Blockchain Developer

Iris's client, one of the American multinational financial services companies is looking to hire a Crypto/Blockchain Engineer- Tokenization for a contract to hire opportunity based in Austin, TX/Southlake, TX / San Francisco, CA (3-4 Days onsite/week).

Our Client offers banking, commercial banking, an electronic trading platform, and wealth management advisory services to both retail and institutional clients. It has over 360 branches, primarily in financial centers in the United States and the United Kingdom.

Job Title: Crypto/Blockchain Engineer- Tokenization

Location: Austin, TX /Southlake, TX / San Francisco, CA (3-4 Days onsite/week)

Long Term W2 contract to hire

Must-have

• 5+ years of software engineering experience building distributed systems, backend platforms, financial systems, blockchain infrastructure, custody platforms, trading systems, or high-scale transaction systems.
• Strong hands-on Web3 engineering experience.
• Deep understanding of Ethereum/EVM, including smart contracts, ABI encoding, transaction lifecycle, gas/fee handling, nonce management, logs/events, confirmations, and finality.
• Experience building backend services that interact with blockchain nodes, wallets, smart contracts, signing systems, or custody platforms.
• Experience with JSON-RPC, WebSocket subscriptions, blockchain event indexing, smart-contract integration, transaction monitoring, and blockchain data models.
• Strong understanding of wallet infrastructure, transaction signing, address management, custody concepts, and key-management patterns.
• Strong backend engineering skills in one or more languages such as Java, Go, Kotlin, TypeScript, Rust, Python, or C++.
• Experience with APIs, microservices, event-driven architecture, messaging systems, cloud-native engineering, and production operations.
• Ability to independently own complex engineering problems from design through production delivery.
• Experience with Canton, Daml, validator/participant concepts, DAR deployment, or institutional blockchain workflows.

Key Responsibilities

Web3 Platform Engineering

• Design and build reusable Web3 platform services for tokenization, transaction processing, blockchain connectivity, wallet integration, event ingestion, indexing, and token lifecycle management.
• Build backend services that interact with blockchain nodes, smart contracts, signing systems, custody platforms, and off-chain systems.
• Develop common blockchain abstraction layers that can support multiple networks, including Besu, Canton, Ethereum/EVM, Layer 2 networks, permissioned chains, and future enterprise blockchain platforms.

Build integrations with Hyperledger Besu, Ethereum-compatible networks, and permissioned EVM chains.

• Implement blockchain connectivity using JSON-RPC, WebSocket subscriptions, ABI encoding/decoding, event logs, transaction submission, transaction status tracking, and smart-contract queries.
• Support engineering patterns for Canton/Daml-based blockchain networks, including validator or participant connectivity, application package lifecycle, transaction authorization, and workflow integration.
• Work with Daml application concepts, including DAR package deployment, versioning, installation validation, and application enablement.
• Build or integrate services that support Canton-style workflows, institutional transaction authorization, wallet integration, and node connectivity.
• Partner with platform, infrastructure, and operations teams to evaluate Canton validator strategies, including self-hosted and provider-operated models where applicable.

Smart Contract & Tokenization Integration Engineering

• Design, develop, integrate, and review smart contracts for tokenized asset and programmable workflow use cases.
• Work with Solidity, EVM token standards, upgradeable contracts, proxy patterns, access-control models, permissioned-token designs, and contract event models.
• Build smart-contract interaction layers that manage ABI encoding, calldata construction, transaction simulation, event decoding, and contract state reads.
• Establish engineering standards for smart-contract development, testing, deployment, versioning, rollback planning, and production change governance.
• Support smart-contract security practices, including threat modeling, static analysis, fuzzing, invariant testing, and secure deployment pipelines.

Wallet, Signing & Transaction Orchestration Integration

• Integrate with institutional wallet, custody, signing, and authorization platforms that support tokenized asset workflows.
• Design transaction orchestration workflows covering request validation, policy checks, approval routing, signing, submission, confirmation tracking, retries, exception handling, and audit logging.
• Support address or account registration, transaction limits, allowlists, signing policies, approval workflows, an operational controls.

About Iris Software Inc.

With 4,000+ associates and offices in India, U.S.A. and Canada, Iris Software delivers technology services and solutions that help clients complete fast, far-reaching digital transformations and achieve their business goals. A strategic partner to Fortune 500 and other top companies in financial services and many other industries, Iris provides a value-driven approach - a unique blend of highly-skilled specialists, software engineering expertise, cutting-edge technology, and flexible engagement models. High customer satisfaction has translated into long-standing relationships and preferred-partner status with many of our clients, who rely on our 30+ years of technical and domain expertise to future-proof their enterprises. Associates of Iris work on mission-critical applications supported by a workplace culture that has won numerous awards in the last few years, including Certified Great Place to Work in India; Top 25 GPW in IT & IT-BPM; Ambition Box Best Place to Work, #3 in IT/ITES; and Top Workplace NJ-USA.