Software Engineering Lead

March 27

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Input Output (IOHK)

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Input Output (IOHK) is a technology company focused on research and development in the field of blockchain and cryptocurrencies. It is known for its key role in developing the Cardano blockchain platform, which aims to offer a more secure and scalable environment for digital transactions and smart contracts. IOHK places a strong emphasis on academic research and peer-reviewed development methods, contributing to its reputation in the blockchain space.

Blockchain • Cyrptocurrency • Research • Development • Consultancy

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2015

₿ Crypto

🌐 Web 3

📋 Description

• Who are we? • IOG is a technology company focused on blockchain research and development. • Our projects include the Cardano blockchain, decentralized finance (DeFi), governance, and identity management. • We invest in the unknown, applying our curiosity and desire for positive change. • About Lace: • Lace is a light wallet platform from IOG that brings together Web3 features. • What the role involves: • As the Software Engineering Lead, you are responsible for the quality of engineering practices. • Software Engineer Lead works to identify cross-team improvements for IOG. • As a Lead you are there to coach and develop your team members. • You are responsible for writing high-quality code for our products. • Follow agile software development practices • Work with teams across multiple time zones • Review specifications produced by architects and formal methods specialists • 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 teammates • Fix bugs in your 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. • Leadership • As Leaders it is our responsibility to motivate, develop and progress our fellow team members.

🎯 Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science is desirable but not essential • 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

🏖️ Benefits

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