Software Engineer, Blockchain ​/ Web3

Overview

About Digital Asset & the Canton Network — Digital Asset builds the technologies that are reshaping the foundations of financial markets. Our mission is to create the world’s most trusted, privacy-enabled, and interoperable digital infrastructure for global finance. The Canton Network is a blockchain purpose-built for institutional finance, combining privacy, compliance, and scalability to enable real-time, secure settlement across multiple asset classes.

Governed by the Canton Foundation with participation from leading financial institutions, it is a proven link between the promise of blockchain and the power of global finance. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York City, with offices in London, Zurich, Budapest, Hong Kong, and Sydney, we are transforming finance—and that transformation is now playing out rapidly on the Canton Network.

If you’re interested in playing a crucial role at the intersection of traditional and crypto-capital markets and want to help bring the next trillion dollars of finance on-chain, join us.

Mission-critical workflows in the financial industry are developed using Daml and run on the Canton Network. As a software engineer at Digital Asset you will have the opportunity to impact different parts of the stack depending on your experience and skills. This can range from contributing to the Daml compiler for the SDK, working on the protocol and distributed system for the Canton Ledger, building financial models in Daml and frontends for applications, to deployment templates and governance tooling for the network.

• Contribute to Digital Asset’s Scala/Type Script/Haskell code bases.
• Complement the team’s engineering strength with your technical expertise, architecture and design knowledge, and production experience.
• Participate in planning, analysis and design of the team’s deliveries.
• Develop, test and operate large-scale, high quality, distributed production systems.
• Assist other team members by providing code reviews, giving feedback and helping set direction.
• Support a collaborative approach that embraces diverse perspectives; contribute to a team where every member matters and all opinions are valued.

• You are a strong, hands-on software engineer.
• Experienced polyglot software engineer as demonstrated by either open-source libraries or commercial experience.
• Experience with developing and deploying production systems.
• Strong oral and written communication skills, ideally with experience writing technical documentation.
• Master’s degree or PhD in computer science or a related discipline; or equivalent demonstrable experience.
• Based in Switzerland, in the US (specifically NY, NJ, or CT), the UK, or Hungary.

Consider applying even if you do not match all criteria, as we are open to applications from different seniority levels.

Digital Asset is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, religion, sexual orientation, age, disability, citizenship status, veteran status or any other basis protected by applicable law. Applicants requiring accommodation should contact  Digital Asset believes in equal pay for equal work and offers family-friendly benefits in addition to flexible work arrangements.

No agencies please.