Director of Software Architecture & Infrastructure

March 27

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IOG is one of the world's pre-eminent blockchain infrastructure research and engineering companies.

Blockchain • Cyrptocurrency • Research • Development • Consultancy

201 - 500

Description

• Lead the chapter of Architects and manage Directors of architecture • Hire the Director of architecture when IOG bootstraps new initiatives • Recruit and build an outstanding team of infrastructure Architects • Recruit and build an outstanding team specifically dedicated to blockchain interoperability • Define a vision and instill a culture of fostering ingenuity, creativity, inventiveness, originality, problem solving and simplicity in the team • Define processes for the team to: - Ensure knowledge sharing between projects and teams - Ensure that architectural work can be reused across projects as much as possible - Define and implement best practices for architecture specifications - Define recommendations for support infrastructure for our projects - Coordinate with all other departments, in particular Product, IT and Research, and address their requirements - Integrate technical trends reports and prototypes developed internally • Align with the department of Formal Methods to ensure that best practices are followed for implementing formally verified architecture when beneficial • Coordinate with the Applied Cryptography department to ensure that architecture are cryptographically secure and reuse state of the art technologies • Work closely with the Director of Engineering to make sure that architecture is implemented following software development best practices, coding and quality guidelines • Work closely with the Research Division to forecast the technologies to be integrated in future architecture • Work closely with the Product Division in order to manage a backlog of features to be supported by the architecture • Work closely with the IT department to define IOG requirements for operating its support infrastructure • Drive performance management conversations, and develop shared, organization level goals, across IOG, driving results in common goals to keep team performance on-track and aligned with our high-quality standards

Requirements

• PhD or Master in Computer Science • 15+ years of experience in computing • 5+ years in the crypto/blockchain industry • 5+ years as a team leader or manager • Professional English

Benefits

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