Staff Quality Engineer

Job Description

About Digital Asset & the Canton Network
Digital Asset builds the technologies that are reshaping the foundations of financial markets. Our mission is to create the world's most trusted, privacy-enabled, and interoperable digital infrastructure for global finance.

At the heart of this mission is the Canton Network - the blockchain purpose-built for institutional finance. Uniquely combining privacy, compliance, and scalability, Canton enables real-time, secure settlement across multiple asset classes. Governed by the Canton Foundation with participation from leading financial institutions, it is the proven link between the promise of blockchain and the power of global finance.

Founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York City, with offices in London, Zurich, Budapest, Hong Kong, and Sydney— we are on a mission to transform finance— and that transformation is now playing out rapidly on the Canton Network.

If you're interested in playing a crucial role at the intersection of traditional and crypto-capital markets and want to help bring the next trillion dollars of finance on-chain, join us.

Job Requirements

• Experienced quality engineer as demonstrated by leading quality assurance for complex production systems or open-source software.
• Experienced polyglot software engineer as demonstrated by either your open-source libraries or commercial experience.
• Experience with developing and deploying production systems.
• Ideally experience with distributed systems, blockchains, security protocols, and/or cryptography.
• Strong oral and written communication skills, ideally experienced writing technical documentation.
• Master's degree in computer science or a related discipline; or equivalent demonstrable experience.
• Experience with TypeScript and Scala is a plus but not required.
• Based in Switzerland, in the US (specifically in NY, NJ, or CT), the UK, or Hungary.

Job Responsibilities

Opportunity

The Ledger and SDK teams' mission is to deliver the full stack to develop and run distributed applications as part of the Canton Network with strong security and increasing scalability requirements. Think of the ledger as a distributed database over untrusted nodes where Daml specifies the data scheme, logic to change the data, as well as authorization rules. 

As the staff quality engineer you have the unique opportunity to work on a novel distributed ledger platform and smart contract language that run mission critical workflows with demanding security requirements. Your work will span over a spectrum of interesting and challenging areas such as protocol and language design, applied cryptography, BFT consensus, or scalability improvements. As the leading quality engineer you establish quality assurance for all Ledger and SDK products such that they are built to the highest quality standards to run mission critical applications in strong collaboration with the software engineering teams.

• Lead to establish quality assurance for the Ledger and SDK products.
• Take the perspective of our users: Identify quality and consistency issues by running the full stack of products as our customers would do.
• Collaborate with software engineers to define comprehensive test plans for their components.
• Define test plans across components and products to test the interplay of features and products.
• Implement new test tooling and infrastructure to make software engineers more efficient in writing better tests and increase coverage.
• Monitor, track, and report on test coverage and identify quality issue patterns based on support cases raised.
• Raise awareness and educate engineers on quality topics.
• Participate in planning, analysis and design of the team's deliveries by bringing in the quality view.
• Following a collaborative approach that fosters, embraces, and insists upon diverse perspectives. We are a powerful team where everyone pulls more than their weight, where everyone matters and all opinions are valuable.

Pay Transparency:
 The estimated salary range for this role, based in our New York City office, is $175,000 to $200,000. The range may vary if based outside the New York tri-state area (New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut). Base salaries are determined during our interview process, during which we assess the candidate's experience, skills, and capabilities against internal peers and the scope and responsibilities of the position.

NO AGENCIES PLEASE

Job Benefits

We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the well-being of our team members. Health and insurance benefits vary by region to ensure local relevance and compliance, and may include medical, dental, and vision coverage. 

Digital Asset is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, religion, sexual orientation, age, disability, citizenship status, veteran status or any other basis protected by applicable law. If and as required by applicable law, all persons hired to work at Digital Asset will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the location for which they have an offer to work and to complete the necessary employment eligibility verification documents upon hire. Applicants with disabilities who require accommodation should contact 

As part of our commitment to equal opportunity, Digital Asset believes that all employees should receive equal pay for equal work and is committed to this principle in its pay structure. DA also offers family-friendly benefits in addition to flexible work arrangements.

If you're interested in playing a crucial role at the intersection of traditional and crypto-capital markets and want to help bring the next trillion dollars of finance on-chain, join us.