Principal Software Development Engineer, Digital Assets & Web3
About the role
We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join our Web3 Engineering team and help build DriveWealth’s digital assets platform. This is a highly technical, individual contributor, hands-on role focused on developing the core services, transaction infrastructure, and blockchain connectivity layers that power digital asset products at scale.
Responsibilities
- Implementation design, develop, and operate core services for the DriveWealth Web3 Platform (DW3).
- Build highly performant, fault-tolerant and secure distributed systems supporting digital asset transactions and crypto wallet operations.
- Develop API-first services integrating blockchain networks, service providers, and financial systems.
- Implement event-driven architectures using Kafka and asynchronous messaging patterns.
- Build transaction orchestration, reconciliation, settlement, and asset movement workflows.
- Develop secure services leveraging cryptographic signatures, key management, and authentication controls embracing zero trust architecture principles.
- Maintain and produce technical documentation and testing frameworks within CI/CD pipelines.
- Improve platform observability through metrics, tracing, logging, and OpenTelemetry instrumentation.
- Optimize application performance, resiliency, scalability, and operational efficiency.
- Drive engineering excellence through code reviews, technical leadership, and delivery best practices.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience building production systems in regulated financial environments following enterprise-grade and best practices.
- Extensive hands-on experience with TypeScript, Java, JavaScript, Spring Boot, Node.js, and NestJS.
- Experience building Web3 platforms, wallet infrastructure, or blockchain-integrated applications. Proven experience using Web3.js, Ethers.js, WebJ, and blockchain SDKs.
- First-hand experience delivering highly available, strong consistency and high-throughput distributed applications at scale. Strong expertise in concurrent, multi-threaded, and asynchronous programming.
- Deep understanding of API-first architectures, microservices, and distributed systems design.
- Strong experience with Apache Kafka, event streaming, and asynchronous processing patterns. Understand pub/sub and production-consumer messaging patterns.
- Experience building and operating resilient, scalable and secure cloud-native applications.
- Expertise implementing REST APIs, service contracts, and integration frameworks.
- Experience implementing cryptographic signatures, and secure communications between services.
- Experience and familiarity with AI-assisted development and AI tools.
- Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry, observability platforms, and production monitoring.
- Strong understanding of CI/CD, DevSecOps, software security, and secure SDLC practices.
- Strong commitment to engineering quality practices including automated testing, CI/CD validation, code reviews, and test-driven development methodologies.
- Experience developing and maintaining automated unit, integration, and functional testing frameworks within CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong technical writing skills with experience producing architecture documentation, API specifications, operational runbooks, and engineering standards.
- Proven experience providing L2/L3 production support for business-critical systems, including incident management, root cause analysis, troubleshooting, and performance optimization.
Qualifications
- Hands-on experience with Ethereum, Bitcoin, Solana, XRPL, or other distributed ledger technologies.
- Knowledge of blockchain transaction processing, smart contracts, and consensus mechanisms.
- Experience building custody, wallet, or digital asset transfer platforms.
- Familiarity with MPC, HSMs, key management systems, and cryptographic controls.
- Experience implementing Zero Trust security architectures.
- Knowledge of tokenization, stablecoins, settlement systems, and digital asset operations.
- Contributions to open-source blockchain projects.
Benefits
Compensation is generally based on the level, complexity, responsibility, location, and job duties/requirements of the specific position. We then source candidates with the requisite skills, expertise, education, training, and experience. If you are selected for an interview, please feel welcome to speak to a recruiter about our compensation philosophy and other available benefits.
Pay
$280,000 – $310,000 USD
Schedule
This role is open to candidates in the following locations:
- New York, NY
- Chicago, IL
Legal Information
- Applicants must possess the legal right to work in the country where the position is located at the time of application.
- DriveWealth requires all employees to provide original documentation verifying their work authorization on or before their first day of employment.
- For US-based roles: Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis without the need for current or future visa sponsorship. DriveWealth does not provide visa sponsorship or support for employment authorization, including transfers, at this time.
Equal Employment Opportunity
To build technology and products that are used and loved by people and solve real-world problems, we need to build a team with many different perspectives and experiences. We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.
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