About the company
IO Global 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’.
Job Summary
This role is not just about writing code—it’s about solving some of the most complex challenges in Bitcoin and Blockchain technology. You’ll serve as a mentor, a problem solver, and a technical leader: simplifying complexity, designing scalable systems, and creating software that matters.
📍Drive high-quality engineering practices and proactively overcome system complexities. 📍Work with Bitcoin while delivering new solutions in Rust. 📍Debug and resolve issues across distributed systems while promoting observability and reliability. 📍Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enable iterative and scalable development. 📍Lead technical design, code reviews, and integration 📍Advance Bitcoin DeFi development through innovations using Taproot, Bitcoin Script, and BitVM (with potential for visible public contributions). 📍Act as a go-to expert for Bitcoin and related topics. 📍Mentor and guide engineers, inspiring technical excellence. 📍Produce concise, maintainable documentation to support shared knowledge. 📍Be proactive and require minimal supervision or mentoring to complete tasks. 📍Ensure reliability of deployed products, including availability for critical support when needed.
Who you are:
📍7+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years of production Rust or C++ development. (We code Rust) 📍Proven experience contributing to Bitcoin Core or related public Bitcoin projects. 📍Strong understanding of Taproot, Bitcoin Script, and ideally, BitVM. 📍Expertise in Rust ownership model, lifetimes, concurrency, and multithreading. 📍Deep knowledge of peer-to-peer networking, distributed systems, and cryptographic libraries. 📍Experience with modern paradigms: multi-party computation and zero-knowledge (ZK) is a big plus. 📍Comfort working with web services, REST APIs, HTTP protocols.
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