Senior Software Engineer - Canton Network Team

Digital Asset; Zürich; Vor Ort; CHF 80’000 - 120’000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A blockchain technology firm located in Zurich is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for its Canton Network Team. The successful candidate will work on innovative distributed ledger technologies within a collaborative environment. Responsibilities include delivering high-quality code, mentoring team members, and contributing to significant software innovations. Ideal candidates have strong programming skills, a relevant degree, and experience with cloud technologies. This role supports flexible work arrangements and values diverse perspectives.

Leistungen

Family-friendly benefits

Flexible work arrangements

Qualifikationen

• Experienced polyglot software engineer, with contributions to open-source or commercial projects.
• Proven success in significant software engineering projects.
• Experience in cloud technologies.

Aufgaben

• Deliver high quality, well-tested code efficiently.
• Contribute to cutting-edge distributed ledger innovations.
• Mentor and guide other engineers.

Kenntnisse

Collaborative approach

Excellent programming skills

Superb communication skills

Cloud deployment

Mentoring and leadership

Ausbildung

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science

Tools

Kubernetes

Pulumi

Helm

Grafana

Jobbeschreibung

Senior Software Engineer - Canton Network Team

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About Digital Asset & the Canton Network

Digital Asset builds the technologies that are reshaping the foundations of financial markets. Our mission is to create the world’s most trusted, privacy-enabled, and interoperable digital infrastructure for global finance. At the heart of this mission is the Canton Network – the blockchain purpose-built for institutional finance. Uniquely combining privacy, compliance, and scalability, Canton enables real-time, secure settlement across multiple asset classes. Governed by the Canton Foundation with participation from leading financial institutions, it is the proven link between the promise of blockchain and the power of global finance. 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 that transformation is now playing out rapidly on the Canton Network.

Opportunity

Canton Network is the first privacy‑enabled open blockchain network for regulated markets, enabled by Canton distributed ledger technology and the unique smart contract language DAML. As a senior engineer in this team, you will work across a wide range of Web3 and Web2 technologies, tackling challenging distributed systems and system security problems while delivering high‑quality products for our customers. You will collaborate with talented engineers and mentor 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 and all opinions are valuable.

Key Criteria

• Experienced polyglot software engineer, demonstrated by 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).
• Demonstrable experience with development for cloud deployment and operations of cloud technologies such as Kubernetes, Pulumi, Helm, and 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 in security engineering, DeFi Web3 programming, or 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. Where 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.