Job Description
We are seeking a dynamic Senior Solutions Architect to drive innovation in the development of Open Internet Services on ICP.
You will play a pivotal role in collaborating with a diverse community of developers, entrepreneurs, and enterprises to shape the future of software.
Your mission is to be at the pulse of the ICP and greater crypto ecosystem to identify and resolve gaps in infrastructure, tooling, standards, and best practices to maximize impact.
Key Responsibilities
* Understand the goals of promising builders and help them achieve success.
* Identify important gaps in the ICP platform, infrastructure, and standards across verticals, and address them by working with Product and R&D, as well as external developers via Request for Proposals (RFPs).
* Lead and contribute to Technical Working Groups to bring stakeholders together and create new standards and improve processes.
* Distill best practices for building on ICP and share them in technical documentation, articles, demos, and tutorials.
* Engage with developers in the broader crypto ecosystem to understand how ICP can meet their needs.
Requirements
* Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, or equivalent experience.
* 5+ years of experience as a software engineer and/or architect.
* Strong background and understanding of the crypto ecosystem, its technical underpinnings, and its most promising applications.
* Fast learner, always up-to-date with the latest developments in the crypto ecosystem.
* Active listener, able to fully understand someone's problem.
* Leverage effective communication skills to lead meetings with different stakeholders and get things done.
* Solicit and incorporate constructive feedback from stakeholders.
* Treat challenges as opportunities to learn and grow.
* Share honest opinions to improve team performance.
* Invest in improving personal workflow and contribute to team success.
* Effectively collaborate with coworkers across multiple sites and time zones.
About DFINITY and the Internet Computer
The Internet Computer is an infinitely scalable general-purpose blockchain incubated and launched by the DFINITY Foundation in May 2021.
A team of over 200 world-renowned cryptographers, distributed systems engineers, and programming language experts have built, maintained, and continuously improved a 'world computer' powerful enough to host Web3 dApps, DeFi, games, NFTs, social media, and metaverse projects.
DFINITY was founded in 2016 by entrepreneur and crypto theoretician, Dominic Williams, and attracted interest and financial contributions from early members of the Ethereum community.
Top-tier institutions such as Andreessen Horowitz, Polychain Capital, and SV Angel backed the Internet Computer in a collective effort to build out Web3.
DFINITY values diversity and promotes equal opportunities for all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.