StateStreet is hiring a Smart Contract Developer to join our Digital Asset Development team. This is a hands-on, security-focused role where you will design, develop, test, and deploy smart contracts that underpin institutional digital asset capabilities like tokenization and wallet management.
What You'll Do
- Design and implement robust, efficient, and secure smart contracts for EVM and non-EVM networks, aligning contract behavior with product requirements.
- Collaborate with product and engineering stakeholders to translate business logic into decentralized logic, ensuring correctness and resilience.
- Develop and maintain smart contracts supporting tokenization and lifecycle operations, including patterns for institutional needs like permissioning and upgradeable proxies.
- Build comprehensive unit and integration tests and contribute to quality gates for contract releases.
- Perform internal security reviews and support external audits, proactively identifying and mitigating common smart contract vulnerabilities.
- Own and evolve the smart contract toolchain, including development environments, static analysis, and testing frameworks.
- Build and maintain smart contract CI/CD workflows to automate build, test, and analysis artifacts.
- Contribute to engineering excellence through code reviews, documentation, and maintaining high standards of security and quality.
- Coordinate with third-party auditors by preparing audit-ready packages, facilitating walkthroughs, and driving remediation cycles.
What We're Looking For
- Strong, demonstrable experience developing smart contracts in Solidity or a similar language with a security-first mindset.
- Experience across the full smart contract lifecycle: design, build, test, deploy, and maintain.
- Experience with token standards, advanced token models, and institutional patterns like permissioned tokens and proxy/upgrade patterns.
- Strong knowledge of secure coding practices for smart contracts and ability to identify common vulnerability classes.
- Proficiency with smart contract development and deployment tools like Hardhat and modern testing patterns.
- Understanding of EVM / Ethereum fundamentals, including the smart contract execution model.
- Web3 integration experience using libraries like Ethers.js or Web3.js to interact with contracts and integrate functionality.
- Strong understanding of blockchain cryptography fundamentals, including public/private key cryptography and signing/verification concepts.
Nice to Have
- Experience building dApps and integrating front ends with smart contracts.
- Familiarity with institutional digital asset platform components such as tokenization, smart contract management, and wallet management.
- Knowledge of gas optimization, scalability techniques, and gasless transaction approaches.
- Exposure to microservices and back-end integration in modern stacks like NodeJS, Java, or C#, and experience producing technical documentation.
- Experience developing for non-EVM smart contract platforms like Canton/DAML, Stellar, or Solana.
Technical Stack
- Solidity, EVM, Hardhat, Ethers.js, Web3.js
- NodeJS, Java, C#
Team & Environment
You will join the Digital Asset Development team.
Benefits & Compensation
- Inclusive development opportunities
- Flexible work-life support
- Paid volunteer days
- Vibrant employee networks
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we consider all qualified applicants for all positions without regard to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, age, disability, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, citizenship, marital status, domestic partnership or civil union status, familial status, military and veteran status, and other characteristics protected by applicable law.
