest of the team through regular trips
• Conference allocation: Stay up-to-date with ecosystem advancements using our conference budget
• Learning budget: Use our learning budget to support your higher ambitions
• Hardware budget: Take advantage of a hardware budget for acquiring necessary equipment
• Make an impact: You are joining a startup where you can make a huge difference. Your work matters!
• Flat hierarchies mean fewer processes and bureaucracy - see more of your ideas come to life!
• Flexible work and vacation times: Prioritize work-life balance through our robust flexible work policy and vacation allowance
• Growth: If you’re someone who loves taking the initiative and getting things done, CoW offers lots of opportunities for your individual growth

Referral Program

Earn 6.000 USDC or USD with the refer-to-earn program. More details here.

Culture

Life within the CoW Protocol is an incredible adventure! We take pride in our collaborative approach, embracing autonomy and fostering a culture of big thinking and continuous growth. We value impact, ownership, simplicity, and team spirit. Plus, we’re all about feedback, coming together, and enjoying the journey along the way!

At CoW Protocol, we strive to create a space where everyone feels included and empowered. We believe that our products and services benefit from our diverse backgrounds and experiences. All qualified applicants are considered for positions regardless of race, ethnic origin, age, religion or belief, marital status, gender identification, sexual orientation, or physical ability.

Biconomy empowers Web3 developers to build seamless, user-friendly dApps that work effortlessly across multiple blockchains. Our battle-tested modular account and execution stack eliminates traditional UX friction points, helping projects accelerate user adoption while reducing development costs. By processing over 50 million transactions across the 300+ dApps we’ve served, we’re powering the future of onchain economies.

The Role: Innovating at the Intersection of AI and DeFi

We are assembling a world-class team to redefine on-chain analytics using AI Agents & Machine Learning. As a DevOps Engineer, you will build and optimize the AI & ML infrastructure, enabling real-time wallet activity analysis, ML-driven tagging, and PnL insights at scale. You’ll work with Kafka, Snowflake, AWS S3, and high-speed data pipelines to process over 10-15 billion rows of historical data and real-time streaming events, ensuring a scalable, secure, and efficient AI ecosystem.

This is a high-impact role at the core of our AI-driven crypto intelligence platform.

What Will You Be Doing?

Scalable AI & ML Infrastructure

• Design & optimize cloud-native architectures for AI & ML-driven analytics on DeFi transactions.
• Develop and maintain high-performance, distributed computing environments that process billions of on-chain and off-chain events.
• Deploy and manage ML models & AI agents efficiently in Kubernetes (K8s) and other containerized environments.

High-Speed Data Engineering

• Design real-time streaming pipelines using Kafka for high-frequency on-chain transaction ingestion.
• Optimize Snowflake queries & storage solutions to handle large-scale blockchain datasets efficiently.
• Implement ETL/ELT pipelines for structured & unstructured blockchain data aggregation.

Infrastructure Automation & Reliability

• Automate cloud infrastructure using Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation for seamless scaling.
• Enhance security & performance with CI/CD best practices for AI model deployment.
• Implement observability, logging & monitoring with tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog.

ML & AI Model Deployment

• Streamline model deployment for AI agents that analyze blockchain wallet behavior.
• Build infrastructure to support model training, inference, and real-time decision-making.
• Optimize GPU workloads for AI-driven pattern recognition & risk analysis.

Collaboration Across Teams

• Work alongside AI engineers, blockchain developers, and data scientists to integrate AI-driven insights into DeFi tools.
• Optimize node infrastructure & RPC services for multi-chain DeFi interactions.
• Research and implement best practices in Web3 DevOps, cloud automation, and ML infrastructure.

Requirements:

Core Experience

• 5+ years of DevOps experience, specializing in AI/ML infrastructure & high-scale data pipelines.
• Expertise in AWS, GCP, or Azure, focusing on scalable, event-driven architectures.
• Experience handling Kafka queues, Snowflake databases, and massive-scale data processing.

