We are searching for an experienced Software Engineer to join our Rust team. As a Software Engineer at IOHK 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.
Location
IOHK is a fully distributed organization and therefore this is a remote position. Due to team distribution, we are ideally searching for someone in a European time zone.
Your mission
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 the basics of cryptography
Your expertise
Degree in Computer Science is desirable but not essential
Ideally 1 - 2 years development experience using Rust. If you have development experience using C/C++ but with the ability to demonstrate good knowledge of Rust (professional or otherwise) you will also be considered.
Experience working with Git and Git workflow
Practical experience with Agile software development methods
Knowledge of functional and polymorphism programming paradigms
Distributed system and network development, knowledge of asynchronous programming paradigms, especially as applied in the Rust ecosystem.
Software development methods such as agile programming and test-driven development
Experience in developing cryptography protocols would be a bonus as would Blockchain experience