{"id":2497283,"url":"https://alion.io/job/marketnode-tech-lead-digital-assets","title":"Tech Lead - Digital Assets","company":{"id":175206,"name":"Marketnode","domain":"marketnode.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/marketnode","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workable","truth_index":null},"role":"Leadership","role_family":"Leadership","seniority":"lead","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Singapore"],"countries":["SG"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":52000,"max_usd":110000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":30},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Azure","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"Smart Contracts","optional":false},{"name":"Solana","optional":false},{"name":"Solidity","optional":false},{"name":"Stellar","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-29T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-29","last_verified_at":"2026-10-14T20:34:37Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":15,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":15},"description":"Marketnode is Asia-Pacific’s digital market infrastructure (DMI) operator, backed by Euroclear, HSBC, SGX Group and Temasek.\nWe bring together data, networks and access capabilities to help financial institutions turn data into operational intelligence, streamline transactions through shared networks, and bring funds, structured products and credit to market faster - across both traditional and digitally native formats.\nAt Marketnode, you’ll be part of a growing, international team working at the intersection of technology and financial markets. We value people who are curious, take ownership of their work, collaborate openly and enjoy solving meaningful problems.\nWe are looking for an exceptional technology builder to take ownership of the technology underpinning our digital-assets and Real-World Asset tokenisation business. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who wants to remain close to the technology while growing as an engineering leader. You will spend approximately half your time designing, building and reviewing solutions, demonstrating what excellent engineering looks like and leading the team by example. The remainder of your time will be focused on technical strategy, architecture, team leadership, product collaboration and delivery.\nYou will take ownership of an existing platform spanning RWA tokenisation, smart contracts, blockchain networks, Fireblocks integrations and the off-chain systems required to support real-world financial products. You will jointly shape the product and technology roadmap with Product and work closely with the Senior Delivery Manager to turn that roadmap into reliable delivery.\nThe role requires someone who can connect Web3 technology with the realities of Web2 systems, regulated financial services and real-world operations. Tokenised products still depend on off-chain data, approvals, controls, legal events, reconciliations and operational processes. You will ensure these components work together as a secure, coherent and scalable platform.\nKey responsibilities\nHands-on technical leadership\nRemain actively involved in architecture, software development, smart-contract development and code review.\nDemonstrate high engineering standards through your own designs, code, testing and documentation.\nWork alongside engineers to solve complex technical problems and unblock delivery.\nEstablish practical standards for software design, code quality, testing, documentation and maintainability.\nMake thoughtful build-versus-buy decisions and guide the selection of technologies, frameworks and integration patterns.\nStay current with developments in blockchain, digital assets, AI-assisted engineering and financial technology.\nCreate a culture in which technical leaders remain close enough to the work to make informed decisions.\nPlatform and architecture ownership\nTake end-to-end technical ownership of the existing digital-assets and RWA tokenisation platform.\nDefine and evolve the target architecture in support of the business and product strategy.\nEnsure the platform is secure, scalable, resilient, observable and maintainable.\nOwn the technical integration of blockchain networks, smart contracts, custody infrastructure, product applications and off-chain services.\nEstablish appropriate architectural principles and review processes without creating unnecessary bureaucracy.\nMaintain a clear view of technical debt and ensure it is considered alongside new product development.\nHave the authority to approve technical designs and reject approaches that do not meet agreed security, quality or architectural standards.\nMulti-chain and smart-contract development\nLead the design and development of blockchain solutions across EVM-compatible networks, Stellar and Solana.\nMaintain deep expertise in at least one of these ecosystems and sufficient knowledge to lead engineering decisions across all three.\nLead smart-contract development using Solidity and the relevant languages and frameworks for Stellar and Solana.\nGuide the use and implementation of token standards suitable for regulated assets, including permissioning, identity controls and transfer restrictions.\nDefine standards for smart-contract design, testing, deployment, upgrades and monitoring.\nCoordinate independent smart-contract reviews and audits where required.\nEnsure on-chain logic is appropriately separated from off-chain business processes and controls.\nRWA tokenisation lifecycle\nOwn the technical capabilities supporting the full lifecycle of tokenised real-world assets.\nSupport issuance, investor eligibility, identity and allowlisting, transfer controls, corporate actions, distributions, redemptions, reconciliation and secondary transfers.\nDesign solutions that accurately connect on-chain assets with their underlying legal and financial records.\nAccount for off-chain events such as approvals, document execution, payment confirmation, asset servicing and exception handling.