Web3 Architect
Belmont Lavan
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Texas City • Texas • 🇺🇸 United States
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Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
CloudDistributed SystemsDockerKubernetesMicroservicesNode.jsWeb3
About the role
- Define system architectures for decentralised applications , smart contracts, blockchain networks, side-chains, layer-2 solutions and/or roll-ups.
- Select appropriate blockchain protocols , consensus mechanisms, and scaling solutions based on use case.
- Lead smart contract design and audit reviews to ensure security, gas optimisation, upgradeability, and best practices.
- Design and integrate interoperable systems, bridges, or cross-chain communication where required.
- Evaluate and adopt decentralised storage, identity, oracles, oracles, zero-knowledge proofs, and privacy enhancing technologies.
- Oversee decentralised governance, tokenomics design, and incentive mechanisms in line with business objectives.
- Define and enforce security, compliance, and regulatory best practices where applicable.
- Guide tooling, CI/CD pipelines, developer SDKs, testing frameworks, and infrastructure required for Web3 deployment.
- Mentor engineering teams to embed Web3 engineering culture and practices.
- Monitor emerging developments in the Web3 / blockchain space and recommend adoption where beneficial.
Requirements
- Strong experience (5+ years) in designing and delivering blockchain / decentralised solutions, smart contracts, or Web3 platforms.
- Proficiency in one or more smart contract languages.
- Deep understanding of various blockchain architectures ,layer-2 (optimistic / zk-rollups), side-chains, sharding, and scalability trade-offs.
- Familiarity with formal verification, gas profiling, security auditing, threat modelling.
- Experience integrating and managing oracles, identity protocols (DID), privacy technologies.
- Strong software architecture skills: microservices, modular design, event-driven systems, API design.
- Excellent understanding of cryptography fundamentals, consensus algorithms, distributed systems.
- Skilled in infrastructure and operations: node operation, wallets, key management, deployment pipelines.
- Good experience with cloud platforms and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) is advantageous.
- Excellent communication skills; able to explain complex technical topics to non-technical stakeholders and lead cross-disciplinary teams.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
blockchain architecturesmart contract languagesdecentralised solutionsWeb3 platformsformal verificationgas profilingsecurity auditingthreat modellingmicroservicescryptography fundamentals
Soft skills
excellent communicationmentoringleadershipcross-disciplinary collaboration