Job Description for Full Stack Developer - RealFi at IO Global - Cape Town, South Africa
Who are we?
IOG, is a technology company focused on Blockchain research and development. We are renowned for our scientific approach to blockchain development, emphasizing peer-reviewed research and formal methods to ensure security, scalability, and sustainability. Our projects include decentralized finance (DeFi), governance, and identity management, aiming to advance the capabilities and adoption of blockchain technology globally.
We invest in the unknown, applying our curiosity and desire for positive change to everything we do. By fueling creativity, innovation, and progress within our teams, our products and services are designed for people to be fearless, to be changemakers.
About RealFi:
IOG's RealFi Tribe is a 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.
What the role involves:
As a Full Stack Developer at IOG, you will work on creating various applications. Working with a cross-functional team of engineers, product owners and designers, to help design and implement various portals for our clients. You will be hands on contributing to both the frontend and backend development and also mentor more junior team members as the team grows. Your input on various strategies and ideas as we build out this project will also be encouraged.
Wherever you decide to work, you will be supported by and be part of IOG’s hybrid work culture that emphasizes online communication via Slack, GitHub, Hangouts.
- Working on ‘build and deployment cycles’ across all development environments.
- Supporting the build, deployment, and configuration management for multi-tier applications.
- Participating in the building of tools and processes to support the infrastructure.
- Improving and maintaining tooling and scripts for automation purposes.
- Writing software that is simple and flexible to configure and deploy.
- Being part of and collaborating with agile teams to establish and maintain automated regression suite infrastructure and performance testing infrastructure.
- Building capabilities to allow development teams to be self-sufficient.
- Able to use, contribute towards and help building of devops development toolings and pipelines if required.
- Writing clean, straightforward, efficient code, covering it with unit, property, and integration tests, and reviewing pull requests of teammates.
- Troubleshooting, debugging, upgrading existing software, and being available for emergency fixing of severity 1 issues on deployed products.
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