\nEnsure that on-chain and off-chain states remain consistent, traceable and auditable.\nWork with Product, Operations, Legal and Compliance to translate product and regulatory requirements into robust technical solutions.\nCustody\nEnsure transaction workflows, wallet interactions, signing requests and application integrations are secure and reliable.\nUnderstand how custody and transaction controls affect application architecture and the end-to-end user journey.\nWork with internal security, operations and infrastructure specialists on wallet governance, transaction controls and production support.\nManage the technical relationship with Fireblocks and other relevant technology providers when required.\nProduct and roadmap partnership\nJointly own the product and technology roadmap with the Product team.\nBring technical opportunities, constraints, risks and dependencies into product planning.\nHelp Product assess feasibility, sequencing and trade-offs before delivery commitments are made.\nTranslate business and customer needs into coherent technical capabilities.\nChallenge requirements constructively when a simpler, safer or more scalable solution is available.\nEnsure foundational platform work, security improvements and technical debt receive appropriate roadmap consideration.\nSupport future conversations with clients, banks, custodians, partners and other external stakeholders by communicating technical ideas clearly.\nDelivery partnership\nWork closely with the Senior Delivery Manager, who will lead portfolio governance, dependency tracking and delivery reporting.\nOwn technical execution, engineering quality and the credibility of technical estimates.\nEnsure the delivery plan reflects architectural dependencies, security requirements and realistic engineering capacity.\nIdentify technical risks and blockers early and provide clear mitigation or recovery plans.\nMaintain transparency on progress, quality, dependencies and technical debt.\nSupport predictable releases without compromising platform security or engineering standards.\nTeam leadership\nLead, coach and develop an engineering team of approximately 10 people across Singapore and India.\nBuild an engaged, collaborative and high-performing distributed team.\nSet clear expectations for engineering behaviour, ownership, quality and delivery.\nProvide regular feedback, coaching and career-development support.\nCreate an environment in which engineers can challenge ideas, learn from mistakes and continuously improve.\nRaise the capability of the team through mentoring, pairing, design reviews and knowledge sharing.\nParticipate in recruitment and use professional networks to help attract strong digital-asset and engineering talent.\nAssess skills gaps and build a practical plan for developing or hiring the capabilities the business needs.\nSecurity and operational quality\nEmbed secure engineering practices throughout the development lifecycle.\nEnsure appropriate threat modelling, code review, automated testing, vulnerability management and release controls are followed.\nWork with security specialists to coordinate smart-contract audits, penetration testing and remediation.\nEnsure systems handling transactions, keys, wallet requests and sensitive data receive an appropriate level of scrutiny.\nContribute technical leadership during incidents and post-incident reviews.\nEnsure technical decisions and controls can withstand appropriate client, audit and regulatory scrutiny.\nAI-enabled engineering\nIncrease product and engineering throughput through the effective use of AI-assisted development tools.\nLead by example in using AI for software development, testing, code review, documentation, analysis and troubleshooting.\nHelp the team distinguish valuable AI-enabled practices from low-quality or unsafe shortcuts.\nEstablish appropriate controls for confidential information, intellectual property, security and generated code.\nMeasure whether AI tools are improving throughput, quality and developer effectiveness.\nBuild an engineering culture that treats AI capability as an important part of modern software development.\nExperience and qualifications\nAt least eight years of professional software engineering and technology-delivery experience.\nAt least four years of experience leading teams or major technical initiatives in digital assets, blockchain or tokenisation.\nDemonstrated experience taking ownership of a complex existing platform.\nStrong hands-on software engineering and architecture capabilities.\nProduction experience designing and delivering blockchain applications across multiple networks.\nStrong knowledge of EVM-based development, Stellar and Solana, with deep expertise in at least one ecosystem.\nHands-on smart-contract development experience, including Solidity.\nExperience with regulated-token or permissioned-token patterns, such as identity 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executives, clients and non-technical stakeholders.\nPragmatic and commercially aware, with an appreciation of delivery constraints.\nWilling to challenge decisions constructively and take accountability for technical outcomes.\nStrong understanding of security and risk in financial and digital-asset systems.\nEffective at leading distributed, cross-cultural teams.\nCurious, adaptable and committed to continuous learning.\nAble to attract, assess and develop excellent technical talent.\nDesirable experience\nExperience in banking, capital markets, fintech or another regulated financial-services environment.\nFamiliarity with MAS expectations and institutional digital-asset controls.\nExperience working with custodians, banks, issuers, fund managers or financial-market infrastructure providers.\nExperience supporting institutional-grade token issuance and servicing.\nKnowledge of securities, funds, bonds or other commonly tokenised asset classes.\nExperience contributing to client, 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