Software Engineer

Summary

Join IOG, a blockchain technology company, as a Senior Software Engineer to enhance software development and maintenance, contribute to product development, and improve engineering practices. You will collaborate across teams, mentor junior engineers, and act as a technical leader. Responsibilities include designing components, integrating software, writing documentation, implementing new features, and designing testing strategies. The role requires a degree in Computer Science, 5+ years of Haskell experience, and knowledge of functional and object-oriented programming. Additional experience with blockchain, DeFi, and Nix is preferred. IOG offers remote work, laptop reimbursement, a new starter package, learning and development opportunities, and competitive PTO.

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent / related qualification
• 5+ years of writing maintainable and well-tested Haskell in a commercial environment
• Good understanding of Haskell type system, libraries and GHC runtime & performance
• Experience working with Git and Git workflow
• Practical experience with Agile software development methods
• Knowledge of functional and object-oriented programming paradigms
• Ability to work in a team and collaborate across different time zones and levels of experience
• Exceptional ability to communicate ideas in writing. Must be able to implement formal specifications
• 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
• Actively contribute to product development, including the quality of engineering practices within a team
• Work across teams to identify cross-team improvements by (for example) sharing code, removing complexity or implementing new practices
• 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 and languages
• 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
• Integrate software components and third-party libraries
• Verify and deploy programs and systems
• Write documentation for the code
• Write technical user manuals
• Be knowledgeable of distributed and concurrent computation
• Be knowledgeable of the basics of cryptography
• Implement new features of the stablecoin protocol and additional products
• Design and implement testing strategies for stablecoin and other products
• Synchronize with the technical manager to validate the roadmap
• Identify opportunities for improving productivity and robustness through refactorings / adoption of industry best practices
• Translate specifications into concrete designs, considering architectural design and security aspects
• Pair program with other team members, aiming to collaborate and educate
• Liaise with operations and UI teams to ensure that all aspects of product quality are considered
• Occasionally work on prototypes to try out new features in an experimental setting
• Estimate & prioritize work items and break them down into smaller tasks

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of blockchain and DeFi applications, specifically Cardano
• Experience with finance applications
• Experience using nix

Benefits

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