Blockchain Engineer (Blockchain, Digital Assets, Crypto Custody)

Purple Drive Technologies

$120K — $150K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • Hands-on experience with blockchain or distributed ledger technology
  • Strong understanding of Layer-1 blockchain protocols
  • Experience building backend services and APIs
  • Proficiency in languages like Go, Java, Rust, Python
  • Ability to collaborate across custody and security teams
  • Preferred experience with blockchain indexers and crypto custody platforms

Responsibilities

  • Integrate enterprise systems with Layer-1 blockchains
  • Engineer for chain-level mechanics and ensure reliability during high loads
  • Design and build core blockchain infrastructure services
  • Develop and support wallet architecture and transaction workflows
  • Monitor on-chain transaction execution and handle failures
  • Define safe interaction patterns with smart contracts
  • Utilize modern engineering practices and AI-augmented development

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on cutting-edge blockchain technology
  • Hands-on role with significant impact on digital asset custody
  • Collaborative environment across security and platform teams
  • Exposure to enterprise-level blockchain challenges
  • Potential for aligning engineering practices with innovative AI approaches
Full Job Description
Overview:

Role Summary:

Build and integrate the blockchain infrastructure layer that underpins digital asset custody and tokenization platforms. The posting describes this as a hands-on engineering role focused on Layer-1 blockchain integration, core blockchain infrastructure, wallet engineering, and custody-related blockchain workflows.

Key Responsibilities:
• Integrate enterprise systems with existing Layer-1 blockchains and evaluate or extend Layer-1 capabilities to meet custody, scalability, and resiliency needs.
• Engineer for chain-level mechanics such as transaction lifecycle, finality, forks, reorgs, and event propagation, while ensuring blockchain integrations remain reliable under stress conditions and production loads.
• Design and build core blockchain infrastructure services including indexers, event processors, block explorers, observability tooling, chain data services and APIs, and interoperability or cross-chain integration components.
• Build and support wallet architecture, transaction creation and signing workflows, submission pipelines, and integration with custody key management systems such as MPC, HSMs, and signing services.
• Support custody-related blockchain workflows covering on-chain transaction execution, event monitoring and reconciliation, and chain-specific failure handling and recovery patterns.
• Help define safe patterns for interacting with smart contracts and token standards from custody platforms, aligned to custody approvals and risk controls.
• Apply modern engineering practices and AI-augmented development approaches for protocol analysis, code development and testing, documentation, and knowledge sharing.

Source-Supported Qualification Themes
• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Hands-on experience building or integrating blockchain or distributed ledger systems.
• Strong understanding of Layer-1 blockchain protocols and transaction lifecycles.
• Experience building backend services, APIs, and infrastructure components.
• Proficiency in one or more languages such as Go, Java, Rust, Python, or similar.
• Ability to work effectively across custody, security, and platform teams.
• Strongly preferred: experience with blockchain indexers, explorers, or chain analytics systems; familiarity with wallet architecture and blockchain signing workflows; exposure to crypto custody platforms or security-sensitive financial systems; and experience using AI tooling to support complex software development.

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