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Sr. Backend (Go) Engineer
Balloon
San Francisco, Remote
$90,000 to $150,000 a year
January 2020
3 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old

Job Description

Like building services and RESTful APIs? We use Go to make our Balloon engine...go. We also use MongoDB, Redis, Docker, and we put it all on AWS. You have experience building scalable services for a production environment. You love to build, create, teach, and learn.

We are a pre-Series A startup and building out the core engineering team. Experience building services for production environments is required and early stage startup experience is strongly preferred. You should be:

  • motivated, driven, and a self-starter
  • eager to build and contribute
  • excited to get in on the ground-floor and build a product ready to scale
  • confident and comfortable operating in a fast-paced, ever-changing, and growing entrepreneurial environment

Compensation includes competitive startup salary and equity, and benefits including health, vision, and dental.


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Senior Backend Engineer
Outdoorsy
Remote, North America
$90,000 to $160,000 a year
August 2019
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old

Job Description

Requirements

  • 3+ Years building API's or web services using Go (MUST)
  • 2+ Years using Postgres or similar
  • Modern web architectures and patterns at scale (Twelve-Factor, SOLID, ACID, etc)
  • Test Driven Development
  • Good Git hygiene and comfortable with Github
    • Feature Branches
    • Pull requests
    • Code Review

Stack

  • Elastic Search
  • RabbitMQ
  • Redis
  • CircleCI (CI/CD)
  • Heroku
  • Asana

Perks & Benefits

  • Computer hardware of your choice
  • Health, Dental, Vision insurance
  • Flexible PTO
  • Quarterly RV trips to use the platform and get some R&R
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Senior Engineer
Bread
New York City, United States
$100,000 to $175,000 a year
July 2019
4 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available

Job Description

We have enormous and engaging technical challenges. We are designing an API that can drop easily into any one of dozens of ecommerce platforms, proprietary and off-the-shelf, hosted and on-site. We need to verify online identity and predict fraud while providing a beautiful and frictionless consumer experience, and mine user and financial information to approve and price credit, all in real time. And we are using technology to explore new approaches to consumer credit marketplaces that have never been attempted before.

We are looking to hire a senior engineer to join the current technology team in continuing to build out our core platform and product. This senior engineer will:

  • be responsible for leading design and implementation of new features and iterations of our core platform
  • continue to develop our core infrastructure for Bread’s scalable and reliable services
  • deliver new working code every two weeks in a fast-paced, code-focused agile development environment
  • work with the rest of the engineering team to deliver new functionality to face merchants, consumers, investors, and internal users
  • design new iterations of our merchant integration APIs

Requirements

  • Expert knowledge of server-side languages and data stores (our system is built with Go/Golang and PostgreSQL, but we’re also happy to speak with those that have strong backend experience with other languages, including JVM languages like Java or Scala; Python; or C++)
  • Experience with message-based, loosely coupled architectures (we use RabbitMQ and Redis)
  • Experience building scalable, reliable distributed systems
  • Experience developing systems intended for cloud deployments (we use AWS)
  • A passion for engineering and technology

Preferred

  • Knowledge of financial products
  • Strong front-end skills in JavaScript, using a framework like Angular (we use React)
  • Experience with Go/PostgreSQL/Rabbit/Redis
  • Knowledge of e-commerce platforms, like Magento, Shopify, Demandware, or others

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Principal Software Engineer
SendGrid
Denver, Colorado, United States
$130,000 to $170,000 a year
October 2018
3 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available

Job Description

The Principal Software Engineer opening is an exciting opportunity to join SendGrid’s Customer Growth Engineering team, developing features and software that impact all points of the customer lifecycle.  You’ll make a tremendous impact with the team that spearheads microservice development and operability at SendGrid, using the latest distributed systems programming techniques and technologies like rate limiting, circuit breakers and multi-datacenter (including AWS). You’ll bring the ability and experience to write complex backend services, communicate effectively with cross functional teams, and have a tremendous drive to hone your craft.

Denver is our global headquarters and home to the Customer Growth Engineering team, our revenue growth engine - which your efforts will directly impact.

