Senior Software Engineer, Rust

September 23

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Input Output (IOHK)

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Crypto • Web 3

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.

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2015

₿ Crypto

🌐 Web 3

📋 Description

• Provide deep engineering expertise and work across agile teams in Mithril to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. • Leverage knowledge to challenge the status quo, innovate for business impact, and remain at the forefront of industry trends, best practices, and technological advances. • 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. • Promote best practices in software architecture, design, development, tests, documentation, delivery, deployment, and operations. • Provide technical expertise in Rust programming for blockchain development. • Craft high-quality, efficient, and maintainable code for blockchain solutions. • Conduct thorough code reviews to ensure high-quality deliverables. • Actively participate in strategic technical decision-making, focusing on designing core components for the platform with emphasis on security, scalability, and performance. • Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including blockchain researchers, product owners and managers, and DevOps engineers, to deliver high-impact blockchain solutions. • Review specifications produced by architects and product specialists. • Be knowledgeable of distributed and concurrent computation. • Be knowledgeable of the basics of cryptography.

🎯 Requirements

• A degree in Computer Science is desirable but not essential. • 7+ years of software engineering experience. • 3+ years of Rust experience. • A track record of delivering complex software projects from start to finish. • Good understanding of distributed systems. • Experience with communication protocols such as RESTful APIs, gRPC, and/or inter processes communication. • Experience with cloud platforms such as GCP or AWS is a plus. • Peer-to-peer experience is a plus. • Blockchain experience is a plus. • Open source software experience is a plus. • Experience working with Git and Git workflow. • Practical experience with Agile software development methods. • Proficiency in Rust programming, with a proven track record in software development. • Deep understanding of computer science fundamentals, including algorithms, data structures, and concurrency. • Knowledge of blockchain technology and its core concepts, such as consensus mechanisms, cryptography, and smart contracts. • 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. • Pragmatically adhere to software engineering principles (modularity, incremental development, no premature optimization, no feature creep, no speculative generality, ...).

🏖️ Benefits

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