Software Engineering Lead

Summary

Join IOG, a leading blockchain technology company, as a Software Engineering Lead and contribute to the development of innovative products like the Lace wallet platform. You will be responsible for ensuring high-quality engineering practices within your product team, mentoring team members, and leading project decisions. This role requires strong software engineering skills, experience with Agile methodologies, and a collaborative approach. You will work with cutting-edge technologies and contribute to the design and development of blockchain-related applications. IOG offers a remote work environment, competitive benefits, and opportunities for professional development.

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

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for the quality of engineering practices within a product team, and the development of those skills within the team
• Identify cross-team improvements for IOG by (for example) sharing code, removing complexity or implementing new practices
• Coach and develop team members and lead team achievements by providing continuous and actionable feedback and opportunities to learn and grow within IOG
• Write high-quality code for our products
• 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
• Motivate, develop and progress fellow team members
• Communicate openly with all members of your team, address any issues head on and not shy away from difficult conversations
• Empower your team to provide the best results by organizing clear processes and coordinating team efforts

Preferred Qualifications

Degree in Computer Science

Benefits

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