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Senior Backend Engineer Solsten Berlin €80,000 to €95,000 a year
January 2024
2 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
**THE COMPANY
**
Solsten is advancing the human experience by empowering companies to build deeply resonating and healthier human-centered digital experiences and products.
At the intersection of play, psychology, and AI, our suite of products (Traits, Navigator, and Wavelength) give brands the ability to understand and meet their audiences’ experiential expectations at every step of their journey—ushering in a new era of technology that is better for people, and brilliant for businesses.
**THE ROLE
**
Our engineering team is responsible for creating the platform that empowers this next generation of digital resonance. As a part of this team, you will work within a world-class team of engineers as well as with data scientists and UX designers to build the Solsten platform and products. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will bring your own technical expertise, help design new services as well as improve current ones, and carry projects from initial requirements, implementation, up to production.
**WHAT YOU WILL DO
**
* Design software architecture based on business requirements, strategy, and priorities
* Design and implementation of Microservices in Go
* Write reusable, testable, and efficient code
* Write highly scalable, high volume services
* Create optimized database schemas
* Advise and implement best practices in multiple technical domains
* Proactively seek and realize new value-add opportunities for customers
* WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR
* BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject
* 7+ years of practical backend development
* Demonstrated experience with building Microservices in Go as well as high load production systems based on microservice architecture
* Very knowledgeable about distributed systems and technologies (gRPC, Kafka, NoSQL, SQL, Redis, ...)
* Hands-on experience with leading commercial Cloud platforms, preferably GCP
* Sound understanding of Software Development Life Cycle
* Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments
* Pay attention to detail and strive for excellence in all aspects of your work
* Manage complex situations with a structured and organized approach
* Strong communicator that expresses ideas and information clearly and concisely
* Detail-oriented, with excellent analytical, technical and problem-solving skills
* A portfolio of activities / a side project that showcases your intellectual curiosity
**WHAT MAKES YOU STAND OUT
**
* Hands-on experience with Kubernetes
* gRPC / Protobuf experience
* DevOps and application deployment skills
* Python is a plus
* Experience with message brokers
* Good ability to derive and design technical specifications from general product requirements
* Familiarity with and interest in psychometric data
**YOUR SOLSTEN EXPERIENCE
**
At the heart of Solsten is our people. We pride ourselves with the incredible team that makes up the company and are deeply humbled by each one of our employees. We have grown beyond measure and have amassed an incredible team of talented, passionate, and amazing individuals. It is our biggest priority to give all members of Solsten the space and motivation to WANT to journey on this career path with us and continue to be a part of our success. Here are some of the things our current employees appreciate:
Competitive, location-based salary
Flexible paid time off (unlimited with a minimum requirement of 25 days off)
3 weeks of remote work per year
Annual Wellness & Experience bonus
Work equipment: laptop and necessary peripherals
A people-first culture with a major emphasis on experience
A company that is invested in you, your ideas, and your growth
An opportunity to join a quickly scaling startup
WHERE YOU WILL WORK
Our team is spread out across the world, with hubs in Berlin, and Minneapolis. We believe that having our team close to one another fosters better communication and productivity. This role requires you to be based in Berlin, Germany where you will have an exciting working environment.
**OUR COMMITMENT
**
Solsten is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, genetics, disability, or age.
Staff Software Engineer Segmed Vietnam (work from home) $60,000 to $80,000 a year
July 2023
5 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
Segmed’s mission is to bring higher quality healthcare to millions of patients around the world. We are revolutionizing healthcare research by building a medical imaging data platform with secure and easy data access. We see a future where medical AI helps people get a better standard of care no matter where they are in the world, and we hope you do, too! We are a fast-growing startup in a quickly evolving field and we came out of Stanford and Y Combinator. We're a 100% remote and distributed team.
