VP - Smart Contract Architect

About the role

We’re seeking a future team member for the role of Vice President / Smart Contract Architect to join our Digital Infrastructure and Software Engineering team. This role is in [Location]. In this role, you’ll make an impact in the following ways:

Responsibilities

• Help design, build, and improve secure, resilient distributed systems and software solutions that support modern financial infrastructure, digital asset platforms, and mission-critical business services.
• Design, build, and support smart contract and distributed application capabilities that enable secure, scalable, and reliable financial services solutions.
• Contribute to the architecture, design, and implementation of blockchain-based platforms supporting settlement, liquidity management, payments, and tokenized cash solutions.
• Support secure software engineering practices across Solidity/EVM-based systems, backend services, and full-stack delivery environments.
• Partner with engineering teams, product stakeholders, and business leaders to translate complex requirements into production-ready technical solutions.
• Implement strong engineering controls through security hardening, third-party audit remediation, and standards-aligned software design.
• Develop and support distributed applications, smart contract tooling, and engineering automation capabilities across modern software delivery environments.
• Enable engineering teams through technical leadership, documentation, knowledge-sharing, and practical guidance that improves adoption of best practices.
• Support reliability, troubleshooting, performance improvement, and operational readiness for business-critical systems and platforms.
• Contribute to platform and tooling evaluation to improve developer experience, maintainability, security posture, and long-term scalability.
• Work with stakeholders across engineering, operations, and product teams to ensure timely and effective technical execution.

Requirements

• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Highly self-motivated and proactive.
• Strong focus on reliability, maintainability, and software quality.
• Able to work effectively in distributed teams and fast-paced environments.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Commitment to continuous learning and operational excellence.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree or equivalent practical experience in Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Research background or additional expertise in secure systems, distributed systems, or applied software engineering is a plus.
• Experience Strong experience in software engineering within high-performing technical teams, with specialization in blockchain systems and smart contract engineering.
• Experience designing and implementing Solidity/EVM-based solutions for institutional finance, settlement, liquidity, and payment platforms.
• Strong familiarity with secure smart contract development, architecture, audit preparation, and remediation of security findings.
• Familiarity with infrastructure and engineering tooling including Go, JavaScript, Python, SQL, Git, and blockchain development frameworks such as Foundry, Hardhat, Truffle, OpenZeppelin, GoQuorum, and Hyperledger Besu.
• Experience with distributed applications, backend engineering, and full-stack delivery across modern software environments.
• Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills across complex technical environments.
• Experience supporting engineering enablement through technical leadership, mentoring, and knowledge-sharing.
• Exposure to AI-assisted software development, LLM tooling, or developer productivity tooling is an advantage.
• Experience working across remote or cross-functional teams in delivery-focused engineering environments.
• Experience in distributed financial infrastructure, tokenized cash, wholesale settlement, or multi-network transaction platforms is highly desirable.

Benefits

Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our ‘Welcome Packet’ as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.