Software Engineering Lead

Summary

Join IOG, a blockchain research and development company, as a Software Engineer Lead. You will be responsible for the quality of engineering practices within a product team and the development of those skills within the team. Lead and coach team members, providing feedback and opportunities for growth. Write high-quality code for our products, working with cutting-edge research and technology. Collaborate with various teams and specialists, following agile practices and contributing to algorithm design and code reviews. You will also be involved in fixing bugs, integrating software components, and writing documentation. The role requires strong system programming experience in Rust (or C++), distributed systems knowledge, and experience with agile development. 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
• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 2 years of team management
• Solid System Programming experience: You’ll have strong experience in system development using Rust (relevant experience in C++ will be considered)
• Distributed system and network development
• High-performance code, CPU and memory optimisation
• Software development methods such as agile programming and test-driven development
• HTTP API understanding as well as accessibility and security compliance
• Experience working with Git and Git workflow
• Practical experience with Agile software development methods
• Knowledge of functional and object-oriented programming paradigms
• Real-world experience of software release and maintenance process
• 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, ...)

Responsibilities

• As an experienced Software Engineer Lead role, you have responsibility 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
• 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

• Experience in developing cryptography protocols would be a bonus as would Blockchain experience
• Experience with modular and event-driven architecture
• Understanding of Cardano principles and ecosystem background

Benefits

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