Input Output is hiring a
Senior Software Engineer (Rust), Remote - United Kingdom

Summary

IO Global is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with at least 3 years of Rust development experience and expertise in the Substrate framework to join its Partner Chains team. The role involves working on a Rust-based blockchain application for interoperability, following agile software development practices, and contributing to the design of algorithms.

Requirements

• A degree in Computer Science is desirable but not essential
• Minimum 3 years of Rust development experience, with mandatory expertise in the Substrate framework
• Software development experience (6+ years)

Responsibilities

• Follow agile software development practices
• Work with teams across multiple time zones
• Work independently on software development tasks
• Be proactive and require minimal supervision or mentoring to complete tasks
• Review specifications produced by architects and formal methods specialists
• Contribute to the design of algorithms
• Write clean, straightforward, efficient code that satisfies previously agreed acceptance criteria and specifications
• Commit often and submit small pull requests frequently
• Cover your code with unit, property, and integration tests when applicable
• Review the pull requests of your teammates
• Fix bugs in your own code and in legacy code from others
• Be available for emergency fixing of severity 1 issues on deployed products
• Integrate software components and third-party libraries
• Verify and deploy programs and systems
• Troubleshoot, debug, and upgrade existing software
• Write documentation for the code
• Write technical user manuals

Preferred Qualifications

• Blockchain experience is a plus but not critical
• Experience working with Git and Git workflow
• Practical experience with Agile software development methods
• Knowledge of functional and object-oriented programming paradigms
• Plus domain knowledge on low-level network communications protocol
• Knowledge of distributed systems

Benefits

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