Lead Solidity Developer

Blockchain Developer

Location: India, Remote

Employment Type: Full-Time / Contract

Department: Engineering

About Us

OpenAssets is building open standards for the next generation of capital markets, providing the trusted foundation for real-world asset tokenization and digital currencies.

We specialize in alternative asset digitization, offering regulatory-conscious tools to design, issue, and manage digital assets in complex financial environments. We also develop loyalty solutions that turn customer engagement into programmable digital assets, helping brands create personalized experiences that drive growth.

OpenAssets operates at the intersection of finance, technology, and regulation focused on building secure, scalable, and open infrastructure for the future of digital markets. Join OpenAssets and be part of shaping the future of digital finance!

Overview

We are seeking a Blockchain Developer to lead the technical implementation of our Web3 infrastructure. In this role, you will be responsible for the end-to-end lifecycle of smart contracts and their integration into our broader financial ecosystem. You will act as a technical authority on blockchain security, scalability, and architecture, ensuring our platform meets the rigorous demands of institutional digital finance.

What You’ll Do

Smart Contract & Blockchain Development

• Design, develop, test, and deploy smart contracts and blockchain applications.
• Build and maintain secure, scalable backend services for blockchain products.
• Develop and maintain cross-platform applications that integrate with on-chain infrastructure.
• Integrate wallets, payment systems, and blockchain APIs with existing systems.
• Optimize for gas efficiency, transaction latency, reliability, and scalability.

Security & Quality

• Implement and uphold best practices for blockchain security and smart contract auditing.
• Review smart contracts and backend code for security vulnerabilities and performance issues.
• Support audits, security reviews, and production releases.
• Maintain high test coverage and disciplined release processes.

Collaboration & Communication

• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to define and deliver technical requirements.
• Communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to a strong engineering culture.
• Stay current with emerging blockchain technologies, DeFi, and Web3 infrastructure trends.

Qualifications & Experience

• Experience: 3+ years of software engineering experience with at least 3+ years of hands-on blockchain/Web3 development.
• Blockchain Core: Strong experience with Solidity and EVM-compatible chains (Ethereum, Polygon, and others).
• Production Deployment: Proven track record building, testing, deploying, and maintaining smart contracts in production.
• Deep Technical Knowledge: Solid understanding of blockchain architecture, including consensus mechanisms, gas optimization, wallet flows, token standards, and transaction lifecycles.
• Full-Stack Proficiency: Good understanding of the MERN stack (MongoDB, Express.js, React, Node.js) and how full-stack applications integrate with blockchain infrastructure.
• Backend Expertise: Proficiency in Node.js and TypeScript with experience building RESTful backend applications.
• Testing & Tooling: Experience with smart contract and backend testing frameworks (e.g., Foundry, Hardhat, Mocha, Jest) and Web3 libraries like Ethers.js or Web3.js.
• Cloud Infrastructure: Hands-on experience with AWS, including deploying, managing, and scaling services like EC2, S3, Lambda, and RDS.
• Databases & DevOps: Comfortable with relational (PostgreSQL) and non-relational (MongoDB) databases, Git, and collaborative development workflows.
• Soft Skills: Strong communication skills in English with the ability to articulate technical concepts to diverse stakeholders.

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with the Move language (Sui, Aptos).
• Experience with smart contract audit tooling such as Slither, Mythril, or Manticore.
• Exposure to RWA tokenization, DeFi, stablecoins, NFTs, staking, or bridging protocols.
• Professional background in fintech, payments, or regulated blockchain use cases.

We are committed to providing equal opportunity for qualified applicants to contract positions, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status. This is a contract opportunity, not a direct employment role.

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.

Quantitative R&D Engineer

As a Quantitative R&D Engineer, you’ll explore data and design logic that becomes live trading strategies. You’ll bridge the gap between raw research and deployed, autonomous capital systems.

What You’ll Work On

• Analyze on-chain and market data to identify inefficiencies and behavioral patterns.
• Develop and prototype systematic trading strategies using statistical and ML-based techniques.
• Contribute to signal research, backtesting infrastructure, and strategy evaluation frameworks.
• Monitor and interpret DeFi protocol mechanics (AMMs, perps, lending markets) for alpha generation.
• Collaborate with engineers to turn research into production-grade, automated trading systems.

Ideal Traits

• Strong in data structures, algorithms, and core CS fundamentals.
• Proficiency in any programming language
• Understanding of probability, statistics, or ML concepts.
• Self-driven and comfortable with ambiguity, iteration, and fast learning cycles.
• Strong interest in markets, trading, or algorithmic systems.

Bonus Points For

• Experience with backtesting or feature engineering.
• Exposure to crypto primitives (AMMs, perps, mempools, etc.)
• Projects involving alpha signals, strategy testing, or DeFi bots.
• Participation in quant contests, hackathons, or open-source work.

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.

Responsibilities:

·      Search, design, develop, and test blockchain technologies.

·      Brainstorm and help evaluate applications for new tools and

technologies as they continually evolve.

·      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.

·  Document new solutions as well as maintain that of existing ones. 

