NOW HIRING: Full-Stack Developer

Company: Circuit Stream
Website: https://circuitstream.com
Headquarters: Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Augmented reality and virtual reality are new paradigms in technology that are transforming how humans learn, communicate and collaborate. Circuit Stream is a diverse remote team working to advance the progress of AR and VR. We do this by building an industry leading AR/VR learning and training platform and set of tools.

As a Full-Stack Developer, you will design, develop, and grow our web-based SaaS platform. You will be responsible for maintaining and evolving the back-end infrastructure (AWS), managing a production environment, deploying and maintaining API integrations, and ultimately shaping our platform’s development environment.

Requirements

• Proficiency with Python
• Proficiency with Django, Flask, Tornado or any other Python Framework
• Strong experience using Javascript frameworks like React, Vue, JQuery
• Strong experience with relational databases MySQL/PostgreSQL
• Strong experience with HTML/CSS
• Experience with AWS (or similar) in a production environment
• Experience using Docker and containerized services
• Experience building APIs
• Experience with microservices architecture
• Knowledge of NoSQL database like MongoDB or ElasticSearch is a plus
• Sense of ownership and pride in your performance and its impact on the company’s success
• Exceptional time-management skills
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills
• Comfortable working remotely
• Native English fluency

Here’s what you can expect from us:

• The opportunity to advance the progress of new computing platforms (AR/VR)
• Learn from a team of ambitious, talented, motivated, and interesting co-workers
• Trust and speed, no need to demonstrate for days, just do it
• Transparency, we aim to discuss revenue, metrics and decisions openly
• Family friendly, be efficient don’t work crazy hours
• Well-capitalized with 4 years of strong customer traction and momentum

How do you apply?

Write to support@circuitstream.com with [Full Stack Developer] as part of the subject line and we’ll let you know that we’ve received your application.

If you have a strong software development background of bringing web applications to life in the cloud and top-notch communication skills you have the experience we’re looking for and we would love to speak.

We strongly encourage you to include a cover letter, with links to relevant projects.

We can’t wait to hear from you!

We are an equal opportunity employer.

Source: Best Remote Job, Circuit Stream

NOW HIRING: Junior Editor

Company: Digital Trends
Website: https://www.digitaltrends.com
Headquarters: Portland, Oregon, United States

About Us:

Founded in 2002, Designtechnica Corp. publishes Digital Trends, Digital Trends en Español, and The Manual and touches over a hundred million people every month. Through a suite of marketing services and partnerships with some of the world's largest companies, Designtechnica helps connect brands to consumers through premium, brand-safe content, live and on-demand videos, and events held across the country. Through offices in New York City, Portland, Los Angeles, Chicago, and more, and across all of our brands, we speak to a millennial audience about people, innovation, and the tech that's changing their world.

Who We Are Looking For:

We're looking for a multi-faceted Junior Editor/Marketing Specialist to work broadly across our Affinity sites on Editorial work, Social Media accounts, and Performance Marketing. This role will be involved in and building various processes in a variety of contexts within our growing website portfolio. This position is an entry-level, production-oriented role, which will require someone who can work in a fast-paced environment and hit tight deadlines.

What You'll Do:

• Partner closely with the Managing Editor and Commerce Strategist to publish, or prepare for publishing, a high volume of content daily.
• Prioritize production of article layouts for guides, list posts, and evergreen content within the CMS including working with structured data.
• Acquire, create and edit assets for content production.
• Create, layout and manage site landing pages using proprietary page creation tools.
• Creation and management of site taxonomies and navigation structure.
• Ensure content is produced in a timely fashion and meets deadlines.
• Ensure produced content meets SEO goals, content styling, and brand guidelines.
• Assisting with general site upkeep, data entry, and other miscellaneous tasks.
• Offer feedback on areas of improvement regarding content styling, process, and workflow.
• Other duties as assigned.

What We Require:

• Must have 2-3+ years experience in content creation and editing.
• College degree strongly preferred.
• Proven ability to understand digital media.
• Knowledge of WordPress required.
• Experience with Google Analytics required.
• Experience managing social media accounts preferred. Posting and interacting with an audience is a plus.
• Previous experience with Performance Marketing tools and metrics.
• Excellent organizational and administrative skills.
• Able to communicate and provide feedback effectively to others.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work in a hybrid remote office environment.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks effectively and meet deadlines.

Source: Best Remote Job, Digital Trends

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NOW HIRING: UX Designer: Content

Company: CivicActions
Website: https://civicactions.com
Headquarters: Lafayette, California, United States

As a Technical Content Strategist at CivicActions, you will collaborate across disciplines in a radically open environment to develop thoughtful digital services for large federal, state and local government agencies and the people they serve. We are looking for someone with a breadth of UX knowledge with technical expertise in content strategy and content modeling to help us improve the Drupal authoring and publishing experience for a large federal agency.

