Software Engineer (Dev) Scala - Sidechains

IO Global, developer of the Cardano blockchain platform, is looking for a Scala developer to join its Sidechains team. You will be working with highly skilled people and be responsible for a recently started Cardano sidechain product. Our team is developing a Scala-based blockchain client for a Cardano sidechain that will enable Ethereum Virtual Machine execution in the Cardano ecosystem.

We are also digging deep into proof of stake (PoS) concepts by building a client inspired by OBFT, the Byzantine fault-tolerant version of the Ouroboros consensus protocol developed for Cardano. Our code base is open source, because IOG believes in transparency, security, and peer review. Some of our implementations are based on academic research, so if you are keen on implementing formal requirements, you will be able to participate in those.

We are looking for the best people to join us, work with us, and help us to change the world. If you are a problem-solver who is self-driven with a black belt in getting stuff done, we want to talk to you.

As a Software Engineer you are responsible for writing high-quality code for our products. You have the exciting challenge of working with cutting-edge research and technology with a focus on the market's needs. To support you on this challenge, our products have software architects, product managers, project managers, formal methods specialists, and QA test engineers, with whom you must communicate professionally, effectively, and efficiently.

Responsibilities:

• Following agile software development practices
• Working with teams across multiple time zones
• Working independently on software development tasks
• Being proactive and requiring minimal supervision or mentoring to complete tasks
• Reviewing specifications produced by architects and formal methods specialists
• Contributing to the design of algorithms
• Writing clean, straightforward, efficient code that satisfies previously agreed acceptance criteria and specifications
• Committing often and submitting small pull requests frequently
• Covering your code with unit, property, and integration tests when applicable
• Reviewing the pull requests of your team mates
• Fixing bugs in your own code and in legacy code from others
• Being available for emergency fixing of severity 1 issues on deployed products
• Integrating software components and third-party libraries
• Verifying and deploying programs and systems
• Troubleshooting, debugging, and upgrading existing software
• Writing documentation for the code
• Writing technical user manuals
• Being knowledgeable of distributed and concurrent computation
• Being knowledgeable of the basics of cryptography