Lead Engineer, Custody Engineering – Tokenization

🕒 May 22

🏢🏡 New York City – Hybrid

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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CoinDesk

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2013

CoinDesk Inc. is a media, event, indices and data company and the most influential trusted platform for the emerging crypto economy. Founded in May 2013, the CoinDesk Media platform provides millions of consumers interested in cryptocurrency assets and blockchain technology with news and insights, podcasts, live streaming TV shows and research reports. CoinDesk Indices are the industry standard for institutional single and multi-asset benchmarks for crypto assets. The flagship CoinDesk Bitcoin Price Index (XBX) has been in operation continuously since 2014. Consensus has been recognized since 2015 as the most influential event in crypto and blockchain. Our June 9-12, 2022, crypto festival in Austin, Texas, will bring together thousands of attendees from around the world to hear from the most sought-after thought leaders and experience a wide range of speakers, workshops, networking and learning opportunities. CoinDesk is a wholly owned subsidiary of Digital Currency Group, one of the largest privately held investment companies in the crypto industry whose mission is to accelerate the development of a better financial system.

📋 Description

• Drive the evolution of the foundational architecture and engineering roadmap, leading the project's scaling and tokenization phases using established industry standards. • Serve as the technical owner for the full tokenization lifecycle, including asset issuance, controlled transfer, settlement mechanics, and on-chain verification. • Lead the secure design, implementation, and audit of the smart contracts that hold customer assets, and the backend for workflows interacting with the smart contracts. • Define and enforce auditable security controls (e.g., policy engines, governance rules) that meet institutional standards for asset safety and regulatory compliance. • Act as the primary cross-functional technical interface, translating cryptographic and security requirements into actionable engineering work for engineering, product, and operational compliance teams. • Mentor a team of engineers and set the standard for code quality, security review, and engineering judgment.

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years of experience architecting and scaling production-grade systems. • Proven ability to lead cross-functional technical initiatives and mentor high-performing engineering teams to deliver high-impact solutions. • Expert-level fluency in secure public chain smart contract development, such as Solidity and the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), with command of industry-standard security frameworks and libraries such as OpenZeppelin. • Deep, authoritative knowledge of token standards (e.g. ERC-20, ERC-3643, Token-2022) and advanced wallet and custody architectures (e.g., ERC-4337 Account Abstraction, Gnosis Safe). • Strong command of architecting secure off-chain services (e.g. in TypeScript), APIs, and event indexers. • Hands-on depth with modern Web3 development and testing frameworks (e.g., Foundry, Hardhat) and interaction libraries (e.g., Viem, Ethers.js). • A paranoid security mindset, with proven expertise preventing and mitigating common smart contract vulnerability patterns (re-entrancy, oracle manipulation, access control flaws), use of static analysis and fuzzing tools, and a track record of leading teams through smart contract audits. • The ability to communicate protocol logic and security trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders across global teams. • Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent professional experience).

🏖️ Benefits

• EQUAL OPPORTUNITY • ACCOMMODATION