Blockchain Developer

About Us

Alfred Capital - Alfred Capital is a next-generation on-chain proprietary quantitative trading technology provider, pioneering fully autonomous algorithmic systems that reshape trading and capital allocation in decentralized finance. 

As a sister company of Deqode — a 400+ person blockchain innovation powerhouse — we operate at the cutting edge of quant research, distributed infrastructure, and high-frequency execution.

What We Build

• Alpha Discovery via On‑Chain Intelligence — Developing trading signals using blockchain data, CEX/DEX markets, and protocol mechanics.
• DeFi-Native Execution Agents — Automated systems that execute trades across decentralized platforms.
• ML-Augmented Infrastructure — Machine learning pipelines for real-time prediction, execution heuristics, and anomaly detection.
• High-Throughput Systems — Resilient, low-latency engines that operate 24/7 across EVM and non-EVM chains tuned for high-frequency trading (HFT) and real-time response
• Data-Driven MEV Analysis & Strategy — We analyze mempools, order flow, and validator behaviors to identify and capture MEV opportunities ethically—powering strategies that interact deeply with the mechanics of block production and inclusion.

Evaluation Process

• HR Discussion – A brief conversation to understand your motivation and alignment with the role.
• Initial Technical Interview – A quick round focused on fundamentals and problem-solving approach.
• Take-Home Assignment – Assesses research ability, learning agility, and structured thinking.
• Assignment Presentation – Deep-dive into your solution, design choices, and technical reasoning.
• Final Interview – A concluding round to explore your background, interests, and team fit in depth.
• Optional Interview – In specific cases, an additional round may be scheduled to clarify certain aspects or conduct further assessment before making a final decision.

Job Description : Blockchain Data & ML Engineer

As a Blockchain Data & ML Engineer, you’ll work on ingesting and modelling on-chain behaviour, building scalable data pipelines, and designing systems that support intelligent, autonomous market interaction.

What You’ll Work On

• Build and maintain ETL pipelines for ingesting and processing blockchain data.
• Assist in designing, training, and validating machine learning models for prediction and anomaly detection.
• Evaluate model performance, tune hyperparameters, and document experimental results.
• Develop monitoring tools to track model accuracy, data drift, and system health.
• Collaborate with infrastructure and execution teams to integrate ML components into production systems.
• Design and maintain databases and storage systems to efficiently manage large-scale datasets.

Ideal Traits

• Strong in data structures, algorithms, and core CS fundamentals.
• Proficiency in any programming language
• Familiarity with backend systems, APIs, and database design, along with a basic    understanding of machine learning and blockchain fundamentals.
• Curiosity about how blockchain systems and crypto markets work under the hood.
• Self-motivated, eager to experiment and learn in a dynamic environment.

Bonus Points For

• Hands-on experience with pandas, numpy, scikit-learn, or PyTorch.
• Side projects involving automated ML workflows, ETL pipelines, or crypto protocols.
• Participation in hackathons or open-source contributions.

What You’ll Gain

• Cutting-Edge Tech Stack: You'll work on modern infrastructure and stay up to date with the latest trends in technology.
• Idea-Driven Culture: We welcome and encourage fresh ideas. Your input is valued, and you're empowered to make an impact from day one.
• Ownership & Autonomy: You’ll have end-to-end ownership of projects. We trust our team and give them the freedom to make meaningful decisions.
• Impact-Focused: Your work won’t be buried under bureaucracy. You’ll see it go live and make a difference in days, not quarters

What We Value:

• Craftsmanship over shortcuts: We appreciate engineers who take the time to understand the problem deeply and build durable solutions—not just quick fixes.
• Depth over haste: If you're the kind of person who enjoys going one level deeper to really "get" how something works, you'll thrive here.
• Invested mindset: We're looking for people who don't just punch tickets, but care about the long-term success of the systems they build.
• Curiosity with follow-through: We admire those who take the time to explore and validate new ideas, not just skim the surface.

Compensation:

• INR 6 - 12 LPA
• Performance Bonuses: Linked to contribution, delivery, and impact.