Responsibilities

• Build and implement the content strategy for client projects, identifying and adopting practices and methodologies that best supports the unique needs of each project.
• Offer a content strategy perspective while collaborating with other designers, UX researchers, developers, and clients to ensure that content priorities are understood and considered during every stage of a project.
• Lead content discovery activities including workshops and interviews with clients, subject matter experts, and end users.
• Leverage findings from user, stakeholder, and competitive research to make informed content recommendations and communicate the strategic rationale behind them.
• Assist clients and stakeholders in developing and improving governance structures to support the content strategy.

Specific Skills & Qualifications

• You're familiar with human-centered design, lean startup and agile methodologies.
• You have a portfolio of work demonstrating experience working with large content repositories, collaborating with other designers and developers, and building strong client relationships.
• You have demonstrated experience with content audits and content modeling for content management systems.
• You have experience with designing publishing workflows, user interfaces, and dashboards for Drupal content editors.
• You can lead the development of content style guides at the enterprise level.
• You’re experienced with training content editors on how to use a CMS.
• You’re comfortable addressing and advocating for workflow changes that support the content strategy.
• You have the ability to inform a content migration plan by making the content model and content strategy understandable to developers.
• You’re experienced in information architecture and responsive content design.
• You can make the business case for content strategy, speaking fluently about how recommended content changes meet business and user goals.
• You’re experienced with broad research and discovery methods (interviews, observation, analysis, synthesis, etc.) beyond content strategy.
• You can work well within existing design systems and guidelines.
• You’re familiar with designing for accessibility.
• You have at least five years of relevant experience.

Benefits

We excel in our benefits offering and believe that people who are well taken care of can be more balanced, healthy and happy. We offer 100% company-paid medical insurance, disability insurance, and life insurance. We have a generous 401(k) program. We have an open vacation policy -- employees are encouraged to take time off as needed to feel balanced, productive and healthy. We have paid maternity and paternity leave. We have an annual all-hands retreat to connect with each other in person. We also emphasize professional development and offer an annual stipend.

Community participation is important to us and we ask that you spend 5% of your working time giving back to a community that you care about. We attempt to keep our work products 'open by default'. This means that it is our intention that your work contributions during your time at CivicActions will be published under public license, enabling you to bring your passion fully into your activities without the fear that your expressions will be locked away or prevented from having a positive impact in the world.

Salary: $100,000 - $130,000

Location

We are a fully distributed remote team. For this position, you can normally work from home or find a great co-working space, although on-site visits and working sessions with clients will be necessary.

You will need a computer, webcam, strong internet connection and a structured schedule because we are a truly collaborative team. Ideally your timezone will be within the continental United States.

Apply

In order for the hiring team to evaluate your application, you will need to provide a portfolio and/or work samples that show your process and final result. Please either upload a file or provide a link in your application.

CivicActions is a dedicated, fun-loving team, looking for some talented folks to help us bring revolutionary digital services to government agencies and the people they serve.

We value diverse teams at CivicActions. We are an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

Source: Best Remote Job, CivicActions

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NOW HIRING: Software Developer

Company: AmpiFire
Website: https://ampifire.com
Headquarters: Wanchai, Hong Kong

We are a high-growth SAAS provider and international distribution network that caters widely to both small to medium businesses and consumers in various niches.

While our company is a start-up, it is already profitable and continues to grow year on year.

We've already sold products to over 20,000 customers, supported by a small and talented team (which is where you come in…).

Primarily we work on building innovative SAAS marketing platforms through a process of creating minimum viable products, and solving problems nobody else on the planet has solved to help online businesses succeed.

This leads to an exciting and rapidly evolving development, and being part of a fun, cutting-edge start-up!

And while our growth and success has so far has been something we're all extremely proud of and excited by…

… we've now hit a bit of a snag.

To take things to the next level, we need to expand our team of talented and enthusiastic people to keep the momentum going, keep our customers and users happy - and maintain the excellent quality and value we provide.

Right now, we're looking to hire a Software Developer to create and maintain the web applications of our core business units. This position will give you an excellent opportunity to take on a wide range of interesting projects and to learn on the job from our talented technology and marketing teams.

On top of that, we're a very 'dev friendly' company. One of the founders is a developer himself, so we appreciate the need for 'normal hours', flexibility , personal space and to work in flow. We respect ideas, ingenuity, and listen to everyone on our team for insights on how to do things better. We also like to balance the 'cool workin + cool livin' philosophy, so the team blends together nicely, keeps a balance on work & life, communication is open, and it's an overall fun place to work.

