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Wednesday, November 13, 2019

NOW HIRING: Software Engineer - Data Accuracy


Company: Baremetrics
Website: https://baremetrics.com
Headquarters: San Francisco, California, United States


In this Software Engineering role, you'll join our engineering team with a focus on ensuring data across all of our customers accounts is as accurate as possible. Baremetrics customers trust us to provide them with accurate business insights across huge quantities of data, so the work you do will have real business impact for thousands of people.

The only base skill requirement for this is solid programming experience with Ruby and advanced SQL knowledge.

Our engineering team has a strong bias towards simplicity and we expect all team members to be self-motivated and to be able to communicate effectively in a fully remote setting.


Examples of projects you would work on
  • Building in support for the many edge cases that come from external data sources
  • Creating tooling to properly identify accuracy issues
  • Building out our test suites to prevent accuracy regressions
  • Building new data integrations
  • Documenting edge cases we do/don't support
  • Documenting how to integrate data sources for specific business scenarios

Our stack

These are the technologies we use on the backend. Experience with any of them is a major plus, though the only absolute required experience is with Ruby and to have advanced knowledge and experience with SQL.
  • Ruby, Rails, RSpec
  • Postgres, Redis, Elasticsearch
  • Sidekiq
  • Many third-party APIs (Stripe, Braintree, Recurly, Chargebee, iTunes connect, Google Play store & more)

About Baremetrics

Baremetrics is a business analytics & insights company. We provide the tools and data businesses need to make solid business decisions.

Founded in 2013, we're working hard to help businesses spend less time crunching numbers and looking at spreadsheets and instead give them instant access to metrics and business insights that they need to run their businesses.

We're not some flash-in-the-pan startup…we're five years old, profitable, doing over $1M in revenue and growing. Nearly 1,000 business from all over the world trust us to help them grow their businesses.
We're looking for folks who like to solve problems and build a business and product that people genuinely love to interact with.

Read about working at Baremetrics: https://baremetrics.com/about


Benefits
  • Work from anywhere (we're 100% remote)
  • Minimum vacation policy
  • Competitive salary ($75k-100k)
  • Bonus structure
  • Flexible work hours
  • Full health, vision & dental insurance for you and your family
  • Annual company meetups
  • Kindle Paperwhite + Unlimited Books
  • Monthly "remote stipend" that you can use for anything
CLICK HERE TO APPLY


Source: Remotely Awesome Jobs, Baremetrics

NOW HIRING: Software Architect - Distributed Messaging Systems


Company: Ockam
Website: https://www.ockam.io
Headquarters: San Francisco, California, United States


We are seeking an Elixir/Erlang Systems Architect with expertise designing and building high throughput, concurrent, real time messaging and streaming systems. You should have deep experience with Erlang, Elixir, Scala or similar actor model based languages/tools for building fault tolerant distributed systems. Experience with the core internal design of systems like Kafka, RabbitMQ, Spark Steaming, Phoenix Channels, Akka or Riak are also required.


Responsibilities
  • Collaborate with the team with well communicated and documented processes
  • Develop high-quality software design and architecture
  • Identify, prioritize and execute tasks in the software development lifecycle
  • Develop tools and applications by producing clean, efficient code
  • Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting
  • Review and debug code
  • Perform validation and verification testing
  • Document development phases and monitor systems
  • Ensure software is up-to-date with the latest technologies

Requirements
  • Extensive engineering experience across multiple systems with 10+ years of experience.
  • Comfort in switching between multiple programming languages.
  • Remote candidates are encouraged to apply. Ockam is a distributed, remote-first structured team with a headquarters in San Francisco California.

