Engineering Technical Lead — CreatorFi (Platform/Infra) Remote — must align with 9:00am–5:00pm Eastern Time (New York) core hours Position Overview Insomnia Labs is hiring an Engineering Technical Lead for CreatorFi , our on-chain credit platform for creators and rights-holders. This role leads a 4–8 person squad and focuses on Platform/Infrastructure and technical delivery leadership . You’ll partner closely with Product to turn business goals into resilient, secure, and scalable systems—while 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 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 paths 20% reliability/security/quality (SLOs, audits, on-call, controls)