This past summer the American multinational technology company, Amazon, published two job listings for a blockchain lead and a digital currency expert. Now, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for a Senior Digital Asset Specialist who can “help drive adoption in the global digital asset community.”
AWS Is Looking for a Principal Digital Assets Specialist
One of the ‘Big Five’ tech companies, Amazon, has shown signs of interest in cryptocurrency solutions and blockchain technology for quite some time now. For example, on May 26, 2020, the company patented a “distributed ledger certification” protocol. In February 2021, the e-commerce giant posted a job listing for a software development manager to lead a blockchain pilot project located in Mexico, alongside Amazon’s “Digital and Emerging Payments” division.
Last June, the company’s job portal said Amazon was looking for a blockchain expert to create “business use cases in decentralized finance (challenge).” The following month, it was revealed Amazon published an employment advertisement for the e-commerce firm’s Payments Acceptance & Experience team. At the time, Amazon’s listing was looking for “an experienced product manager to develop Amazon’s digital currency and blockchain strategy and product roadmap.”
Now Amazon Web Services (AWS) is hiring a “principal digital assets specialist” in New York to lead the firm’s fintech team. The job posting was posted on October 30 and at the time of writing there had been 26 applicants so far. AWS is hoping for someone with seven or more years of fintech business development and an individual with “exposure to distributed ledger or blockchain technologies.”
“You will work directly with some of our most strategic clients [including] leading global financial institutions and innovative fintechs, ”says the AWS digital asset specialist’s job listing. “Helping them drive change at the most senior levels (CIOs, CDOs, Line of Business leaders) as they transform the way they transact digital assets (ex. cryptocurrencies, CBDCs, [stablecoins], security-backed tokens, asset-backed tokens and NFTs) from price discovery to execution, settlement and custody,” the listing description adds.
While Amazon was on the hunt for digital currency experts and blockchain tech makers, there were plenty of other well-known companies looking for the same kind of talent. This month the social news aggregation and discussion website, Reddit published an ad seeking a senior engineer for a platform that features “NFT-backed digital goods.”
Following Reddit’s job listing, video game retail giant Gamestop posted a similar job listing looking for a senior engineer for the NFT blockchain platform.
