Hong Kong Remote (Global)

Binance is hiring a Tech Lead (Content, Social & Live Streaming)

About the Role

Lead the technical vision for a high-impact platform centered on content, social engagement, and live streaming. You will own the full lifecycle of core systems including social feeds, live video, voice rooms, and interactive commerce features, ensuring robust engineering execution across mobile, web, and backend environments.

Key Responsibilities

  • Drive end-to-end delivery of critical features such as content publishing, live streaming pipelines, real-time voice interactions, and monetization mechanics like gifting and red packets.
  • Design and maintain the platform’s technical foundation across clients, servers, and admin systems, with an emphasis on scalability, maintainability, and operational resilience.
  • Align user experience across platforms by working closely with Product and Design teams, using data to optimize key metrics such as stream latency, audio-video sync, interaction delivery, and conversion rates.
  • Define integration strategies for third-party audio and video services, establishing clear interfaces, versioning controls, and governance to ensure continuity during transitions.
  • Build comprehensive observability: define service level indicators, implement monitoring and alerting, conduct fault tolerance testing, and lead incident response to minimize user-facing disruptions.
  • Lead and grow a multidisciplinary engineering team, establishing R&D practices including code reviews, automated testing, canary deployments, and rollback protocols to enhance quality and delivery speed.

Qualifications

Applicants should bring at least 8 years of experience in internet or social product development, with 3+ years managing technical teams. You must have a proven ability to scale core systems from early stages to high-volume production, with deep knowledge of real-time systems, distributed architectures, and cross-platform challenges.

Required expertise includes low-latency streaming, handling network instability, concurrency management, and state consistency in interactive environments. You should also demonstrate strong product sense—translating business goals into technical roadmaps—and a disciplined approach to reliability engineering using SLIs/SLOs, monitoring, and postmortem analysis.

Strong communication skills are essential for aligning cross-functional teams and external partners around technical direction and execution standards.

Preferred Background

  • Direct experience with large-scale social or live streaming platforms, particularly in room management, interactive features, or live-commerce monetization.
  • Familiarity with global operations, including regional network differences, cross-timezone coordination, and compliance in content safety and transaction security.
  • Ability to balance user experience, system reliability, and cost efficiency through data-driven trade-off analysis.
  • Industry connections in live streaming or real-time communication ecosystems that can support hiring and technical collaboration.

Technology Environment

Our stack spans mobile (iOS/Android), web clients, distributed backend systems, messaging and caching layers, content recommendation engines, and live streaming infrastructure. We use structured frameworks for service level management, monitoring, capacity planning, and resilience testing, supported by modern development practices like automated testing and progressive delivery.

Work & Culture

This is a remote-first role with global reach, offering flexibility based on team needs. We operate in a flat, user-focused organization that values innovation, ownership, and continuous learning. Our environment is results-driven, with a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion as core to our success.

We offer competitive compensation, company benefits, and the opportunity to shape the future of a leading blockchain-powered ecosystem.

Required Skills
product developmenttechnical team managementlive streaming systemslow-latency pipelinesnetwork optimizationconcurrency handlingtraffic scalingroom state managementinteractive messaginggift billing systemscross-platform developmentfull-stack system designperformance optimizationmobile (iOS/Android)web platformsdistributed systemscachingcontent recommendationFeed algorithmsSLI/SLO implementationmonitoring and alertingcapacity planningincident responsepostmortem analysisreliability engineeringproduct-minded engineeringuser experiencemetrics-driven collaboration distributed systemslive streamingreal-time systemssystem designperformance optimizationmobile clients (iOS/Android)web clientsserver-side systemsmessaging systemscachingcontent recommendationSLI/SLO/SLAmonitoring & alertingteam leadershipfull-stack development
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About company
Binance

Binance is the world's leading cryptocurrency exchange, trusted by millions of users worldwide. It offers a secure platform with low fees for buying, trading, and investing in over 500 cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and BNB.

The platform provides a wide range of products such as Spot, Futures, and Margin trading, P2P trading, Earn programs, NFT marketplace, and more. Binance also supports crypto payments, staking, and educational resources through Binance Academy.

Security is a top priority, with the SAFU (Secure Asset Fund for Users) established to protect user assets. Binance serves over 270 million registered users across 180+ countries and continues to innovate in blockchain and fintech.

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Job Details
Department Engineering – Frontend
Category management
Posted 3 years ago