Blockchain Architect

Sprytech Ltd; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

A Blockchain development company is seeking a skilled Blockchain Architect to join their team in London and Slough. This permanent role involves collaboration with engineers and designers to develop innovative blockchain applications. Candidates should possess strong experience in writing smart contracts and designing distributed systems, with at least 5 years in software development. A degree in a relevant field is required. The company offers a competitive salary based on market rates and experience.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software development experience.
• Experience in writing smart contracts for blockchain frameworks.
• Thorough understanding of consensus algorithms used in Blockchain.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with engineers and designers to create meaningful products.
• Document the roadmap and development standards.
• Act as a technical liaison between customers and engineering teams.
• Hands-on coding to address technical problems or sensitive design areas when required.

Skills

Smart contracts for blockchain frameworks

Development in Hyperledger or Ethereum

Distributed systems design

Strong computer science fundamentals

Agile software development

Cryptographic keys management

REST APIs

Algorithms & data structures

Concurrency

Agile

Cross-team collaboration

Cloud/enterprise software

Key management

Consensus algorithms

Education

Degree in relevant field

Tools

Hyperledger

Ethereum

Corda

Tezos

Hedera Hashgraph

Job description

Sprytech is a Blockchain development company. The company has developed several Blockchain applications and is highly involved in innovative projects such as Pharmachain, IOT Firmware upgrade and Hedera Hashgraph. To support our growth, we are currently looking to recruit a Blockchain Architect to join our growing team based in London and Slough. This will be an on-going permanent basis employment for deserving candidate.

The Architect role entails working closely with our team of engineers, designers, scientists, and analysts to create the meaningful products and services. The Architect will work very closely with the development team to ensure there is a clear understanding of, and all future build adheres to, the overall technical roadmap and application design strategy. The role requires both excellent technical abilities and communication skills. They will be responsible for documenting the roadmap, development standards and proposals for new initiatives. Architects are also expected to be 'hands-on' when required to help solve technical problems or design particularly sensitive areas of the system.

Required Skills and Experience

• Experience in writing smart contracts for blockchain frameworks such as Hedera Hashgraph, Hyperledger, Ethereum, Tezos and Corda.
• Engage directly with the customers development team, understand their specific business and technology challenges in distributed ledgers integration in new products and services.
• Experience developing Hyperledger or Ethereum based solutions and passion for getting hands dirty with code.
• Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers to enable them to be cloud advocates.
• Act as a technical liaison between customers, service engineering teams and support.
• Experience designing and building highly scaled distributed systems and REST services. Should come from a strong development background.
• Very strong computer science fundamentals in algorithm design, data structures, problem solving, and complexity analysis
• Thorough understanding of parallel algorithms, concurrency, asynchronous architectures
• Experience working in an agile software development organization
• Proven ability to effectively drive cross-team solutions that may have complex dependencies
• Experience in enterprise software or cloud services
• Experience working in cryptographic keys management.
• Very good understanding of consensus algorithms used in Blockchain including Kafka Base Consensus (Hyperledger), RAFT Consensus and Hedera Consensus Service(HCS).

Education and Qualification:

• Degree or equivalent and/or equivalent level of experience in relevant subject
• Passionate about new and disruptive technologies and enthusiastic about learning

Job Type: Permanent Full-time

Location: London/Slough

Salary: Market Rates (Based on experience)

Experience

• 5+ years of software development experience

If you are interested and think you are up to the job, then please apply by sending your CV.