Position Summary:
We’re looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our Data Partner integration team. You’ll interact with Segmed’s CTO, Project Manager, and the Product Team. You will become a subject matter expert in our Data Pipeline Product and help install it on both on-prem and cloud servers. Our #1 priority is data security, and you will play a pivotal role in designing and building a robust product and infrastructure that can support our needs. This is a highly visible role that carries a lot of responsibility while offering great opportunities for learning and becoming an expert.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
You will design and develop services which can handle a massive amount of data
You will design database considering functional and non-functional requirement
You will write clean and maintainable code, improve code by continuous refactoring
You will monitor application performance and fix system failures
You will write Terraform configurations and Ansible playbooks to maintain our systems
Other ad hoc responsibilities to support the company’s objectives, as required in this fast-paced startup
Required Qualifications:
5+ years of experience in Backend Development
1+ years of experience with Terraform and Ansible
Solid experience with Golang, Python
Good understanding of SOLID principles, common design patterns and best practices
Solid experience with PostgreSQL including performance tuning and optimization
Experience with complicated system architecture which includes API linkage with external systems
Experience with application performance monitoring and optimization
Experience with CI/CD, Docker, AWS
Good English communication skills
Strong sense of ownership
Well organized and able to juggle many projects at once
Comfortable working with internal and external resources across different time zones
Enjoy and able to working remotely
Extras:
BS or MS in Computer Science, Information Technology or similar
Knowledge of healthcare ecosystems and medical and research partnerships
Knowledge of HIPAA and GDPR regulations
Healthcare industry knowledge / experience
Experience with healthcare data standards (HL7, DICOM, etc)
Experience with PACS/RIS/LIS/EHR systems
Experience interacting with both business and IT individuals at all levels including the executive level
Why you'll love working here:
Full salary during probation period
13th-month salary (included in monthly salary)
Pay leave: at least 20 days, with approval from the direct manager.
Awards: Culture Hero, MVP for excellent members
Activities: team-building, happy hour, etc...
Devices: MacBook Pro
Working hour: Monday to Friday (check in flexibly remotely from 8AM to 9AM)
Insurance, Health care vouchers
Lunch vouchers
Segmed Values
Transparency: We tell it like it is, good or bad
Social Good: People first
Learning Mentality: We acknowledge what we don’t know and find out
Integrity: Do the right thing even if no one’s watching
The Segmed team is international. We have team members from a huge variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We consider equal opportunities essential. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
Sr Backend Engineer InstillAI Remote (United Kingdom) / London, United Kingdom £55,000 to £75,000 a year
June 2023
6 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
What you'll be doing
Get paid to work on open-source projects
Apply cutting-edge best practices and architecture to build Instill AI's products. The topics involve Infrastructure as Code (IaC), microservice, serverless, API-first design, Twelve-Factor Apps, zero-trust network, message queue, etc
Design and develop highly scalable, high-quality APIs, services and maintain database systems
Develop data integration standards for unstructured data, build processes and logic to extract, transform and distribute data from a wide variety of sources, and work with ML/AI engineers to integrate ML systems into data pipelines
Work with product managers, frontend engineers, product designers and other engineers to deliver high-quality, complex backend features on the roadmap
Deliver high-quality software and documentation
Things we'd love to see
Significant experience in developing and maintaining large-scale distributed systems, production data pipelines or data platforms, and have shipped data projects before
Experience with GCP, AWS or other major cloud services
Experience in DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes, gRPC and modern data stack
Be fluent in Go and SQL/NoSQL
Basic understanding of machine learning algorithms
Comfortable working in a very fast-paced agile startup environment, experience in robust and frequent releases
Excellent communication and document writing skills
Open-source practices/contributions
Be customer and data obsessed and take ownership of the details
Proactive, self-learning, and self-aware
Intellectual curiosity, always asking "how can we improve?"
DevOps Engineer Mathpix New York City, United States $140,000 to $190,000 a year
June 2023
18 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
We are looking for a confident and capable engineer to take on a lot on responsibility working on dev ops at Mathpix.
