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Principal Architect - Accounts and Identity Services
2 years ago
We are looking for a Principal Architect to join our Platform team to help navigate the critical design of asset storage, emerging wallet technologies, user identity, and account services. You will be an integral part of designing technology and infrastructure that drives reasonable and easy interactions with crypto assets for users and developers. Successful execution will mean helping build technology that enables users to safely and securely store and access their assets in and outside of game experiences with ease.
Requirements
In this role, you will...
- Convert business requests into concrete technical solutions, and articulate clear and trusted recommendations for account service solutions.
- Work directly with senior technologists to research and propose solutions for: service architecture, blockchain integrations and security policies.
- Oversee the documentation of technical proposals and architecture with oversight from the CTO and central technology resources.
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to find solutions to challenging problems.
- Work with central technology teams to incorporate ecosystem best practices, infrastructure consistency, and compliance into the product initiatives of your teams.
- Work with engineering managers to prioritize technical execution and find solutions that meet technical and business demands.
- Work with specialized research teams to incorporate findings into productized technology solutions.
- Be a voice and representative of the engineering team in stakeholder settings.
- Solve problems nobody has solved before.
Qualifications
The ideal candidate will have...
- 10+ years of experience in an architect or senior engineering role related to services design (roles where you are responsible for the successful delivery of technical solutions or relevant experience).
- Experience building financial technology solutions, blockchain products, or security technology for end users
- Awareness of the tech landscape related to blockchain technology, assets, and tools it enables
- Proven ability to build and maintain live products. While your role is not primarily responsible for the production of software, your technical credibility is vital for communicating effectively with engineers and helping them proactively avoid problems.
- Proven record of shipping scalable software services to millions of customers.
- A strong ability to take initiative and think critically about complex problems, and articulate a plan of action to resolution.
- Communication and leadership skills that enable facilitation of execution for a large engineering team.
- Experience running remote or cross organizational teams.
- More excitement about unknowns than fear of them.
Bonus if you also have...
- Experience as an architect using Rust, Erlang, Scala, or C++
- Worked within an exchange or wallet technology product
- Experience building games or game technology in a team environment
- Had to own the responsibilities of devops or infrastructure management on an enterprise project
What We Offer
- The opportunity to build something that's never been built before - to solve new problems and to develop solutions with a team of industry leaders by your side.
- A learning environment where you'll be hands-on with the latest tools and technologies.
- The opportunity to merge personal passions or interests you may have for blockchain and/or gaming with your professional path.
- Competitive compensation and perks to help you work comfortably and productively with a fully remote team
About Forte
Forte’s platform allows game publishers to easily integrate blockchain technologies into their games, enabling features such as seamless, embeddable token wallets, non-fungible token (NFT) minting and selling, payment rails, and other services built specifically for blockchain token economies and the management of digital and virtual assets. In blockchain-enabled games, players can truly own goods, rather than making pure entertainment expenditures. Players around the world can freely trade goods and services with each other, and can participate in community economies that reward creativity, collaboration, and skill. These new systems provide game players and communities all around the world with new creative and economic opportunities.
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