Staff Software Engineer, Ledger - CH

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.
At the heart of this mission is the Canton Network - the blockchain purpose-built for institutional finance. Uniquely combining privacy, compliance, and scalability, Canton enables real-time, secure settlement across multiple asset classes. Governed by the Canton Foundation with participation from leading financial institutions, it is the 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 on a mission to transform 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.

• Staff software engineer as demonstrated by providing technical leadership for complex production systems or open-source software.

• Experienced polyglot software engineer as demonstrated by either your open-source libraries or commercial experience.

• Experience with developing and deploying production systems.

• Experience with distributed systems, blockchains, security protocols, and/or cryptography.

• Strong oral and written communication skills, ideally experienced writing technical documentation.

• Master’s degree or PhD in computer science or a related discipline; or equivalent demonstrable experience.

• Experience with Scala is a plus but not required.

• Based in Switzerland or in the US (specifically in NY, NJ, or CT).

Opportunity

The Canton Ledger teams’ mission is to build the distributed ledger platform that underpins the Canton Network with strong security and scalability requirements. Think of the ledger as a distributed database over untrusted nodes where Daml specifies the data scheme, logic to change the data, as well as authorization rules.

As a staff software engineer in the Canton Ledger team you have the unique opportunity to work on a novel distributed ledger platform that runs mission critical workflows with demanding security, scalability, and reliability requirements. Your work will span over a spectrum of interesting and challenging areas such as protocol design, applied cryptography, BFT consensus, and scalability improvements. As a staff software engineer you take ownership and provide the technical leadership on projects, use your architectural expertise to review design proposals, and bring in your production experience to improve the overall operability and robustness of the platform.

• You are a strong, hands-on engineer to contribute to the Ledger’s Scala code base.

• Provide technical leadership and take ownership of delivery projects across team boundaries.

• Level up the team’s engineering strength with your technical expertise, architecture and design knowledge, and production experience.

• Actively participate in planning, analysis and design of the team’s deliveries.

• Assist and coach other team members by providing code reviews, giving feedback and helping set direction.

• Following a collaborative approach that fosters, embraces, and insists upon diverse perspectives. We are a powerful team where everyone pulls more than their weight, where everyone matters and all opinions are valuable.

We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the well-being of our team members. Health and insurance benefits vary by region to ensure local relevance and compliance, and may include medical, dental, and vision coverage. 

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 [email protected].

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.

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.