Summary
IO Global (IOG), the creator of the Cardano blockchain platform, is searching for a Back-End Developer, preferably with a DeFi background. IOG is creating a spinout venture that combines crypto/Web3/DeFi innovations with traditional finance (TradFi) to make borrowing and lending services more transparent, efficient, and available to a broader population. The venture aims to build a marketplace to syndicate tokenized debt assets globally in a fully compliant manner. While the initial focus is on Africa, RealFi has global applicability.
You will help support the efforts to establish this venture during its incubation phase. As Back-End Developer at IOG, you will bring significant experience from the financial sector in writing high-quality code for our applications. You will report to the Lead Back-End Developer and must effectively and efficiently collaborate with the front-end developers, solutions architects, product managers, QA engineers, and other team members to ensure that all technical requirements are met.
Duties
- Write clean, straightforward, efficient code that satisfies agreed acceptance criteria and specifications.
- Participate in the back-end development process, including planning, scheduling, and tracking the progress.
- Follow Agile software development practices.
- Review specifications produced by architects.
- Cover code with unit, property and integration tests when applicable.
- Review the pull requests of the team mates.
- Integrate software components and third-party libraries.
- Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade existing software.
- Document the back-end code.
- Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and best practices in backend development.
Requirements
Key Competencies
- Demonstrate competency with requirements elicitation, analysis, specification, verification, and management practices and the ability to apply them in practice.
- Collaborate with front-end developers, designers, and other stakeholders to deliver high-quality, scalable backend solutions.
- Optimize and scale server-side applications for maximum speed and performance.
- Ability to work remotely with minimum supervision.
- Proven ability to work and deliver end-to-end projects independently.
- Team spirit and good communication abilities.
- Good organizational skills and attention to detail.
Education / Experience / Technical Skills
- Degree in Computer Science or related field.
- 8-10 years of experience as a backend engineer
- Technical lead experience would be an advantage
- Understanding of different API development technologies such as REST, GraphQL, and gRPC.
- Experience in TypeScript, Node.js/Express.js and or Nest.js.
- Experience in Golang
- Experience in GraphQL and Apollo Server.
- Knowledge of AWS including AWS Lambda, AWS AppSync, AWS API Gateway, AWS S3, AWS SNS, AWS KMS, Cloudwatch.
- Familiarity with infrastructure as code tools, preferred Terraform.
- Experience with message queuing systems; RabbitMQ and or message-cache broker; Redis.
- Experience with relational based databases, preferred Postgresql and or MariaDB.
- Experience with non relational based databases, preferred MongoDB and or DynamoDB.
- Proficient in version control systems, such as Git, Github and familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, such as CircleCI.
Nice to have:
- Knowledge of the basics of cryptography.
- Familiarity with blockchain technologies, smart contracts, and decentralized applications (dApps).
- Understanding of web3 technologies, such as Metamask, Hardhat, Web3.js/ethers,js, IPFS, and Infura/Alchemy/Quicknode.
- Experience within DeFi/crypto assets/blockchain/Web3/FinTech, or similar industry.
Benefits
- Flexible schedule
- Remote work
- Laptop reimbursement
- New starter package to buy hardware essentials (headphones, monitor, etc)
- Learning & Development opportunities
- Competitive PTO
- Medical Benefits
At IOG, we value diversity and always treat all employees and job applicants based on merit, qualifications, competence, and talent. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