What You’ll Do

  • Live by and champion our cultural values of Happy, Hungry, Honest, and Humble
  • Design entire systems from scratch, end-to-end, that can fit into the SendGrid architecture
  • Develop solutions for complex problems both independently and with team members
  • Work with other teams to troubleshoot/determine resolution for complex issues across team domains
  • Focus on designing and implementing systems for scalability, testability, supportability and maintainability
  • Use your foresight and experience to keep our systems effectively running now and in the future through profiling, load testing, failure testing, monitoring and much more to have confidence in the robustness of the systems we deploy
  • Lead team initiatives and implementations from conception to completion
  • Recommend and champion improvements to our software and product development process
  • Drive improvements in quality of team's work output
  • Provide technical coaching and mentorships

Our stack includes: Golang, Docker, Redis, Kafka, MySQL, AWS

About You

  • 8+ years of software development experience in a modern programming language (Go, Python, Java, Ruby or C++)
  • Proficient across a highly diverse set of technologies (Hadoop Golang, HAproxy, etc) OR expert in at least one technology
  • Ability to translate architecture vision into concrete system designs
  • Experience with building reliable and robust software that tolerates and recovers from unreliable dependencies
  • Expert OO  experience and software engineering expertise (coding, automated tests, profiling, monitoring, etc)
  • Able to lead design meetings and Agile ceremonies
  • Experience using CM tools, preferably git
  • Solid experience with MySQL, Redis and Kafka, DynamoDB a plus
  • An insatiable learner, curious and constantly pushing the boundary of what is possible
  • Enjoy designing, writing and growing vital business services that add value

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Systems Software Engineer
BitMED
Austin, United States
$114,000 to $156,000 a year
October 2018
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available

Job Description

Here at BitMED we appreciate transparency and creativity. So, let’s try something new. We would like to give you the opportunity to learn more about this role the same way we would get to know you. An application!

We’ll go first…

Why is this position crucial to BitMED?

Our lean team is ready to grow! We are rapidly onboarding 22M members to our platform and that number is growing every day. Our Systems Software Engineer will be responsible for defining and implementing our software standards as they integrate between frontend, backend, data storage, infrastructure and other core system components. By joining our small team, they will be an integral contributor in developing our engineering culture. This person will be a key enabler for lean integration, faster innovation, rapid development, streamlined communication and improved collaboration.

Why does this person want to work at BitMED?

They are excited about bringing blockchain technology to the healthcare community at scale. Joining BitMED is a strategic and advantageous career move for them as they will play a crucial role as a contributor to bringing a global, no-cost healthcare solution to market. They visualize the impact they’ll have in this role and are prepared to offer their expertise towards building a successful new platform that will change the way the world views healthcare.

What will this person do on a day-to-day basis?

The Systems Software Engineer will be responsible for designing and implementing software for a variety of scalable, reliable, and secure distributed computing systems (e.g. blockchain). They will design, implement, and debug core components of internal distributed computing services. They will research and implement key technologies (e.g. blockchain), architectures, and standards. They will work with other engineering teams to ensure that services meet scalability, availability, security, and performance goals.

What is this person expected to accomplish within their first 90 days?

This person will assess the status of our current system software and build upon them. They will work with various members of the engineering team to define and implement API standards. During their first 90 days, our Systems Software Engineer will design and implement Protocol APIs for BitMED’s core services and work with various internal and external technical teams on the adoption. By the end of their first 90 days, we expect this person to draft the Protocol API documentation geared towards open-sourcing the API.

What qualities should this person have?

BitMED is looking for a person with the willingness to learn and the ability to contribute right off the bat. They can balance timeliness and business priorities with technical feasibility. They are adamant about solving problems and are a reliable resource for insight and assessment of technical issues. They are able to speak openly and humbly about their failures and mistakes, clearly articulating what happened and how it was addressed. They are passionate about learning, executing and leading by example. They are an open source enthusiast and a best in class developer with a desire to gain knowledge in an emerging market. They are able to think through and anticipate how hackers and others may attempt to subvert or misuse applications.

What experience should this person have?

  • 5+ years of overall developer experience
  • 2+ years measuring, analyzing, and optimizing performance
  • 2+ years developing distributed applications and API integration
  • 2+ years developing applications using cloud-based platforms and microservices
  • Strong understanding of concurrency, parallelism and distributed systems
  • Knowledge of concurrency control, data structures, algorithms, distributed system architectures and networking

What technical skills MUST this person have?

  • 1+ years of experience with blockchain security technologies and cryptography knowledge
  • Strong systems programming skills
  • Experience with all aspects of software development from architecture to deployment and maintenance
  • Familiarity with distributed storage systems (HDFS, Amazon S3)
  • Fluency in Go (golang) C/C++, Python, shell scripting
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Hands-on developer-level understanding of blockchain technologies including smart contracts, blockchain applications or proof-of-concepts (POCs) using Hyperledger, Ethereum Solidity or other proprietary languages and APIs
  • Proven ability to translate requirements from architects and product managers into functional code.
  • Knowledge of database technologies including SQL/NoSQL

What skills would we like this person to have?

