Compensation

Competitive

Contract type

Full time

Remote working

Technologies & frameworks

Functional Programming
DevOps

Benefits & perks

Remote working
Paid sick days
Paid time off
100% remote working
Health insurance - us employees
Healthcare stipend - uk & ireland employees
Learning & development
No call fridays
Pension
Promote from within
Committed to a diverse team
Performance bonus

As a DevX/Build Engineer you are in charge of ensuring that our development teams are happy and effective

Role overview

Summary

There comes a point in the life of every engineer where they find themselves gnashing their teeth at the inefficiency and awkwardness of their build and development tooling. Most of us just grit our teeth and ignore it, but there’s something very satisfying about actually oiling the gears so they work properly. If the idea of being a real force multiplier for your team makes you feel proud, then come and help us make our development tooling world-class!

As a DevX Engineer you are in charge of ensuring that our development teams are happy, effective, and productive. This involves using, creating, and configuring a variety of tools and frameworks to make development easier, all the way from writing the software to building and preparing it for deployment. You will also focus on administration of the source control system. You work closely with the developers, the QA managers and the SRE team in order to define, improve and maintain our software delivery process.

Duties

Create, maintain, document, and optimize automated build processes
Create and maintain internal tools to support development or build workflows, including advanced systems to improve our build and development processes across the organization.
Work with the development team to set up and maintain functional and effective development build environment
Support the QA team in the definition of continuous testing processes and validation pipelines
Support the needs of the SRE team and contribute to the definition of a reliable continuous integration pipelines
Contribute to the administration of the source version control system and to managing users, groups, permissions, and general instance configuration of the source control

Key Competencies

Experience with any of the following is desirable:
Hydra / Hercules / Zeus
Github Actions
CircleCI
Enjoy working with a variety of functional teams and helping them with diverse problems
Enjoy being a “force multiplier” for other groups
[for teams that use it - Cardano, Midnight and Mamba ]Nix experience ([Mamba/Midnight/Catalyst/EAS/ERC20] Experience with nomad and cue language desirable

Education / Experience

(Desirable) Some professional experience with the programming languages we use (Haskell, Rust, JavaScript/TypeScript, etc.) and their common build, packaging and deployment tools
Scala: understanding the underlying build pieces for the JVM ecosystem and number of Scala build tools (SBT, mill) is desirable
(Desirable) Unix system administration experience
(Desirable) Experience working in internal tooling teams or SRE/devops previously
(Desirable For Cardano only) A year of working with Nix in some professional capacity (but we will train people if they don’t have experience)

Benefits

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
Learning & Development opportunities
New starter package to buy hardware essentials (headphones, monitor, etc)
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

IOHK

250+
Singapore

Founded in 2015, IO Global is one of the world’s pre-eminent blockchain research and engineering companies, best known for the Cardano blockchain platform. We are a fully decentralized, remote-working organization committed to the highest principles of academic rigour and evidence-based software development. The company builds high-assurance blockchain products for public and private sector clients. Our goal is simple – to fuel our drive to be best in class by giving you the opportunity, resources and support to deliver your finest work to date. You’ll work with some exceptionally talented and friendly individuals who are always open to new ideas and ways of working. IO Global is an advocate of decentralized remote working, with 300 people working in more than 50 countries. Everyone has a different skill set, a different culture, and is at a different stage in their life. We aim to make collaboration between diverse people fun, exciting, and always rewarding. Many companies say they ‘think outside the box’ – for IO Global it’s more, ‘we think outside the geography’.