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Thursday, July 4, 2019

NOW HIRING: Ruby on Rails Software Engineer

Company: Car Next Door
Website: https://www.carnextdoor.com.au/
Headquarter: Sydney, Australia


Car Next Door is the fastest-growing car sharing network in Australia, and we’re on a mission to fundamentally change the way people think about transport. Since starting in 2012, we’ve grown our community to more than 2,300 owners who share their cars with over 130,000 members.


About the role

We are looking to attract an experienced and self-motivated Full-Stack or Back-End Ruby on Rails developer, to join a highly experienced development team as we scale up. The role would suit someone who wants to play a key part in the development team, working on exciting projects in one of Australia's most promising startups.

You will help drive the technology direction of the company, supported by our well-rounded team as we embark on a fast-paced programme of development to help the business expand throughout Australia and beyond.

This is a full-time role with an immediate start, working remotely or in our Sydney Office. For those who wish to apply as remote applicants internationally, please note that we will only be accepting applicants who have a minimum of 4 hours cross over during 8am - 6pm AEST. We are offering a salary range of $100,000 - $120,000 Inc. Super and potential equity for the right candidate.


What you'll be doing:

  • Contributing to the development of Car Next Door's core car-sharing platform through:
  • building new functionality
  • integrating with internal and external systems
  • working with mapping systems and vehicle telematics and automating core processes.
  • Contributing to the direction of our technical environment and development practices
  • Rapidly iterating as we push ahead with new development while maintaining and improving the current systems


What you'll bring:

  • 3+ years' commercial software development experience (with at least two years RoR)
  • Experience with Javascript and CSS
  • A focus on detail around automated tests and documenting your code
  • Experience debugging and optimising web applications for speed and scale
  • An agile mindset, and the ability to adapt to changing priorities and requirements
  • Pride in your work, and a desire to contribute to a team of dedicated and talented people
  • An understanding of what we're doing (and why) and a passion to get involved
  • Sound like your dream job?


To apply, please email careers@carnextdoor.com.au with your CV and a Cover Letter detailing:


  • Interesting information about you! - include how you heard about Car Next Door and the position, your visa situation, and how you address the skills and requirements for the role
  • The most difficult API/library/software bug you've squashed
  • The most technically impressive thing you've ever built
  • The largest deployment you've worked on
  • Links to your portfolio/Github profile or code samples to help us get a feel for how you write code


At Car Next Door, we value all people for who they are and what they bring to our community. We encourage our employees to be their genuine authentic selves and know that our team, our product and our members’ experiences are enhanced by the diversity of perspectives of everyone who works at Car Next Door. We offer equal opportunities to all applicants and promote merit and fairness in our employment practices. If you’re passionate about product development and creating an amazing platform for our community, come as you are!

Source: We Work Remotely, Car Next Door

NOW HIRING: Go Developer

Company: X-Team
Website: https://x-team.com/
Headquarter: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

"X-Team provides high-performing, on-demand teams of developers for leading brands."

X-Team is a 100% remote international company, originally founded in Melbourne, Australia. We help companies scale their development teams by providing them with extraordinary teams of developers from around the world.

We believe in living a life of freedom that allows you to spend more time getting energized by your passions. We've fostered a unique, active lifestyle and culture around this idea that continues to attract thousands of developers to apply every day. Our community is the most energizing community for developers in the world.

What separates us from our competition is the level of attention and care we give our developers compared to other more "talent"-based solutions. We proactively support them, fund their learning and growth, connect them in roaming hacker houses around the world, and give them a remote environment that motivates and inspires them on a daily basis. While other companies simply place and drop their talent, we foster and cater to our unified teams of developers centered around the same beliefs, values and lifestyle.

We're uniquely situated to help shape how companies grow their businesses in the digital age and aid them in being able to do so properly with the right people.


