NOW HIRING: Full Stack Developer

Company: Smile.io

Website: https://smile.io

Headquarters: Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

Smile is the largest provider of rewards programs in the world. We reward tens of millions of people every year, and power rewards programs for thousands of businesses around the world.

The engineering team at Smile.io believes in being proud of your code, owning what you ship, and embracing new tools to increase developer happiness. We believe small, empowered teams can ship products with the highest impact. We are remote-first, with engineers on our team working from home offices in Romania, Cyprus, New Orleans and more! We embrace open source and love to contribute. Tell us where you'd like to work when you apply!

As a Full Stack Developer, you'll be building features across the stack, taking the time to improve the architecture and share knowledge with those around you. Building sustainable, scalable software from backend services to the front end.

Core Responsibilities:

• Design, build and maintain APIs, services, and systems
• Build intuitive web applications using modern web frameworks
• Build new features for internal and external users
• Handle escalations from merchant support requests
• Participate in the product development process from start to finish, from helping scope projects to measuring their success and iterating based on feedback
• Work in cross-functional teams with designers, product managers, and engineers

We currently power over 40,000 rewards programs, reaching more than 50 million customers, and serving 100k API requests/hour. Our primary deployment languages are Ruby on Rails, React & Ember.js, but as a team, we enjoy learning new languages and technologies - so this list could change! We use Github, Slack, and CircleCI to communicate efficiently and ship code every day.

Requirements

You're a developer who gets excited about turning ideas into reliable production code. You appreciate clear code that can be understood by others (and yourself!) 6 months down the line. You enjoy collaborating with other developers and get excited about thousands of people experiencing a feature you shipped just minutes ago. You thrive on fast feedback loops & iterative development cycles. You've got experience developing robust features for scale at pace.

What we’re seeking:

• 3+ years technical experience in software development
• A capable engineer, with a previous background building web or mobile applications
• Experienced in full-stack development and software architecture patterns, able to understand how a wide variety of technologies and systems interact with each other
• The ability to build software systems given a set of technical designs
• An ability to adapt to changing priorities. We move quickly but deliberately.

Traits or experience we’d love to see (you don’t need them all to apply):

• Comfortable writing code in a few of Smile’s primary deployment languages (Ruby on Rails, Ember.js, React) and enjoys learning new languages and technologies
• Knowledge of secure coding practices and test-driven development approach
• Interested in solving open-ended business problems with a combination of technology and creative thinking

Benefits

What's it like to work at Smile.io?

We are a team of smart self-starters who build efficient and unique solutions to problems. You’ll be working with some amazing talent and you'll constantly be pushed to challenge yourself and improve your skills. This starts in the interview process, where you’ll be asked to show us your skills in real-time. It’s not an easy process, but we think you’ll find it rewarding and a great preview of what working here is really like.

As a team, we’re driven by these core values:

• Be Humble - think of the team before thinking of yourself. We have no room for massive egos.
• Be Hungry - set hard goals, ask lots of questions, and learn every day.
• Be Human - show empathy towards others, consider the impact of your decisions on other teams.

We know that Smile.io as a business is in constant evolution - the same is true of our people. We’re here to support each other in our growth, so we talk openly about our career goals, hopes & dreams. With such a diverse team of people, we know we can offer you the mentorship, tools, and encouragement you need to grow.

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Source: We Work Remotely, Smile.io

NOW HIRING: Special Projects Operations Manager

Company: ioby

Website: https://ioby.org

Headquarters: Brooklyn, New York, United States

ioby seeks a Special Projects Operations Manager to join our team. Reporting to the Chief Finance Officer, our future Special Projects Operations Manager will play an important role in operationalizing ioby's ongoing and evolving work on equity and inclusion into our policies and practices on personnel, financial, legal, compliance, information technology, facilities/vendors and operational issues related to the projects funded on ioby.

Women, people of color, and LGBTQ people are always strongly encouraged to apply.

Reporting to the Chief Finance Officer, this Special Projects Operations Manager will play a critical role in solving new complex special projects related to the intersection of operations, legal, compliance, IT, and personnel as they arise. We expect special projects will comprise about 40% of this role's time. Responsibilities will include ongoing projects as well, such as managing personnel and benefits (20%), facilities and equipment (20%), legal, audit, and financial transparency (20%).

For the right candidate, this position is an exciting opportunity to shape the growth of a mission-driven nonprofit while contributing to a growing movement of resident-led positive change with rapidly increased demands since the beginning of the COVID19 pandemic.

This job may require occasional work outside of ioby’s regular business hours (9am–6pm Eastern; Monday through Friday).

About ioby

ioby (In Our Backyards), founded in 2008, is a civic tech nonprofit that mobilizes neighbors who have good ideas to become powerful civic leaders who plan, fund, and make a positive change in their own neighborhoods. ioby was recognized by the Obama Foundation for contributions to civic innovation, was awarded the Jane Jacobs Medal by the Rockefeller Foundation, and an American Civic Collaboration Award for increasing civic participation.

