Hiring: RWA Principal Protocol Engineer Company: Nasdaq Location: New York, United States Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 11:55:56 Employment Type: Contract / Hybrid Target Skills & Keywords : Accessibility, Blockchain, CPT, Capital Markets, Equities, Rust, Smart Contracts, Solana, Solidity, Swift, Web3 About the job Experience: •8+ years of software engineering experience, including 4+ years in smart contract or protocol-level development. Required Skills: •Map TradFi concepts to on‑chain designs and own the design and evolution of the Nasdaq Token Design Standard, including token issuance, transfer restrictions, compliance controls, corporate actions, and record date mechanics. •Author and maintain the reference implementation library, ensuring backward compatibility, clear versioning, and rigorous documentation. •Define governance mechanisms for the standard, balancing Nasdaq's stewardship role with the needs of a commercially viable ecosystem. •Lead chain selection strategy and integration architecture, evaluating public and permissioned infrastructure for performance, settlement finality, and regulatory defensibility. •Drive architecture decisions for protocol components supporting institutional trading workflows, market structure requirements, and tokenized asset ecosystems. •Define performance, scalability, and reliability standards for low-latency, high-throughput implementations. •Serve as technical lead on integrations with custodians, trading venues, market infrastructure providers, and interoperability frameworks. •Represent Nasdaq externally as a technical authority through industry engagement, publications, standards participation, and partner collaboration. Qualifications: •Expert-level Solidity experience; Rust (Solana/Substrate) experience is a plus. •Proven deployment of security token or regulated asset contracts on public or permissioned blockchains. •Comprehensive expertise in smart contract security risks, audit governance, and gas optimization. •Comprehensive expertise in token standards, corporate actions, record dates, settlement infrastructure, and U.S. equity market mechanics. •In-depth knowledge of trading systems, market structure, and institutional capital markets workflows. •Hands-on experience building, architecting, or integrating with an on-chain trading platform, decentralized exchange, tokenized asset marketplace, or similar infrastructure. •Proven ability to write technical specifications, influence stakeholders, and defend design decisions with partners, customers, and regulators. •Prior authorship or contribution to major Web3 frameworks, protocol Improvement Proposals (e.g., EIPs), or tokenization standards. •Operational familiarity with institutional blockchain initiatives involving DTCC, SWIFT, or similar settlement networks. •Operational familiarity with institutional settlement systems, including FIX and ISO20022 messaging. Compensation: •Flexible work environment (work from home / hybrid options) Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!