IO Global is hiring a

Software Engineer, Front End - Blockchain Based Educational Identity Solution

Summary

As Software Engineer at IOG, you write high-quality code for our products with a focus on the market's needs. You must effectively and efficiently collaborate with software architects, product managers, project managers, formal methods specialists and QA test engineers.

Duties

• 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

Key Competencies

• Write idiomatic code that satisfies the acceptance criteria of a given task
• Write tests (unit tests, property tests) that provide sufficient and non-superfluous efficient code coverage.
• Document code and APIs concisely and unambiguously
• Break down tasks into subtasks that are completable in a short amount of time and report completion as required by managers
• Pragmatically adhere to software engineering principles (modularity, incremental development, no premature optimization, no feature creep, no speculative generality, ...)

Specialist Skills

• Software engineer specialized in Front End & Full Stack
  • HTML/CSS/LESS/SASS
  • CSS Preprocessing
  • JavaScript/ES6
  • NPM, Webpack, Gulp
  • React/Angular/Backbone/Vue/Knockout/MobX/REST API
  • UX/Design Principles
  • Basic knowledge of image and design editing tools e.g. Sketch, Photoshop, Zeplin etc
  • NodeJS
  • Docker
• Network expertise
  • Practical experience with issues related to latency and throughput
  • Knowledge of distributed computing libraries
  • Appreciated additional Skills: Familiarity with Poldercast, Dandelion, Kademlia, Tor, P2P architectures and topologies.

• Software engineer specialized in
  • Experience writing or working (cross) compilers, object formats, linkers, build systems, IDEs and IDE integrations.
  • Experience and enthusiasm for working with large legacy code bases, across multiple languages.
  • Reaching agreements with upstream developers.
  • Experience with web services development and RESTful APIs
  • Distributed system and network development
  • A track record of delivering software projects from start to finish
  • Proficiency in software development best practices, including design, implementation, testing, and debugging
  • HTTP API understanding as well as accessibility and security compliance.
  • Familiarity with continuous integration and deployment pipelines
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP

• Familiarity with blockchain concepts:
  • Proof of stake blockchain consensus mechanisms
  • Wallets and inter connection and interaction with blockchain

Education / Experience

• Degree in Computer Science is desirable but not essential
• A minimum of 2-3 years development experience (professional or otherwise) in the required language NextJS, NodeJS, ReactJS, Javascript, Scala
• Experience working with Ant design library and Atomic design methodology for developing user interfaces
• Experience with JestJs for frontend unit testing
• Experience working with Git and Git workflow
• Practical experience with Agile software development methods
• Knowledge of functional and object-oriented programming paradigms
• Knowledgeable of distributed and concurrent computation
• Knowledgeable of the basics of cryptography

Location

IOG is a fully distributed organization, and therefore, this is a remote position. Due to team distribution, we are ideally searching for someone based in Ethiopia or Kenya.

All Colleagues

• Flexible schedule
• Laptop reimbursement
• New starter package to buy hardware essentials (headphones, monitor, etc)
• Learning & Development Opportunities
• Competitive PTO and Sick Leave plan

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