Blockchain Protocol Architect

As a Blockchain Protocol Architect at Ideasoft, you will lead hands-on protocol design for the blockchain stack, taking ideas from concept through specification and into implementation. You shape the technical direction across interoperability, privacy, and performance, and communicate the results clearly to both internal teams and the broader ecosystem.

What you'll do

• Design and evaluate protocol improvements in areas such as cross-chain interoperability, on-chain privacy, and throughput and latency enhancements
• Explore alternative solutions on the market and define trade-offs between them, producing clear technical specifications, threat models, and design rationale
• Partner with the implementation team to translate protocol designs into implementable milestones
• Review implementation plans, provide technical guidance, and validate correctness against the specification
• Present protocol work publicly at conferences, meetups, and technical workshops
• Write high-quality technical blog posts, design notes, and explainer content for developers and partners
• Work with the product team to define requirements, clarify constraints, and translate protocol capabilities into user-facing value
• Support business development through technical diligence, partner discussions, and integration planning
• Provide structured partner assessments, including architecture fit, security risks, integration effort, and timeline
• Collaborate with the DevRel team to align on the external technical narrative, developer guidance, and partner enablement materials

What you bring

• Strong experience designing and shipping distributed systems and/or blockchain protocols, including L1, L2, cross-chain, consensus, privacy, and scaling solutions
• Ability to write clean and understandable specifications and collaborate closely on them with an engineering team
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to present complex topics to both technical and non-technical audiences
• A basic understanding of cryptographic algorithms and primitives
• Ability to read and contribute to Rust and Solidity projects

Nice to have

• A BS or higher degree with a major in Computer Science, Applied Math, or equivalent experience
• Previous professional experience in building L2 solutions

About Ideasoft

Ideasoft is a leading blockchain technology company founded in 2016, with offices in Lisbon, Warsaw, Prague, New York, Toronto, and Abu Dhabi. The company combines deep blockchain expertise with business acumen to deliver blockchain infrastructure, wallet development, decentralized systems, and end-to-end Web3 product development.