Senior Software Engineer - Financial Engineering

About Digital Asset & the Canton Network
Digital Asset builds the technologies that are reshaping the foundations of financial markets. Our mission is to create the world’s most trusted, privacy-enabled, and interoperable digital infrastructure for global finance.

At the heart of this mission is the Canton Network — the blockchain purpose-built for institutional finance. Uniquely combining privacy, compliance, and scalability, Canton enables real-time, secure settlement across multiple asset classes. Governed by the Canton Foundation with participation from leading financial institutions, it is the proven link between the promise of blockchain and the power of global finance.

Founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York City, with offices in London, Zurich, Budapest, Hong Kong, and Sydney — we are on a mission to transform finance — and that transformation is now playing out rapidly on the Canton Network.

If you’re interested in playing a crucial role at the intersection of traditional and crypto-capital markets and want to help bring the next trillion dollars of finance on-chain, join us.

Responsibilities

The Financial Engineering team is responsible for designing, building and operating mission-critical financial workflows - such as Asset Tokenization, Collateral Management, Credentials and more - on the Canton Network. Our solutions leverage the foundational technologies of Digital Asset’s platform for the Canton Network, including the Canton blockchain, the Daml smart contract language and a range of complementary components.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Financial Engineering team, you will have the unique opportunity to architect and implement innovative distributed financial solutions, as well as operate production-grade, mission-critical systems for our clients. You will work across the full technology stack while collaborating closely with product teams to influence the evolution of our platform. Your work will encompass diverse and challenging areas such as solution design, financial modeling and large-scale distributed system development.

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• Build and ship great software: Contribute hands-on across our Scala / TypeScript / Daml codebases - writing clean, reliable and maintainable code that moves our product forward.
• Bring your technical depth: Use your experience in engineering, architecture and production systems to help the team make smart, scalable decisions.
• Collaborate from idea to delivery: Be part of planning, design, and implementation discussions - shaping solutions that balance technical excellence with real-world impact.
• Help others grow: Review code, share feedback and mentor teammates. Raise the bar by leading with curiosity, empathy, and a focus on continuous improvement.
• Build with everyone in mind: We’re a team that thrives on diverse perspectives and shared ownership where every voice matters and everyone plays a key role in our success.

NO AGENCIES PLEASE!

Requirements

• Proven engineering depth: You’re an experienced polyglot developer with 5+ years of demonstrated experience, whether through open-source contributions or real-world production systems with a track record of building things that matter.
• Production focused: You’ve designed, built and deployed systems that run in production and understand what it takes to keep them reliable and scalable.
• Committed to sustainable, high-quality development: You care about design excellence and back it up with robust testing practices — leveraging modern automation tools and methodologies to keep quality high and code maintainable.
• Systems designer: Experience with distributed systems, blockchains, security protocols, or cryptography is a plus.
• Technical experience: You hold a Master’s or PhD in computer science (or related field); or bring equivalent experience that demonstrates deep technical skill and curiosity.
• Functional mindset: Experience with functional programming is nice to have, but what matters most is clean, thoughtful and expressive code.
• Strong communicator: You can explain complex ideas clearly - in code, in writing, and in conversation. Experience writing technical documentation is a bonus.
• Financial prowess: Familiarity with financial markets or related systems is a bonus, but not required - we value an eagerness to learn just as much as prior domain knowledge.
• Hybrid role based in Switzerland, the UK, Hungary or Hong Kong.
• Consider applying even when you do not match all criteria as we are open to applications from different seniority levels.

Benefits

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We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the well-being of our team members. Health and insurance benefits vary by region to ensure local relevance and compliance, and may include medical, dental, and vision coverage.

Digital Asset is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, religion, sexual orientation, age, disability, citizenship status, veteran status or any other basis protected by applicable law. If and as required by applicable law, all persons hired to work at Digital Asset will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the location for which they have an offer to work and to complete the necessary employment eligibility verification documents upon hire. Applicants with disabilities who require accommodation should contact [email protected].

As part of our commitment to equal opportunity, Digital Asset believes that all employees should receive equal pay for equal work and is committed to this principle in its pay structure. DA also offers family-friendly benefits in addition to flexible work arrangements.