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Monday, October 7, 2019


Company: Holo
Website: https://holo.host
Headquarters: Gibraltar, United Kingdom


Holo is a distributed cloud platform and marketplace that enables the hosting of peer-to-peer applications by everyday users connected to the Internet. Holo is an app built on Holochain, our new open source, framework infrastructure technology for distributed peer-to-peer applications. Holochain is lightning fast, massively scalable, cost effective, resource efficient, and eco-friendly.

To help fuel the growth of new patterns of technology and social interaction, we are also seeding the growth of a Holochain application (hApp) ecosystem and training a developer community that will build many more apps.


Where you will fit in:

We are looking for an extremely proactive energizing person with both broad and deep understanding of Holo and it’s code base and documentation. You will stand for technical usability in code and documentation for Holo developers and will support throughout the rolling release processes as we go from early Alpha to a stable release and beyond.


What you will do:
  • Support developer teams for Holo & Holochain releases.
  • Contribute to the design, development and refinement of our continuous integration testing environment
  • Provide visibility and clarity about Holo & Holochain technical usability.
  • Develop, establish, enforce, and improve quality assurance and testing strategy including: test automation, performance testing, negative testing, code and coverage analysis, compatibility testing, and environment management.
  • Write tests that ensure features and bugs adequately address current and future release scoping.
  • Ensure pull requests and release candidates pass quality assurance checks.
  • Manually test the functionality of software when needed and find ways to automate such manual testing.
  • Dynamically adapt test approach to the context of each project.
  • Perform exploratory testing.
  • Develop and execute test cases, document results.
  • Ensure timely testing coverage according to project schedules.
  • Verify and validate user stories, providing requirements input.
  • Coordinate with internal teams and the developer community, recommending solutions and best practices.
  • Log clear, reproducible bug reports.
  • Advocate for bugs throughout the resolution process.
  • Contribute to the automation suite that tests Holo & Holochain against applications.
  • Work with DevOps and Integration teams to setup and tune release automation and test environments for various system platforms, including Windows (Servers), Linux, OSX, iOS, and Android.
  • Utilize effort estimation for test planning and test execution phases.

What you’ll need:
  • Experience in relevant software quality assurance is required. Knowledge and Skill Requirements/Specialized Courses and/or Training: Use case analysis; Test cases creation; Product lifecycle testing and support.
  • Experience working in an Agile environment utilizing associated project and test tool sets required.
  • Skilled in automated test development.
  • Fundamental understanding of distributed application models, networking, system integration, debugging and troubleshooting required.
  • Exceptional operating and debugging skills of Linux, OSX, Windows, & iOS and Android systems required.
  • Experience with Continuous Integration tools and their integration with GitHub.
  • Knowledge of Rust and/or statically typed programming language strongly preferred.
  • Excellent communication, organization, problem solving, risk analysis, and decision making skills required.
  • Strong proactive approach on meeting business demands required.
  • Demonstrated ability to coordinate cross-functional work teams toward task completion
  • Able to quickly learn and contribute in a fast-paced remote distributed working environment, sharing knowledge, and seeking feedback.
  • Comfort and experience with remote team operations is a must.

Some details about what we offer:
  • Generous salary (National Currency)
  • Generous crypto pay program (HOT & HoloFuel)
  • Supportive team trial period
  • Regular team meetings (video and in person)
  • Collaborative and inspiring culture
  • Flexible work schedules and vacation
  • Motivated, passionately engaged, and evolutionary global teammates
Holo is an equal opportunity employer, and we celebrate our diverse, creative, and collaborative team.

CLICK HERE TO APPLY


Source: Remote Global, Holo

NOW HIRING: Data Scientist


Company: Toptal
Website: https://www.toptal.com
Headquarters: San Francisco, California, United States


At Toptal, we measure everything and always rely on data to guide all of our initiatives, including both our long-term strategy and our day-to-day operations. As a Data Scientist on our Analytics Team, you will be working with our cross-functional team to model complex problems, discover actionable business insights, and identify high-impact opportunities. You will be part of a high-energy, fast-paced team responsible for supporting initiatives and operations across the company.