Job Activities

The Special Projects Operations Manager will report to the CFO, and:

• Manage all staff onboarding and offboarding
• Manage all benefits and payroll
• Provide administrative support to hiring managers
• Provide administrative support for team trainings and professional development
• Create training and documentation for all operations and financial systems
• Provide administrative support regarding personnel policies
• Manage facilities, equipment, and office supplies
• Liaise with outsourced IT provider
• Work with CFO and product team to inform software decisions
• Liaise with pro bono attorneys and provides administrative support on all legal matters
• Provide administration support to the CFO in audit and 990 preparation and transparency
• Scope, research and make legal, operational, and financial recommendations on special projects approximately weekly. Examples include project eligibility questions, building a new disbursement system, providing direct cash assistance, and more.
• Where appropriate, lead implementation following the findings of the special projects.
• Provide administrative support to organizational morale and team culture

Requirements

Candidates for this position must have the following characteristics:

• Experience operationalizing equity and inclusion from the perspective of organizational operations, policy, procedure, and personnel
• Experience working within the legal financial obligations of a 501c3 nonprofit
• Responsive in communication, quick to action
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Attentive to detail
• Experience managing up and across lines of reporting
• Experience managing several, most or all of the following
• legal/compliance
• facilities
• group retreats or analogous in-person events
• agencies and vendors
• personnel/human resource benefits
• ops and IT
• Experience working on a distributed team
• Comfort working on a distributed team
• Demonstrated use of good judgment
• Demonstrated experience using discretion in past roles
• Responsible
• Desire to work at a multiracial organization in the midst of a long-term process of creating a Racial Equity and Inclusion Framework
• Self-driven and accountable to your own goals

Extraordinary candidates for this job will have all of the must-have characteristics and the following nice to have characteristics:

• Experience using a variety of software programs, including at least one CRM and one CMS
• At least 5 years experience using excel
• Experience with Salesforce
• Experience working at an antiracist organization
• Experience working with or knowledge of the legal obligations a nonprofit fiscal sponsor

Women, people of color, and LGBTQ people are always strongly encouraged to apply.

ioby is committed to the principles of equal opportunity. ioby’s organizational policies, practices, programs, activities, and decisions regarding employment, hiring, assignment, promotion, compensation, volunteerism, internships, and other terms and conditions of employment or voluntary service shall not be based on a person’s race, color, sex, age, religion, national origin, mental or physical disability, ancestry, military discharge status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, source of income, parental status, housing status, or other protected status, in accordance with applicable law.

Benefits

This is a full-time, salaried position in the $53,000–$74,000 range for candidates in New York City, San Francisco, and other equivalent geographies. For candidates in other areas, the salary is adjusted for the cost of living. We are actively seeking candidates to work in some of ioby’s priority places: Memphis, Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Cincinnati.

The position includes a generous benefits package (including full coverage for health, vision, and dental, 27 vacation days, 10 sick days, 7 holidays, and an attractive "Whole Person" policy).

Hiring Timeline

• February 17: Deadline to Apply
• Week of Feb 22: Phone Screens
• Week of March 1: First Round Interviews
• March 22: Approximate Start Date

Hiring Process

ioby is dedicated to continuously improving our work to become more anti-racist. We have a written commitment to racial equity published here: https://ioby.org/equity which includes a link to our Hiring Practices: https://ioby.org/hiring-practices Please join us on this journey!

To Apply

To apply, please fill out the application form through workable and attach your resume and cover letter. Thank you!

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Source: We Work Remotely, Whitespectre

NOW HIRING: Copywriter / Content Strategist

Company: Speechify

Website: https://www.speechify.com

Headquarters: Los Angeles, California, United States

Speechify is the easiest way to listen to the world’s information. Articles on the web, documents in the cloud, books on your phone—we absorb the world’s content and help our members listen to it on the go, at their own speed, with tools that make learning easier, deeper, and faster.

Or, put another way: what Spotify has done for audio entertainment we’re doing for audio information. And whatever we’re doing seems to be working: we’re #1 in our category, profitable, and have hockey-stick growth.

With that growth comes the need for a writer—part copywriter, part content strategist—to clean up our many experiments and mistakes and establish concise, telegraphic language for our apps, funnels, and marketing.

This is a key role and ideal for someone who thinks strategically and writes persuasively, works quickly and iteratively, and—obs—loves language.

Some of the things you’ll do:

• Create or refine copy across iOS, Chrome, desktop, and Android apps
• Work with designers, PMs, and marketing to develop a language for new products
• Establish a language framework and library so that we can scale how we talk about our products
• Help others understand the business value of concise, compelling writing that telegraphs our benefits and reinforces our brand
• Influence our process and help shape the design org

To succeed here, you’ll need:

• Experience. You’ve created language and content strategy for other start-ups
• Craft. You excel at translating strategy to accessible themes and metaphors and know how to unpack customer features, benefits, and outcomes
• Systems thinking. You know how to connect the writing for one product to another and can establish a framework to talk about them consistently and at scale
• Moxy. You’re curious, expressive, and know how to engage those around you to draw out insights and ideas to boost your product opinions.
• Speed. You work quickly to generate ideas and options and know how to decide which things can ship now and what things need time.
• Focus. We’re a high-growth startup with a busy, remote team. You know how and when to engage or be heads down.
• Collaboration. You know how to inspire, play, and negotiate with opinionated designers, marketers, and PMs.

We offer:

• A fast-growing environment where you can help shape the culture
• An entrepreneurial crew that supports risk, intuition, and hustle
• A hands-off approach so you can focus and do your best work
• The opportunity to make an impact in a transformative industry
• A competitive salary, a collegiate atmosphere, and a commitment to building a great asynchronous culture

Think you’re suited for this job? Drop us an email with a short intro about yourself, links to your writing portfolio and LinkedIn, and thoughts about why you’re interested in the role. hiring@speechify.com with subject line: Writer

Not looking but know someone ideal for the role? Refer them! We’ll send you (really good) chocolate if we make the hire.

Source: We Work Remotely