Back-end Developer - RealFi

Summary

IO Global (IOG), the creator of the Cardano blockchain platform, is searching for a Back-End Developer, preferably with a DeFi background. IOG is creating a spinout venture that combines crypto/Web3/DeFi innovations with traditional finance (TradFi) to make borrowing and lending services more transparent, efficient, and available to a broader population. The venture aims to build a marketplace to syndicate tokenized debt assets globally in a fully compliant manner. While the initial focus is on Africa, RealFi has global applicability.

You will help support the efforts to establish this venture during its incubation phase. As Back-End Developer at IOG, you will bring significant experience from the financial sector in writing high-quality code for our applications. You will report to the Lead Back-End Developer and must effectively and efficiently collaborate with the front-end developers, solutions architects, product managers, QA engineers, and other team members to ensure that all technical requirements are met.

Duties

• Write clean, straightforward, efficient code that satisfies agreed acceptance criteria and specifications.
• Participate in the back-end development process, including planning, scheduling, and tracking the progress.
• Follow Agile software development practices.
• Review specifications produced by architects.
• Cover code with unit, property and integration tests when applicable.
• Review the pull requests of the team mates.
• Integrate software components and third-party libraries.
• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade existing software.
• Document the back-end code.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and best practices in backend development.

Requirements

Key Competencies

• Demonstrate competency with requirements elicitation, analysis, specification, verification, and management practices and the ability to apply them in practice.

• Collaborate with front-end developers, designers, and other stakeholders to deliver high-quality, scalable backend solutions.

• Optimize and scale server-side applications for maximum speed and performance.

• Ability to work remotely with minimum supervision.

• Proven ability to work and deliver end-to-end projects independently.

• Team spirit and good communication abilities.

• Good organizational skills and attention to detail.

Education / Experience / Technical Skills

• Degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Understanding of different API development technologies such as REST, GraphQL, and gRPC.
• Experience in TypeScript, Node.js/Express.js and or Nest.js.
• Experience in GraphQL and Apollo Server.
• Knowledge of AWS including AWS Lambda, AWS API Gateway, AWS S3, AWS SNS, AWS KMS, Cloudwatch.
• Familiarity with infrastructure as code tools, preferred Terraform.
• Experience with message queuing systems; RabbitMQ and or message-cache broker; Redis.
• Experience with relational based databases, preferred Postgresql and or MariaDB.
• Experience with non relational based databases, preferred MongoDB and or DynamoDB.
• Proficient in version control systems, such as Git, Github and familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, such as CircleCI.

Nice to have:

• Knowledge of the basics of cryptography.

• Familiarity with blockchain technologies, smart contracts, and decentralized applications (dApps).

• Understanding of web3 technologies, such as Metamask, Hardhat, Web3.js/ethers,js, IPFS, and Infura/Alchemy/Quicknode.

• Experience within DeFi/crypto assets/blockchain/Web3/FinTech, or similar industry.

Benefits

Location

IOG is a fully distributed organization but due to team distribution, we require someone to be based in South Africa.

All colleagues

• Flexible schedule
• Remote work
• Laptop reimbursement
• New starter package to buy hardware essentials (headphones, monitor, etc)
• Learning & Development opportunities
• Competitive PTO and Sick Leave plan