Blockchain Architect/Lead Developer

We are building a cutting-edge video platform with a blockchain/crypto foundation and are looking for an experienced blockchain developer who can help us develop the architecture, choose technologies, partners, vendors, and help us refine the vision for the blockchain/crypto underpinnings, including building a development team to deliver on the vision.

Responsibilities

• Work with management team and lead efforts to research, design, develop, and test blockchain technologies to enable platform features


• Determine best practices/technologies/vendors to utilize in order to realize company vision


• Build and manage team of internal and external resources to build blockchain/crypto technology


• Brainstorm and help evaluate applications/tools/technologies as they continually evolve


• Be involved in the global blockchain community—work on implementing and integrating the latest


• Document new solutions as well as maintaining existing documentation


• Create best practices/guidelines for blockchain dev team


• Create performance metrics for measuring relevant blockchain performance


• Provide training/mentoring to technical staff in relation to blockchain tools and frameworks, Blockchain concepts etc.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or related field of study OR 8+ years of work experience


• 8+ years within specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics)


• 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting experience in applications and infrastructures


• Strong communication skills, and experience communicating to technical and non-technical audiences


• 3 years of experience in Blockchain industry


• Deep experience with programming in at least one of: Go, Rust, Python, Java, C/C++


• Strong knowledge of concurrency and writing efficient and safe multithreaded code


• Experience with writing/debugging and deploying Smart Contracts


• Knowledge of Digital Assets, Smart Contract Oracles, Multi Chain interoperability, private/permissioned blockchains and sustainability


• Experience with platform security, scalability, reliability


• Solid understanding of Blockchain framework such as Ethereum / Solidity, Solana, Hyperledger Fabric


• Good understanding of various different consensus algorithms used in Bitcoin Blockchain, Ethereum


• Good understanding of asymmetric cryptography and using cryptographic material such as certificates for identity management in order to authenticate members, transactions etc.


• Demonstrable ability to architect and design integration architecture for integrating applications with Blockchain and, also, participant organizations and their member nodes to Blockchain network.


• Experience with database architecture and design to create storage solution for managing distributed ledger and related data/state in database systems.


• Create security architecture for managing security of Blockchain and related applications


• Experience working with large codebases


• Experience working with open-source projects