Backend Engineer, Blockchain - Assistant Vice President
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As a Backend Engineer, Blockchain (Assistant Vice President) at iCapital, you join the Distributed Ledger Technology team to develop an industry-wide distributed ledger solution for the alternative investment ecosystem. You'll help facilitate access to private markets investments for advisors and their high-net-worth clients using innovative technology. This role is highly visible and involves working closely with Engineering, Product, senior leadership, and industry partners to understand complex business problems, scope projects, and identify business opportunities.
What you'll do
- Design and implement a private and permissioned distributed ledger using DAML or Canton and other open source blockchain frameworks
- Build and maintain a RESTful API using Python and FastAPI
- Provide technical leadership to motivate and guide team members and mentor junior engineers
- Participate in daily stand-up meetings and peer code reviews as part of the standard SDLC
- Stay current with the latest developments in blockchain technology and incorporate them into the iCapital ecosystem
What you bring
- 5+ years of software engineering experience building enterprise SaaS cloud-based solutions
- 2+ years of technical leadership and management experience
- Experience with DAML, Solidity, or other blockchain programming languages
- Experience with Python and FastAPI
- Demonstrated understanding of relational database concepts and modeling practices
- Experience building APIs for large scale applications using AWS
What we offer
- Base salary of $120,000 to $145,000
- Equity for all full-time employees and an annual performance bonus
- Employer matched retirement plan
- Generously subsidized healthcare with 100% employer paid dental, vision, telemedicine, and virtual mental health counseling
- Parental leave
- Unlimited paid time off (PTO)
- Office work Monday-Thursday with flexibility to work remotely on Friday
About iCapital
iCapital is a technology platform serving the alternative investment ecosystem, helping advisors and their high-net-worth clients access private markets investments.