In your role, you'd be reporting to the CTO, and would be a go-to person for our tech-related needs. All of our developers handle full-stack product development, responding to our marketing team's tech requests and get involved with customer support & IT.

Product Development involves building out new features for our award-winning flagship software suite, in use by tens of thousands of customers. We use CakePHP as our MVC framework, Vue.js for our front-end, Jenkins to manage our testing & deployment, and Docker/Swarm for environment management. We pride ourselves on writing high-quality code, so we do frequent code inspections, pairs programming, and write lots of automated tests.

Marketing Technology requests often involve quick turnaround and on-the-fly development as new requirements emerge. So you'd also be setting up setting up dynamic landing pages, implementing the vision of our designers and assisting with social media advertising.

In addition, all of our developers assist our customer support staff and take care of internal IT assistance. This includes WordPress maintenance, email setup and server maintenance.

Required Skills:

• 5+ years relevant experience working as a software developer
• Expert experience with an MVC framework, an ORM or two, PHP, Javascript + JS frameworks, as well as CSS and its variants
• Experience with TDD, pairs programming, and other Agile/Scrum development techniques
• Experience managing/enhancing WordPress and WP plugins
• Experience working with a high-performing development team that prides itself on writing maintainable, readable & scalable code
• Experience with Git or other similar source control system
• A positive, can-do attitude that is genuine and infectious
• Strong collaboration skills with the ability to document proper requirements for short-term and long-term projects
• Willingness and desire to learn and embrace new web technologies as they evolve
• Excellent Communication and Fluent English

For our Software Developer position we offer the following benefits:

• The ability to work from your home office on a full-time basis
• Flexible work hours
• Observance of religious holidays
• Opportunity for performance-based bonuses and salary increases

To apply: tech_manager@ampifire.com

Source: Remotely Awesome Jobs

NOW HIRING: Product Designer

Company: komoot
Website: https://www.komoot.com
Headquarters: Berlin, Germany

Millions of people experience real-life adventures with our apps. We help people all over the world to discover the best hiking and biking routes, empowering our users to explore more of the great outdoors. And we’re good at it: Google and Apple have listed us as one of their Apps of the Year numerous times — and, with more than 8.5 million users and 50,000 five-star reviews — komoot is on its way to becoming one of the most popular cycling and hiking apps. Join our fully remote team of 60+ people and change the way people explore!

We are now looking for a smart and talented product designer to take over the design of one of komoot’s core products on all platforms (Web, iOS, Android). You will become an essential part of a high performing team where continuous improvement, collaboration, open feedback and communication is expected, encouraged and rewarded. You will own and drive the design of one of komoot’s products across all above mentioned platforms.

What will you do

• Own and drive the design of one of the core komoot products on all platforms (Web, iOS, Android). You will be the designer in a cross-functional team, working closely with developers, product managers and copywriters in order to provide the best possible design solutions. You’ll also oversee the implementation of your work across all platforms.
• Partner with product managers and developers to define problems and goals, map user flows, prototype interactions or polish existing features.
• Be autonomous and proactively draft layouts and interfaces, come up and prototype new features or improve the existing ones. You will work in quick iterations based on real feedback from our users and solid metrics.
• Work with other designers on improving design systems, fast processes and bringing design at komoot to the next level.

Why you will love it

• Your work will enable millions of people to have awesome outdoor experiences.
• You’ll build and improve a product that we’re pretty sure you’ll end up using for your own outdoor trips.
• You’ll be working in fast cycles and continuously improve features based on direct user feedback.
• You will become a key player amongst a team of highly motivated and talented people.
• We let you work from wherever you want, be it a beach, the mountains, your house or anywhere else that lies in any time zone situated between UTC-1 and UTC+3.
• You’ll travel together with our team to amazing outdoor places several times a year to exchange ideas, learnings and go for hikes and rides.

Requirements

You will be successful in this position if you

• Have 3+ years cross platform design experience (Web, Android, iOS) building an awesome digital product and product features, ideally from an in-house environment.
• Are highly skilled in state of the art design tools like Figma and Sketch and a solid knowledge about HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
• Have an excellent eye for design and attention to detail: You’re obsessed with designing and optimizing awesome products that users love.
• You are an excellent team player and enjoy working in small, tight knit teams in a highly collaborative fashion, alongside developers and a product manager.
• You are a great facilitator with outstanding communication skills. You want to be an essential part of a high performing cross functional team where continuous improvement, collaboration, open feedback and communication is expected, encouraged and rewarded.
• You deeply care about the impact of your work, you enjoy solving problems of all kinds for different kinds of users. You are used to testing your solutions through regular and continuous user feedback as well as metrics and A/B tests.
• You are passionate about digital product design and you have a user focused mentality. You easily balance the newest industry approaches and pragmatic, data-driven product design solutions.