Requirements:

·      Total 3 Years of experience required,Ethereum, Blockchain

·      Knowledge in any one of the programming languages: NodeJS,

Java, GoLang,C, C++,PHP

·      Basic understanding of blockchain technology: Bitcoin, Smart

Contracts, Solidity, Cryptography

·Knowledge in private blockchains such as Hyper Ledger, Corda is

a plus

· Basic understanding of HTML, CSS, JS, Bootstrap and knowledge

in front-end technologies such as Angular/ React/ Vue is a plus.

·      Knowledge in databases and database modelling: MySQL,

PostgreSQL, MongoDB

·      Understanding of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)

·      Experience using Git for version control

Technical Experience 

• Solid understanding of and experience in BlockChain Development preferred 
• 2+ years of Blockchain application development experience on platforms such as Ethereum, Hyperledger, BigchainDb, Multi-Chain.  
• Experience in solution building on Blockchain technology.  
• Experience on development tools such as Geth, Hyperledger Fabric/Sawtooth, Composer, Solidity Remix Functional  
• Basic understanding of Web applications architecture and protocols. 
• Any additional expertise with Python, containerization (Docker) and additional Cloud exposure also a huge plus
• Any previous integration expertise, Strong in Agile, Banking or Financial Service development expertise, as well as software development in a large Enterprise environment, also required Security Architecture / Cryptography
• Front-end development experience in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ES6/TypeScript Angular, Node.js, ReactJS . 

We are looking for a blockchain developer who will be responsible for designing, implementing, and supporting a distributed blockchain-based network. Primary responsibility will be analyzing requirements, designing blockchain technology around a certain business model, and building and launching a blockchain network.

Essential Skills :

• Strong software development background

• Experience working with large codebases

• Solidity, Web3.js, Ethereum, Truffle, Remix, Smart Contracts, Cryptography, Wallets, Blockchain Fundamentals, DeFi & Banking Domain

• Experience working with open-source projects

• Proficiency in one of the following languages: C++, Java, JavaScript 

• Strong knowledge of common algorithms and data structures

• Familiarity with basic cryptography

• Familiarity with P2P networks

• Strong knowledge of bitcoin-like blockchains / Stable coins

• Strong knowledge of concurrency and writing efficient and safe multithreaded code

• Strong knowledge of STL, C++11 

• Proficiency in the Qt Widgets module 

Responsibilities :

• Research, design, develop, and test blockchain technologies

• Brainstorm and help evaluate applications for new tools and technologies as they continually evolve

• 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

• Document new solutions as well as maintain of existing ones

We are a Quantitative Trading firm building proprietary trading products and infrastructure for crypto markets (both DeFi and CeFi). We are focusing heavily on building up our DeFi capabilities and are looking for a hungry DeFi native engineer to help us conceptualize and build our DeFi strategies and infrastructure.

We are a high-output research team of 5 from a variety of backgrounds, spanning from Machine Learning and System Engineering, all the way to fintech and business.

We build products for both internal and external use to uncover alpha opportunities in different areas of crypto markets, including trading both on centralized and decentralized exchanges (DeFi) and building systems to streamline order execution, gather and digest complex timeseries data streams.

We are looking for a DeFi Software Engineer who has a deep understanding of blockchain and is curious about algorithmic trading. You should be excited about making sense of large quantities of data, and decision modelling on time series, real-time data.

Responsibilities

• Designing, building and testing smart contracts and related infrastructure
• Researching new DeFi protocols and its connectors and building on them
• Building real-time monitoring tools and working with our team on latency-sensitive operations
• Ethereum Node Infrastructure setup and maintenance
• Work with the team on devising new trading strategies and uncovering opportunities

Qualifications

• Deep technical and practical understanding of DeFi protocols and DevOps practices for interfacing with them (both Ethereum and any other relevant one) - Must have extensive knowledge of Solidity, smart contract development (web3js or ethersjs) and testing.
• Knowledge of Javascript (knowledge of Golang/Python programming is nice to have).
• Must be comfortable working with either hardhat or truffle.
• Comfortable working in a dynamic, research-oriented team with several ongoing concurrent projects
• You look forward to working with an interdisciplinary team that longs to find solutions together.
• Knowledge of trading isn't required but interest in the field is paramount. If you are a self-taught wiz who has tried its hands at DeFi trading and AMM, even better!

The number of years of experience does not matter as long as you have built complex projects from scratch, a burning desire to learn more, constantly improve yourself and solving tricky problems on a daily basis. We're a small team so you can assure yourself that whatever you contribute - in terms of an engineer, or otherwise - is always heard and discussed.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses
• A young startup work environment, where your initiatives and ideas count and are rewarded
• A unique open research environment, where everybody contributes and sees the full spectrum of our work, from inception to production
• The chance to shape our firm's legacy and exchange knowledge with the team on every part of what we do.

The role location is preferably Hyderabad with to be able to brainstorm in person with the R&D team, but remote in India is also possible.
Please share github profiles and details of previous projects worked on (both commercial and personal).

• 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.