Software Engineering Lead

Summary

Join IOG, a blockchain technology company, as a Software Engineering Lead and contribute to the development of the Lace light wallet platform. You will be responsible for ensuring high-quality engineering practices within your product team, mentoring team members, and leading team achievements. The role involves writing high-quality code, working with cutting-edge technologies, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and following agile development practices. You will also contribute to algorithm design, code reviews, bug fixing, and software deployment. Leadership responsibilities include motivating the team, organizing processes, and coordinating team efforts. A degree in Computer Science is desirable but not essential.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience in the required language ( Haskell, Javascript, Scala, Rust)
• 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 subtasks 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, ...)
• Act as a project leader, identifying the best way to achieve project goals, and aiding other team members in achieving this end
• JavaScript/ES6/TypeScript
• HTML/CSS/LESS/SASS
• React
• React Storybook + Chromatic
• CSS Preprocessing
• NPM, Webpack, Gulp
• State management tooling
• Browser extensions
• Coding best practices
• Testing practices
• Jest
• UX/Design Principles
• Basic knowledge of image and design editing tools e.g. Sketch, Photoshop, Zeplin etc
• NodeJS
• Docker

Responsibilities

• As the Software Engineering Lead, you are responsible for the quality of engineering practices within a product team, and the development of those skills within the team
• Software Engineer Lead works to identify cross-team improvements for IOG by (for example) sharing code, removing complexity or implementing new practices
• As a Lead you are there to coach and develop your team members and lead team achievements by providing continuous and actionable feedback and opportunities to learn and grow within IOG
• As a member of the Software Engineering team at IOG you are responsible for writing high-quality code for our products
• You have the exciting challenge of working with cutting-edge research and technology with a focus on the market's needs
• 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
• Mentor direct reports and junior team members
• Be responsible for project decisions and architecture
• As Leaders it is our responsibility to motivate, develop and progress our fellow team members
• As a Leader there is a need to communicate openly with all members of your team, address any issues head on and not shy away from difficult conversations
• Empowering your team to provide the best results by organizing clear processes and coordinating team efforts should be your top priority

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