Senior Software Engineer, Custody

Prospex CRM; United States; A distancia; USD 180.000 - 300.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Prospex CRM is seeking a senior backend engineer to help build and scale a custody platform, reporting to the Custody Platform Lead. You’ll own subsystems like signing, key management, and cross-chain integrations, collaborating with the cryptography team on threshold signing and recovery flows.

Remote-friendly globally with relocation to Riyadh optional. Expect strong emphasis on async communication, architecture improvements, and production-grade fintech discipline.

Formación

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience, with 2+ years on custody or key management at a regulated entity.
• Hands-on with HSMs, MPC/TSS, or threshold signing schemes.
• Production experience with Bitcoin and Ethereum, plus at least one non-EVM chain.
• Strong written English communication for async design and PR discussions.

Responsabilidades

• Ship production custody code across signing service, key management, and chain integrations.
• Own a subsystem within 3 months with end-to-end ownership.
• Collaborate with cryptography team on threshold signing and key recovery flows.
• Write post-mortems and treat failures as architecture-improvement opportunities.
• Engage in async documentation and design reviews.

Conocimientos

Go

Rust

TypeScript

English fluency

Async communication

Herramientas

PostgreSQL

ClickHouse

Temporal

AWS

Kubernetes

Descripción del empleo

Location: Remote-friendly globally. Time-zone band UTC-1 to UTC+5 (meaningful Saudi hours overlap). Optional relocation to Riyadh.
Reports to: Custody Platform Lead.
Type: Full-time. Individual Contributor.

About us:

The company is the digital-asset custody and infrastructure platform for the GCC. We hold institutional crypto safely, settle transactions across chains, and expose all of that as a developer API and a regulated-grade institutional console.

The role:

You are a senior backend engineer with a custody and key-management background. You will be a foundational engineer on the company's custody platform, reporting to the Custody Platform Lead.

You will:

• Ship production custody code across signing service, key management, chain integrations, and the transaction pipeline.
• Own a chain or a subsystem. Within 3 months you should own a meaningful surface end-to-end (a chain integration, a signing-service component, a key-rotation flow).
• Pair with the Custody Platform Lead and our in-house cryptography function on threshold signing, share generation, and key recovery flows.
• Write post-mortems when things break. We treat these as architecture-improvement opportunities, not blame exercises.
• Integrate new chains. Bitcoin, Ethereum and L2s, Solana, and an active onboarding queue.
• Engage in async written communication. Spec docs, PR descriptions, async design reviews.

Must-haves:

• 5-plus years of backend engineering, with the last 2-plus years on a custody platform or a key management system at a regulated entity. General fintech does not substitute.

Hands-on with at least one of:

• HSM lifecycle (CloudHSM, YubiHSM, Ledger Vault, similar).
• MPC / TSS (Fireblocks-style, Sepior, ZenGo, Curv-style).
• Threshold signing schemes (GG18, GG20, FROST, CGGMP21, CMP).

Production experience with one or more of:

• Bitcoin (UTXO model, PSBT).
• Ethereum (EIP-712, EIP-1559, account abstraction).
• At least one non-EVM Layer 1 (Solana, Sui, Cosmos SDK chain, similar).

• Reads Solidity, Move, or Rust well enough to integrate with new chains without hand-holding.
• Strong async written communication. Your PR threads, design docs, and intro reply are themselves a signal.
• English fluency.

Nice-to-haves:

• Experience with travel-rule / FATF compliance integrations (Notabene, Sumsub, TRP, IVMS101).
• Authored or contributed to an EIP, BIP, or chain RFC.
• Audit-contest finalist on Code4rena, Sherlock, or Cantina.
• Familiarity with regulated-financial controls: dual-control, four-eyes, M-of-N approvals, SOC 2 evidence collection.

This is not the right role if:

• Only frontend / dApp experience, no backend custody or key-management depth.
• "Crypto trader who codes." Algorithmic trading without custody experience.
• Anyone whose entire blockchain experience is a single hackathon, bootcamp, or DeFi side project.
• Currently subject to a non-compete blocking digital-asset custody for more than 6 months.

Stack:

• Backend: Go primary. Some Rust, some TypeScript. Aurora Postgres and ClickHouse. Temporal for orchestration.
• Cryptography: in-house MPC stack (TSS-based), HSM integrations, multi-chain signing service.
• Chains: Bitcoin, Ethereum and L2s, Solana, active onboarding queue.
• Infra: AWS, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions CI, Terraform.
• Security posture: SOC 2 Type II in motion, SAMA-aligned, intent toward ISO 27001 and dual-control workflows.

Location, visa, relocation:

• Location: Riyadh, open to Remote Opportunity.
• Time-zone band: UTC-1 to UTC+5 for meaningful Saudi-hours overlap.
• Relocation (optional): if the candidate elects to relocate to Riyadh, we’ll support sponsorship.
• Tax / payroll: KSA payroll for relocates. Contractor or Employer-of-Record for remote-international.