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Software Engineer - Smart Contracts - Partner Chains

Founded in 2015 by Charles Hoskinson and Jeremy Wood, IOHK is one of the world's pre-eminent blockchain infrastructure research and engineering companies.

IOHK

Employee count: 201-500

United Kingdom only

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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About IOHK

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Founded in 2015 by Charles Hoskinson and Jeremy Wood, IOHK is one of the world's pre-eminent blockchain infrastructure research and engineering companies. We are a fully decentralised remote working organisation committed to the highest principles of academic rigour and evidence-based software development. The company builds high-assurance blockchain infrastructure solutions for public, private sector and government clients. It is also the driving force behind the decentralised and smart contract platform, Cardano.

Cascading disruption

It is the founding principle of IOHK. Cascading disruption is the idea that most of the structures that form the world’s financial, governance and social systems are inherently unstable and thus minor perturbations can cause a ripple effect that fundamentally reconfigures the entire system. Our company is committed to identifying and developing technology to force these perturbations in order to push towards a more fair and transparent order.

The mission of IOHK

We view the world as a series of giant and mostly interconnected social graphs with hundreds of complex systems embedded. Our mission is to perturb the graphs to a more connected, transparent and fair configuration for both the flow of ideas and value.

Input Output the company

IOHK is a truly global organisation with a remote team of 400+ people across 50+ countries. We have a rich culture with people from all over the world offering different skillsets, different cultural perspectives and at different life stages.

Employee benefits

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Flexible work schedule

As a global, distributed company, colleagues can work to a flexible schedule.

Laptop reimbursement

All colleagues are eligible to have a laptop purchase reimbursed up to $2,000.

Generous vacation

All of our full-time employees and service providers receive a minimum of 4 weeks PTO a year.

Professional development

IO Global offers specialised learning platforms & extensive internal content for continued learning, up-skilling, and development.

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201-500 employees

Founded in

2015

Chief executive officer

Charles Hoskinson

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