CLICK HERE TO APPLY


Source: Remotely Awesome Jobs, Stack Overflow, Ockam

NOW HIRING: IT Security Operations Manager


Company: Platform.sh
Website: https://platform.sh
Headquarters: Paris, France


Mission
To reinforce our commitment to customers’ privacy and security, for its PaaS solution, Platform.sh is looking for a Security Operations Manager with a taste for Python and Go, excellent Linux system understanding, outstanding written English skills, experience working on PCI and/or SOC compliance, line management experience, and a real hunger for the challenges of building compliant distributed systems. If you’re looking for an exciting, high-growth opportunity with an award-winning, cutting-edge company, this could be the job for you.

We are targeting managers that can function in a high performing, multithreaded environment. Management duties are expected to be about 25% of your time with the remaining 75% being hands on technical work.
Security, privacy, and compliance controls are at the heart of what we do as our mission is to simplify the cloud. The job is to transform what is often regarded as red-tape and constraints to a well-oiled machine where everything is automated and where every constraint becomes a feature making the product better.
This position reports directly to our Data Protection Officer, and in close interaction with our Chief Product Officer, CTO, VP of Infrastructure, and our Engineering and Customer Support teams.


In a given day you might be:
  • Acting as a technical liaison between the Security & Compliance department and our product, engineering, and operations staff.
  • Creating documentation and processes in English to help satisfy compliance requirements.
  • Evaluating, deploying, and creating, systems and tools that will enhance our support and operations efficiency.
  • Supporting our data protection officer and compliance team with information requests, pen testing, disaster recovery, and related activities.
  • Executing our security incident management process.
  • Working with appropriate teams to deploy and operate security tools and solutions.
  • Ensuring all systems, security applications, and services in environment are securely configured and managed through operating system appropriate security platforms and tools.
  • Ensuring optimal operation of all security solutions and tools.
  • Management of the Security Team
    • plan and report activity of the team
    • define roles in the teams and communicate to other teams
    • create and maintain processes on the team and communicate to other teams
    • hire and on-board new staff
    • team training and development
    • evaluate team’s performance
    • plan skills requirements in the team
    • report on team performance, set up action plans when necessary
CLICK HERE TO APPLY


Source: Remotely Awesome Jobs, We Work Remotely, Platform.sh

NOW HIRING: Golang Developer


Company: Mercury Holidays
Website: https://www.mercuryholidays.co.uk
Headquarters: Sevenoaks, United Kingdom


Mercury Holidays is a multi award-winning travel company based in Sevenoaks taking customers abroad for almost 40 years. We're currently undergoing an internal transformation focusing on customer centricity, user experience, customer experience and technology.

An opportunity has arisen for a talented backend developer to join the Mercury Family. You'll be joining a small autonomous squad which consists of a product owner, a user experience designer and frontend developers.

You'll be working on one or many Go/Golang projects.


Requirements

What you'll be doing
  • Build microservice APIs using modern tools.
  • Deliver high-quality, well-tested code
  • Engineer reliable operational automation for CI & continuous deployment to the cloud.
  • Communicate with other teams and individuals to plan, coordinate and seek feedback
  • Pitch in where needed as a valued member of an autonomous, cross-functional team

What we’re looking for
  • Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and troubleshooting skills
  • You know the difference between git merge and git rebase
  • You understand when to use a SQL, a no-SQL or a graph database.
  • You want to maximise business value through well-met requirements
  • You have experience deploying production applications (e.g. Heroku, AWS, GAE)
  • You rave about the benefits that CI / CD has given you in previous projects
  • You care deeply about performance, availability and API design
  • Great communication skills

What you will get
  • Team building events
  • Discounted Travel
  • Christmas Party
  • Pizza Fridays
  • Company Pension Scheme
  • Flexi-time
  • Remote working options available
  • Generous holiday allowance plus national/bank holidays

What you need to apply
  • Links to online profiles you use such as Github, Twitter, Stackoverflow etc.
  • A description of your work history (whether as a resume, or LinkedIn profile)

CLICK HERE TO APPLY


Source: Remotely Awesome Jobs, Golang Projects, Mercury Holidays

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