Blockchain Engineer

About Us

Xalts is a global financial technology and infrastructure company. Xalts is building digital Treasury, Trade & Supply Chain Finance infrastructure to enable seamless flow of data and value between businesses and financial institutions.

Our vision is to drive digitisation in this space to simplify and speed up exchange of data and value. This enables better risk attribution, lower the inefficiencies in the current processes and unlock capital availability.   

Our modular infrastructure is designed in a way that parties with different levels of operational complexity can use it easily and implement end-to-end digitisation for their leg of a financial asset transaction. 

We are backed by Accel and Citi and have strategic GTM partnerships with global technology providers, institutional consulting firms and blockchains.

We’ve recently acquired Contour (The Trusted Network for Global Trade | Contour Network ) to further accelerate our growth.

Fintech Platform Xalts to Build 'Plaid for Trade' as It Acquires Contour Network from a Consortium of Global Banks

Singapore-based fintech Xalts acquires digital trade platform Contour Network | TechCrunch

Xalts founders on trade finance digitalisation after Contour acquisition

The role: 

We are looking for a full-stack developer who is hands-on, with blockchain experience to architect and build the next generation of blockchain-based and digital assets applications for the financial services industry. 

To succeed in this role, you need to be passionate about building 0-to-1 products and should have the skills & the ability to execute quickly.  

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the development of blockchain-based technologies - smart contracts & dApps on EVM Blockchain networks by designing, implementing, and refining smart contracts (primarily on Solidity).

• Deep knowledge and understanding of Ethereum & other protocols work (smart contract codebase) etc.

• Contribute towards writing and maintaining documentation & instruction manuals 

• Research, apply, and invent new smart contract paradigms.

• Create a unified component library for use across front-end applications.

• Ensure product stability through testing and development of best practices.

• Work cross-functionally with designers, PMs, and other engineers to design & create high-quality applications.

• Write open-source TypeScript / JavaScript & Python clients that allow users to interact directly with our on-chain smart contracts.

Requirements:

• 4-5+ years of experience in Software Engineering, and strong command of computer science fundamentals and software development.

• 2+ years of experience building and releasing production-grade Solidity contracts.

• A deep understanding of the Ethereum Virtual Machine and gas optimization; prior experience deploying complex smart contract systems to the Ethereum main net.

• Experience in writing code in Agile, CI/CD environments.

• Prior experience of working on DeFi projects or protocols is a plus.

• Experience with programming languages such as Python / Java / C++ / Rust is a plus.

• Experience in building high-performance REST & WebSocket APIs is a plus.

• Prior experience working with component libraries or design teams in user-facing applications is a plus.

Working at xalts:

• Be part of something exciting. Rare opportunity to come in early and build the next-generation infrastructure that will power the future of financial services.

• Very competitive compensation in salary & ESOPs.

• Generous pricing & terms for equity options.

• A global work environment with offices in 4 different countries (and adding) with a flat organization structure. 

• Possibility for relocation and international transfers mid-career.

Modernize Global Finance. Block by Block. 

If you are passionate about technology, have the drive to take on some of the most complex challenges, and believe that you can build a future where every asset is interconnected and interoperable, we invite you to join us in our mission and build xalts along with us.