• 4+ years of development experience and at least 1 year of smart contract developer experience in solidity
• Solid experience in delivering resilient and secure code in Solidity
• Knowledge and experience of the test-driven development
• Very good understanding of the Blockchain technologies, especially Ethereum
• Familiar with the common Smart Contract vulnerabilities
• Solid understanding about Ethereum infrastructure, e.g. like Gnosis, TheGraph

Responsibilities:

• Develop application functionality using various coding languages.
• Setting security measures against various types of cybercrimes.
• Maintain client and server-side applications.
• Train the fellow team members on blockchain technology.
• Attend meetings, brainstorm sessions, and daily standup for enhancing your knowledge of new technologies.
• Adhering to all the rules and regulations of data protection for digital payments.
• Staying updated with the latest crypto technologies for data protection.

Required Skills:

• 6+ years of exp in Designing, developing, and testing blockchain systems.
• Ability to write efficient and modular code.
• Good exp in preparing documentation on the blockchain development processes.
• Securing the blockchain network with new technologies.
• Utilize cryptography techniques to protect against hackers and other cyber attacks.

Requirements

Responsibilities

Hiring Process

• Build and deploy architecture for complex blockchain solutions.
• Maintain and extend current client- and server-side applications responsible for integration and business logic
• Be involved in the global blockchain community—work on implementing and integrating the latest improvement proposals
• Build cross-chain bridges.
• Building on-chain governance

• Strong software development background.
• Experience in Solidity.
• Worked with Defi offerings such as staking, farming, flash loans, etc.
• Experience with building on Ethereum & Matic.
• Strong knowledge of concurrency and writing efficient and safe multithreaded code
• Strong knowledge of common algorithms and data structures
• Familiarity with basic cryptography
• Familiarity with P2P networks
• Strong knowledge of bitcoin-like blockchains

• building an ERC-20 token with an in-built unlock schedule.
• building a smart contract to accept a certain ERC-20 token and take actions based on it
• farming/staking system
• collateral-based lending
• cross chain development
• on-chain governance
• Deploying NFTs

• Remote first company
• Quarterly appraisal and bonus
• Health insurance Benefits of INR 5,00,000
• Employee professional development - Each employee has 5% of their monthly remuneration, annually to spend on educational activities or material
• Flexible working hour

And much more...

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Responsible for Blockchain evaluation, smart contract development, implementation supporting the digital strategy group initiatives.
• Must have hands-on experience using Solidity.
• Experience in setting up Blockchain nodes and networks.
• Design and develop the architecture of Blockchain Solutions from a systemic standpoint.
• Responsible for creating technical solution architecture for a given business problem.
• Responsible for quality of the application and implements necessary checks and balances via peer review, code scans, automated tests.
• Set the standards for design and development.
• Oversees, maintains,s and supports existing software applications.
• Provide subject matter expertise in reviewing, analyzing, and resolving complex issues.
• Prepare user and systems documentation as needed.
• Design & implement Blockchain solutions which may run on Blockchain platforms and composed of multiple software packages based on Solution Architect.
• Lead a team of Blockchain juniors/trainees.
• Work with product managers and other product teams.
• Well versed in using GitHub.
• Should be flexible to explore different blockchains be it Ethereum, Ripple, Tron, AVA, Multichain, etc

• Writing and Understand smart contracts using Solidity 
• Write backend APIs using Next JS, Node JS
• Experience is cross chain development, block chain oracles, multi sig is desirable
• Thorough understanding of block chain components.
• Thorugh understanding of IDO process, Swapping protocols, Tokenomics
• Understanding of Docker, Kubernetes , Cloud technologies like AWS , GCP is highly desirable.

About Mastercard

We are the global technology company behind the world’s fastest payments processing network.

We are a vehicle for commerce, a connection to financial systems for the previously excluded, a technology innovation lab, and the home of Priceless.

We ensure every employee has the opportunity to be a part of something bigger and to change lives.

We believe as our company grows, so should you.

We believe in connecting everyone to endless, priceless possibilities.

