We are seeking a dynamic Senior Solutions Architect to join our team and drive innovation in the development of Open Internet Services on ICP. You will play a pivotal role in collaborating with a diverse community of developers, entrepreneurs, and enterprises to shape the future of software. Your mission is to be at the pulse of the ICP and greater crypto ecosystem to identify and resolve gaps in infrastructure, tooling, standards, and best practices to maximize impact.
As a key member of our Growth team, you will work closely with the Developer Relations Team, R&D, and external developers and development agencies.
As a Solutions Architect, you will:
- Understand the goals of promising builders, and help them be successful.
- Identify important gaps in the ICP platform, infrastructure, and standards across verticals, and address them by working with Product and R&D, as well as external developers via Request for Proposals (RFPs).
- Lead and contribute to Technical Working Groups to bring stakeholders together and create new standards, and improve processes.
- Distill best practices for building on ICP and share them in the technical documentation, articles, demos, and tutorials.
- Engage with developers in the broader crypto ecosystem to understand how ICP can address their needs.
If a lot of these sound like you, you might be a good fit for our team:
- You have a degree in engineering, computer science, or equivalent experience.
- You have 5+ years of experience as a software engineer and/or architect.
- You are proficient in at least one of JavaScript, Rust, or Motoko, and are eager to learn more.
- You have a strong background and understanding of the crypto ecosystem, its technical underpinnings, and its most promising applications.
- You are a fast learner and you are always on top of the latest developments in the crypto ecosystem.
You can engage in active listening until you fully understand someone's problem. - You can lead meetings with different stakeholders to get things done.
- You know how to solicit and incorporate constructive feedback from stakeholders.
- You do the right thing even when it’s hard and treat challenges as a chance to learn.
- You share your honest opinions so the team can improve.
- You’ve invested in improving your own workflow and are a multiplier for your team.
- You can effectively collaborate with co-workers across multiple sites and time zones.
* Please note that this role requires in-office work from our amazing office in Zurich 3 days per week
About DFINITY and the Internet Computer:
DFINITY is a leading contributor to the Internet Computer Protocol (ICP), with a mission to bring the world's compute onto the secure ICP network. Built on its unique third-generation blockchain technology, ICP enables the development and operation of a new generation of unstoppable, tamper-proof, fully decentralized web applications. Its powerful technology can run entire AI models within smart contracts, representing a major advancement for secure AI. Through seamless integration with Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other networks, ICP facilitates multi-chain operations for digital assets and web3.
Join our team of over 250 talented individuals, including world-renowned cryptographers, distributed systems engineers, programming language experts, and industry leaders, who are shaping the future of the internet and web3.
DFINITY was founded in 2016 by entrepreneur and crypto theoretician, Dominic Williams.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
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The DFINITY Foundation’s mission is to build, promote, and maintain the Internet Computer — the world’s first web-speed, internet-scale public blockchain. It enables smart contracts to securely serve interactive web content directly into the browsers of end users, making it possible to build dapps, DeFi, open internet services, and enterprise systems that are capable of operating at hyperscale. The Internet Computer uses smart contracts to power an emerging decentralized ecosystem of interoperable dapps and services, where nearly every system and service can run in reimagined form on public blockchain.