About You:

  • Outstanding experience in Go (Golang)
  • Experience with RESTful web services
  • Experience with relational and graph databases
  • Write well designed, testable, efficient code
  • A passion and curiosity for creating and building things 


Nice to have: 

  • Experience working remotely
  • Familiar/involved with open source projects
  • Experience within a continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) environment
  • Experience with a front end JavaScript framework (e.g. React, Vue, Angular)


Personal:

  • Independent, self-motivated
  • Fluent in English, written and spoken
  • Proven track record of always learning and growing
  • Proactive attitude


Perks:

  • Get the chance to work with big brands like Riot Games (League of Legends), Fox Broadcasting, Kaplan Inc., Coinbase (#1 crypto exchange), BeachBody (#1 fitness company), etc.
  • Live and work in one of our roaming hacker houses (X-Outposts) around the world. http://x-outpost.com
  • Work from anywhere as part of a community of digital nomads.
  • Be part of the most energizing community for developers in the world by participating in our Seasons, a 3-month experience filled with challenges, rewards, games, competitions, and more, all centered around a theme that will inspire and energize you. https://youtu.be/Th80vOGFvUE
  • Get $2,500 per year (Unleash+) to spend on doing more of what you love and staying energized. Use it on conferences, courses, video games, photography equipment, a gym membership, adventure sports, baby/pet sitting, productivity apps, restaurants, coworking, headphones, etc. #NeverStopExploring (https://x-team.com/unleash)


FAQ:

Who is X-Team meant for?

Any freelance developers with experience working on high-scale, remote teams and projects with a motivated, proactive attitude and compassionate, team-player heart. If you've worked with freelancing platforms before, that's not what we are. X-Team is a community of all likeminded people, carefully chosen to ensure we are able to create an environment of the most motivated people in the world who come together to unleash their potential. What we've created is truly special and not a faceless platform. X-Team is where developers go to feel truly at home together, while becoming more motivated and energized than they've ever been.

CLICK HERE TO APPLY

Source: We Work Remotely, X-Team

NOW HIRING: Machine Learning Engineer

Company: Numbrs
Website: https://www.numbrs.com
Headquarter: Zurich, Switzerland


At Numbrs, our engineers don’t just develop things – we have an impact. We change the way how people are managing their finances by building the best products and services for our users.

Numbrs engineers are innovators, problem-solvers, and hard-workers who are building solutions in big data, mobile technology and much more. We look for professional, highly skilled engineers who evolve, adapt to change and thrive in a fast-paced, value-driven environment.

Join our dedicated technology team that builds massively scalable systems, designs low latency architecture solutions and leverages machine learning technology to turn financial data into action. Want to push the limit of personal finance management? Join Numbrs.


Job Description

  • You will be a part of the Data Science team responsible for designing, developing and supporting big data driven predictive models using the latest technologies in machine learning, user pattern recognition, and data modelling.
  • The team is responsible to gain new insights which result in the development of product’s features to improve user engagement and experience.


Key Qualifications

  • a Bachelor’s or higher degree in technical field of study or equivalent practical experience
  • a minimum 5 years of professional experience in Machine Learning
  • Experience in pattern recognition, predictive modelling, and statistical analysis
  • Strong knowledge in Machine Learning areas such as Neural Networks, Reinforcement Learning, and NLP
  • Experience in designing Machine Learning systems at scale
  • Experience with Big Data technologies such as Kafka, Spark, and Cassandra
  • Fluent with a JVM programming language, ideally Scala.
  • Comfort working in a dynamic, research-oriented team with several ongoing concurrent projects
  • Excellent troubleshooting and creative problem-solving abilities
  • Excellent written and oral communication in English and interpersonal skills


Location: Remote

CLICK HERE TO APPLY

Source: Working Nomads, Numbrs






NOW HIRING: Content & Demand Gen Copywriter (a.k.a. Word Wizard)

Company: Neo4j
Website:  https://neo4j.com/
Headquarter: San Mateo, CA, United States


The Role: 

Neo4j, Inc. is possibly the nerdiest place in the world to work. Not in a dungeons-and-dragons sense, but in the sense that we all exhibit the stereotypical traits of the oddball sitting in the back of class who didn't pay any attention because he or she was too busy calculating the solution to cold fusion, mapping out how to build the next Google business empire, or – in your case – writing the next great American novel (or something of the sort).