Overview Services and Data is helping to shape the future of data insights by leveraging billions of anonymized, aggregated transactions in a 10 petabyte date warehouse to help financial institutions, merchants, media, and governments manage their businesses more effectively.

Advanced Analytics is charged with servicing clients by centralizing and optimizing the world class analytical, modeling, software coding, data sourcing, product development, product management, econometrics, and associated delivery capabilities of the MasterCard Advisors organization.

It focuses on creating innovative technology solutions which leverage technology in the data science, artificial intelligence and analytics arenas; on enabling the field with industrialized, repeatable products and on researching and incubating emerging technology to determine how they might apply to our customers and facilitate positive outcomes.

What we are re looking for

• Are you motivated by developing new Analytical skills, leading to insights into issues and developing recommendations that add real value to clients?
• Have you managed the client independently and effectively?
• Do you want to play a key role in driving a world beyond cash?
• Leading the formulation of artificial intelligence and machine learning solution objectives. Working on technical requirements based on user need.
• Responsible for creating the framework of solutions that take data intensive and complex business challenges and provide easily consumed and automated outcomes
• Using unique visualization techniques, condenses large volumes of complex ideas into elegant and simple visual models
• Determine opportunities to exploit new data sources or leverage new outcomes from existing data sources, by applying new models and algorithms to create business value
• Influences a client's strategic decisions by using deep industry expertise and deploying innovative Deep Learning analytics solutions in the operational systems Leadership Skills
• Works closely with clients/internal stakeholders to understand their business needs and design a technical solution
• Proving viability of the solution through mechanisms like proof-of-concepts
• Thought Leadership in AI – Developing compelling audience-specific messages and tools. Capture and share best practices and insights internally and with partners and customers.
• Self-driven, energetic, creative with ability to work in global teams.
• Excellent communication skills and a wide knowledge base, to convince the Stakeholders on application of AI/ML
• Provide technical leadership to the team members in relevant topics on AI/ML
• Adaptable - Takes in stride and constantly attunes to the changing needs of a highly dynamic business
• Curious - our key contributors are always seeking to grow their knowledge, to gain new perspectives, and to find better ways forward by researching and showcasing latest AI tools, techniques and applications
• Tenacious - self-starters who will take ownership of projects and bring them to completion despite difficulties or setbacks
• Consulting and Project Management Experience preferred

Functional and Technical Skills

• Experience in building and implementing AI application in any of the two domains - Fraud, risk, marketing, finance, operations for Banks, Fintech, Ecommerce, merchants or retailers
• Has a deep understanding of business value industry requirements and advanced analytic models (statistical, operations research, computing process)
• Responsible for building applications using artificial intelligence/machine learning technology, applying latest industrial and academic developments, prefer Kaggle hackathon participant
• Expertise in deep learning frameworks for Production Systems like Tensorflow, Keras (for RPD and neural net architecture evaluation), PyTorch and Xgboost, Caffe, Theono
• Proficient in Deep Learning algorithm techniques like Random Forest, GBM, KNN, SVM, Bayesian, Text Mining techniques, Multilayer Perceptron, Neural Networks – Feedforward, CNN, LSTM’s GRU’s.
• Optimization techniques – Activity regularization (L1 and L2), Adam, Adagrad, Adadelta concepts; Cost Functions in Neural Nets – Contrastive Loss, Hinge Loss, Binary Cross entropy, Categorical Cross entropy; developed applications in KRR, NLP, Speech and Image processing
• Expertise in classical Machine Learning algorithms like Logistic Regression, Decision trees, Clustering (K-means, Hierarchical and Self-organizing Maps), TSNE, PCA, Bayesian models, Time Series ARIMA/ARMA, Recommender Systems - Collaborative Filtering, FPMC, FISM, Fossil etc
• Extensive experience in statistical tools and programming environments like Python, R, SAS, SQL
• Experience with BIG DATA platforms - Hadoop, Hive, Spark, GPU Clusters for deep learning

Qualifications

• Minimum Graduate degree in Mathematics/Computer Science/Engineering