You are a great fit for this role if you have:
proficiency scripting using Python
some Docker experience
knowledge or willingness to quickly learn: Golang, Kubernetes, and AWS APIs
experience with SQL
experience designing distributed architectures
Your tasks will involve:
keeping tail latencies low
achieving uptimes of at least 99.99%
writing test automations
protecting our web apps against DDOS attacks
data security and compliance
private cloud deployments
developing metrics dashboards
developing API routes
maintaining and develop CLI tools for our dev team
This is a great opportunity for a senior developer looking for a new and exciting opportunity at a growing AI company. It's also a good fit for someone with some engineering and devops experience but who has a willingness to learn a lot and fast!
Please note that this is NOT a remote position, we are looking for someone who can work in our office in Williamsburg, Brooklyn :)
Senior Backend Engineer Solsten Europe €80,000 to €100,000 a year
June 2022
9 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
Solsten is ushering in a new era of experience management by enabling personalization optimized for human potential and health. We enable global leaders and companies of all sizes across the gaming and healthcare industries to create and manage personalized experiences while obtaining a deeper level of audience understanding than ever before through our psychologically-based AI.
Solsten is the empathy engine of digital experiences. We provide our clients with the right insights and tools which empower them - for the first time in the digital age - to truly resonate with their customers and end users. Our engineering team is responsible for creating the platform that empowers this next generation of digital resonance. As a part of this team, you will work within a world-class team of engineers as well as with data scientists and UX designers to build the Solsten platform and products. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will bring your own technical expertise, help design new services as well as improve current ones, and carry projects from initial requirements, implementation, up to production.
If you want to join a purpose-driven company, thrive on solving challenging problems, are intellectually curious and constantly want to learn as well as grow, enjoy high performance environments, are highly productive compared to your peers and a true team player, then read on and apply - we are looking for you.
WHAT YOU WILL DO
Design software architecture based on business requirements, strategy, and priorities
Design and implementation of Microservices in Go
Write reusable, testable, and efficient code
Implementation of security and data protection systems
Write highly scalable, high volume services
Create optimized database schemas
Advise and implement best practices in multiple technical domains
Proactively seek and realize new value-add opportunities for customers
YOUR BACKGROUND
BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject
7+ years of practical backend development
Demonstrated experience with building Microservices in GO as well as high load production systems based on microservice architecture
Very knowledgeable about distributed systems and technologies (gRPC, Kafka, NoSQL, SQL, Redis, ...)
Hands-on experience with leading commercial Cloud platforms, preferably GCP
Sound understanding of Software Development Life Cycle
Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments
Detail-oriented, with excellent analytical, technical and problem-solving skills
A portfolio of activities / a side project that showcases your intellectual curiosity
HOW YOU STAND OUT
Hands-on experience with Kubernetes
gRPC / Protobuf experience
DevOps and application deployment skills
Python is a plus
Experience with message brokers
Good ability to derive and design technical specifications from general product requirements
Experience building personalization or recommendation engines
Familiarity with and interest in psychometric data
WHAT WE OFFER
You will join an international and dedicated team in a growing company, with plenty of opportunities for impact and personal growth. We are working from Berlin in Germany, Los Angeles and Minneapolis in the US, and even Taipei in Taiwan! We enjoy working together and value respect, honesty, and openness. Some of the immediate benefits of working at Solsten are:
Top of market compensation
Flexible work-schedule
State of the art equipment and work station
Learning budget & access to curated means of personal development
Support with relocation & visa application
Flexible work-from-home policy
HIRING PROCESS
We are actively hiring despite the pandemic, and we have adapted our processes accordingly. Our team is working in a remote-first fashion, and all interviews will be conducted remotely by default.
Solsten is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, genetics, disability nor age.
We are expanding our development team and are looking for a highly skilled individual with proven experience as a backend developer. You can work fully remote and we will be operating in an agile software development team to further develop our product API and backend services.
You will further build your skills by creating industrial applications and gain hands-on experience in the automotive, aerospace and medical field.
