Offer summary

Qualifications:

Minimum of 5 years of development experience in Solidity, Rust, or TypeScript., Experience with Agile software development methods and Git., Knowledge of cryptography and its application in blockchains., Degree in Computer Science is desirable but not essential..

Key responsibilities:

Write high-quality, efficient code for blockchain products.

Collaborate with architects and specialists to review specifications and design algorithms.

Conduct testing and debugging of smart contracts and existing software.

Document code and create technical user manuals for clarity and usability.

Job description

Who are we?

IOG, is a technology company focused on Blockchain research and development. We are renowned for our scientific approach to blockchain development, emphasizing peer-reviewed research and formal methods to ensure security, scalability, and sustainability. Our projects include decentralized finance (DeFi), governance, and identity management, aiming to advance the capabilities and adoption of blockchain technology globally.

We invest in the unknown, applying our curiosity and desire for positive change to everything we do. By fueling creativity, innovation, and progress within our teams, our products and services are designed for people to be fearless, to be changemakers.

About Partner Chains:

IOG’s Partner chains Tribe is an innovation project built using Substrate. It aims to simplify blockchain deployment, operation and interoperability by combining modular technology with proven security, liquidity, and reliability. Partner Chains empowers developers and validators to create optimized blockchains without network or technology stack lock-in, fostering a new era of interoperable and scalable solutions.

What the role involves:

As a Software Engineer 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. To support you on this challenge, our products have software architects, product managers, project managers, formal methods specialists, and QA test engineers, with whom you must communicate professionally, effectively, and efficiently.

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

Requirements

Who you are:

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
Degree in Computer Science is desirable but not essential
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, ...)

Are you an IOGer?

Do you find yourself questioning the status quo? Do you tinker with ideas and long to turn those ideas into solutions? Are you able to spark thoughtful debates, bringing out the inquisitiveness in others? Does the promise of continuously growing excite you? Then get ready to reimagine everything you thought wasn’t possible because that’s what it means to be an IOGer - we don’t set limits, we break them.

Benefits

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

At IOG, we value diversity and always treat all employees and job applicants based on merit, qualifications, competence, and talent. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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