Senior Engineer, Custody Engineering; Tokenization

About Bullish

Bullish is an institutionally focused global digital asset platform that provides market infrastructure and information services. These include:

• Bullish Exchange – a regulated and institutionally focused digital assets spot and derivatives exchange, integrating a high-performance central limit order book matching engine with automated market making to provide deep and predictable liquidity. Bullish Exchange is regulated in Germany, Hong Kong, and Gibraltar.
• Coin Desk Indices – a collection of tradable proprietary and single-asset benchmarks and indices that track the performance of digital assets for global institutions in the digital assets and traditional finance industries.
• Coin Desk Data – a broad suite of digital assets market data and analytics, providing real-time insights into prices, trends, and market dynamics.
• Coin Desk Insights – a digital asset media and events provider and operator of , a digital media platform that covers news and insights about digital assets, the underlying markets, policy, and blockchain technology.

Director, Engineering

At Bullish, we are engineering the institutional standard for the digital asset industry. Our mission is to build a platform centered on security and compliance, requiring a commitment to technical excellence that extends beyond delivering code. As a global organization, we set a high bar for those driven to do their best work alongside experienced, deeply specialized peers.

Engineers here treat development as a craft and own the outcome from concept to deployment. Our teams bring structure to ambiguity and shape the frameworks that support a global organization. We refuse to compromise on quality and seek problem solvers who thrive on complex technical challenges with real market consequences.

The Custody Engineering team builds the systems that safeguard user assets, architecting secure and compliant infrastructure for the full lifecycle of funds. Our technical scope spans blockchain development, smart contracts, oracles, and the full-stack systems that power them. We operate with a high degree of autonomy and ownership over core infrastructure, connecting blockchain technology with institutional‑grade stability.

With the core architecture in place, the team is now heavily focused on advancing the tokenization strategy. You will scale those systems and ship on-chain features whose impact is visible to the business directly.

• Drive tokenization features from concept through deployment, scaling the digital asset architecture against established industry standards.
• Own the technical execution for the digital asset lifecycle, including issuance, controlled transfer, and on-chain verification.
• Lead the design, implementation, and testing of the smart contracts that hold customer assets, and coordinate the audit process end‑to‑end.
• Build and maintain the off‑chain integration layer, with secure, reliable communication between the blockchain and internal systems.
• Partner with product and operational compliance teams to translate cryptographic and security requirements into engineering solutions.

• 5+ years of software engineering experience delivering complex systems in production.
• Expert‑level fluency in secure public chain smart contract development, such as Solidity and the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), with command of industry‑standard security frameworks and libraries such as Open Zeppelin.
• Strong command of Type Script for backend development, API integration, and building off‑chain indexing services.
• Hands‑on experience with modern Web3 development tooling such as Foundry or Hardhat, and integration libraries such as Viem or Ethers.js.
• Expert‑level knowledge of smart contract token standards and the surrounding ecosystem’s intricacies.
• A paranoid security mindset, with proven expertise preventing and mitigating common smart contract vulnerability patterns (re‑entrancy, oracle manipulation, access control flaws) and managing the audit process.
• The ability to communicate protocol logic and security trade‑offs to both technical and non‑technical…