Full-time

Senior backend engineer (technical lead) — remote

Posted by ThirdGuard • Eastern Cape, Eastern Cape, South-Africa

📍 Eastern Cape, Eastern Cape 🕒 March 01, 2026

About the Role

Senior Backend Engineer (Technical Lead) — Remote
Third Guard is a London-based startup building technology to analyse and manage risk across digital asset markets. We’re developing infrastructure and intelligence systems that power the next generation of De Fi risk management.
We’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer who can also act as a technical lead — owning backend architecture, guiding existing developers, and collaborating closely with the CTO while remaining hands-on.
This is a high-impact role for someone who enjoys building systems end-to-end and wants to shape a growing engineering team.
What You'll Do
Lead the design and evolution of our backend architecture in partnership with the CTO.
Build backend services in our Type Script-based stack and contribute hands-on to core features.
Oversee code quality: PR review, development workflow, and safe merges to main.
Mentor and support an intermediate backend engineer to accelerate team...

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