Software Engineer - Typescript Libraries

IO Global, creator of the Cardano blockchain platform, is searching for a TypeScript engineer specialising in library development to join a rapidly expanding Engineering function. You will be working with the Adrestia team to help deliver products based on the market’s needs. While this role does not include GUI development, having a background working with reactive-based rendering technologies will be beneficial.  

The team is being expanded to further develop open-source enterprise-grade libraries for backend and frontend use-cases, support application implementations, and maintain the software as the ecosystem evolves. 

Location

IO Global is a fully distributed organization and therefore this is a remote position. Due to team distribution we are looking for an engineer based in a European time zone for this role. 

Your role 

• Write clean and efficient code to satisfy acceptance criteria and specifications within tests.
• Independently implement designs produced by an architect, proactively, and with minimal supervision.
• Co-pilot work items with colleagues, reviewing pull requests on demand, and taking part in one-on-one synchronous correspondence.
• Work with QA engineers to continuously improve product quality or address issues.
• Implement Cardano specifications and improvement proposals
• Support partner or internal integrations. 
• Be available for emergency fixing of severe issues on released products.
• Produce documentation as part of implementing features.
• Triage GitHub issues.
• Follow agile software development practices.
• DevOps tasks to maintain a Github Workflow CI process.
• Work asynchronously with team members in various time zones.

Required expertise

• Demonstrated ability in TypeScript library engineering. You will be expected to provide a link to an open-source or private git repository. A demo project is acceptable if you don't have one already available.
• Demonstrated competence using WebSocket protocols.
• Observable and event-driven software, with demonstrated competency using RxJS.
• Test-driven development practices.
• Secure handling of secret data.
• Binary data encoding/decoding.
• Understanding of various module standards, including CommonJS, AMD, and standard ECMAScript modules.
• Understanding of module bundling via webpack and rollup.js.
• Implementing and maintaining CI and other automation
• Understanding of React or other similar rendering technologies.

 Nice to have experience

• Jest
• Github Workflows
• Implementing GraphQL clients
• TypeGraphQL modeling