Sounds like you?

Then send us the following:

• Your CV.
• A write-up explaining who you are and why you are interested in working at komoot.
• At least 3 relevant examples of your work explaining your contribution in each of them.
• Feel free to send us something that shows us a little more about what you’re interested in, be it your Twitter/Instagram account or your OpenStreetMap profile (if you have one).

Source: Remotely Awesome Jobs, Stack Overflow, komoot

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NOW HIRING: iOS Engineer – Video/photo tool

Company: Strucc
Website: https://strucc.app
Headquarters: Stockholm, Sweden

At Strucc, we want to reinvent how people capture the moments that matter to them. By providing visual templates and easy to use customisation tools you are able to create impressive video edits in seconds with Strucc. (Download our iOS app: join.strucc.app/download)

As an iOS engineer at Strucc you will work with world-class designers, engineers, and product people to develop the next versions of STRUCC and iterate based on customer feedback and data.

In this position you'll build innovative video/photo capture and manipulation tools that will empower the creative process of our users. As we expand our product, you’ll be choosing the technologies we need to build toward our vision and work closely with two senior iOS engineers.

Strucc is backed by Sweet Studio, a venture studio that builds great consumer mobile products.

Job requirements

Must-haves:

• An expert with Swift, Xcode, and the rest of the iOS ecosystem (min. 3+ years of professional experience)
• Experience with video/photo capture and manipulation tools using built in iOS SDKs (e.g. Core Image, Media Library)
• Experience deploying and supporting code in production
• You’re a strong communicator and fluent in English

You’ll be successful if you are

• A collaborative person who wants to see the team succeed in its goals
• Being practical about tradeoffs between speed and polish
• You’re passionate about what you do and the products you create
• Excited to join a small team that moves quickly
• You can work with at least 4 hours overlap with 9.00—18.00 in the (GMT+1) timezone

We prefer but don't require:

• Experience with A/B testing and running experiments
• Experience working and creating with graphic shaders (MetalKit/Open GL)
• Experience working in a distributed team
• Position is a full-time and ongoing contract.

We are a small team which means that your impact on the success of the company will be huge. We would love to speak to you about this role if you love working on video/photo capture and manipulation tools and are excited about delivering high-impact features at Strucc.

Source: Remotely Awesome Jobs, Strucc

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NOW HIRING: Full Stack Web Developer

Company: nxtedition
Website: https://nxtedition.com
Headquarters: Malmö, Sweden

nxtedition is a software company with a vision to change and disrupt the paradigm of complex workflows within the broadcast media industry.

We solve that by taking care of the entire workflow using smart and modern Web technologies presented in one intuitive user interface. We’re searching for self-motivated, energetic individuals to join our team in moving nxtedition’s vision towards the ultimate solution for the media industry.

Our head office is in Malmö and all our developers have the possibility of working remotely. You would should have a good understanding of our development tools which include React.js, Node.js, Deepstream and MobX. Candidates should have creative ideas, problem solving skills and the ability to work and thrive within a fast-paced environment.

Mastering existing and new web technologies as well as using well designed efficient code is key to success in this position. Talented developers joining our core development team can expect to tackle the challenges of live television, post-production and social media with imaginative and disruptive solutions.

nxtedition can offer competitive benefits, and a pleasant working environment amongst a highly skilled development team and the opportunity to work within the fast moving world of broadcast television.

nxtedition is looking for its next genuine, passionate and highly skilled Full Stack Senior Web Developer.

• Someone as excited about developing disruptive software as we are.
• Wants to be apart of a team of creative, thoughtful people who are enthusiastic about creating bleeding edge results.
• Who thrive in a fast moving startup environment and who enjoys having big and important responsibilities.

If this sounds like you, let’s talk. We are thrilled to meet you.

As a Senior Full Stack Web Developer you will:

• Design, code, document in Javascript, HTML, CSS
• Develop innovative user experiences and work with exciting technologies like React.js and MobX.
• Demonstrate a mastery of object-oriented as well as functional design practices and patterns.
• Show leadership through mentoring and assisting junior developers and non-technical staff members.
• Take ownership of several aspects of or software nxtedition – architecture, quality, user experience.
• Collaborate with other talented engineers, designers, product managers and more.

