Software Engineer - React (Lightwallet)

Description

IO Global is searching for a React engineer to join our Lightwallet team. As a Software Engineer, you will have the exciting challenge of working on cutting-edge research and technology focusing on the market’s needs. You will be working with our wallet team on one of our most exciting projects — Cardano — and taking responsibility for writing high-quality code for our products.

The wallet team is being scaled to build new products, maintain current products, and increase enterprise-grade services and tools for frontend use-cases. This role requires frontend web UI development, so it’s best to include specialists in this area. The engineer will be undertaking rapid prototyping and production-grade development using test-driven design principles, alongside test engineers and product management to realize solutions.

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
• 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 teammates
• Fix bugs in your own code and 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 about distributed and concurrent computation
• Be knowledgeable of the basics of cryptography.

Requirements

Your expertise

• A degree in computer science is desirable but not essential
• At least two to three years’ development experience (professional or otherwise) using Haskell, Javascript, Scala, and Rust
• Experience working with Git and Git workflow
• Practical experience with agile software development methods
• Knowledge of functional and object-oriented programming
• Demonstrable skills using: React, Node JS, Electron JS, TypeScript, progressive web app (PWA) technologies, Cucumber JS, Mocha, Chai, Jest, Enzyme.

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 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