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Job Description:
BLOCKCHAIN ARCHITECT
Jersey City, NJ
Fulltime
Primary Responsibilities:
- Define and drive technical architecture and strategy for digital asset platform components across smart contracts, integrations, and infrastructure
- Lead design reviews, establish coding standards, and ensure architectural consistency across the digital asset technology stack
- Mentor and develop team members across blockchain engineering, QA, and platform development disciplines
- Serve as escalation point for complex technical issues spanning smart contracts, blockchain integrations, and platform services
- Collaborate with enterprise architecture, security, and infrastructure teams to ensure alignment with RBC standards
- Research, evaluate and recommend blockchain protocols, consensus mechanisms, custody solutions, and related technologies
- Interface directly with business leaders, product managers, and stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical roadmaps
- Lead technical due diligence for vendor selections, protocol evaluations, and technology partnerships
- Establish and enforce security practices including threat modeling, code review processes, and secure development lifecycle
- Drive DevOps maturity, CI/CD pipeline optimization, and operational excellence across environments
- Participate in cross-functional working groups, architecture review boards, and regulatory/compliance discussions
- Own technical planning, sprint planning coordination, and delivery forecasting in partnership with Project Managers
Key Relationships:
- Engineering team members across smart contracts, blockchain integration, QA, and platform development
- Enterprise Architecture, Security Architecture, and Infrastructure teams
- Product Managers, Business Analysts, and Executive Stakeholders
- Production Support, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and Operations teams
- Vendor technical teams and blockchain protocol foundations
- Regulatory, Compliance, and Legal teams
- PMO, Finance, and Budgetary teams
- External consultants and technology partners
Required Education/Experience:
- University degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent work experience
- 8+ years software engineering experience with 3+ years in technical leadership roles
- Deep technical expertise across distributed systems, blockchain technologies, and platform engineering
- Proven track record leading complex technical initiatives from conception through production
- Start-up Experience
Preferred Education/Experience:
- Degree in Computer Science or related field
- Extensive experience with blockchain protocols (Ethereum, Canton, Solana, or similar)
- Experience in financial services, capital markets, or regulated environments
- Track record building and scaling engineering teams
- Familiarity with regulatory frameworks (MiFID II, EMIR, CFTC, SEC requirements for digital assets)
Behavioral Competencies:
- Strategic thinking with ability to balance long-term vision with short-term delivery
- Exceptional communication skills with ability to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
- Strong leadership and mentoring capabilities
- Proven ability to influence without direct authority across organizational boundaries
- Entrepreneurial mindset with comfort operating in ambiguous, rapidly evolving environments
- Excellent judgment in risk assessment and technical trade-off decisions
Technical Competencies:
- Blockchain architecture patterns and protocol design
- Smart contract platforms and security (Solidity, Rust, Move, DAML, etc.)
- Distributed ledger technologies and consensus mechanisms
- Digital asset custody solutions and key management systems
- API design and event-driven systems
- Security best practices including cryptography, secure coding, and threat modeling
- Performance optimization and scalability patterns
Regulatory technology considerations for digital assets
What does a solidity developer do?
A Solidity developer is a programmer who specializes in writing smart contracts using the Solidity programming language
Solidity is a contract-oriented, high-level language for implementing smart contracts on various blockchain platforms, such as Ethereum
The responsibilities of a Solidity developer can vary depending on the specific project they are working on, but some common tasks they might be responsible for include:
- Writing and testing Solidity code for smart contracts, Debugging and troubleshooting issues with existing smart contracts
- Collaborating with other members of the development team to ensure that the contracts are implemented according to the project's specifications
- Keeping up-to-date with the latest developments in the Solidity and blockchain communities, and incorporating new best practices and techniques into their work
- Participating in code reviews and contributing to the development of coding standards and guidelines for the project.