Senior Software Engineer (Rust)

Summary

The job is for a Senior Software Engineer in the Partner Chains tribe at IOHK, a technology company focused on blockchain research and development. The role involves improving software engineering practices, contributing to product development, mentoring other engineers, and working across teams to identify cross-team improvements.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field
• At least 7+ years of experience in software development
• At least 4 years in the Rust programming language
• Mandatory expertise in the Substrate framework
• Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals, including algorithms and data structures
• Experience working with Git and Git workflow
• Practical experience with Agile software development methods
• Knowledge of functional and object-oriented programming paradigms
• Experience in developing and maintaining high-performance systems in Rust

Responsibilities

• Improve how IOHK builds and maintains software
• Contribute to product development
• Quality of engineering practices within a team
• Identify cross-team improvements for IOHK
• Mentor and grow other software engineers
• Act as a go-to person within the team and the wider organisation across multiple codebases and languages
• Advocate for great quality with proactive actions
• Diagnose all issues within a set of related domains
• Foster a culture of observability and monitoring across several teams
• Build a culture for iterative, autonomous development and future scaling
• Be a technical and prioritisation leader across a set of related team's domains
• 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
• Integrate software components and third-party libraries
• Verify and deploy programs and systems
• Write documentation for the code
• Write technical user manuals

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with blockchain technology is a plus
• Experience in remote work and collaboration across different time zones
• Experience working in scale-ups

Benefits

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