Posted over 4 years ago
Summary
As a Software Engineer at IOHK 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.
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
Be knowledgeable of distributed and concurrent computation
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 sub-tasks 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, ...)
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 (Scala)
Experience working with Git and Git workflow
Practical experience with Agile software development methods
Knowledge of functional and object-oriented programming paradigms
Specialist Skills
Skills relevant for a software engineer specialized in Scala
Advanced knowledge of the Scala type system.
Familiarity with frameworks such as Akka, Monix, Shapeless, Scalacheck & Scalatest.
Practical experience in the use of profilers, VM and GC tuning.