Software Engineer - Smart Contracts - Partner Chains

Summary

Join IOG, a blockchain technology company, as a Software Engineer to build high-quality code for innovative products. You will work with cutting-edge research and technology, collaborating with a team of architects, product managers, and specialists. Responsibilities include following agile practices, working across time zones, and independently completing tasks. You will review specifications, contribute to algorithm design, write efficient code, and conduct thorough testing. The role also involves integrating software components, troubleshooting, and writing documentation. IOG 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 (Solidity, Rust or TypeScript)
• Experience working with Git
• Practical experience with Agile software development methods
• Knowledge of functional and object-oriented programming paradigms
• Be knowledgeable of cryptography and usage in blockchains
• Demonstrated proficiency in programming languages such as Solidity, Rust, and TypeScript
• Design, develop, and deploy smart contracts on multiple blockchains
• Create and optimize on-chain program architectures for efficiency, scalability, and security
• Ensure all smart contracts are rigorously tested and audited to meet high security standards
• Experience working with smart contracts and blockchain technology essential
• Experience with web services development and RESTful APIs
• 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
• 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

• Write high-quality code for our products
• Work with cutting-edge research and technology with a focus on the market's needs
• Communicate professionally, effectively, and efficiently with software architects, product managers, project managers, formal methods specialists, and QA test engineers
• 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 cryptography

Preferred Qualifications

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