Senior Software Engineer

Digital Asset is at the forefront of blockchain innovation, delivering solutions that unlock the value of on-chain tokenized assets and digital financial markets to create a more efficient, fair, and resilient global financial system.

As the creators of Canton Network, and one of the founding members of Canton’s Global Synchronizer Foundation, we are pioneers in open, secure, and interoperable infrastructure that transforms the way capital markets operate – focused on the growth of the only layer one blockchain with privacy and decentralized governance. The Canton Network processes over $3.6T of tokenized real-world assets today, providing the scalable rails for diverse digital assets from tokenized money market funds and privacy-enabled stablecoins, to 24x7 collateral and next-generation custody and asset servicing.

Founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York City, with offices in London, Zurich, Budapest, Hong Kong, and Sydney— we are on a mission to transform finance— and we’re just getting started.

If you’re interested in playing a crucial role at the intersection of traditional and crypto-capital markets and want to help bring the next trillion dollars of finance on-chain, join us.

The Opportunity
Canton Network is the first privacy-enabled open blockchain network for regulated markets. Enabled by the Canton distributed ledger technology and the unique smart contract language Daml, network participants can seamlessly exchange digital assets while maintaining the security and privacy guarantees required for regulated financial transactions.
The Global Synchronizer, developed by the Canton Network Engineering team at Digital Asset, is the engine that enables global connectivity across the Canton Network. It was launched in July 2024, in collaboration with over 30 partners across the industry, and has since attracted the attention of numerous others, from both DeFi and TradFi markets. It is also in the process of being fully developed as open source under the Linux Foundation’s LFDT, see https://github.com/hyperledger-labs/splice.

As a senior engineer in this team, you will have the opportunity to work across a wide range of Web3 and Web2 technologies. You will help us tackle some of the most challenging and complex problems in distributed systems and systems security, while delivering the best quality products for our customers, all open source and public. You will get to collaborate with our existing set of talented engineers, and also help mentor and grow the next generation of great engineers.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver high quality and well-tested code efficiently and at pace.

• Contribute to the development of cutting-edge distributed ledger technology innovations.

• Develop and refine feature specifications within an Agile development environment.

• Mentor, teach and guide other engineers in the team.

• Follow a collaborative approach that fosters, embraces, and insists upon diverse perspectives. We are a powerful team where everyone pulls more than their weight, where everyone matters and all opinions are valuable.

Key Criteria

• Experienced polyglot software engineer as demonstrated by either your open-source contributions or commercial experience.

• Proven success contributing to significant software engineering projects and owning major components within the solution.

• Excellent programming skills, ideally using a functional language (preferably Scala or Haskell).

• Must have demonstrable experience with development for Cloud deployment, and of operations of Cloud technologies such as Kubernetes, Pulumi, Helm, Grafana.

• Superb communication skills - both written and spoken, with demonstrated ability to interact with other engineers within the team and across teams.

• Ability and willingness to mentor other engineers for great responsibility and productivity.

• Striving to improve overall systems and processes within and beyond the immediate team.

• An independent, yet collaborative, individual who can work effectively in a geographically distributed remote team.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science or a related discipline; or equivalent demonstrable experience.

• Based in New York, New Jersey, or Connecticut

• Bonus points for experience also in one of: security engineering, DeFi Web3 programming, frontend development.

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This is a rare opportunity to help define an industry and join a dynamic team of technology innovators.
Digital Asset is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, religion, sexual orientation, age, disability, citizenship status, veteran status or any other basis protected by applicable law. If and as required by applicable law, all persons hired to work at Digital Asset will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the location for which they have an offer to work and to complete the necessary employment eligibility verification documents upon hire.
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As part of our commitment to equal opportunity, Digital Asset believes that all employees should receive equal pay for equal work and is committed to this principle in its pay structure. DA also offers family-friendly benefits in addition to flexible work arrangements.