You contribute by having

• Track record of building and maintaining large scale software products.
• Demonstrated ability to proactively manage many tasks, projects and issues.
• Mastery of frameworks and platforms such as React.js, Node.js.
• Commitment and interest in “the latest” in web development.
• Experience with modern HTTP frameworks and NoSQL databases.

Nice to have’s

Experience in:

• Open Source projects.
• Development of back-end microservices, servers and third-party powering the nxtedition’s platform.
• Docker, Deepstream, CouchDB, ElasticSearch, Firebase, Webpack, Typescript, Kibana.
• Broadcast industry.

You’ll be joining a very talented team and helping us on our journey over the entire globe. Relocation is available for exceptionally qualified candidate.

Terms

City: Malmö- Sweden. Relocation is possible for the right candidate
Scope: Full-time
Language: English is a requirement, however, Swedish is not
Start: Immediately or as soon as possible
Selection: Selection is ongoing
Contact: application@nxtedition.com

Source: Remotely Awesome Jobs, Stack Overflow, nxtedition

NOW HIRING: Data Science Lead

Company: Harvest
Website: https://www.getharvest.com
Headquarters: New York, United States

Harvest is an independent software company that makes tools to help businesses run more smoothly. We believe that businesses only succeed by using their time intentionally. Our products support our customers through time tracking, reporting, and forecasting features.

Harvest started in 2006 as a team of three and has grown to today’s current total of almost 60 lovely faces. We’ve worked as a remote team since the beginning and we continue to hire the right people for the job no matter where they call home.

We also strive to create a workplace culture where everyone feels valued, included, and heard. One important aspect of this is continuing to create spaces for diverse life experiences and work histories. If you are a member of a group that is historically underrepresented and disadvantaged in tech, business, and society in general, we want to meet you and we encourage you to apply.

The Product Team and Why We’re Hiring

The Harvest Product Team currently consists of the Head of Product & Customer Experience (who will be the direct manager for this position), two Product Managers, and two Product Designers. This Team works very closely with our Customer Experience team.

Our Head of Product & Customer Experience joined the company in early 2020 and is moving the department toward a more data-centric approach. We are expanding the scope of this department to include a brand new team, focused on data analytics, to work alongside our Product Managers and Product Designers.

Data Science Lead Responsibilities

As the founding lead for a brand new team at Harvest, you’ll shape the way Harvest uses data science and analytics from the ground up to inform strategic level business decisions. Your team will work across the company, touching every aspect of Harvest. You will build a team that interacts with product, design, marketing, engineering, and customer support to propose insights, build and monitor KPIs, and deploy interesting machine learning and predictive models to better understand how to best help our customers succeed. You’ll report to our Head of Product + Customer Experience.

What you’ll do:

• Build the insight team from scratch.
• Apply your expertise in quantitative analysis, insight generation, and communication to see beyond the numbers and understand customers and prospects.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to help educate and grow a more data-informed company culture, build KPI dashboards, and analyze macro trends.
• Work directly with the executive team to use data to help inform company-wide strategy, identify gaps and opportunities, measure progress, and support day-to-day execution and delivery of various business level aggregated OKRs.
• Bring to life machine learning discipline that can ultimately perform predictions, analyze patterns, and uncover hidden stories told through data.
• Partner with cross-functional teams in developing research initiatives and undertake data exploration.
• Work with Engineering to build a robust scalable data infrastructure required to grow a sustainable data

Requirements

Who you are:

• You have a strong vision for the role of data science. You know how to uncover untold stories through data and impact big decisions with them.
• You are curious, a deep learner, a craftsperson. You care about helping others make informed decisions with the use of data. You take initiative in starting things.
• You have a deep understanding of SaaS business model, business intelligence funnels, and growth tactics.
• You like small teams. You want to get to know people by name, and you’re not shy about starting something from scratch.
• You value a distributed and diverse work culture. Working side-by-side with co-workers from around the world is something you cherish.
• You have a desire to build a team that balances practicality and reality with rigor, modeling data-informed decision making for all of Harvest.
• You love educating and mentoring others. You believe helping people help themselves cultivates a data-informed culture for everyone.

What you’ve done:

• 10+ years of experience in working in the field of data science, quantitative analysis, or business intelligence.
• 5+ years working in SaaS or Marketplace businesses.
• 3+ years of experience in managing other team members in a formal or informal capacity.
• 10+ years experience in SQL and other programming languages.
• Deep technical expertise in predictive modeling and machine learning.
• Experience initiating and driving projects to completion with minimal guidance.
• Experience communicating data stories in meaningful and actionable manners.

This position requires a four-hour overlap with 8am - 5pm ET.

Source: Remotely Awesome Jobs

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