Tasks
Implement, test and deliver modern apis (e.G. GraphQL or gRPC) for our microservice architecture
Write microservices with gRPC communication
Connect and query graph databases like dGraph or Neo4j
Define software architectures with our young and dynamic team
Requirements
3+ years experience with go
5+ years experience with backend development
Docker, docker-compose, git
Experience with go unit testing and test-driven development
Experience with NoSQL Databases
Benefits
Remote work
Optionally you can also work in our modern office based in Hamburg, Germany
Tech focused team (we're all tekkies incl. founders)
Walk underneath and touch real airplanes (while system testing)
Work on interesting projects
Get immediate feedback directly from our end-users due to short dev-ops circles
Are you interested in a multinational environment, R&D environment?
At BETWEEN we select the best talent in the field of engineering and development. Currently, we have a team of more than 600 people. We are involved in a wide variety of cutting-edge projects, working with the most innovative clients in the fields of R&D, automotive, pharma, machinery design, product development, etc. In our technical office we offer services based on the needs of each client, since at BETWEEN we can take responsibility for all development tasks related to the life cycle of your product.
The selected person will develop a backend with Go to build a real-time system in the Cloud that connects different software solutions with multiple devices.
What will I do?
• You will develop backend with Golang / Go.
• You will build a real-time system in the Cloud that connects different software solutions with multiple devices.
• You will work in a team that develops Go in the back and Angular in the front.
How will I do it?
• You will work in a cross-functional agile team and you will be involved in the entire development process.
• You will work hand in hand with a team of highly specialized technicians.
• You will have access to the company's central platform and multiple applications in the cloud.
• You will have a PC and all the necessary software licenses with a computer support team at your disposal.
Benefits you will have in your workplace:
• Career Plan and professional development at BETWEEN Technology.
• Personalized Training Plan (technical and in languages).
• Flexible remuneration (ticket restaurant, transportation, nursery.
• Health insurance.
• Discounts in gyms (GymPass).
• Flexible hours and 100% remote work from anywhere in Spain (You need to have a work permit in Spain, EU nationality or NIE).
• Salary based on the experience provided.
In addition, working for BETWEEN you will get the following added benefits:
• Possibility of being part of a company in full growth at a national and international level. A good place to work: we take care of our team and society through initiatives, conciliation programs and corporate social responsibility
• You will join a high-performance team with a high degree of specialization.
• You will have training and professional development opportunities
• We will put at your disposal a wide range of challenges and projects in accordance with your personal and professional goals.
• Possibility of choosing how to obtain part of your salary thanks to the tax advantages of our Flexible Remuneration, and discounts to access fitness centers, among others
• At BETWEEN, equal opportunities is one of our values. Our commitment is to recruit the best talents regardless of their race, religion, gender, age and people with other abilities and to promote their professional and personal development.
Minimum requirements
• Computer Engineering, Telecommunications or related technical discipline.
• Minimum of 4-5 years of Golang experience.
• Strong development fundamentals, including object-oriented design and data structures.
• Experience in creating software solutions that take advantage of AWS services (S3, EC2, SNS, SQS, API Gateway, DynamoDB…).
• Experience in developing microservices in the cloud and RESTful API.
• Experience with non-relational databases.
• Knowledge and experience in the application of code quality principles and practices.
• Experience in using TDD (test-based development).
• Experience with source code control software, such as git, and continuous integration / deployment systems, such as Jenkins.
• High English (spoken and written).
• Proactive, agile, progressively autonomous, communicative and empathetic person.
Valuable requirements
• Spanish speaker
• Experience in programming with Python or Java.
• Knowledge of cloud authentication methods.
• Frontend experience.
• Experience in Agile methodology.
• Experience with standard quality and development tools and the ability to operate within short release cycles
Are you interested in a multinational environment, R&D environment?
