Software / Systems Architect

Consensys seeks a Software/Systems Architect for remote work (Europe/United States) with 8+ years of software engineering experience and expertise in distributed systems.

As a Systems Architect at Consensys, you will design and architect distributed systems, participate in client technical sessions, and deliver solutions. You will create clear design documents and diagrams, reason about failure modes and scalability, and make pragmatic decisions under ambiguity. This is an individual contributor role with real technical authority, not a people-management or pre-sales function.

Has designed distributed systems and built them — recent, hands-on, in a language we use (Kotlin, Go, Rust, Solidity, TypeScript, Zig) Has strong hands-on background of Software Development/Engineering, 8+ years Can hold a large system in their head and see where it doesn't fit together, and reason down to detailed technical level— the failure modes, the coupling, the thing that breaks at scale–and be able to effectively communicate this to colleagues Ethereum and EVM knowledge, or the demonstrated ability to get there fast from adjacent distributed-systems work Writes clearly. Design documents and diagrams that a bank's architecture team will accept without a meeting. Not just for external, but for internal too. The architect should leave behind clear written artifacts that make it clear what engineers need to build and why, and what success looks like Can be in a room with institutional architects and stay technical — credible on resilience, key custody, finality and privacy without drifting into sales language Pragmatic. Knows when the right architecture is the boring one Decisive under ambiguity. Makes the call when Product, a client requirement and a protocol constraint disagree Experience architecting for secure mission-critical systems Useful, not required - ZK proof systems — enough to reason about cost, latency and trust assumptions Privacy technologies: privacy pools, MPC, trusted execution, tokenisation frameworks Regulated financial infrastructure — payments, clearing, settlement, custody Understanding of governance dynamics and key stakeholders within the Ethereum ecosystem Experience of cloud and infra deployments and topologies Experience in Fintech/Banking/Trading or similar domains

Format: Remote (Europe / United States)