Summary
IO Global (IOG), the creator of the Cardano blockchain platform, is searching for a Front-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 Front-End Developer at IOG, you will bring significant experience from the financial sector in writing high-quality code for our applications, with a strong focus on users’ needs. You will report to the Lead Front-End Developer and must effectively and efficiently collaborate with the back-end developers, solutions architects, product managers, QA engineers, and other team members to ensure that the GUI meets all technical and design requirements.
Duties
- Write clean, straightforward, efficient code that satisfies agreed acceptance criteria and specifications.
- Participate in the front-end development process, including planning, scheduling, and tracking the progress of GUI projects.
- Follow Agile software development practices.
- Review specifications produced by architects.
- Contribute to the design of algorithms.
- Cover code with unit, property and integration tests when applicable.
- Review the pull requests of the team mates.
- Test the GUI to ensure that it is working as expected, using automated and manual testing techniques to identify and fix bugs.
- Responsible for emergency fixing of severity 1 issues on deployed apps.
- Integrate software components and third-party libraries.
- Verify and deploy programs and systems.
- Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade existing software.
- Document the front-end code.
- Draft technical user manuals.
- Communicate with other stakeholders to ensure that the front-end development process is smooth and efficient.
- Keep up-to-date with the latest trends in front-end development.
Requirements
Key Competencies
- Demonstrate competency with requirements elicitation, analysis, specification, verification, and management practices and the ability to apply them in practice.
- Develop productive relationships with a variety of levels and roles and manage user expectations effectively.
- Have a keen interest in blockchain and cryptocurrency technology developments.
- 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
- Bachelor's degree or higher in a quantitative/technical field (e.g. Computer Science, Statistics, Engineering).
- Solid understanding of TypeScript, HTML, and CSS, and the ability to write clean, modular, and maintainable code.
- Strong proficiency in React (React.js workflows such as Flux or Redux) with a minimum of 5 years of professional experience in front-end development.
- Experience with Node.js/Express.js frameworks.
- Familiarity with RESTful APIs and GraphqlAPIs.
- Knowledge of GraphQL APIs and experience in integrating front-end applications with back-end services.
- Experience with at least one of the testing frameworks / libraries such as Jest, Mocha, Chai, Jasmine.
- Experience in building responsive and mobile-friendly user interfaces that work seamlessly across multiple browsers and devices.
- Proficient in version control systems, such as Git, Github and familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, such as CircleCI.
- Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.
- Familiarity with AWS infrastructure.
Nice to have:
- Familiarity with blockchain technologies, smart contracts, and decentralized applications (dApps).
- Understanding of web3 technologies, such as Metamask, 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.
