Compensation

Competitive

Remote within

Timezones

GMT (-5/+4 hours)

Contract type

Full time

Remote working

Technologies & frameworks

Cryptography
BDD
C++
Scala
Prototyping
Blockchain
Rust
Agile
Haskell
Nix
TDD
Rustlang

Benefits & perks

Paid sick days
Pension
Performance bonus
Promote from within
Committed to a diverse team
Paid time off
100% remote working
Tokens
Learning & development
Health insurance - us employees
Healthcare stipend - uk & ireland employees
No call fridays
Company meetups

IO Global is searching for a Senior Engineer to take new ideas and evaluate them by creating prototypes.

Role overview

IO Global is searching for a Senior Prototyping Engineer to join their Creative Engineering team. As Senior Prototyping Engineer, you will take new ideas and evaluate them by creating prototypes. By generating projects along our general themes, the successful engineer will help bring new technologies and ideas to the wider business, and even to our external communities.

Your mission

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
Deliver end-to-end working demos and prototypes
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
Integrate software components and third-party libraries
Verify and deploy programs and systems
Write documentation for the code
Write technical user manuals
Be knowledgeable about distributed and concurrent computation
Be knowledgeable about the basics of cryptography and blockchain.

Requirements

Your expertise

A degree in Computer Science is desirable but not essential
A minimum of 2-3 years of development experience (professional or otherwise) in the required language (Haskell, Javascript, Scala, Rust)
Experience working with Git and Git workflow
Experience with basic mobile or web UI paradigms
Practical experience with agile software development methods
Knowledge of functional and object-oriented programming paradigms.
Experience delivering prototypes, proof of concepts, ideas into a demonstrable state
Presenting and communicating technical ideas efficiently and clearly.

Benefits

Location

IOG is a fully distributed organization and therefore this is a remote position. Due to team distribution we are ideally searching for someone in a European or Asian time zone.

All Colleagues

Flexible schedule
Remote work - ability to work anywhere
Laptop reimbursement
New starter package to buy hardware essentials (headphones, monitor, etc)
Learning & Development opportunities
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

IOHK

250+
Singapore

Founded in 2015, IO Global is one of the world’s pre-eminent blockchain research and engineering companies, best known for the Cardano blockchain platform. We are a fully decentralized, remote-working organization committed to the highest principles of academic rigour and evidence-based software development. The company builds high-assurance blockchain products for public and private sector clients. Our goal is simple – to fuel our drive to be best in class by giving you the opportunity, resources and support to deliver your finest work to date. You’ll work with some exceptionally talented and friendly individuals who are always open to new ideas and ways of working. IO Global is an advocate of decentralized remote working, with more than 700 people working in more than 60 countries. Everyone has a different skill set, a different culture, and is at a different stage in their life. We aim to make collaboration between diverse people fun, exciting, and always rewarding. Many companies say they ‘think outside the box’ – for IO Global it’s more, ‘we think outside the geography’.