DevOps & Infrastructure Skills

• CI/CD Automation using GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Jenkins, or ArgoCD.
• Kubernetes & Docker for managing AI workloads and high-performance model inference.
• Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC): Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation.

Data Engineering & AI Model Ops

• Experience with Kafka, Snowflake, and S3 for real-time & historical data processing.
• ML Model Deployment: Knowledge of TensorFlow, PyTorch, or ONNX for AI-based wallet analytics.
• Strong Python & Bash scripting for automation and orchestration.

Security & Reliability

• Security-first mindset: Experience with IAM, firewall management, and Web3 security best practices.
• Observability & Monitoring using Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or OpenTelemetry.

Bonus Skills

• Experience with multi-chain blockchain infrastructure (Ethereum, Solana, L2s).
• Knowledge of DeFi protocols, smart contracts, and risk analytics.
• Experience with AI inference at scale (Ray, Triton, Hugging Face Transformers, etc.)

What We Offer:

• Flexible Working Hours: Enjoy autonomy over your schedule.
• Generous Vacation Policy: 25 days vacation per year plus public holidays
• Competitive Salary: With regular performance reviews.
• Token Allocation: Be rewarded with tokens as part of our compensation package.
• Growth Opportunities: Be part of an exciting new project with significant career growth potential.
• Innovative Work Culture: Join a team that’s at the cutting edge of Web3, AI, and DeFi, and help shape the future of the digital economy.
• Fun and Engaging Team Activities: Game nights, virtual celebrations, and work retreats to keep things exciting.

At Biconomy, we believe in creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We are committed to being an equal-opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate based on race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, veteran status, age, or any other legally protected status.

About SSV Labs SSV Labs is a fast growing startup applying Distributed Validator Technology (DVT) to significantly enhance the security and decentralization of Ethereum staking. The protocol provides an open and simple infrastructure for splitting and distributing a validator key into multiple KeyShares, for the purpose of running an Ethereum validator across multiple non-trusting nodes. At the heart of a DAO-driven ecosystem, SSV Labs is dedicated to fostering a participatory and inclusive environment.    Why join our team? We are a global team looking for people with diverse professional backgrounds to join and contribute their ideas to boost the company's success. You'll get to work in a transparent environment with the most innovative technologies, be constantly challenged and learn from like-minded professionals and leaders in the industry. We offer a platform for you to develop and achieve your career goals. We look forward to hearing from passionate, goal-oriented applicants ready to make their mark in the blockchain space.Successful candidates will play a critical role in improving the observability, reliability, scalability, and performance of our systems as we continue to grow. As an observability-focused software engineer, you will work closely with cross-functional teams to build and maintain resilient systems. This is a hands-on role that will require you to work closely with our product and engineering teams to ensure that our systems are reliable, scalable, and performant.      Responsibilities:

Designing, developing, and maintaining advanced tools and services to monitor the performance of the SSV blockchain network Analyzing SSV blockchain network activity and providing actionable insights for performance improvement. Responsible for monitoring dashboards and alerting systems (we use Grafana) Debugging and optimizing network performance based on monitoring results Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions to automate the deployment of monitoring tools and services Creating clear documentation for developed monitoring tools and services. Collaborating with cross-functional teams on defining, designing, and rolling out new features Proactively identifying and resolving system performance or security issues. Ensuring high performance, quality, and responsiveness of monitoring applications and services.

  Your Experience & Qualifications:

Minimum of 5 years experience in software development, with expertise in Go - Must Experience with Typescript - Bonus Familiarity with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana stack (Mimir/Loki/Tempo), and other observability tools - Bonus Deep understanding of the benefits of tracing and logging in a distributed system, experienced with relevant libraries - Bonus Thorough understanding of Kubernetes (K8s) and containerization technologies - Bonus A Startup background, demonstrating a passion for new technologies and the ability to take ownership over the development of significant portions of an innovative product - Must Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and rapidly learn and master diverse web technologies. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent industry experience. Prior experience with blockchain technology

 *We offer equal opportunities and ensure an inclusive recruitment for our global teams without consideration of race, gender, culture, or sexual orientation.

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