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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.

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 the Cardano blockchain, as well as other products in the areas of decentralized finance (DeFi), governance, and identity management, aiming to advance the capabilities and adoption of blockchain and Web3 technology globally.

What the role involves:

As a Senior Software Engineer, you are responsible for improving how IOG builds and maintains software, alongside actively contributing to product development. This includes the quality of engineering practices within a team and working across teams to identify cross-team improvements for IOG by (for example) sharing code, removing complexity or implementing new practices.

As a senior member of the team you are expected to mentor and grow other software engineers and act as a go-to person within the team and the wider organisation across multiple codebases and languages.

• Advocates for and models great quality with proactive actions, and tackles difficult and subtle system issues
• Uses systematic debugging to diagnose all issues within a set of related domains and leads in fostering a culture of observability and monitoring across several teams
• Regularly works across teams to build a culture for iterative, autonomous development and future scaling
• Is a technical and prioritisation leader across a set of related team's domains, consistently pushing boundaries and exploring gaps in understanding
• Is a go-to within the team and the wider organisation across multiple codebases.
• Be proactive and require minimal supervision or mentoring to complete tasks
• Review specifications produced by architects and formal methods specialists
• Lead the design of components and their interactions
• Be available for emergency fixing of severity 1 issues on deployed products
• Verify and deploy programs and systems
• Write documentation for the code
• Write technical user manuals
  
  
  

• Degree in Computer Science is desirable but not essential
• 10+ years of software engineering experience in Haskell
• Experience working with Git and Git workflow
• Ability to understand project needs, objectives and timescales to feed into planning and setting deadlines for a specific stream.
• Clearly articulates new issues, suggests changes to management for implementation
• 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
• Provide detailed guidance on the work to be done, assist with task assignments and deliver deep reviews and feedback on the work
• Pragmatically adhere to software engineering principles (modularity, incremental development, no premature optimization, no feature creep, no speculative generality, ...)
  
  
  

• Experience maintaining large and complex codebases
• Ability to understand scientific research and apply it to software design and implementation
• A deep understanding of distributed systems, ensuring a strong foundation for contributing to relevant projects
• Prior experience with blockchain technology is advantageous but not required
• Experience debugging Haskell performance problems (CPU usage, and memory leaks)
• Demonstrated ability to navigate the typical developer workflow effectively, including code review, debugging, and thorough documentation of decisions and processes
  
  

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

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Non-profit Organizations and Primary and Secondary Education

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