As the Content & Demand Gen Copywriter (a title created to satisfy the suits and maximize search traffic; obviously any red-blooded copywriter would prefer Word Wizard – a gender-neutral term – if offered), your job is to use the power of words to take us from millions in revenue to billions in revenue. You and I both know that words are precisely powerful enough to achieve such a feat, so that's why we need you, the Word Wizard. You're our only hope.


You:

  • My scrying mirror isn't perfect, but here's what I see in the next Word Wizard to join Neo4j's ranks: 
  • You love words. They're the first friends you call when you have good news or bad. They help you laugh; they help you cry; they help you talk to Muggles who don't understand your advanced-level sorcery; most importantly, they convince other people to give you money (in perfectly legal and ethical ways, of course). You even love words in other languages: who's to say English is the only cool kid on the block?
  • You tell and retell stories. You tell stories that inspire and that transform your audience. Not only at work, but to your family, friends, cat, dog, or hedgehog. You can't stop really. 
  • You're a voracious reader. It doesn't matter if it's books, blogs or greeting cards, when it comes to reading, for you, the spice must flow. You ingest words because you know that you write what you eat. 
  • You hate boring, bland, businessy, buzzword copy. If a committee wrote it, then you want to tear it up and feed it to the Whomping Willow. This doesn't mean you don't know how to write for a mature B2B business audience (because you definitely do), but you know how to do it right. In fact, it's because you're so good at convincing B2B readers to give you money (in the long run), that you loathe all those other wannabe web writers who just don't get it. 
  • You are the perfect Universal Translator, able to communicate to an enterprise audience with acuity but capable of dabbling in geekiness for our developer audience. And those are just two of the audiences you're capable of talking to, not counting all the others.
  • You have laser vision – not the Superman kind, but the Word Wizard kind. When called upon to once-over a piece of copy, your eyes literally find and destroy grammatical and spelling errors like they're orcs staining the pure, undefiled beaches of Valinor (which, by the way, is a power you can't turn off, even when watching cat videos in the wee hours of the early morning, and you know this has nothing to do with work, but you need to let them know that they made a classical its/it's mistake).
  • While your superiority with words sets you apart (obviously), you also know that working as a team makes you even more effective and way more cool looking (à la Avengers, anyone?). Even though the Euler diagram of your position overlaps with too many other teams to make it logistically impossible to post here (I asked, but they said no), I know you'll fit right in because you naturally know how to jump in and make a positive contribution to any team you're a part of. Wizards are like that.


Responsibilities:

