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Thursday, December 3, 2020

NOW HIRING: Senior Back-end Engineer

Company: FitBark

Website: https://www.fitbark.com

Headquarters: Kansas, Missouri, United States


Your role at FitBark

Our engineering team is looking for a pet-friendly, experienced, self-motivated senior engineer to help us architect and code to an efficient server backend for our next-generation pet health and GPS trackers. You will work with our team on a new architecture that supports fun and insightful mobile and web apps with an emphasis on usability and performance.

This is a 100% remote position that requires at least 4 hours of overlap with our Kansas City team, based in US Central Time (CST/CDT). International candidates are welcome to apply.

How you'll improve the lives of pets and humans

  • Architect, develop and deploy our data processing and analytics platform, which serves key data to our mobile, smartwatch and web apps, as well as universities, research partners, pharmaceutical companies, pet insurance companies and other commercial partners
  • Collaborate with our engineering team to extend new functionality to our apps
  • Identify performance bottlenecks, defining and implementing solutions to address them
  • Drive continuous improvement in overall system architecture including quality, performance and effectiveness of the backend infrastructure
  • Create and maintain technical documentation of private and public API
  • Report directly to our CTO

Language skills

Your options: https://www.notion.so/5a326c6e89e849fd9a79084c5a794b0d

Essential skills of a strong candidate

3+ years recent experience in:

  • API design and implementation
  • MySQL or PostgreSQL scripting
  • AWS (EC2, RDS, VPC, SQS, and ELB)
  • Design, coding and debugging

Desirable skills

  • 3+ years experience building and deploying robust, scalable backends
  • Working knowledge of DBMS including MySQL, Oracle or SQL Server
  • Previous work analyzing large amounts of data (intelligence, statistics, data mining)
  • Working knowledge of machine learning techniques
  • BA, BS or MS in related fields of application

Bonus points for

  • CI/CD experience
  • Working knowledge of Nginx and Passenger
  • Knowledge of JavaScript/jQuery, CSS
  • Front-end development experience

Source: Remote OK, FitBark



NOW HIRING: Sales Development Representative

Company: SafetyWing

Website: https://safetywing.com

Headquarters: San Francisco, California, United States


SafetyWing (YC w2018) is building a global social safety net. We currently offer a global health insurance, and a global travel medical insurance for remote workers and digital nomads.

Role

We are looking for a true hunter who is eager to hunt for new business. This role is all about filling the funnel. You will work closely with AE’s and sales leadership to create strategies and campaigns that effectively engage our potential clients to convert them to discovery calls and meetings.

As a true hunter your success will be measured by your ability to see out and prospect for customers on a consistent basis, across an array of industries. In addition to hunting for business you will be expected to gather feedback from prospects and clients to adjust messaging to improve downstream execution.

We are a fast-growing team and the opportunities are endless. This role will start as an SDR position and then transition to a hybrid where you will have responsibilities for both SDR and actually closing deals as an Inside Sales Rep. As the team grows there will be an abundance of opportunity to move into a full quota carrying AE or leadership positions. This is a fully remote position; you may work from anywhere in the world.

This position will start as an hourly + commission position. Once you have proven you can be effective and work independently; you will have the opportunity to move into a permanent position.

Key qualifications for this position

• 1-3 years of sales or business development experience • Experience with cold outreach to companies for greenfield or whitespace opportunities • You are an excellent written and verbal communicator • An entrepreneurial spirit to creatively solve problems and work independently • Startup experience preferred

What you will get

• Competitive pay and uncapped commissions • Fully remote work - work from anywhere on the globe • Rapid growth opportunities with a well-funded startup (Y-Combinator W18) • Flexible hours and vacation policy

Location
🌏 Worldwide

How do you apply?

Please send your CV and cover letter to remote@safetywing.com

Source: Remote OK



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