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Embark on a transformative journey as a Senior Engineer VP - Digital Assets. At Barclays, our vision is clear –to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions. In this role, you will contribute to building the technology that drives Barclays' next generation of regulated digital asset capabilities. You'll design and develop secure, scalable platforms that enable tokenization, wallet-driven workflows, smart contract functionality, and seamless integration with core enterprise systems—offering the opportunity to work on high-impact engineering at the leading edge of financial innovation.
Job Responsibility
Design and develop secure, scalable platforms that enable tokenization, wallet-driven workflows, smart contract functionality, and seamless integration with core enterprise systems
Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions by using industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools
Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance
Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements
Devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives
Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing
Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contribute to the organization's technology communities
Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions
Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability
Requirements
Proven experience designing and building tokenized deposits, bonds, repos, stablecoins, and related digital asset systems in a regulated financial institution
Practical expertise across L1s/L2s, smart contracts, cryptographic services, and interoperability frameworks
Good understanding of token standards, and on-chain settlement concepts
Comfortable owning technical solutions end-to-end, from design and development through testing, deployment, and continuous improvement
Apply DevSecOps discipline, including CI/CD, secrets management, cloud security, and automated testing
Confident using AI-enabled engineering and productivity tooling to accelerate delivery, improve code quality, enhance decision-making and mitigate technology and operational risk
Nice to have
Knowledge of payments systems, instant payments, cross-border flows, and digital asset-enabled settlement
Understanding of capital markets workflows, including issuance, trading, DvP/PvP, lifecycle events, and corporate actions
Experience with cloud platforms, Kubernetes/containers, API gateways, Kafka, and enterprise messaging
Considerable grounding in distributed systems patterns, secure engineering, and modern software design principles
Ability to work effectively across engineering, architecture, product, risk, compliance, and operations teams