  • If you're the type of person looking at a content marketing position, then it's easy to assume you already know what you'll be doing (blogs, emails, case studies, white papers, ebooks, tweets, etc.). Here are some specifics to show you why being a Neo4j Word Wizard is different from the workaday, crank-out-content boredom of other content marketing positions:
  • You're the Demand Generator of All the Demand™. Look, you and I both know that "demand gen" is one of those fugly-but-necessary terms in the B2B marketing space. So let's focus less on the fugly and more on the necessary: PPC, SEM, ABM, emails, globally integrated campaigns, webinars, landing pages, webinar landing pages, subject lines, micro content, infographics, event copy, snackable-but-unfortunately-not-edible content; basically all the words. Everywhere the demand-gen light touches will be your kingdom/queendom. 
  • You're the Postmaster General of Neo4j. If it is emailed from @Neo4j.com – whether for customers, prospects, employees or partners – then you probably had a hand in writing or editing it. 'Nuff said.
  • You're the News Editor Extraordinaire. As counterintuitive as it may seem, the enterprise graph database space has a hot and hoppin' news cycle (not even joking), and you'll love it because that sort of energy is the source of your powers. You'll make our press releases bleed with edits; you'll make our analyst content shine; you'll run our News section like a pro; and you'll make sure it's all shared to social with sizzle. 
  • You're a Member of the Small Council. (Emphasis on "Small," because our content team is lean.) That means you can't just be a writing drone taking orders, but an active member who pitches ideas, leads new projects, and works independently with contractors, freelancers and agencies. There's a brilliant brain in that skull of yours. We want you to use it for the realm. 
  • You're a Social Media Sage. Look, even Salazar Slytherin knew how to use Facebook, and (clearly) there's no intelligence test for using Twitter, but thinking strategically about social media is a rare find. While daily social postings are part of your job description, you're also expected to think creatively and long-term about our social strategy and coordinate with the larger team who contribute to all of our social media channels.
  • You're an SEO Sorcerer. A panda, a penguin and a hummingbird walk into a bar...and the bartender asks, "Is this some sort of algorithm update?" But really, you already knew that was the punchline, and you know a funnier one. At other organizations, SEO and content marketing are separate roles. At Neo4j, it's One Role to Rule Them All, which means you're in the thick of writing web copy, tightening up meta descriptions, building links and wooing RankBrain. 
  • You're an Adept at the Voice. No matter what channel you're writing for, you're a Mother/Father Superior at maintaining the Neo4j voice across all channels, platforms, mediums, times and states of consciousness (okay, maybe not that last one). One voice, everywhere, in perfect consistency. 
  • You're an Analytics Archmage. When you look into the palantir of web and social analytics, you're not deceived by the Dark Lord's schemes like other data-driven drones. Rather, you know how to measure what matters when it matters and when to ignore what doesn't when it doesn't.
  • You're an Adaptable Nerd Apprentice. Words are your strength, and computer science...may or may not be. But, you're a wizard and can learn on the fly (while also literally flying). Tech lingo and trade terms don't scare you away – rather, you embrace the learning process and level up your nerd skills instead. Plus, there's always stuff like graphics, HTML or other wizard skills you might need to learn, and you dive right in. 


Qualifications:

Required:

  • Demonstrated English writing ability (Exceeds Expectations or higher)
  • Willingness to learn in all things
  • A collection of compelling, transformational stories included with your resume/cover letter
  • Creative thinking that puts Dumbledore to shame
  • University undergraduate degree in a Word Wizard related field (e.g., Writing, English, Journalism, Marketing, Communications, etc.) OR 4+ years of equivalent experience
  • 2 years of B2B copywriting experience
  • Open to travel to the annual GraphConnect conference


Preferred but not required:

  • Fluency in French or German (+5 to Hireability)
  • Fluency in Mandarin Chinese, Spanish or Portuguese (+2 to Hireability)
  • Fluency in any other non-English language (+1 to Hireability, because bilingualism makes you a better writer)
  • Past work in the tech industry (+2 to Hireability)
  • Past work in the database sector (+4 to Hireability)
  • Experience with Adobe InDesign and/or Photoshop (+2 to Hireability)
  • Experience in a social media-related role (+2 to Hireability)
  • Experience in an SEO-related role (+1 to Hireability)


Location:

The Word Wizard supports a global marketing team, so remote applications are welcome and encouraged.
Given the global nature of the team, reasonable flexibility with time zones for semi-regular meetings is a requirement of the position.
Proximity to one of our U.S. (San Mateo, Boston), European (London, Munich, Malmö) or Asian (Yangon) offices is a plus, but not at all required.


To apply:

  • Submit a cover letter + CV/résumé that breaks through the boredom of bland applications like the Mother of Dragons riding atop her fire-breathing steed with a Dothraki horde galloping behind her at full tilt thirsty for fire and blood (or something like that).
  • Also include a portfolio of writing samples, preferably also khaleesi-esque.

CLICK HERE TO APPLY

Source: Write Jobs, Neo4j







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