Technical Architect

Summary

The job is for a Technical Architect role at IOHK's Atala Tribe focusing on the Identity Platform. The role involves leading technical architecture aspects of the Atala suite of identity products and contributing to architectural decisions and design of solutions.

Requirements

• Engineering or Computer Science Graduate
• 5+ years of experience in the software industry
• 3+ years of experience developing technical architecture
• 3+ years experience in designing and implementing distributed, asynchronous, and event-driven architectures
• Strong understanding and, ideally, practical experience with high availability and horizontal scalability strategies
• 3+ years of experience with AWS
• 1+ years in the crypto/blockchain industry
• 3+ years of experience with Jira and GitHub
• Experience working with remote teams
• Have an interest in mentoring, coaching, and developing rising technical talent
• Excellent leadership and communication skills
• Functional programming experience
• Open-minded and horizontal team management
• Ability to define, negotiate and execute on a roadmap
• Ability to read, understand and contribute to academic/research publications
• Ability to design and comprehend state-of-the-art blockchain architecture
• Ability to comprehend and integrate bleeding-edge cryptographic primitives and formal methods
• Vast knowledge and expertise in distributed systems engineering and blockchain systems architecture

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical architecture aspects of the Atala suite of identity products
• Work with other Technical Architects to deliver foundational components and tools for the IOG blockchain, identity, and DeFi Ecosystem
• Define the architecture of the Atala identity offerings, including multiple deployment targets, multiple value-added services, and novel Web3 capability
• Work closely with research, product management, and engineering to develop next-generation architectures and components that are modular and reusable by members of the Atala Ecosystem
• Assist research by providing simulations, prototypes, and feedback on feasibility
• Work with product management to capture and formalize requirements, produce specifications, develop an architecture, and work closely with engineering leads to turn the architecture into a production system

Preferred Qualifications

3+ years of experience with programming in SCALA, Haskell, or Rust, desired

Benefits

• Remote work
• Laptop reimbursement
• New starter package to buy hardware essentials (headphones, monitor, etc)
• Learning & Development opportunities
• Competitive PTO