About the company
Founded in Paris in 2014, LEDGER is a global platform for digital assets and Web3. Ledger is already the world leader in Critical Digital Asset security and utility. With more than 6M devices sold to consumers in 200 countries and 10+ languages, 100+ financial institutions and brands as customers, 20% of the world’s crypto assets are secured, plus services supporting trading, buying, spending, earning, and NFTs. LEDGER’s products include: Ledger Stax, Nano S Plus, Nano X hardware wallets, LEDGER Live companion app, [ LEDGER ] Market, the world’s first secure-minting and first-sale distribution platform, and Ledger Enterprise. With its ease of use, LEDGER allows a user to begin investing in digital assets and ultimately, achieve financial freedom in a safe and stress-free environment.
Job Summary
What you’ll be doing:
📍The responsibilities of an architect are mostly geared toward the engineering teams they support: 📍Lead the technical scoping, design, and architecture for integrating new blockchain protocols and tokens into the Ledger ecosystem. 📍Drive the research, understanding, and integration of complex Decentralized Finance (DeFi) protocols (e.g., DEXs, lending, staking) with Ledger services, ensuring security and scalability. 📍Collaborate closely with engineering leads, product managers and delivery managers to ensure design on most important initiatives are properly done and of good quality. 📍Partner with product teams to define, develop and implement development requirements for new product features. 📍Help Engineering managers identify, tackle and prioritize most critical technical debt in our transactional services stack. 📍Contribute hands on to the development activities of the squads being supported. 📍Become a Ledger solution expert to thoroughly understand all use-case scenarios, especially on areas identified in this job description.
Requirements
📍10+ years of experience in technical design, development, execution, testing and delivery. 📍Deep expertise/interest in backend system architecture, algorithm development, and optimization for high-throughput, high-reliability transactional services. 📍Profound, hands-on knowledge of how various blockchain technologies (e.g., Ethereum, EVMs, non-EVMs) work under the hood, and a curiosity to investigate deeply complex, distributed systems. 📍Ability to work effectively with internal teams to define scope, goals, project plans and deliverables.
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