Solutions Architect - TradFi & Digital Asset Systems
About The Position
The Solutions Architect is a specialist who has built and scaled TradFi systems and can apply that architectural judgment to the design of digital asset platforms. This role requires fluency in system design and architecture for both traditional finance and digital assets, including custody ledger structure, settlement system architecture for resilience and finality, and how these principles translate to on-chain assets. The individual will understand tokenization at a mechanical level, covering asset representation, issuance, transfer, and settlement, and will be able to architect a complete digital asset platform from end to end. This is a client-facing role requiring interaction with Tier-1 institutional engineers and executives, defending design decisions, and making critical architectural calls in ambiguous situations.
Requirements
- Proven track record building and scaling TradFi systems at meaningful scale — at a bank, exchange, custodian, or major financial infrastructure provider
- Deep, applied understanding of system design and architecture principles as they apply to both TradFi and digital asset systems
- True fluency in tokenization — able to explain and design how it works mechanically, and how it fits into a broader institutional platform
- Experience architecting a full digital asset platform (custody, settlement, tokenization, trading), not just a single component
- Specialist-level technical depth; comfortable being the senior-most technical voice in the room on architecture
- Client-facing experience with Tier-1 institutions, fluent from a whiteboard session with engineers to a C-suite briefing
- Founder-grade agency and low ego — comfortable making hard design calls in ambiguous, high-stakes settings
Nice To Haves
- Hands-on experience building blockchain infrastructure or tokenization platforms
- Prior architecture leadership at a custodian, exchange, clearinghouse, or Tier-1 bank
- Hands-on production LLM or AI agent experience
Responsibilities
- Own the technical architecture for custom build engagements spanning custody, settlement, tokenization, and trading infrastructure
- Design and articulate how a full digital asset platform is architected end to end — from asset issuance and tokenization through custody, settlement, trading, and reporting
- Bring deep TradFi systems experience into digital asset architecture decisions — identifying where legacy patterns transfer directly and where they need to be reinvented
- Serve as the primary technical and architectural point of contact for Tier-1 institutional stakeholders, running technical discovery and defending design decisions with client engineers and executives
- Partner with Product partners to translate requirements into sound architecture, and with engineering to set the technical bar and make hard design calls
- Explain and defend tokenization mechanics — how assets are represented, issued, transferred, and settled on-chain versus off-chain — to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Stay hands-on: review designs and code, prototype where it de-risks a decision, and remain credible with the engineers doing the build
- Embrace and champion the thoughtful adoption of AI tools to improve team performance, decision-making, and output quality
Benefits
- Competitive base salary and discretionary bonus
- Hybrid/Flexible Working Arrangements
- Flexible Time Off (paid)
- 3% 401(k) company contribution
- Company-paid health and protective benefits for employees, partners, and other dependents
- Generous paid Parental Leave
- Competitive family planning benefits for US employees
- Opportunities to learn about the Crypto industry
- Smart, entrepreneurial, and fun colleagues
- Free daily snacks and weekly breakfasts/lunches
- Employee Resource Groups
- Free coaching and counseling sessions through Headspace
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
