Senior Blockchain Architect

About Animoca Brands

Animoca Brands leverages gamification, blockchain, and artificial intelligence technologies to develop and publish a broad portfolio of mobile products including games such as The Sandbox, Crazy Kings, and Crazy Defense Heroes as well as products based on popular intellectual properties such as Formula 1®, Garfield, Snoopy, Thomas & Friends™, Ever After High and Doraemon. Animoca Brands’ portfolio of blockchain investments and partnerships includes Lucid Sight, Dapper Labs (creators of CryptoKitties), WAX, Harmony, and Decentraland. The Company is based in Hong Kong, Canada, Finland, and Argentina.

Position

• Get involved across the board for all technical and functional aspects of blockchain on several games projects
• Conduct continuous research on blockchain technologies and keep an eye on any tech stack or standards which can apply to the gaming sector
• Participate in the design, architecture and implementation of the different software components, including smart contracts, frontends and backends
• Play a central role in the blockchain game's design, be innovative, assess the feasibility and give insight on cost/benefit for different concepts
• Enforce the adequate level of security for managing crypto-assets

Your qualification

Minimal Skill Set

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering or related disciplines
• Understanding of computer science fundamentals
• Programming proficiency with at least one language
• Unit-Testing and Continuous Integration processes experience 
• Experience using Git and collaborative tools
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English
• Chinese language is not a must
• Overseas experience is an advantage

The ideal candidate is a strong all-rounded technologist with a personal passion for blockchains and related disciplines, with proven experience as a software architect and/or technical lead.

Qualifications

• In-depth understanding of all the technical and functional aspects of blockchains (consensus, security models, tokenomics, ...) and crypto-wallets (keys management, UX, ...), robust knowledge of Ethereum
• Proficiency with one of the following languages: Go/C++/Rust (code-literacy with one of the Ethereum node implementations) and with Javascript (Web3) 
• Experience designing and implementing systems based on blockchain (separation of duties between chain, frontends and backends)
• Experience with Smart-Contracts full development cycle (Solidity) and knowledge of the standards for token contracts (ERC-20, ERC-721, ERC-1155, ...)
• Strong experience with UNIX systems (Linux) and Cloud Infrastructures (AWS, GCP, ...)

The Animoca Engineer

• Be passionate, motivated and love what you do as a technologist
• Always try to learn more, even outside of your perimeter 
• Produce high-quality, efficient, clean, and modular code, while being able to meet production schedules and deadlines
• Show a positive attitude in all circumstances towards projects and people
• Be proactive in implementing the tasks. Identify problems and bottlenecks that need to be tackled 
• Have a team-oriented mindset. Be able to work with remote teams across the globe, produce and share documentation 
• Be professional and honest, and be able to report on projects status
• Be open-minded to give and receive comments from others
• Keep an eye on the latest technological innovations, in particular in the fields of Gaming, Artificial Intelligence and Blockchains

Will be a plus

• PhD (or strong programming experience) in Blockchains, Decentralised Systems, Cryptography, Virtual Machines or related discipline
• Experience in blockchain gaming
• Deep understanding of major public blockchains and scalability solutions 
• Team-leadership
• Experience as a core blockchain developer
• Experience implementing Crypto-Wallets
• Experience with GPGPU and/or Crypto Mining 
• Experience in the Financial / Fintech industry

What we offer

• Excellent company culture: give your best while having fun and grow as a person
• Exciting startup-like environment with a lot of ideas and projects: you never get bored
• A flat structure: your ideas get heard by the right people very quickly
• Diverse range of games and app genres: learn and try on different projects
• Multicultural work environment: 15 nationalities and counting!
• Casual dress code. Free coffee, tea and fruit daily
• Medical, Life & Personal Accident insurance 
• Free company shuttle bus to and from selected MTR stations daily
• Regular and fun company activities (we have a Switch, an XBox and a VR set)!
• 5-days work week, 15 annual leave days
• Other leaves (Marriage Leave, Compassionate Leave, Exam Leave) 

Working visa sponsorship and relocation allowance will be provided for non-Hong Kong candidates.

Opportunity to attend international conferences to stay up to date with the rapidly evolving Blockchains industry.