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Senior Blockchain Engineer

Apex Systems · Southlake, TX · 2 days ago
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Role Overview

We are hiring a Senior Engineer, Blockchain Platforms to help build and integrate the blockchain infrastructure layer that underpins our organization's digital asset custody and tokenization platforms. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on Layer-1 blockchain integration, core blockchain infrastructure components, wallet engineering, and custody-related blockchain workflows. This engineer operates at the intersection of blockchain protocol mechanics and institutional custody systems.

Key Responsibilities

  • Integrate company systems with existing Layer-1 blockchains.
  • Evaluate and, where appropriate, contribute to building or extending Layer-1 capabilities to meet custody, scalability, or resiliency needs.
  • Understand chain-level mechanics such as transaction lifecycle, finality, forks, reorgs, and event propagation.
  • Design and build core blockchain infrastructure services, including indexers, event processors, block explorers, and chain data services.
  • Contribute to wallet architecture and development, including blockchain-facing wallet services and transaction creation/signing workflows.
  • Share responsibility for custody-related blockchain workflows, including on-chain transaction execution and event monitoring.
  • Help define safe patterns for interacting with smart contracts and token standards from custody platforms.
  • Apply modern engineering practices to build reliable, testable, and observable blockchain services.

Required Qualifications

  • 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
  • Hands-on experience building or integrating blockchain or distributed ledger systems.
  • Strong understanding of Layer-1 blockchain protocols and transaction lifecycles.
  • Experience building backend services, APIs, and infrastructure components.
  • Proficiency in one or more languages such as Go, Java, Rust, or Python.
  • Ability to work effectively across custody, security, and platform teams.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with blockchain indexers, explorers, or chain analytics systems.
  • Familiarity with wallet architecture and blockchain signing workflows.
  • Exposure to crypto custody platforms or security-sensitive financial systems.
  • Strong debugging instincts in distributed, asynchronous environments.
  • Experience using AI tooling to support complex software development.

What Success Looks Like

  • Blockchain integrations are predictable, observable, and resilient.
  • Wallet and transaction pipelines behave correctly across normal and edge-case chain conditions.
  • Custody systems interact with blockchains safely and consistently.
  • Incidents related to blockchain dependencies are well understood and quickly diagnosed.

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