Principal Engineer - Stablecoin

Job Description

This job is responsible for defining and leading the engineering approach for Bank of America’s Stablecoin solutions, including complex features to deliver significant business outcomes. Key responsibilities of the job include delivering complex features and technology, enabling development efficiencies, providing technical thought leadership based on conducting multiple software implementations, and applying both depth and breadth in a number of technical competencies. Additionally, this job is accountable for end-to-end solution design and delivery.

Responsibilities

• Develops the engineering approach for the entire program/portfolio solution and works with Architecture, to develop/analyze/deliver the implementation of technical enablers
• Led the planning, definition, and design of the complex features which span multiple teams and explore solution alternatives
• Led the technical oversight for teams in solution development including design reviews and code within own domain
• Defines the technology tool stack for the solution within ranged of internally approved and supported technologies
• Ensures that the Stablecoin design and engineering approach for complex features are consistent with the larger payments ecosystem
• Define the technology tool stack for the solution and evaluate and adapt new testing tool/framework/practices for team(s)
• Enables team(s)/applications with Continuous Integration/Continuous Development (CI/CD) capabilities and engages with other technical stakeholders pertaining to efficient functioning of CI-CD pipeline
• Guides and influences team(s) on design and best practices for high code performance –e.g. pairing, code reviews
• Lead the design and development of secure, scalable financial blockchain applications, with a focus on stablecoin issuance, lifecycle management, and settlement use cases.
• Design, develop, and maintain production-grade smart contracts using languages such as Solidity, Rust, or equivalent, aligned with banking-grade controls.

Required Qualifications

• Experience of design and development of secure and scalable financial blockchain applications and smart contracts
• Expertise building distributed multi-cloud multi-region applications.
• Experience with AWS and/or other major cloud providers such as GCP or Azure
• Must have a deep understanding of Web3 Protocols
• Experience building decentralized applications on platforms like Ethereum, Solana, or Hyperledger
• Design and development with smart contracts using Solidity, Rust, or other blockchain programming languages
• Implementation experience with cryptography (e.g., public/private key systems, hashing algorithms), token standards (e.g. ERC20, ERC721 etc.) and DeFi protocols
• Building and optimizing DLT for performance and security
• Experience of conducting code reviews, audit and security analysis to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities
• Integrating blockchain solutions with external systems, such as oracles (e.g., Chainlink), existing infrastructure or APIs
• Track record of collaborating with business product SMEs, architects, developers, and other stakeholders to deliver production ready solutions

Desired Qualifications

• Familiarity with tools like Truffle, Hardhat, Remix, Web3.js, or Ethers.js
• Experience with DevOps tools including Terraform
• Knowledge of emerging blockchain trends, protocols, and experience with layer-2 scaling solutions

Skills

• Automation
• Influence
• Result Orientation
• Stakeholder Management
• Technical Strategy Development
• Application Development
• Architecture
• Business Acumen
• Risk Management
• Solution Design
• Agile Practices
• Analytical Thinking
• Collaboration
• Data Management
• Solution Delivery Process

Shift

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week

40