Backend Engineer, Blockchain - Assistant Vice President

The role

The Senior Blockchain Backend Engineer will develop an industry-wide distributed ledger solution for the alternative investment ecosystem. This role involves designing private and permissioned distributed ledgers and building RESTful APIs.

What you will do

• 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 standard SDLC.
• Stay current with the latest developments in blockchain technology and incorporate them into the iCapital ecosystem.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years software engineering experience building enterprise SaaS cloud-based solutions
• 2+ year technical leadership and management experience
• Experience with DAML, Solidity, or other blockchain programing languages
• Experience with Python, Toke and FastAPI
• Demonstrated understanding of relational database concepts and modeling practices
• Experience building APIs for large scale applications using AWS

Benefits

• salary
• equity for all full-time employees
• annual performance bonus
• employer matched retirement plan
• generously subsidized healthcare
• 100% employer paid dental, vision, telemedicine, and virtual mental health counseling
• parental leave
• unlimited paid time off (PTO)

About the company

iCapital's Distributed Ledger Technology team is developing a distributed ledger solution for the alternative investment ecosystem.