Who are we?
IOHK, is a technology company focused on Blockchain research and development. We are renowned for our scientific approach to blockchain development, emphasizing peer-reviewed research and formal methods to ensure security, scalability, and sustainability. Our projects include decentralized finance (DeFi), governance, and identity management, aiming to advance the capabilities and adoption of blockchain technology globally.
We invest in the unknown, applying our curiosity and desire for positive change to everything we do. By fueling creativity, innovation, and progress within our teams, our products and services are designed for people to be fearless, to be changemakers.
About RealFi:
IOG's RealFi Tribe is a 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.
What the role involves:
As a Full Stack Developer in the RealFI Tribe, you will work on creating various applications. Working with a cross-functional team of engineers, product owners and designers, to help design and implement various portals for our clients. You will be hands on contributing to both the frontend and backend development and also mentor more junior team members as the team grows. Your input on various strategies and ideas as we build out this project will also be encouraged.
- Working on ‘build and deployment cycles’ across all development environments.
- Supporting the build, deployment, and configuration management for multi-tier applications.
- Participating in the building of tools and processes to support the infrastructure.
- Improving and maintaining tooling and scripts for automation purposes.
- Writing software that is simple and flexible to configure and deploy.
- Being part of and collaborating with agile teams to establish and maintain automated regression suite infrastructure and performance testing infrastructure.
- Building capabilities to allow development teams to be self-sufficient.
- 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.
Requirements
Who you are:
- Completion of a relevant education such MSc in Computer Science or Software Engineering.
- 5-10 years experience in designing solutions to provide isolated runtime environments for applications in complex, critical systems with the ability to demonstrate expert knowledge in the following: Go, Next.js, AWS, GraphQL and CI/CD pipelines, it would be advantageous to have Data Engineering knowledge.
- Must have experience: across multiple platforms at application level (Linux, Mac, Windows, OSX), Distributed systems, Application security and Software development methods such as agile programming and TDD. Blockchain experience would be a bonus.
- Skills and Knowledge - You will have wide-ranging experience and use professional concepts to resolve complex issues in creative and effective ways. Experience working with the product team, to translate functional requirements into pragmatic logical, service-based technical designs. Ability to communicate proficiently in English and experience with Git and Git workflow.
- Shows strong skills in designing solutions to provide isolated runtime environments for applications in complex, critical systems with the ability to demonstrate expert knowledge in many of the following: Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Golang, React, Python.
- Confident in scripting and programming skills with the ability to develop custom tool integrations.
- Experience with continuous integration tools.
- Confidence with administering cloud resources, containers, and web servers.
- Team player who always prioritizes the team and works to progress all efforts and goals of the team.
- Able to lead the building out of various web applications and cloud infrastructure and provide guidance to junior developers.
Are you an IOGer?
Do you find yourself questioning the status quo? Do you tinker with ideas and long to turn those ideas into solutions? Are you able to spark thoughtful debates, bringing out the inquisitiveness in others? Does the promise of continuously growing excite you? Then get ready to reimagine everything you thought wasn’t possible because that’s what it means to be an IOGer - we don’t set limits, we break them.
Benefits
- Laptop reimbursement
- New starter package to buy hardware essentials (headphones, monitor, etc)
- Learning & Development opportunities
- Competitive PTO
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.