About Us
At BETWEEN we select the best talent in the field of engineering and development. Currently, we have a team of more than 600 people. We are involved in a wide variety of cutting-edge projects, working with the most innovative clients in the fields of R&D, automotive, pharma, machinery design, product development, etc. In our technical office we offer services based on the needs of each client, since at BETWEEN we can take responsibility for all development tasks related to the life cycle of your product.
The selected person will develop a backend with Go to build a real-time system in the Cloud that connects different software solutions with multiple devices.
What will I do?
• You will develop backend with Golang / Go.
• You will build a real-time system in the Cloud that connects different software solutions with multiple devices.
• You will work in a team that develops Go in the back and Angular in the front.
How will I do it?
• You will work in a cross-functional agile team and you will be involved in the entire development process.
• You will work hand in hand with a team of highly specialized technicians.
• You will have access to the company's central platform and multiple applications in the cloud.
• You will have a PC and all the necessary software licenses with a computer support team at your disposal.
Benefits you will have in your workplace:
• Career Plan and professional development at BETWEEN Technology.
• Personalized Training Plan (technical and in languages).
• Flexible remuneration (ticket restaurant, transportation, nursery.
• Health insurance.
• Discounts in gyms (GymPass).
• Flexible hours and 100% remote work from anywhere in Spain (You need to have a work permit in Spain, EU nationality or NIE).
• Salary based on the experience provided.
In addition, working for BETWEEN you will get the following added benefits:
• Possibility of being part of a company in full growth at a national and international level. A good place to work: we take care of our team and society through initiatives, conciliation programs and corporate social responsibility
• You will join a high-performance team with a high degree of specialization.
• You will have training and professional development opportunities
• We will put at your disposal a wide range of challenges and projects in accordance with your personal and professional goals.
• Possibility of choosing how to obtain part of your salary thanks to the tax advantages of our Flexible Remuneration, and discounts to access fitness centers, among others
• At BETWEEN, equal opportunities is one of our values. Our commitment is to recruit the best talents regardless of their race, religion, gender, age and people with other abilities and to promote their professional and personal development.
Minimum requirements
• Computer Engineering, Telecommunications or related technical discipline.
• Minimum of 4-5 years of Golang experience.
• Strong development fundamentals, including object-oriented design and data structures.
• Experience in creating software solutions that take advantage of AWS services (S3, EC2, SNS, SQS, API Gateway, DynamoDB…).
• Experience in developing microservices in the cloud and RESTful API.
• Experience with non-relational databases.
• Knowledge and experience in the application of code quality principles and practices.
• Experience in using TDD (test-based development).
• Experience with source code control software, such as git, and continuous integration / deployment systems, such as Jenkins.
• High English (spoken and written).
• Proactive, agile, progressively autonomous, communicative and empathetic person.
Valuable requirements
• Spanish speaker
• Experience in programming with Python or Java.
• Knowledge of cloud authentication methods.
• Frontend experience.
• Experience in Agile methodology.
• Experience with standard quality and development tools and the ability to operate within short release cycles
4+ years of experience in a backend engineering role
2+ years of developing with statically typed languages, preferably Go
2+ years of experience developing for Linux systems
Strong time management and organizational skills
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Collaborating in and working with a remote, distributed team with an overlap between 8 AM and 12 PM Pacific
Preferred experience with, but not required:
Exposure to DICOM, HL7, and healthcare information systems
Significant experience working with SQL and PostgreSQL
Deep understanding of Linux internals with a focus on storage and networking
Working knowledge of distributed systems, concurrency management, and parallel systems
What You’ll Be Doing
Delivering secure and well-tested solutions that scale:
Scale up the platform and integrations between machine learning algorithms and the pipeline
Design and build the APIs interfacing the data pipeline and machine learning services
Building security tools to protect sensitive patient data throughout the data pipeline
Optimize bare-metal appliances to meet the high-performance needs of the application
Provision infrastructure for the secure services coordinating on-premise and cloud-hosted services
You Might Be a Good Fit if You
Strive to take ownership of a project from ideation to delivery and maintenance. Your experience provides a framework for you to work independently on several initiatives which will provide significant and measurable value to our customers. Seek opportunities to develop horizontal technologies that benefit multiple teams. Build and automation tools to increase the quality of all teams at Ferrum.
