Senior Software Engineer (Blockchain / Tokenization)
About Olea
Olea is a digital infrastructure platform that connects global liquidity with trade and supply chain opportunities, fueling growth and unlocking potential worldwide. Olea has diverse liquidity pools with varying appetite and focuses. Olea's vision is to connect capital to opportunity. It has a strong conviction in the role of trade to support sustainable economic development across countries, particularly in emerging markets across Asia. Olea supports suppliers and buyers in over 70 trade corridors.
Role Summary
Olea is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Blockchain/Tokenization) who is passionate about building enterprise-grade software systems and delivering meaningful business impact. The role requires a highly capable software engineer who remains actively hands-on in software development and is currently writing production-grade code.
This position combines strong conventional software engineering expertise with practical blockchain knowledge. The successful candidate will play a key role in building scalable financial technology solutions that bridge modern distributed systems, cloud-native services, and blockchain-enabled asset infrastructure.
Location: Hyderabad, India (preferred). Candidates must be based in Hyderabad or willing to relocate. Hybrid work arrangements will be considered based on business requirements.
Key Responsibilities
End-to-End Product Engineering
- Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain scalable production software systems.
- Take ownership across the full software development lifecycle, from requirement analysis to production deployment and support.
- Build secure, resilient, and high-performance backend services and user-facing applications.
Platform Development
- Develop and enhance platforms supporting digital asset and tokenization use cases.
- Build integrations between traditional financial systems and blockchain-based infrastructure.
- Design APIs, event-driven services, and distributed systems supporting enterprise workloads.
Software Architecture & Problem Solving
- Design robust solutions for complex business and technical problems.
- Drive engineering excellence through sound architecture, coding standards, testing, and observability practices.
- Contribute to performance optimization, scalability, and reliability initiatives.
Blockchain Engineering
- Participate in the design, development, and integration of blockchain-enabled applications.
- Develop and interact with smart contracts and EVM-based ecosystems.
- Support wallet, custody, transaction management, and token lifecycle functionalities where applicable.
AI-Assisted Engineering
- Leverage AI-assisted development tools responsibly to accelerate engineering productivity.
- Implement appropriate guardrails, code review practices, testing strategies, and security controls.
Leadership & Mentorship
- Mentor engineers through hands-on collaboration, code reviews, pair programming, and technical guidance.
- Promote modern software engineering best practices across the team.
DevOps & Delivery
- Contribute to Agile delivery practices, CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, monitoring, and operational excellence.
- Support continuous improvement initiatives across engineering teams.
Role-Specific Technical Competencies
Core Software Engineering
- Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, system design, concurrency, and distributed systems.
- Proven ability to build and operate large-scale production systems.
Programming Expertise
- Strong hands-on development experience in Java or TypeScript/JavaScript based enterprise applications.
- Deep understanding of modern backend frameworks, API development, microservices, and cloud-native architectures.
Full Stack Development
- Experience building modern web applications, backend services, integrations, and event-driven systems.
- Familiarity with scalable frontend frameworks and responsive application development.
Blockchain & Web3 Knowledge
- Working knowledge of blockchain technologies and decentralized application development.
- Experience developing, reviewing, or integrating smart contracts using Solidity and EVM-compatible ecosystems.
- Understanding of blockchain architecture, wallets, token standards, transaction processing, and on-chain/off-chain integrations.
- Experience with enterprise or public blockchain platforms such as Ethereum and other EVM-compatible networks.
AI-Native Development
- Experience using AI coding assistants and AI-driven engineering workflows responsibly.
- Understanding of LLM-based applications, AI APIs, RAG architectures, agents, and evaluation frameworks is advantageous.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related quantitative discipline.
- Minimum X years of production software engineering experience outside blockchain and crypto-focused roles.
- Must be currently hands-on and actively writing production-grade code.
- Demonstrated experience building, deploying, and operating enterprise-scale software systems in production environments.
- Experience mentoring engineers and contributing to technical leadership activities.
- Exposure to blockchain technologies, smart contract development, and EVM-based systems is required.
- Experience in financial services, fintech, payments, trade finance, or related domains is advantageous.
Note:
Olea is committed to diversity and inclusion. By providing equal opportunities we foster a work environment which embraces diversity and gets the best out of the broadest spectrum of people to sustain business performance and competitive advantage. We build an inclusive culture by demonstrating respect for each other’s unique strengths and perspectives to enable every employee to develop a sense of belonging and have the opportunity to maximise their potential.