The IOTA Foundation is a not-for-profit organization established in 2017 and headquartered in Berlin, Germany. The Foundation’s mission is to drive the development and standardization of new distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) that enable permissionless innovation ecosystems. To realize this potential the IOTA Foundation is actively building a collaborative of developers, start-ups, private enterprises, and government, civil society and academic institutions.

We engage in engineering, research and community organizing efforts around the IOTA Tangle – a new generation of DLT specifically designed to be the open and free trust layer for the Internet-of-Things (IoT).

Mission:

You will be working as part of the client libraries team. You will be responsible for an ecosystem of client libraries and tools. You will have the opportunity to impact all the engineering teams in IOTA Foundation, as well as tools used by partners, external developers, exchanges, and our community.

Responsibilities:

Design and drive software specifications to a successful conclusion
Be actively involved in setting product and technical direction
Develop high-quality software solutions
Work effectively across different teams to address problems and collaboratively arrive at solutions
Perform and thrive in an environment where your work can change rapidly in response to customer feedback and data
Be a part of a self-organising, results-oriented agile team
Participate in and help transform cutting-edge research into practical software products
Implement software development best practices and collaborate with other software projects in open-source DLT and SSI space
Engage with the IOTA and open-source community

Requirements

Your Personality

Self-driven individual who takes responsibility for projects from their inception
Ability, desire, and dedication to pick up new platforms or technologies as well as improve in existing ones

Your Expertise

You write well-structured, efficient, and maintainable code and actively keep the quality of the codebase in check.
(Excellent) coding skills in Rust
Ability to understand and implement cryptographic primitives
Proven track record in designing software algorithms
Experience with C and/or Embedded Rust is a plus
Experience with designing networking protocols is a plus
Experience with Rust bindings for Node.js, Java, and Python a plus.
Knowledge of software engineering security practices

What we offer

The opportunity to work with the brightest minds in the industry
The opportunity to make a true difference
Culture of trust, empowerment and constructive feedback
The time to focus on quality over strict deadlines
The time to develop yourself and your knowledge
A flexible and agile organization with a flat hierarchy
Independence and responsibility from day one
Engagement with excited open-source developers

The IOTA Foundation is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Software Engineer - Rust