Rust Software Engineer - Remote

Our blockchain engineers, app developers, theorists, and community managers are working together in a start-up-like environment to add collaboration tools to human processes and create a friendly and engaging experience.

Your mission

• Follow agile software development practices
• Work with teams across 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 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 members
• Fix bugs in your own code and in legacy code from others
• Be available for emergency fixing of severe issues on deployed products
• Integrate software components and third-party libraries
• Verify and deploy programs and systems
• Troubleshoot, debug, and upgrade software
• Write documentation for your code
• Write technical user manuals
• Develop your knowledge of distributed and concurrent computation
• Develop your knowledge of the basics of cryptography.

Requirements

Your expertise

• A degree in computer science is desirable but not essential
• A minimum of 3 years of industrial/commercial development
• Ideally, one to two years’ development experience using Rust. If you have experience in C/C++ or other languages and demonstrate good knowledge of Rust (professional or otherwise), you will also be considered
• Experience working with Git and Git workflow
• Practical experience with agile software development methods
• Knowledge of functional and polymorphism programming paradigms
• Distributed system and network development, knowledge of asynchronous programming paradigms, especially as applied to Rust
• Skilled in software development methods such as agile programming and test-driven development
• Good to have: System programming experience; you’ll have strong experience in system development (ideally in Rust, but relevant experience in C/C++ will be considered)
• Experience in developing cryptography protocols would be a bonus, as would blockchain experience.

Benefits

Location

IOG is a fully distributed organization and therefore this is a remote position.

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