Job Description

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Upskills provides expert financial software consulting to investment banks and leading financial institutions in Asia Pacific, Middle East and Europe. With a strong, Front to Back expertise in the cash and derivatives markets, coupled by an in-depth knowledge of financial markets technologies, we provide smart and efficient solutions.
We are seeking a multi-hatted Blockchain Solution Architect to design and implement the Stable Coin Platform that leverage cloud-native infrastructure, micro-services architecture and blockchain technology. The ideal candidate will bring deep expertise in blockchain technologies, distributed systems, and enterprise-level architectural design with key responsibilities given as below:

• Design and develop robust blockchain architectures using AWS cloud services.

• Create and optimize token contract implementations across various blockchain platforms, starting with EVM-compatible chains.

• Create and optimize smart contract implementation for the core stable coin platform alongside the micro-service architecture to integrate with partners being banks, token KMS providers, custodians, designated dealers and compliance systems.

• Design secure and performant high-speed/low-fee blockchain infrastructure with high availability.

• Optimize the mix between on-chain and off-chain services to minimize build and run costs as well and to fulfill operational goals.

• Architect scalable micro-services that integrate seamlessly with blockchain ecosystems.

• Define and apply state-of the art design patterns principles to speed-up development process in line with the Group standards and policies.

• Create technical specifications and architectural documentation.

• Ensure quality in developments, compliance to risk appetite, standards, and policies.

• Develop a culture proper to effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver the business on time in full.

• Master's or Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or related technical discipline.

• At least 6-8 years of development experience in micro-services architecture, in highly critical with proven experience with full-stack enterprise architecture in banking/financial industry.

• Proven Track of blockchain architecture and development experience.

• Proficiency in Programming with Solidity, TypeScript/ JavaScript, Go, Python, or Java (for backend microservices).

• Extensive experience with AWS cloud services (ECS, AKS).

• Expertise in containerization technologies (Kubernetes).

• Advanced proficiency in smart contract development and strong understanding of distributed ledger technology.

• Proven track record in managing complex smart contract architecture and the corresponding versioning and data/storage migration challenges to ensure full traceability and backward compatibility.

• Experience with pen-testing programs -preparation, execution, remediation- for Web, Back-End and smart contract security auditing.

• Experience with store and forward architectures, financial accounting, end-to-end reconciliation and/or data analytics is a plus.

• Experience with cross-chain bridges, web2-to-web3 bridges is a plus.