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Job Summary:

Fidelity Investments is a leading financial services company, and they are seeking a Vice President of Blockchain Architecture to design and build software for managing and securing cryptocurrencies at Fidelity Digital Assets. This role involves deep technical expertise, strategic thinking, and collaboration to drive the architecture of the Fidelity Digital Assets platform.

Responsibilities:

• Design blockchain integrations across Fidelity Digital Assets systems, build on-chain functionality, integrate with DeFi protocols, and guide the future direction of products.

• Provide hands-on support to engineering teams to unblock critical paths, guide architectural and implementation decisions, and ensure consistency in design patterns.

• Rapidly prototype and validate new ideas, tools, or technologies to de-risk initiatives and inform product direction.

• Partner with engineering to investigate root causes of complex system behaviors, performance bottlenecks, and integration challenges.

• Conduct high-quality pull request reviews across teams to uphold engineering excellence and consistency.

• Collaborate closely with product and engineering leadership to shape and influence the technical roadmap.

Qualifications:

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field with 10+ years of experience

• Deep technical familiarity and production experience with at least one public blockchain protocol such as Ethereum or Solana

• Experience writing and deploying production smart contracts

• Knowledge of DeFi yield protocols

• A strong interest in cryptocurrencies, blockchain interoperability protocols, and a passion for keeping up to date in the space

• Proficiency in at least one backend programming language, with a willingness to learn Rust and Java

• Experience with asynchronous workers and resilient messaging services

• Ability to build reliable software that can withstand unreliable environments

• Proficient in SQL with working knowledge of database technologies such as Aurora PostgreSQL

• Proven ability to guide and mentor engineering teams

• Experience collaborating with leadership and cross-functional stakeholders

• Experience building and deploying applications using continuous integration pipelines and automated deployment tools such as Jenkins

• Strong background in unit and integration testing

Company:

Fidelity’s mission is to strengthen the financial well-being of our customers and deliver better outcomes for the clients and businesses we serve. Founded in 1946, headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, team sizeemployees, currently Late Stage. Fidelity Investments has a track record of offering H1B sponsor ships.

Seniority level

• Seniority level Director

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Employment type

Full-time

Job function

• Industries Software Development

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