Software Engineer

Summary

Join IOHK's Partner Chains Tribe as a Software Engineer and contribute to building high-quality code for innovative blockchain products. You will work with cutting-edge research and technology, collaborating with a team of architects, product managers, and formal methods specialists. Responsibilities include following agile practices, working across multiple time zones, and independently developing software components. You will also review code, write tests, and troubleshoot issues. The ideal candidate possesses 5+ years of development experience, 3+ years of Rust experience, and familiarity with Agile methodologies. A degree in Computer Science is desirable but not essential. IOHK offers remote work, laptop reimbursement, a new starter package, learning and development opportunities, and competitive PTO.

Requirements

• A minimum of 5+ years of development experience
• A minimum of 3+ years of Rust experience
• Experience working with Git
• Practical experience with Agile software development methods
• Knowledge of functional and object-oriented programming paradigms
• Experience with communication protocols such as RESTful APIs, gRPC, and/or inter processes communication
• Experience with building reusable and modular software
• Distributed systems and network development
• A track record of delivering software projects from start to finish
• Proficiency in software development best practices, including design, implementation, testing, and debugging
• HTTP API understanding as well as accessibility and security compliance
• Familiarity with continuous integration and deployment pipelines
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS
• Software development methods such as agile programming and test-driven development
• 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 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
• Be knowledgeable about distributed and concurrent computation
• Be knowledgeable about the basics of cryptography

Preferred Qualifications

• Blockchain and/or any blockchain framework experience is a plus
• Blockchain experience is a plus but not critical
• A degree in Computer Science is desirable but not essential

Benefits

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