Forward-deployed engineer embedding with institutional finance customers to deploy zero-knowledge proof-based settlement infrastructure (Prividium) end-to-end, from integration to production operations.
About Matter Labs Matter Labs builds private cryptographic infrastructure that lets regulated institutions settle directly with each other without exposing data, ceding control, or waiting days. Global finance moves $4 quadrillion a year on systems designed for paper and telex. The institutions that built them - from clearing houses to exchanges to the world's largest banks, institutions are now actively replacing them. We're building what comes next. Our core product, Prividium, gives each institution its own private environment (a Prividium Zone) with independent governance and built-in interoperability across counterparties, asset classes, and jurisdictions. Interoperability happens through zero-knowledge proofs: one party proves a transaction is valid without revealing any underlying data to the counterparty. The only private settlement infrastructure built on zero-knowledge cryptography. Founded in 2018. Backed by a16z and Union Square Ventures. A fully remote team of around 70 with eight years of production zero-knowledge infrastructure behind us, now pointed at the biggest problem in institutional finance.
The role You will be the engineer embedded with our institutional customers, taking Prividium from a signed deal to a live chain inside their environment. The institutions running on it are banks, custodians, and clearing houses moving real value on infrastructure built decades ago. What you deploy becomes part of how they operate. Requirements from an institution arrive as a description of the system being replaced, because that is how large organizations specify work, and because the obligations underneath are decades of accumulated regulation, audit, and control. Reading through to those obligations is the hard part of this job. We need someone who can find them, design the general thing that satisfies them for this customer and the next four, and put it in front of the customer's engineers as a firm recommendation they can push back on.
The people who do well here would rather ship a rough working version on Thursday than present a diagram on Friday. They can say how confident they are in a recommendation and what would change their mind. The rarest trait is taste: seeing the good general solution inside a hard set of constraints and telling it apart from the merely clever one.
Requirements
We are hiring two people into this role and we are not looking for one person who covers both of the areas below. Depth in one is what matters. If you come from banking
If you come from crypto infrastructure
Work model & pay
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