Software Engineer

Summary

Join IOG, a blockchain research and development company, as a Software Engineer. You will write high-quality code for our products, working with cutting-edge research and technology. Collaborate with architects, product managers, and other specialists, following Agile practices and working across multiple time zones. Responsibilities include contributing to algorithm design, writing efficient code, conducting code reviews, fixing bugs, integrating software components, and writing documentation. The role requires experience with Haskell, Git, Agile methodologies, and functional/object-oriented programming. 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
• A minimum of 2-4 years development experience (professional or otherwise) using Haskell
• Experience working with Git and Git workflow
• Practical experience with Agile software development methods
• Knowledge of functional and object-oriented programming paradigms
• 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
• Break down tasks into sub-tasks that are completable in a short amount of time and report completion as required by managers
• Pragmatically adhere to software engineering principles (modularity, incremental development, no premature optimization, no feature creep, no speculative generality, ...)

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 team mates
• 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
• Be knowledgeable of distributed and concurrent computation
• Be knowledgeable of the basics of cryptography

Preferred Qualifications

• Network expertise
• Experience developing critical systems
• Experience in monitoring of network performance of distributed systems
• Extensive knowledge of TCP/IP protocol
• Practice of carrying analysis & monitoring of network applications
• Experience in using data analytical skills to convey performance characteristics to stakeholders
• Practical experience with issues related to latency and throughput
• Haskell expertise
• Experience profiling Haskell systems
• Good understanding of Quickcheck/Hedgehog and property testing
• Good understanding of concurrent programming / concurrency
• Good understanding of call-by-need, memoization and lazy evaluation
• Familiar with frameworks/libraries such as: network, stm, async, pipes/conduit, aeson, optparse-applicative
• Proficiency with advanced FP techniques such as: Advanced functional data structures, Dependent types, Extensible effects, Generic programming, Streaming, Type-level programming

Benefits

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