Team Lead (TypeScript, NestJS)

Team Lead (TypeScript, NestJS) | CityPay.io 📍 Location: Tbilisi, Georgia | Hybrid 🕘 Employment Type: Full-Time 💰 Salary: Competitive About CityPay.io CityPay.io is a pioneering cryptocurrency ecosystem in the region, offering seamless and easy cross-border transactions and on-spot payment solutions. As we continue to expand across the CIS region, our mission is to integrate cryptocurrency into everyday life and build a strong, innovative, and trusted community.

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Team Lead to drive the development and delivery

of a crypto wallet platform. This role combines hands-on technical leadership with

people management, architecture ownership, and close collaboration with product,

security, and DevOps teams.

You will lead a cross-functional engineering team responsible for building secure,

scalable wallet services, APIs, and user interfaces used for crypto asset

management (send/receive, balance tracking, transaction processing, integrations).

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership

• Lead the design, development, and maintenance of backend and frontend services for the crypto wallet platform
• Define and enforce coding standards, architecture patterns, and best practices
• Participate hands-on in development using NestJS, Next.js, TypeScript, and JavaScript
• Design and optimize REST APIs and RPC-based services for internal and external integrations
• Oversee database design and performance using PostgreSQL and TypeORM
• Design and manage event-driven and asynchronous flows using RabbitMQ
• Ensure high standards for security, scalability, fault tolerance, and
• performance

Team & Delivery Management

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of engineers (backend & frontend)
• Plan and manage sprint execution, task breakdown, and delivery timelines
• Conduct code reviews and provide constructive technical feedback
• Act as a technical escalation point for complex issues and production incidents
• Collaborate with Product Managers to translate business requirements into technical solutions

Architecture & Quality

• Drive system architecture decisions in a microservices or modular environment
• Ensure proper API versioning, documentation, and backward compatibility
• Promote test coverage, CI/CD best practices, and reliable release processes
• Work closely with DevOps and Security teams on deployment, monitoring,and compliance

Required Qualifications

Technical Skills

• Strong experience with NestJS and backend development in Node.js
• Solid frontend experience with Next.js
• Expert-level TypeScript and strong JavaScript fundamentals
• Hands-on experience with TypeORM and PostgreSQL
• Experience building RESTful APIs and RPC-based services
• Practical knowledge of RabbitMQ and message-driven architectures
• Understanding of authentication, authorization, and secure API design

Leadership & Soft Skills

• Proven experience leading engineering teams as Team Lead / Tech Lead
• Strong communication skills and ability to align technical decisions with business goals
• Experience mentoring developers and driving engineering excellence
• Ability to balance hands-on coding with team leadership responsibilities

Nice to Have

• Experience working on crypto wallets, blockchain platforms, or fintech systems
• Familiarity with microservices architecture and distributed systems
• Knowledge of event sourcing, CQRS, or domain-driven design (DDD)
• Exposure to DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes
• Understanding of crypto concepts such as transactions, confirmations, and asset custody

What We Offer

• Executive leadership role in a growing crypto & fintech company
• Influence over strategic direction and global product expansion
• Access to international partnerships and high-level networking opportunities
• Comprehensive health insurance and executive perks
• Opportunities to build and scale technology across multiple regions