Cryptography Engineer - Blockchain

About CoinDCX

CoinDCX is India's largest & safest crypto exchange, with a dedicated focus on making crypto accessible. Established in 2018, CoinDCX has solved numerous problems faced by the Indian crypto community with investing and trading solutions for crypto-based financial products for retail, HNI, and enterprise customers. It is our ultimate goal, to provide the best of the crypto space with the simplest and secure solutions. Insured by BitGo and ISO Certified, CoinDCX is now India's first Crypto Unicorn!

Imagine,

India's cryptocurrency markets are booming, and post the SC verdict, the industry has grown manifold. More Indians want to join this exciting new industry. However, they are unsure how to enter, who should be their partner to help them grow in this space. You help them in their journey. You introduce them to a brand that is built for them and gain their trust. You are phenomenal in solving these complex challenges. You help build secure and performant APIs and above all you stay on top of all things in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space. You make this happen. You make a difference.

The Team
We are looking for a cryptography engineer with a Ph.D. in cryptographic protocols (e.g., secure multiparty, zero-knowledge, or blockchain protocols) and experience implementing these in software. You will be working with our team of cryptographers and software developers to develop state-of-the-art threshold cryptography products.

The Blockchain team is a critically functioning team and backbone for multiple features on CoinDCX. Our team builds systems for integrations with blockchains. This includes writing and executing smart contracts, building web3 applications, using cutting-edge cryptography, and staying up to date with current blockchain developments.

Responsibilities:-

• A passion for creating effective and pragmatic cryptographic designs

• Expertise in fundamental cryptographic algorithms and the underlying mathematics, such as finite field arithmetic

• Significant involvement in the project that required the use of novel cryptography, ideally FHE and/or ZK and/or MPC related

• Understanding of side-channel attacks and other challenges to modern applied cryptography

• Excellent C and systems programming skills

• Highly professional, with the ability to deliver great work on tight schedules

• Strong teamwork skills to work multi-functionally with other software, and hardware to provide the best security solutions

• A proven track record for great academic research and published papers in top-tier cryptography conference can be an added bonus

Requirements

• Join the full life cycle of cryptography infrastructure, including wallet, framework, and libraries development, requirement gathering, design, coding, testing, deployment, documentation, and support

• Contribute creative insight to solve both technical and business challenges

• Connect with the developer community and facilitate technical partners

• Promote technology best practices within the team

• Foster a culture of open and intentional communication and collaboration between engineering teams