Senior Software Engineer, Financial Engineering
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Proven engineering depth: You’re an experienced polyglot developer with 5+ years of demonstrated experience, whether through open-source contributions or real-world production systems with a track rec
- Production focused: You’ve designed, built and deployed systems that run in production and understand what it takes to keep them reliable and scalable.
- Committed to sustainable, high-quality development: You care about design excellence and back it up with robust testing practices — leveraging modern automation tools and methodologies to keep quality
- Systems designer: Experience with distributed systems, blockchains, security protocols, or cryptography is a plus.
- Technical experience: You hold a Master’s or PhD in computer science (or related field); or bring equivalent experience that demonstrates deep technical skill and curiosity.
- Functional mindset: Experience with functional programming is nice to have, but what matters most is clean, thoughtful and expressive code.
- Strong communicator: You can explain complex ideas clearly - in code, in writing, and in conversation. Experience writing technical documentation is a bonus.
- Financial prowess: Familiarity with financial markets or related systems is a bonus, but not required - we value an eagerness to learn just as much as prior domain knowledge.
- Hybrid role based in Switzerland, the UK, Hungary or Hong Kong.
- Consider applying even when you do not match all criteria as we are open to applications from different seniority levels.
Full description
**About Digital Asset & the Canton Network
**Digital Asset builds the technologies that are reshaping the foundations of financial markets. Our mission is to create the world’s most trusted, privacy-enabled, and interoperable digital infrastructure for global finance.
At the heart of this mission is the Canton Network — the blockchain purpose-built for institutional finance. Uniquely combining privacy, compliance, and scalability, Canton enables real-time, secure settlement across multiple asset classes. Governed by the Canton Foundation with participation from leading financial institutions, it is the proven link between the promise of blockchain and the power of global finance.
Founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York City, with offices in London, Zurich, Budapest, Hong Kong, and Sydney — we are on a mission to transform finance — and that transformation is now playing out rapidly on the Canton Network.
If you’re interested in playing a crucial role at the intersection of traditional and crypto-capital markets and want to help bring the next trillion dollars of finance on-chain, join us.
Responsibilities
The Financial Engineering team is responsible for designing, building and operating mission-critical financial workflows - such as Asset Tokenization, Collateral Management, Credentials and more - on the Canton Network. Our solutions leverage the foundational technologies of Digital Asset’s platform for the Canton Network, including the Canton blockchain, the Daml smart contract language and a range of complementary components.
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Financial Engineering team, you will have the unique opportunity to architect and implement innovative distributed financial solutions, as well as operate production-grade, mission-critical systems for our clients. You will work across the full technology stack while collaborating closely with product teams to influence the evolution of our platform. Your work will encompass diverse and challenging areas such as solution design, financial modeling and large-scale distributed system development.
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- Build and ship great software: Contribute hands-on across our Scala / TypeScript / Daml codebases - writing clean, reliable and maintainable code that moves our product forward.
- Bring your technical depth: Use your experience in engineering, architecture and production systems to help the team make smart, scalable decisions.
- Collaborate from idea to delivery: Be part of planning, design, and implementation discussions - shaping solutions that balance technical excellence with real-world impact.
- Help others grow: Review code, share feedback and mentor teammates. Raise the bar by leading with curiosity, empathy, and a focus on continuous improvement.
- Build with everyone in mind: We’re a team that thrives on diverse perspectives and shared ownership where every voice matters and everyone plays a key role in our success.