Software Engineer (RUST/Blockchain)
Posted 1 day ago by Sectech Solutions
Negotiable
Undetermined
Remote
EMEA
Summary: The Software Engineer (RUST/Blockchain) role involves remote work focused on developing blockchain technology for a global organization. The position requires collaboration with various teams and emphasizes agile development practices. Candidates should possess strong Rust programming skills and experience in software development, particularly in distributed systems. The role is contract-based for six months with potential extensions.
Key Responsibilities:
- Follow agile software development practices
- Work with teams across multiple time zones
- Work independently on software development tasks
- Review specifications produced by architects and formal methods specialists
- Contribute to the design of algorithms
- Write clean, efficient code that meets acceptance criteria
- Commit often and submit small pull requests frequently
- Cover code with unit, property, and integration tests
- Review pull requests of team members
- Fix bugs in own code and legacy code
- Be available for emergency fixes 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 code and technical user manuals
- Be knowledgeable of distributed and concurrent computation
- Be knowledgeable of the basics of cryptography
Key Skills:
- A minimum of 5 years of development experience
- Experience working with Git
- Practical experience with Agile software development methods
- Strong experience with the Rust programming language
- Experience with web services development and RESTful APIs
- Knowledge of functional and object-oriented programming paradigms
- Proficiency in software development best practices
- Familiarity with continuous integration and deployment pipelines
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP
- Experience in developing cryptography protocols is a bonus
- Web3 experience is a bonus
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: undetermined
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
SOFTWARE ENGINEER (RUST/BLOCKCHAIN) REMOTE WORKING - UK HOURS 6 MONTH CONTRACT + EXTENSIONS HOURLY RATES $35-$45 DEPENDENT ON EXPERIENCE (US CLIENT - PAY WILL BE MADE IN USD)
Our client is a Global Blockchain research and development organisation that are working on several large-scale projects and as a result of this, are now looking for additional Software Engineer with RUST experience. 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
- Be knowledgeable of the basics of cryptography
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
- A minimum of 5 years of development experience
- Experience working with Git
- Practical experience with Agile software development methods
- Knowledge of functional and object-oriented programming paradigms
- Degree in Computer Science is desirable but not essential
Specialist Skills
- Strong experience with the Rust programming language and system programming
- Experience with web services development and RESTful APIs
- Distributed systems and network development
- A track record of delivering software projects from start to finish
- Proficiency in software development best practices, including design, implementation, testing, and debugging
- HTTP API understanding as well as accessibility and security compliance.
- Familiarity with continuous integration and deployment pipelines
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP
- Software development methods such as agile programming and test-driven development
- Experience in developing cryptography protocols would be a bonus, as would Web3 experience