Senior Software Engineer (Rust) - Mithril

Who are we?

IOG, 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 Mithril

Mithril is a protocol and network specifically designed for proof-of-stake blockchains. Its primary goal is to provide lightweight and secure access to blockchain data while ensuring a high level of security and decentralization. Mithril focuses on optimization, scalability, and interoperability, and has many applications. These include synchronizing data for both light and full-node wallets, as well as facilitating data exchanges with layer 2 solutions such as bridges, sidechains, rollups, and state channels. 

What the role involves:

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will provide deep engineering expertise and work across agile teams in Mithril to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. You will leverage your knowledge to consistently challenge the status quo, innovate for business impact, and remain at the forefront of industry trends, best practices, and technological advances. As a senior member of the team you are expected to mentor and grow other software engineers and act as a go-to person within the team and the wider organisation across multiple codebases and languages.

• Promote best practices in software architecture, design, development, tests, documentation, delivery, deployment, and operations.
• Provide technical expertise in Rust programming for blockchain development.
• Crafting high-quality, efficient, and maintainable code for blockchain solutions.
• Conduct thorough code reviews to ensure high-quality deliverables.
• Actively participating in strategic technical decision-making, with a focus on designing core components for our platform, prioritizing security, scalability, and performance.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including blockchain researchers, product owners and managers, and DevOps engineers, to deliver high-impact blockchain solutions.
• Review specifications produced by architects and our product specialists.
• Be knowledgeable of distributed and concurrent computation.
• Be knowledgeable of the basics of cryptography.

Requirements

Who you are:

• A degree in Computer Science is desirable but not essential.
• 7+ years of software engineering experience.
• 3+ years of Rust experience.
• A track record of delivering complex software projects from start to finish.
• Good understanding of distributed systems.
• Experience with communication protocols such as RESTful APIs, gRPC, and/or inter processes communication.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as GCP or AWS is a plus.
• Peer-to-peer experience is a plus.
• Blockchain experience is a plus.
• Open source software experience is a plus.
• Experience working with Git and Git workflow.
• Practical experience with Agile software development methods.
• Proficiency in Rust programming, with a proven track record in software development.
• Deep understanding of computer science fundamentals, including algorithms, data structures, and concurrency.
• Knowledge of blockchain technology and its core concepts, such as consensus
• mechanisms, cryptography, and smart contracts.
• Ability to understand project needs, objectives and timescales to feed into planning and setting deadlines for a specific stream. 
• Clearly articulates new issues, suggests changes to management for implementation.
• Pragmatically adhere to software engineering principles (modularity, incremental development, no premature optimization, no feature creep, no speculative generality, ...).

Benefits

• Remote work
• 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.