Lead Engineer, Canton Network Team

About Digital Asset

Digital Asset helps companies of all sizes and across industries get distributed applications to market faster, and stay there longer. At the core of our service offering is Daml (daml.com), the open source and platform-independent smart contract framework that enables developers to write an application once and deploy it anywhere. Today, we work with some of the largest companies in the world to harness the transformative power of smart contracts - a component of the distributed ledger technology (DLT) stack - and change the way applications are developed, deployed and used to solve real-world business challenges.

Digital Asset is a global company with offices in New York, London, Budapest, Zurich, Hong Kong, and Sydney.

As we grow our team, we will maintain the dynamic, collaborative and pragmatic way of working that has grounded our efforts from the beginning. If you seek to develop solutions others have yet to contemplate, this opportunity may be right for you!

The Opportunity

The Lead Engineer is a highly skilled software engineering leader who possesses the professional maturity and organizational skills necessary to develop, guide, and recruit a team of high performing engineers. This is a “hands-on” leader who regularly contributes to both high and low level technical Platform discussions and code base. This person brings experience and expertise in building commercial, mission critical, enterprise grade software. This individual will have demonstrated success in building and leading teams, mentoring teammates, and harnessing the strengths of individuals to create highly complementary, optimized teams. This person is adept at working effectively and collaboratively with distributed partner teams located across multiple time zones.

Key Responsibilities 

• Further strengthen the teams engineering depth by augmenting the team with essential experience developing enterprise grade, mission critical software solutions for institutional clients.
• As “player/coach,” provide clear direction and model the best ways of working to deliver high quality code efficiently and at pace.
• Ensure complete connectivity and alignment of development goals, deliverables and timelines between the Budapest office and other teams in a globally distributed model.
• Make significant contributions to the platform design and specifications.

Key Criteria

• 10+ years experience as a software engineer, with at least 5 years building, developing and leading a globally distributed development team.
• Proven history of delivering high-quality, increasingly complex, commercial software products to a global market.
• Minimum of 5 years software development experience delivering mission-critical technology to the enterprise software market using Agile methodologies.
• Strong command of distributed systems development.
• Deep understanding of secure coding practices.
• Experience with recovery-oriented computing techniques to develop systems that detect and gracefully recover from system failure.
• Advanced understanding of high-performance and high-availability coding techniques.
• Experience developing software targeting Linux and Windows environments, including an adept ability to incorporate open source software as appropriate.
• Polyglot with a strong command of at least 3 functional and non-functional programming languages, including (two of) Java, Scala or Haskell.
• Strong commercial orientation with a deep passion for customer-driven design and development throughout the SDLC.
• Collaborative approach that factors and embraces and insists upon diverse perspectives as a strategic imperative.
• Open, strong communicator who communicates effectively across groups, locations and cultures, in-person and virtually.
• A natural leader who builds productive and effective relationships across the organization.
• Continuous growth mindset with strong disposition toward innovation and intrapreneurial ways of working.
• Courage of convictions with a high degree of humility. Embraces constructive feedback and is resilient.
• Strong leadership presence. Able to represent Digital Asset within the local developer community.
• BS, MS or PhD in computer science, or related discipline.

Connect With Us

This is a rare opportunity to help define an industry and join a dynamic team of technology innovators.

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.  If and as required by applicable law, all persons hired to work at Digital Asset will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the location for which they have an offer to work and to complete the necessary employment eligibility verification documents upon hire.  Applicants with disabilities who require accommodation should contact recruiting@digitalasset.com.

As part of our commitment to equal opportunity, Digital Asset believes that all employees should receive equal pay for equal work and is committed to this principle in its pay structure. DA also offers family-friendly benefits in addition to flexible work arrangements.