Senior Blockchain Backend Engineer — Lead DLT & REST APIs

The Bitcoin Street Journal; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Retirement plan

Health, dental, vision

Parental leave

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

iCapital’s Distributed Ledger Technology team is seeking a Senior Blockchain Backend Engineer to develop an industry-wide distributed ledger solution for the alternative investment ecosystem. You will enable access to private markets investments for advisors and high-net-worth clients through innovative technology and close collaboration with engineering, product, leadership, and partners.

You will lead design and implementation of private permissioned ledgers, RESTful APIs, and provide

Qualifications

• 9+ years of software engineering experience with enterprise SaaS.
• 3+ years in technical leadership and management.
• Experience with DAML, Solidity or other blockchain languages.
• Proficiency with Python and FastAPI.
• Strong relational database design and modeling skills.
• Experience building APIs for large-scale applications on AWS.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement a private and permissioned distributed ledger using DAML or Canton and other open source blockchain frameworks.
• Build and maintain a RESTful API using Python and FastAPI.
• Provide technical leadership to motivate and guide team members and mentor junior engineers.
• Participate in daily stand-up meetings and peer code reviews as part of the SDLC.
• Stay current with blockchain developments and integrate them into the iCapital ecosystem.

Skills

Software engineering

Technical leadership

Blockchain programming

Python & FastAPI

Relational databases

AWS APIs

Job description

iCapital’s Distributed Ledger Technology team is seeking a Senior Blockchain Backend Engineer to develop an industry-wide distributed ledger solution for the alternative investment ecosystem. You will enable access to private markets investments for advisors and high-net-worth clients through innovative technology and close collaboration with engineering, product, leadership, and partners.

You will lead design and implementation of private permissioned ledgers, RESTful APIs, and provide