Software Engineer - Rust

We are searching for an experienced Software Engineer to join our Rust team. As a Software Engineer at IO Global you are responsible for writing high-quality code for our products. You have the exciting challenge of working with cutting-edge blockchain research and technology with a focus on the market's needs. To support you in 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.

Your role

• Follow agile software development practices
• Work with teams across 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 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 members
• Fix bugs in your own code and in legacy code from others
• Be available for emergency fixing of severe issues on deployed products
• Integrate software components and third-party libraries
• Verify and deploy programs and systems
• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software
• Write documentation for your code
• Write technical user manuals
• Develop your knowledge of distributed and concurrent computation
• Develop your knowledge of the basics of cryptography.

Requirements

Your expertise

• Degree in computer science is desirable but not essential
• Ideally, one to two years’ development experience using Rust. If you have experience of C/C++ and 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
• System programming experience: you’ll have strong experience in system development (ideally in Rust, but relevant experience in C/C++ will be considered)
• Distributed system and network development, knowledge of asynchronous programming paradigms, especially as applied to Rust
• Skilled in software development methods such as agile programming and test-driven development
• Experience in developing cryptography protocols would be a bonus, as would blockchain experience.

Benefits

Location

IOG is a fully distributed organization and therefore this is a remote position.

All Colleagues

• Flexible schedule
• Remote work - ability to work anywhere
• Laptop reimbursement
• New starter package to buy hardware essentials (headphones, monitor, etc)
• Udemy for Business
• Competitive PTO and Sick Leave plan

US Employees

• Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits coverage through Anthem with 100% premium cost covered by IO Global for the employee and dependents
• Health Savings Account
• Life Insurance

UK Employees

• Monthly Health Stipend to use towards any wellness or medical coverage/service
• Pension