Principal Architect - Platform

Your Impact

• Architect our next-generation platform to extend our node from delivering external data and on-chain services to enabling trust-minimized distributed computation for a wide variety of smart contract applications. 
• Architect and design components/service layers to sustainability scale as the number of blockchains integrations we support grows significantly.
• Work directly with leadership to take into account all product vectors and define our high-level technical roadmap to scale across multiple dimensions of blockchain integrations, applications, payment flexibility, and engineering operations as we grow. 
• Collaborate with engineers, technical leaders and product managers across multiple teams to achieve consensus for technical decisions, concepts and guidelines. 
• Actively participate in leveling the team’s engineering bar, increasing the velocity of the team and the reliability/security of the product through coaching and utilization of frameworks, etc. 

Requirements

• 10+ years of professional engineering experience working in a collaborative product-driven environment.
• Successful experience designing, building and scaling multiple production services, components and infrastructure. 
• Successful experience collaborating with a team to support production services over multiple years as they evolved to scale with user demand and challenges.
• Deep knowledge of programming languages, tools and frameworks required to successfully build and deploy production services, with prior experience selecting these tools and frameworks. 
• Experience owning multiple, months-long projects, including communication of progress, dependencies, and risk mitigation directly with stakeholders and partners.