This is a remote position that can be done from anywhere. All communication and resumes must be submitted in English.


We have freedom to choose the best tool for the job. That’s why:
  • Our infrastructure is in Google Cloud Platform,
  • For research we leverage both Python and R,
  • Our ETL pipelines and production models are in Python and Scala.
  • The ultimate goal is solving real business problems. We work on problems that deeply affect the operation of our business. This ranges from predictive models, controlling and optimizing the client flow, and other very open-ended questions. For example, our stakeholders may ask if it is feasible to pursue a certain business direction and, if so, what are the implications on business processes and the costs of moving to that solution.

Responsibilities:
  • Use statistical, algorithmic, data mining, and visualization techniques to model complex problems, identify opportunities, discover solutions, and deliver actionable business insights.
  • Own your projects and use this autonomy to find creative and innovative ways of solving problems and delivering solutions.
  • Handle both parts of the Research & Development process, including clean, rigorous implementations of devised models inside our Analytics system.
  • Be persistent, focused, and disciplined when it comes to finishing your work. At Toptal we always drive research from start to finish – we don’t get distracted; we don’t leave anything unfinished.
  • Communicate data-driven insights and recommendations to key stakeholders.
  • Be in constant communication with team members and other relevant parties and convey results efficiently and clearly via Slack.

Requirements:
  • A strong background in advanced mathematics, in particular in probability theory and statistics, data mining, and machine learning.
  • You must be able to think critically, to look at the big picture and spot what is missing, taking advantage of it to propose improvements and deliver business insights.
  • 4+ years of professional experience in data science, doing exploratory data analysis, testing hypothesis, and building predictive models.
  • Ability to quickly and accurately understand complex new concepts.
  • Proficiency in a programming language of your own choice (R, Python, Matlab, etc.), and previous experience efficiently conducting research and creating ad hoc reports.
  • An excellent ability to learn new programming languages quickly and effectively.
  • Big pluses include: strong experience managing or shipping out a product, managing a team, and working on open source projects.
  • Working experience with Airflow and Dimensional Modeling is a plus.
  • Be excited about collaborating daily with your team and other groups while working via a distributed model.
  • Be eager to help your teammates, share your knowledge with them, and learn from them.
  • Be open to receiving constructive feedback.
  • You must be a world-class individual contributor to thrive at Toptal. You will not be here just to tell other people what to do.
CLICK HERE TO APPLY


Source: Remote Global, Toptal

NOW HIRING: Site Reliability Engineer


Company: LaterPay
Website: https://www.laterpay.net
Headquarters: Munich, Germany


LaterPay is looking for a full time Site Reliability Engineer to join our distributed tech team.
We automate our infrastructure with Docker and Cloudformation. We operate our entire application on a CI/CD pipeline that you would help support by working with engineering teams on improving the process.


Your tasks
  • Designing and deploying tools for administration, configuration and monitoring of our infrastructure components.
  • Working with service owners to develop CloudFormation templates.
  • Maintaining best practices for security within AWS.
  • Partnering with the Engineering team on application building, implementation and fixing of issues.
  • Working with the Engineering team to keep incident response and security protocols up to date.
  • Joining the on-call rotation.
  • Evaluating and procuring new tools or technology vendors to help improve our system.

About you
  • A good command of English: written and verbal, producing and understanding.
  • As a distributed team, we primarily communicate via Slack, so the ability to clearly and completely communicate in written English is vital.
  • We also frequently hop on calls, both audio and video, so the ability to clearly speak and understand English is also vital.
  • A good surface/contextual-level understanding of “the full web stack”.
  • Experience with AWS and/or Docker would be good.
  • Knowledge of Elastic Beanstalk, and CloudFormation or Terraform would be terrific.
  • Familiarity with Python and its ecosystem would definitely be useful.
  • A desire to fix problems “properly” (not just paper over them) and an understanding that you often can’t fix problems properly. We want you to want to build a good-quality well-engineered solutions, but to know that sometimes you just need to “hack it in”. There are always tradeoffs to be made.
  • The capability of taking a task and owning it. That doesn’t mean you necessarily do all the work, but it does mean you take on responsibility for completion, and ask for help and advice as appropriate.

