Remote Senior Software Engineer - Identus - IOE: Cardano

Description:

• Senior Software Engineers are responsible for improving how IOHK builds and maintains software, alongside actively contributing to product development.
• They are responsible for the quality of engineering practices within a team.
• Senior Software Engineers work across teams to identify cross-team improvements for IOHK by sharing code, removing complexity, or implementing new practices.
• As a senior member of the team, they are expected to mentor and grow other software engineers and act as a go-to person within the team and the wider organization across multiple codebases and languages.
• They advocate for and model great quality with proactive actions and tackle difficult and subtle system issues.
• They use systematic debugging to diagnose all issues within a set of related domains and lead in fostering a culture of observability and monitoring across several teams.
• They regularly work across teams to build a culture for iterative, autonomous development and future scaling.
• They are a technical and prioritization leader across a set of related team domains, consistently pushing boundaries and exploring gaps in understanding.
• They are proactive and require minimal supervision or mentoring to complete tasks.
• They review specifications produced by architects and formal methods specialists.
• They lead the design of components and their interactions.
• They are available for emergency fixing of severity 1 issues on deployed products.
• They integrate software components and third-party libraries.
• They verify and deploy programs and systems.
• They write documentation for the code and technical user manuals.
• They are knowledgeable of distributed and concurrent computation and the basics of cryptography.

Requirements:

• Candidates must have the ability to understand project needs, objectives, and timescales to feed into planning and setting deadlines for a specific stream.
• They should clearly articulate new issues and suggest changes to management for implementation.
• They must write idiomatic code that satisfies the acceptance criteria of a given task.
• They should write tests (unit tests, property tests) that provide sufficient and non-superfluous efficient code coverage.
• They must document code and APIs concisely and unambiguously.
• They should provide detailed guidance on the work to be done, assist with task assignments, and deliver deep reviews and feedback on the work.
• Candidates must pragmatically adhere to software engineering principles such as modularity, incremental development, no premature optimization, no feature creep, and no speculative generality.
• A degree in Computer Science is desirable but not essential.
• Candidates should have 7+ years of software engineering experience in the required languages (Haskell, Javascript, Scala, Rust).
• Basic knowledge of Kotlin and TypeScript is desirable.
• Experience working with Git and Git workflow is required.
• Practical experience with Agile software development methods is necessary.
• Knowledge of functional and object-oriented programming paradigms is essential.

Benefits:

• The position offers remote work flexibility.
• There is a laptop reimbursement program.
• New starters receive a package to buy hardware essentials such as headphones and monitors.
• Learning and development opportunities are provided.
• Competitive paid time off (PTO) is included.