Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join IOG, a blockchain research and development technology company, as a Senior Software Engineer. Improve software building and maintenance processes, contribute to product development, and mentor other engineers. Lead design of components, diagnose system issues, and foster a culture of observability and monitoring. Work across teams to promote iterative development and scaling. Review specifications, deploy programs, write documentation, and be available for emergency fixes. The role requires 10+ years of software engineering experience in Haskell, experience with Git, and strong problem-solving skills. IOG offers remote work, laptop reimbursement, a new starter package, learning and development opportunities, and competitive PTO.

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science is desirable but not essential
• 10+ years of software engineering experience in Haskell
• Experience working with Git and Git workflow
• Ability to understand project needs, objectives and timescales to feed into planning and setting deadlines for a specific stream
• Clearly articulates new issues, suggests changes to management for implementation
• Write idiomatic code that satisfies the acceptance criteria of a given task
• Write tests (unit tests, property tests) that provide sufficient and non-superfluous efficient code coverage
• Document code and APIs concisely and unambiguously
• Provide detailed guidance on the work to be done, assist with task assignments and deliver deep reviews and feedback on the work
• Pragmatically adhere to software engineering principles (modularity, incremental development, no premature optimization, no feature creep, no speculative generality, ...)

Responsibilities

• Improve how IOG builds and maintains software, alongside actively contributing to product development
• This includes the quality of engineering practices within a team and working across teams to identify cross-team improvements for IOG by (for example) sharing code, removing complexity or implementing new practices
• As a senior member of the team you are expected to mentor and grow other software engineers and act as a go-to person within the team and the wider organisation across multiple codebases and languages
• Advocates for and models great quality with proactive actions, and tackles difficult and subtle system issues
• Uses systematic debugging to diagnose all issues within a set of related domains and leads in fostering a culture of observability and monitoring across several teams
• Regularly works across teams to build a culture for iterative, autonomous development and future scaling
• Is a technical and prioritisation leader across a set of related team's domains, consistently pushing boundaries and exploring gaps in understanding
• Is a go-to within the team and the wider organisation across multiple codebases
• Be proactive and require minimal supervision or mentoring to complete tasks
• Review specifications produced by architects and formal methods specialists
• Lead the design of components and their interactions
• Be available for emergency fixing of severity 1 issues on deployed products
• Verify and deploy programs and systems
• Write documentation for the code
• Write technical user manuals

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience maintaining large and complex codebases
• Ability to understand scientific research and apply it to software design and implementation
• A deep understanding of distributed systems, ensuring a strong foundation for contributing to relevant projects
• Prior experience with blockchain technology is advantageous but not required
• Experience debugging Haskell performance problems (CPU usage, and memory leaks)
• Demonstrated ability to navigate the typical developer workflow effectively, including code review, debugging, and thorough documentation of decisions and processes

Benefits

• Remote work
• Laptop reimbursement
• New starter package to buy hardware essentials (headphones, monitor, etc)
• Learning & Development opportunities
• Competitive PTO