Oplabs
Blockchain Solutions Architect
New York
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 83 days ago
RailsDistributed SystemsAWSCloud PlatformsA/B TestingSalesLoad TestingCommunication
About the role
- Respond to detailed technical diligence from banks, asset managers, system integrators, and regulators
- Help shape roadmap priorities related to institutional needs (e.g., performance, compliance tooling, privacy, sequencing models)
- Help customers compare and migrate from private / permissioned experimentation to public or hybrid production deployments
Responsibilities
- OP Labs builds Optimism, an open-source blockchain network that powers the next generation of financial infrastructure.
- Hundreds of companies, from the world's largest enterprises like Sony, Coinbase, Kraken, Uniswap, OKX, and Bitpanda to the most ambitious early-stage builders, use the OP stack to launch their own blockchains and bring their users onchain.
- This role sits at the intersection of sales, product, and engineering, and is critical to helping institutions evaluate, design, and deploy production-grade onchain systems using the OP Stack.
- supporting technical diligence, performance testing, architecture design, and integration planning for large and innovative enterprises.
- Support documentation localization and technical enablement in Japanese
- Support deal execution & technical validation
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience as a Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect, or Technical Pre-Sales role
Nice to have
- Hands-on experience with Ethereum or EVM-based systems (Layer 1 or Layer 2 strongly preferred)
- Experience working with regulated institutions (banks, asset managers, exchanges, payments firms) is a strong plus
Skills
- Strong understanding of blockchain architecture: sequencing, finality, rollups, smart contracts, and network operations
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and production deployment environments
- Ability to reason about performance, scalability, security, and operational tradeoffs
- Comfortable explaining complex technical concepts to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders
- Skills & Approach
- Sharp strategic thinker who can map fragmented fintech value chains and craft compelling BD theses
- Independent deal-closer who's comfortable interfacing with C-level stakeholders and navigating multi-party partnerships
- Strong communicator who can translate between business, technical, and ecosystem stakeholders across varying levels of crypto fluency
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity in a fast-moving, frontier market and iterating quickly based on learnings
- Culture & Mindset
- Motivated to rebuild the global financial stack on open, composable rails
- Low-ego and execution-oriented; value results over recognition
Company info
- Bridge product, engineering, and customers
- We are a small team building at the speed of the ecosystem we support.
- We are looking for a Blockchain Solutions Architect to support Optimism's enterprise and institutional adoption.
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