Backend Software Engineer

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.

Opportunity 

The SDK team designs, builds, and maintains the APIs, libraries, and tools that empower third-party developers. The resources we provide, facilitate the creation of applications that interact with the Canton ledger and the Canton Network. The solutions developed using our product are predominantly mission-critical workflows within the financial and insurance sectors.

As a software engineer in the SDK team, you'll have the unique opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology that spans the entire stack. This includes everything from the database back-end and Pekko Stream implementation, through gRPC and HTTP interfaces, to the Java and TypeScript client libraries.

Key Responsibilities

Contributing to the SDK's (mostly) Scala code base.

Collaborate with other teams such as the Canton Ledger team on the integration of APIs in the Canton core or the product team on developer education.

Hardening and testing the APIs to satisfy the production non-functional requirements in particular performance, scalability, and security.

Assist other team members by providing code reviews, giving feedback and helping set direction.

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. 

Key Criteria

Experienced Scala software engineer as demonstrated by either your open-source libraries or commercial experience.

Specializing in either database development or writing secure APIs (more details below)

Experienced with reactive streams (in particular akka/pekko) would be a strong plus.

Strong oral and written communication skills, ideally experience writing technical documentation and specifications.

Experience with developing and deploying production systems.

Master's degree or PhD in computer science or a related discipline; or equivalent demonstrable experience.

Based in Budapest or Zurich

Specializing in database development

Solid understanding of SQL and relational databases. In particular PostgreSQL.

Experience with Functional Relational Mappings in scala: slick, anorm, doobie or others.

Specializing in writing secure APIs

Solid understanding of network protocols and libraries: HTTP, gRPC, Netty, Tapir and others.

Experience driven ability to empathize with API users allowing them to write efficient, robust and idiomatic client code in various front end languages such as TS and Python. 

Experienced with writing secure APIs. Familiarity with the technologies such as TLS, JWT, Auth0. Knowledge of frequent attack vectors and their mitigation.

Prior exposure to security audit procedures would be a strong plus. 

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This is a rare opportunity to help define an industry and join a dynamic team of technology innovators.

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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.