VP/AVP, Blockchain Engineer, Institutional Banking Technology, Group Technology

Business Function

Group Technology enables and empowers the bank with an efficient, nimble, and resilient technology infrastructure through a strategic focus on innovation, engineering excellence, productivity, quality, and control. We partner closely with our business stakeholders to deliver secure and scalable digital solutions that support the bank's growth and transformation agenda.

Job Role

We are seeking an experienced Blockchain Engineer to design, develop, and deliver next-generation digital asset and blockchain solutions across tokenized deposits, digital payments, custody, and tokenized real-world assets (RWA). The successful candidate will play a key role in building secure, scalable, and regulatory-compliant digital asset platforms while collaborating with business, product, architecture, and engineering teams across the Bank.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain blockchain-based applications, smart contracts, and digital asset platforms supporting tokenized deposits, digital payments, custody, and tokenized asset initiatives.
• Lead end-to-end technical delivery of digital asset solutions, from solution design and development through testing, deployment, and production support.
• Develop secure smart contracts for tokenization on Ethereum and EVM-compatible Layer 1 and Layer 2 networks, including Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, or other blockchain ecosystems.
• Build and enhance middleware, APIs, and integration services connecting blockchain networks with core banking, payments, custody, and trading platforms.
• Adopt software engineering best practices, including secure coding standards, automated testing, CI/CD, monitoring, and resiliency controls.
• Conduct code reviews, technical design reviews, and provide mentorship to junior engineers within the team.
• Support technical evaluation, proof-of-concepts, and adoption of emerging blockchain technologies, tokenization frameworks, and digital asset innovations.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related discipline.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3 years focused on blockchain, distributed ledger technologies, or digital asset platforms.
• Strong proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Java, Go Lang, Rust, or C++.
• Hands-on experience developing smart contracts using Solidity and deploying applications on Ethereum or EVM-compatible networks.
• Strong understanding of blockchain architecture, consensus mechanisms, tokenization models, wallet infrastructure, and digital asset custody solutions.
• Experienced with integrating blockchain systems with enterprise applications, APIs, messaging platforms, and cloud-native architectures.
• Knowledge of token standards such as ERC-20, ERC-721, ERC-1155, and emerging tokenization frameworks.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills with the ability to work effectively across cross-functional teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience delivering institutional digital asset solutions such as tokenized deposits, stablecoins, custody platforms, tokenized funds, digital exchanges, or on-chain payment systems.
• Knowledge of financial markets, transaction banking, payments, securities services, or capital markets infrastructure.
• Experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS, or GCP and modern container technologies including Kubernetes and Docker.
• Experience working in a regulated financial institution or fintech organization focused on digital assets.

Location:

DBS Asia Hub Job:

Technology Schedule:

Regular Employee Status:

Full time