Technical Architect - Atala

Who are we?

IOHK, is a technology company focused on Blockchain research and development. We are renowned for our scientific approach to blockchain development, emphasizing peer-reviewed research and formal methods to ensure security, scalability, and sustainability. Our projects include decentralized finance (DeFi), governance, and identity management, aiming to advance the capabilities and adoption of blockchain technology globally.

We invest in the unknown, applying our curiosity and desire for positive change to everything we do. By fueling creativity, innovation, and progress within our teams, our products and services are designed for people to be fearless, to be changemakers.

About Atala:

IOHK’s Atala Tribe builds decentralized identity solutions. Identity, in its essence, is about access, which includes authentication and authorization. Our decentralized identity solutions are built on W3C specifications. They support not just privacy and security, but also the merging of digital and physical identities. We create solutions that seamlessly integrate into existing systems that are rapidly deployable and easy to use, ensuring a smooth and convenient experience.

What the role involves:

As the Technical Architect for the Identity Platform at IOHK, you will lead the technical architecture aspects of the Atala suite of identity products. You will work with other Technical Architects to deliver foundational components and tools for the IOG blockchain, identity, and DeFi Ecosystem. You will report to Atala's CTO.

As an Architect for Identity, you will be responsible for defining the architecture of the Atala identity offerings, including multiple deployment targets, multiple value-added services, and novel Web3 capability. You will work closely with research, product management, and engineering to develop next-generation architectures and components that are modular and reusable by members of the Atala Ecosystem.

You will assist research by providing simulations, prototypes, and feedback on feasibility. You will also work with product management to capture and formalize requirements, produce specifications, develop an architecture, and work closely with engineering leads to turn the architecture into a production system.

• Contribute to architectural decisions and the design of solutions to ensure the technical feasibility of IOG Identity solutions.
• Contribute expertise to assist in the architectural design, development, implementation, and testing of IOG Identity solutions.
• Define processes for the team to
• Ensure knowledge sharing between projects and teams
• Ensure that architectural work can be reused across projects as much as possible
• Define and implement best practices for architecture specifications
• Define recommendations for support infrastructure for our projects
• Coordinate with all other departments, in particular Product, IT, and Research, and address their requirements
• Integrate technical trends reports and prototypes developed internally
• Align with the Formal Methods team to ensure that best practices are followed for implementing formally verified architecture when beneficial 
• Coordinate with the Applied Cryptography team to ensure that architecture is cryptographically secure and reuse state of the art technologies
• Work closely with the Research Division to forecast the technologies to be integrated in future architecture
• Work closely with the Product team in order to ensure architecture can meet negotiated business requirements and support the development of a consumable backlog of features derived from the architecture.
• Work closely with the Product Management, Site Reliability Engineers, and Executive teams to deliver the product roadmap.

Who you are:

• Engineering or Computer Science Graduate
• 5+ years of experience in the software industry
• 3+ years of experience developing technical architecture
• 3+ years experience in designing and implementing distributed, asynchronous, and event-driven architectures.
• Strong understanding and, ideally, practical experience with high availability and horizontal scalability strategies.
• 3+ years of experience with programming in SCALA, Haskell, or Rust, desired.
• 3+ years of experience working with AWS
• 1+ years in the crypto/blockchain industry
• 3+ years of experience with Jira and GitHub
• Experience working with remote teams
• Have an interest in mentoring, coaching, and developing rising technical talent. 
• Excellent leadership and communication skills
• Functional programming experience
• Open-minded and horizontal team management 
• Ability to define, negotiate and execute on a roadmap
• Ability to read, understand and contribute to academic/research publications
• Ability to design and comprehend state-of-the-art blockchain architecture
• Ability to comprehend and integrate bleeding-edge cryptographic primitives and formal methods
• Vast knowledge and expertise in distributed systems engineering and blockchain systems architecture

Are you an IOGer?

Do you find yourself questioning the status quo? Do you tinker with ideas and long to turn those ideas into solutions? Are you able to spark thoughtful debates, bringing out the inquisitiveness in others? Does the promise of continuously growing excite you? Then get ready to reimagine everything you thought wasn’t possible because that’s what it means to be an IOGer - we don’t set limits, we break them. 

• Remote work
• Laptop reimbursement
• New starter package to buy hardware essentials (headphones, monitor, etc)
• Learning & Development opportunities
• Competitive PTO 

At IOG, we value diversity and always treat all employees and job applicants based on merit, qualifications, competence, and talent. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.