About us

LaterPay makes it as simple as possible for users to buy, contribute, and donate for digital goods and services. Whether it is with the LaterPay method - allowing users to commit to purchase with one or two clicks, without registering or paying in advance - or the Pay Now method; the company offers a flexible and customizable platform for onboarding casual users into paying customers at an extremely high rate as opposed to traditional methods. LaterPay generates incremental revenues, drives user acquisition, and helps to reduce churn.


How we work

LaterPay has around 45 people spread over 12+ countries in time zones from UTC-8 to UTC+2. We’re a distributed team, though we have offices in Munich (DE) and New York (US).
We care more about the things you do than your presence at a chair at a desk at 9am every day. That said, most of us work Monday - Friday from 9ish UTC to 6ish UTC, and ideally you’ll overlap at least 4 hours with that. We try to be as asynchronous as possible, but still feel that we need some “synchronicity” to work well.

We value trust, ownership, collaboration, transparency, respect and inclusion. We're proud to have employees from many different nationalities, genders, ages, backgrounds, educations, and races. We believe that intentionally assembling a diverse team is not only the right thing to do, but also necessary to build a product that works for and appeals to an audience that faithfully reflects our communities and our shared planet.


Benefits
  • Training budget
  • AllHands (semi-annual team event)
  • Paid sick leave
  • Paid time off
  • Distributed, international team
  • Flexible work

Apply

If this sounds interesting, please apply and upload your CV, and let us know in your cover letter what you bring to the table.

Our preference goes to applications with cover letters.

We will be accepting applications until October 21st, 2019.


Pay

Range up to €75,000/year

CLICK HERE TO APPLY


Source: We Work Remotely, LaterPay

NOW HIRING: Front End Developer


Company: Modern Tribe
Website: https://tri.be
Headquarters: Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States


Modern Tribe is looking for an experienced Frontend/UI Developer to join our team as a freelance contractor.

You will be responsible for crafting robust, beautiful, usable interfaces for the users of our products and our client’s projects. You will play an integral role in connecting and collaborating with strategy, design, and backend to creative a cohesive and organized final experience and enthusiastically own getting to the most optimal solution. You thrive working in a collaborative and engaging environment and love being part of teams and systems that actively seek your experience in helping us grow and improve.

You will use your deep knowledge within HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to solve both simple and complex challenges, both in and outside of the WordPress platform. When paired with your understanding of best practices in accessibility, performance, and architecture, you ultimately produce code and experiences that are scalable and delightful.

If this sounds like an exciting opportunity to you, read on!


Responsibilities
  • Collaborate with your team to deeply understand the needs of our users and clients and then plan, design, and build features that best serve those needs
  • Take ownership of the work you do on projects from strategy to design to implementation to deployment and maintenance
  • Be an impactful contributor to your team, discipline, and company, participating in our culture and helping us improve and push our internal tools, libraries, workflows, and standards forward
  • Actively participate in team scrum meetings
  • Deliver maintainable, efficient, and high-quality code
  • Build and maintain scalable code
  • Design and build features that are performant, accessible, and steeped in the best practices of modern frontend development standards and patterns
  • Participate in keeping our internal tooling and systems current
  • Ensure that the quality of our design implementation and user experience is the very best it can be (design and development work very closely together at Modern Tribe)
  • Share knowledge and collaborate with fellow developers across the company
  • Code review the work of other developers

Inclusion Statement

Modern Tribe is committed to a culture that embraces diversity and inclusion. We foster an environment of collaboration, open engagement, fairness and respect regardless of differences in age, race, disability, national origin, gender identity, religion, sexual orientation or veteran status. As a hybrid workspace ranging from distributed contractors to traditional employees, we value the unique perspectives and experiences of our global team.