Communicate and document everything. At Ferrum, we are a distributed team. A culture of sharing and documentation allows everyone to work together. We are looking for a practitioner of clear documentation that is well-maintained. You adapt your communication style to suit different audiences and follow up on feedback to ensure positive outcomes.
Are a team player. Ferrum is a high-growth, venture-backed, fast-paced startup. This means that while the team members we’re hiring will fully own their functions, we expect them to understand adjacent roles and responsibilities in order to support and sometimes contribute.
Are an out-of-the-box thinker. In a fast-paced startup environment, much of our success hinges on our ability to think differently from competitors, counter-position, outmaneuver, iterate rapidly, and present compelling messaging that differentiates us from the pack.
Think healthcare can be better and want to have an impact in the industry. Ferrum’s team is first and foremost, mission-driven. Our mission is to help hospital systems use AI to improve patient care, and the work that we do impacts patient lives every day.
Software Engineer Honu AI Remote, United Kingdom / Europe £40,000 to £80,000 a year
November 2021
3 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
About Us
We are honu.ai, a venture backed startup building the next generation platform to give small business owners superhuman decision making capabilities. We are currently in stealth mode and are backed by Europe’s top investors who are early backers of (TransferWise, Tide, Coinbase, CityMapper, Cazoo, Nested, Habito, Cleo, King, Snyk, etc.). The technology we are building is novel and we will be pushing the boundaries of what has been done in this space.
The Role
We are looking for a strong, product focused, growth mindset software engineer to join our core-team. If you are excited to join a VC-backed startup early on in the journey, and your profile matches what we are looking for, please do get in touch. Here is a non-exhaustive description of the tasks and responsibilities for this role:
You will be working in small team, including the founder, to build the first MVP of the product.
You will collaborate with the team to define the strategy and vision for how we will build effectively and be successful.
Work with engineers across the company to build delightful features that span various parts of the system.
Ensure our platforms are reliable, scalable, secure and extensible.
Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.
Ideal Candidate
Experience shipping high-quality products from start to finish. Ideally, experience at top tier SaaS startups/companies.
Experience building Fintech products. e-Commerce and experience with small businesses is a huge plus!
2+ years professional experience in Golang. Rust, Kotlin or Java, nice to have.
Product focused
Experience with modern cloud tooling
Nice to have technical experience in:
Python, React, Typescript
Data engineering
Linux administration
API integrations
Experience with distributed systems
Must have soft skills:
Intellectual Humility
Growth Mindset
Attention to detail
Team Player
Good communicator
Ways of working:
You will believe in clean coding, simple solutions, automated testing and continuous deployment.
comfortable with Remote/Async ways of working.
Be a self-starter who is very comfortable building from scratch.
Company Values
Excellence: We constantly strive for excellence in what we do. We go above and beyond the call of duty.
Get Things Done: We acknowledge obstacles but orient towards solutions. We have a getting things done attitude, with laser focus on efficiency, as a team and individuals.
Open Communication: We communicate openly and respectfully about our opinions. Our conversations are constructive and all voices will be heard. However, when decisions are made, everyone commits to them.
Team Player: We are there for each other. As individuals we are reliable, responsible, collaborative and supportive. We respect each other’s time, we are punctual. We have got each others backs, and **accept everyone’s authentic self.
High Integrity: We are honest with each other and with our partners, clients and collaborators.
How to Apply
Email your CV, and any relevant links (we aim to respond in no more than 2 working days)
Our Process (1-2 weeks)
Introductory phone call with Founder ( 30 mins )
CV / Experience review - panel (1 hour)
Systems Design interview - panel (1 hour)
We are growing fast and will be sure to respect your time and expectations each step of the way.