Head of Blockchain

Our client is looking for a Head of Blockchain who’ll lead all our Blockchain infrastructure strategy and development, from smart contract creation to dApp creation and game engine integrations. Head of Blockchain responsibilities includes developing plans to help establish our technologies, allocating resources to different projects and setting short-term and long-term department goals. If you’re a skilled Blockchain strategist and executor, able to inspire your team members, we’d like to meet you.

Responsibilities

• Drive the architecture of our platform and develop into the management of the in-house and external engineering teams
• Translate complex functional and technical requirements into detailed architecture and design
• Evolve the technical direction of the service
• Deliver high-quality systems and features for customers
• Own the software development process end-to-end, including working with stakeholders to determine requirements and design, architect, plan, implement, test, and operate new systems and features
• Engage in and contribute to relevant open-source projects
• Monitor project execution and ensure that the project is delivered on time, on budget, and with great quality
• Craft quarterly and annual hiring plans
• Assist in planning and budgeting working closely with the finance team

Requirements and skills

• Experience in full-lifecycle smart contract development
• Hands-on experience primarily with Solidity
• High-level knowledge of APIs and libraries
• Up-to-date with the latest blockchain trends, techniques, best practices and technologies
• Ability to solve problems creatively and effectively
• Knowledge of Web3 and Ethereum development tools
• Leadership skills with the ability to set and prioritise goals
• Analytical minded
  

What we offer:

• Fully remote work
• Flexible working hours
• Get paid in FIAT or Stablecoins
• 25 days of paid holidays (Prorated) + paid UK bank holidays
• 3% pension contribution (UK)
• Immediate start date

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Nice to Haves:

• Interested in gaming, web 3, metaverse or similar industries
• EMEA Timezone

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Company Values:
Our client believes in a motivating purpose that makes clear our vision to redefine reality that achieves positive evolution and we follow a concise but responsive roadmap with agile measures of accountability. They believe in collaborative working and adaptive formats that are regularly used and reviewed in collaboration with not just the whole team but also our user community, investors & partners, to openly evaluate success, failure and future scenario planning.

Above all, our client’s team members will, at all times, stay true to our HITT values:

• Honesty
• Integrity
• Transparency
• Trust

All our client’s team members undertake to advance the evolution of the idea of the ‘digital citizen’ and Web3 as the dominant defining thought of our user communities and of our future.