About the Role

iCapital’s Distributed Ledger Technology team is looking to hire a Senior Blockchain / Backend Engineer to develop an industry-wide distributed ledger solution for the alternative investment ecosystem to facilitate access to private markets investments for advisors and their high-net-worth clients using innovative technology solutions. Candidates should be able to understand complex business problems, scope projects, identify business opportunities, optimize workflows, and communicate their findings across all levels of the organization. This role is highly visible and involves working closely with other teams in Engineering, Product, senior leadership, and industry partners.   

Responsibilities

• Design and implement a private and permissioned distributed ledger using DAML / 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
• Actively participate in daily stand-up meetings
• Actively participate in Peer Code Reviews as part of our standard SDLC and Change
• Stay current with the latest developments in blockchain technology and incorporate them into our ecosystem

Qualifications

• 5+ years software engineering experience building enterprise SaaS cloud-based solutions
• 2+ year technical leadership and management experience
• Experience with DAML, Solidity, or other blockchain programing languages
• Experience with Python and FastAPI
• Demonstrated understanding of relational database concepts and modeling practices
• Experience building APIs for large scale applications using AWS
• Experience with toke

  About the Role

  iCapital’s Distributed Ledger Technology team is looking to hire a Blockchain / Backend Engineer to develop an industry-wide distributed ledger solution for the alternative investment ecosystem to facilitate access to private markets investments for advisors and their high-net-worth clients using innovative technology solutions. Candidates should be able to understand complex business problems, scope projects, identify business opportunities, optimize workflows, and communicate their findings across all levels of the organization. This role is highly visible and involves working closely with other teams in Engineering, Product, senior leadership, and industry partners.   

   

  Responsibilities

  • Design and implement a private and permissioned distributed ledger using DAML / Canton and other open source blockchain frameworks
  • Build and maintain a RESTful API using Python and FastAPI
  • Actively participate in daily stand-up meetings
  • Actively participate in Peer Code Reviews as part of our standard SDLC and Change
  • Stay current with the latest developments in blockchain technology and incorporate them into our ecosystem

   

  Qualifications

  • 6+ years software engineering experience building enterprise SaaS cloud-based solutions
  • Experience with DAML, Solidity, or other blockchain programing languages
  • Experience with Python and FastAPI
  • Demonstrated understanding of relational database concepts and modeling practices
  • Experience building APIs for large scale applications using AWS
  • Experience with tokenization and blockchain-based investments
  • Familiarity with security best practices and encryption techniques
  • Basic knowledge of finance and business (e.g., capital markets, alternative investments)
  • Excellent writing, communication, and presentation skills
  • Exceptional ability to understand client needs, scope projects, develop detail-oriented execution plans, and communicate results
  • An entrepreneurial hunger to own problems from start-to-finish, manage projects, overcome operational bottlenecks, and execute effectively

Benefits

The base salary range for this role is $120,000 to $145,000.  iCapital offers a compensation package which includes salary, equity for all full-time employees, and an annual performance bonus. Employees also receive a comprehensive benefits package that includes an employer matched retirement plan, generously subsidized healthcare with 100% employer paid dental, vision, telemedicine, and virtual mental health counseling, parental leave, and unlimited paid time off (PTO).

We believe the best ideas and innovation happen when we are together. Employees in this role will work in the office Monday-Thursday, with the flexibility to work remotely on Friday.

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Who we are

“Welcoming”, “Collaborative” and “Having the opportunity to make an impact” - is how our employees describe working here.  Galileo is a financial-technology company that provides innovative and revolutionary software products and services that power some of the world's largest Fintechs. We are the only payments innovator that applies tech and engineering capabilities to empower Fintechs and financial institutions to unleash their full creativity to achieve their most inspired goals. Galileo leads its industry with superior fraud detection, security, decision-making analytics and regulatory compliance functionality combined with customized, responsive and flexible programs to accelerate the success of all payments companies and solve tomorrow's payments challenges today. We hire energetic and creative employees while providing them the opportunity to excel in their careers and make a difference for our clients. Learn more about us and why we work here at www.galileo-ft.com. 

The role:

You will steward the 'building blocks' of modern fintech. Our APIs empower clients to build unique financial experiences, meaning your team's work directly powers the innovation of some of the world's largest fintechs.

What you’ll do:

• Build the Golden Path: Design and deliver reusable frameworks and shared infrastructure that help product squads ship secure, observable, and compliant services by default.
• Create Platform Abstractions: Identify repeated implementation patterns and turn them into modular platform components that reduce duplication and simplify service development.
• Improve Traceability and Observability: Drive adoption of common telemetry and request-correlation patterns so teams can troubleshoot and operate services more effectively.
• Advance Contract-First Development: Help make technical contracts the source of truth for service development, with tooling that keeps implementation, documentation, and schemas aligned.
• Raise the DX (Developer Experience) Bar: Build platform tools that teams adopt because they are faster, clearer, and easier to use than bespoke alternatives.
• Navigate Trade-offs Well: Make sound technical decisions that balance standardization, delivery speed, and the practical needs of individual teams.
• Partner Across Teams: Work closely with engineers, managers, and adjacent platform teams to align on patterns, priorities, and rollout plans.
• Mentor Through Practice: Coach engineers through design reviews, code review, docs, and shared implementation work; help maintain core platform libraries and support an innersource contribution model.

What you’ll need:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Distributed Systems Experience: 8+ years of experience designing and scaling resilient software systems, ideally with strong Python experience.
• Platform Mindset: Experience building shared libraries, services, proxies, or frameworks used by internal engineering teams.
• Modern SDLC Depth: Hands-on experience with CI/CD, automated testing, schema validation, and production delivery pipelines.
• Cross-Team Influence: A track record of driving technical direction and gaining buy-in from peer teams and stakeholders without direct authority.
• Cloud & Kubernetes Experience: Strong experience with AWS and Kubernetes-based environments.
• Pragmatic Engineering Judgment: Ability to identify when a problem should be standardized, abstracted, or left local.

Nice to have:

• Framework Expertise: Familiarity with Python Flask and/or FastAPI frameworks.
• Infrastructure as Code: Experience with Terraform for delivering standardized infrastructure templates.
• API Governance: Familiarity with OpenAPI/Swagger standards and the governance of large-scale API catalogs.
• Observability & Identity Experience: Experience with distributed tracing, metric taxonomies, and service-to-service authentication (S2SA) patterns.
• FinTech Experience: Domain knowledge in payment systems or highly regulated financial technology environments.