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Ava Labs

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51 - 200 employees

₿ Crypto

🌐 Web 3

💰 $230M Initial Coin Offering - Ava Labs on 2021-09

Crypto • Web 3

Ava Labs is the developer and steward of Avalanche, a high-performance smart contracts blockchain platform that emphasizes rapid time-to-finality, low transaction costs, and energy efficiency. The company provides infrastructure and tooling for builders and enterprises, including AvaCloud for launching managed custom blockchains, Core — a native wallet for trading and bridging assets — and educational resources like Owl Explains to help onboard users to Web3. Ava Labs targets blockchain developers, decentralized application teams, and organizations exploring finance and enterprise use cases for distributed ledger technology.

📋 Description

• Own FDE technical delivery across a named set of institutional partners — designing the architecture across the entire Avalanche stack (node / validator setup, failover procedures, interoperability, …) from partner ask to working output • Pair with Enterprise Go-to-Market on active POCs to close the gap between commercial requirements and production-grade technical solutions • Represent Avalanche credibly in partner-facing technical settings: sit across from Directors of Engineering at financial institutions and translate bespoke asks into scoped requirements without losing the strategic frame • Engage in depth, not volume — most weeks are heads-down implementation work punctuated by focused technical syncs, not a meeting-heavy customer-success cadence • Work hands-on across the Avalanche stack: AvalancheGo, EVM, Interchain Messaging, and validator infrastructure • Design and implement solutions that operate within the constraints regulated institutions actually run: KMS/HSM remote signing, audit trails, restricted-peer networking, backup/restore procedures, firewall topologies • Respond to security assessment requests and technical diligence from institutional partners • Contribute to and maintain the developer tooling and SDK surface owned by FDE. This is the same tooling that underpins partner deployments and the broader Avalanche ecosystem • Harden, extend, and document tooling driven by recurring institutional requirements, so that the next partner inherits a more capable platform than the last • Treat tooling work and partner delivery as a single loop: lessons from each engagement land back in the shared surface • Identify when a one-off partner solution should become a reusable FDE artifact and drive that abstraction • Build and maintain runbooks, technical documentation, and the FDE Protocol Requests database (Notion-tracked) • Accelerate conversion timelines for subsequent regulated partners by compounding the institutional playbook with each engagement • Shadow and contribute to the most complex active engagements early, internalizing the institutional playbook in context • Take primary FDE ownership of named partners as ramp completes, reducing concentration risk on the team • Operate as a credible future #2 within FDE, exhibiting mentorship, end-to-end scope ownership, and comfort representing the function externally

🎯 Requirements

• Hands-on depth across the Avalanche (or a comparable L1/L2) stack • AI-native execution, proven ability to leverage modern coding assistants and agentic tooling to produce production-grade output at speed • Customer-facing maturity in enterprise or institutional settings; comfortable representing technical depth to senior engineering stakeholders at regulated financial institutions • Strong documentation and operational discipline: you close loops, build runbooks, and maintain the tracked artifacts FDE's institutional partners depend on • Pattern abstraction instinct, you recognize when a bespoke partner solution should be generalized and you drive that productization

🏖️ Benefits

• Token and Equity Package