We come from all walks of life. We are small business owners. We are tattoo aficionados and 80’s movie buffs and ex-pats. We are homeschool teachers. We are single parents. We are musicians, college drop-outs, and entrepreneurs. We are travelers, feminists, runners, volunteers, and makers. We are a Modern Tribe.
Everyday we strive to fulfill our motto: live well and do good work. We hope you will consider joining us.


Personal Competencies
  • Strong communication skills
  • Experience working as part of a remote team
  • Self-motivated, detail-oriented
  • Strong organizational skills
  • A methodical approach to all tasks
  • Ability to prioritize workloads and meet deadlines
  • Fluent English speaker
  • Knowledge & Experience
  • Exceptional HTML & CSS (including experience with Sass or PostCSS and BEM) skills
  • Mid to advanced level vanilla JavaScript experience (including experience with webpack, babel, and ES2015+ syntax)
  • Experience working with design systems and design system thinking
  • Mid to advanced level experience developing WordPress powered sites
  • Extensive knowledge of modern frontend development standards
  • Proficiency at local environment setups, including docker
  • Proficiency in version control, namely GIT
  • You have experience working in a remote, fast paced, and highly collaborative environment with peers from different backgrounds and skill sets.
  • You pay attention to and are passionate about the details.
  • You take pride in and value team success.
  • You are thoughtful and motivated when it comes to approaching your work. This includes being comfortable with proactively driving feature requirements whether that be identifying gaps and asking questions or helping flesh out additional details.

Bonus Points
  • Contributions to the open source community
  • Experience building sites that are accessible (you’ve worked with WAI-ARIA and done WCAG 2.0+ AA/Section 508 work) and performant (working knowledge of best practices)
  • Experience in more advanced areas of JavaScript (state management; async operations; unit, snapshot, and integration testing; REST APIs)
  • Experience with React, Vue, or React Native and Web and/or Native App engineering
  • Full stack experience beyond HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
  • Background working on large scale WordPress projects

Location

Work from anywhere and join our distributed team working across the globe. If your timezone is outside of US business hours, but you work at least 3-4+ hours of overlap each day, let’s chat. You should be fluent in English and just need a computer and a strong wifi signal to support daily video chats with the Tribe.


Compensation

Pay range is commensurate with qualifications and experience between $40-$60/hour. We are currently looking for freelance contractors about 10-20 hours a week for this gig. This is a one time contract position, though we are always seeking longer relationships with awesome people.


Perks

We believe that distributed working is a way of life. We understand what it means to work remotely. We offer consistency in expectations, payment, and support. We believe in learning from each other and fostering personal growth. You can expect to learn a lot while working with us.
(Also, if you work enough with us, we’ll bring you on the team trips.)


Who We Are

Modern Tribe, Inc. is a rapidly growing software & design company. We develop custom solutions for some of the world’s largest companies, government institutions and smaller growing organizations. We pride ourselves on our ability to bridge people and technology and to bring the passion and dedication of an entrepreneur to every project. Our team is composed of talented employees and freelancers around North & South America (and a smattering across the globe).


Who You Are

We love working with each other because we have built a culture that suits us well. We work primarily with freelancers and coordinate their talents for large projects. To be on our team, you must be:
  • HAPPY: Where there is a will, there is a way. Having a positive disposition allows us to achieve great things and to support each other.
  • HELPFUL: Always looking for ways that you can help others.
  • CURIOUS: It is essential that you have a passion for learning. Technology changes daily, and life has a way of constantly raising the bar.
  • ACCOUNTABLE: Our clients expect us to get the right thing done on budget and on time. Communicating expectations and meeting them is the cornerstone of success.
  • A FREELANCER
CLICK HERE TO APPLY


Source: We Work Remotely, Modern Tribe

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