Software Engineering Lead - Lace
On site
London, United Kingdom
Full Time
28-03-2025
Job Specifications
Who are we?
IOG is a technology company focused on blockchain research and development. We are renowned for our scientific approach to blockchain development, emphasizing peer-reviewed research and formal methods to ensure security, scalability, and sustainability.
Our projects include the Cardano blockchain, as well as other products in the areas of decentralized finance (DeFi), governance, and identity management, aiming to advance the capabilities and adoption of blockchain technology globally.
We invest in the unknown, applying our curiosity and desire for positive change to everything we do. By fueling creativity, innovation, and progress within our teams, our products and services are designed for people to be fearless, to be changemakers.
About Lace
Lace is a light wallet platform from IOG that brings together a wealth of Web3 features, from managing digital assets, to accessing NFTs, DApps, and DeFi services, so you can discover and enjoy a new world of digital experiences. Securely send and receive digital assets, easily stake your ada and participate in the Cardano network, or send multiple assets to different addresses in one transaction. Lace does everything a wallet does – and more. Lace is already evolving, with many new features in the pipeline. From a DApp Store, to a mobile app, digital identity solutions, and more – this is just the beginning. https://www.lace.io/
What The Role Involves
As the Software Engineering Lead, you are responsible for the quality of engineering practices within a product team, and the development of those skills within the team. Software Engineer Lead works to identify cross-team improvements for IOG by (for example) sharing code, removing complexity or implementing new practices.
As a Lead you are there to coach and develop your team members and lead team achievements by providing continuous and actionable feedback and opportunities to learn and grow within IOG.
As a member of the Software Engineering team at IOG 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 software engineers, with whom you must communicate professionally, effectively and efficiently.
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
Be knowledgeable of the basics of cryptography
Mentor direct reports and junior team members
Be responsible for project decisions and architecture
Leadership
As Leaders it is our responsibility to motivate, develop and progress our fellow team members. As a Leader there is a need to communicate openly with all members of your team, address any issues head on and not shy away from difficult conversations.
Empowering your team to provide the best results by organizing clear processes and coordinating team efforts should be your top priority.
Please read our Leadership at IO Global document for more information on your duties and responsibilities as a leader at IOG
Requirements
Who you are:
Degree in Computer Science is desirable but not essential
5+ years of software engineering experience in the required language ( Haskell, Javascript, Scala, Rust)
Experience working with Git and Git workflow
Practical experience with Agile software development methods
Knowledge of functional and object-oriented programming paradigms
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, ...)
Act as a project leader, identifying the best way to achieve project goals, and aiding other team members in achieving this end
Technical Skills
JavaScript/ES6/TypeScriptHTML/CSS/LESS/SASS
React
React Storybook + Chromatic
CSS Preprocessing
NPM, Webpack, Gulp
State management tooling
Browser extensions
Coding best practices
Testing practices
Jest
UX/Design Principles
Basic knowledge of image and design editing tools e.g. Sketch, Photoshop, Zeplin etc
NodeJS
Docker
Are you an IOGer?
Do you find yourself questioning the status quo? Do you tinker with ideas and long to turn those ideas into solutions? Are you able to spark thoughtful debates, bringing out the inquisitiveness in others? Does the promise of continuously growing excite you? Then get ready to reimagine everything you thought wasn’t possible because that’s what it means to be an IOGer - we don’t set limits, we break them.
Benefits
Remote work
Laptop reimbursement
New starter package to buy hardware essentials (headphones, monitor, etc)
Learning & Development opportunities
Competitive PTO
At IOG, we value diversity and always treat all employees and job applicants based on merit, qualifications, competence, and talent. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
About the Company
iome provides location-based, personalised technology that creates and monetises digital lifestyle services for today’s convergent world. We bring knowledge, experience and technological innovation to our customers. Accessible via any internet-enabled device, our services allow consumers to discover places, events and activities based on their current or planned location, create plans and share these with contacts via social networks, whilst also accessing vouchers and offers that are relevant to them. We partner with cons... Know more
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