Team Lead

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.

About the role:

The Team Lead is responsible for leading, directing, and managing a team to deliver on large, complex, multi-component features and products, requiring team collaboration and a clear view of our customers' needs. These projects often span domains and teams. The Team Lead understands DA products with both breadth and depth. The Team Lead also has HR responsibilities for the members of their team, giving continual feedback, writing reviews, and helping team members progress in their careers.

Responsibilities:

• Leads and manages a team of engineers to deliver high-quality and thoroughly tested solutions that follow our coding standards and organizational practices 
• Able to break down work into achievable tasks for the team members
• Decomposes and sequences tasks across team members and communicates these tasks effectively both verbally and in writing
• Reduces project risk by understanding cross-team and cross-component dependencies
• Works collaboratively with other technical leaders, including product management and engineering leaders (feature leads, technical leads, and directors)
• Handles a  scope of accountability and planning of three to six months
• Works with DA management to turn company strategy into actionable plans
• Contributes directly to project deliverables and new product features delivery, via design and implementation work. In doing so, acts as a role model within their team
• Responsible for team culture and morale, creating a positive work environment for all team members, including a culture of healthy feedback and mutual respect
• Responsible for improving team efficiency
• Provides regular feedback to team members to improve their productivity, quality, and overall impact. Collects inputs, writes, and presents annual performance reviews
• Helps team members grow, develop, and advance their careers

What We're Looking For:

• Has a broad and deep understanding of Daml and Canton
• MS or PhD in computer science or a related discipline or equivalent experience
• Strong understanding of scalable, distributed systems, and event-driven systems
• Strong architectural and systems leadership and design thinking
• Able to work across teams and geographies
• Able to accurately estimate projects
• Has in-depth knowledge in at least one of the functional programming languages, ideally Scala or Haskell 
• Able to review code and program in multiple languages, including but not limited to Scala, Haskell, Java, Go, and Daml
• Fluent using Git and GitHub source code management tools
• Committed to delivering high-quality solutions
• A company leader in their domain of expertise.  Competent in multiple domains of the Daml product and continually expanding their knowledge and expertise.  Able to troubleshoot and optimize both within their domain.
• Location: Based in Zurich, Switzerland.

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At Digital Asset, we are committed to compensation structures that reward impact consistently across our global teams. We support our people at every stage of life with comprehensive, family-forward benefits and flexible working models designed to help you do your best work.

Benefits 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. 

Equal Opportunity EmployerDigital Asset is an equal opportunity employer committed. 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.

Employment Eligibility 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.

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