  • Strong passion for technology and applying it to business solutions
  • Working understanding of blockchain technologies, cryptocurrency, and financial software
  • Experience running a large-scale production system

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CTO
MLG Blockchain
Toronto / New York City / San Francisco, United States / Remote
$80,000 to $160,000 a year
October 2018
3 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available

Job Description

Apply Here: https://mlgblockchain.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=4

MLG Blockchain Consulting is the fastest growing Blockchain consulting agency in Canada. We have grown from 4 to over 50 employees in 6 months, and expect to continue at this pace for the months to come. We work in a decentralized model, allowing you to work from anywhere. The physical HQ is in Toronto, with offices in Montreal and Rotterdam. This is an opportunity to join one of the hottest industries in fintech, and become an expert in the internet 3.0.

Reporting directly to the CEO, you will guide the overall technical vision and direction of the company and projects we work on. As CTO, you should have expert level knowledge of the Blockchain industry and feel extremely comfortable explaining concepts to C-level management.

Working in a start-up company environment the CTO should have experience managing small, fast-moving internal and external teams and be prepared for hands-on development as required As CTO you should have minimum 2 years of Blockchain development experience and a strong portfolio of past successful ventures.

Type of person we are looking for: You are a systematic leader with previous leadership experience scaling teams You are autonomous and have a growth mentality - willingness and ability to grow teams and manage multiple large scale projects/team at once You have at least 6 years of professional experience architecting and developing multiple large scale applications simultaneously You have extensive knowledge of both front and back-end technologies and development You love high growth start-ups, like to get your hands dirty and have previously developed SaaS products You are a coder at heart and enjoy managing and growing engineering teams You can deal with lots of complexity and enjoy solving challenging problems Experience in decentralized application deployment and maintenance You are a great communicator, know how to motivate others and have an enthusiastic and positive personality You are a hands-on team player with an entrepreneurial spirit Nice to have - You have experience working with a publicly traded company Expert Level knowledge of blockchain technology including solidity, hyperledger, truffle, etc Expert Level knowledge of backend programming languages such as golang, javascript, python English at a full professional proficiency level Working with technology vendors and handling negotiations Proven track record of leadership in attracting, developing and retaining talented staff who deliver results Experience with Agile a plus Experience with Cloud based infrastructure

For MLG

Build a code repository - Take an increase amount of projects in house.

For Every ICO or Post-ICO You Work On

Architecting and developing smart contracts Managing smart contract and token sale page security audits Architecting and development of decentralized applications and platforms to implement tokens Scaling development team and writing weekly progress reports

Open Lines Of Communication - Work as the direct and first line of communication between client and MLG.

Help create schedules - Whenever schedules of all the deliverables are built, we will need to build gantt charts and other project management timelines in order to ensure everything is properly delivered on time.

Manage events - From time to time you will have the opportunity to take on events. In these cases you will be responsible for ensuring everything is done correctly for events. You will have the support of the executive team but autonomy is key.

Bi-Weekly Progress Reports - Draft and send bi-weekly progress reports showing the client what has been done and what they should expect. You can use already existing resources as a base for these documents.

Manage large teams - Projects will require you manage timelines that may require involvement from more than one division at a time.

Work with other partners - As we are a turn-key ICO and post-ICO services agency, we have strategic partners that we often work with for specific parts of the project.

Work with freelancers - MLG has many freelancers to turn to for urgent requests like banner creations, writers, designers, assistants, etc. You may have to work with some and should be comfortable delegating easy to replicate tasks.

Stay active in the crypto community - Head out to events to represent your clients and personally post news about clients in select groups, forums, etc.

Work With Other Team Members - Work with team in a decentralized manner via Slack.

We are looking for a motivated individual that knows about the blockchain world and understands how blockchain development works, where to find and how to work with existing open source software, and who has the ability to create and push best practices within the industry.

If you are up for a great challenge and get excited about developing the next frontier of technologies apply now!

Salary TBD based on experience + 0.5-2% Equity

Blockchain Developer Network - https://t.me/blockchaindevelopernetwork

Apply Here: https://mlgblockchain.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=4


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Software Engineer (API)
Beeswax
New York City, United States
$110,000 to $160,000 a year
October 2018
2 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available

Job Description

Beeswax, named one of Business Insider’s “hottest pre-IPO ad tech startups of 2016,” is looking for a Software Engineer to build and maintain the REST APIs that our customers rely on. Our goal is to offer the most extensible set of APIs in the world of online advertising. You can read more about our APIs at www.beeswax.com/docs.

Our current REST API runs on AWS ECS and is built using PHP, MySQL, and nginx. Our APIs serve internal clients in our stack written in Python, Java, and C++ in addition to external customers.

Beeswax is an engineering-led company that places high value in building great software. Because advertising is extremely high scale (millions of transactions per second) and our team is still small, Beeswax engineers are involved with difficult scale problems all the time.

This position reports to the CTO, a long-time senior engineer from Google who was a key technical lead in the process of scaling Gmail.

Responsibilities include:

Building new features for customers and internal users Maintaining existing features and fixing issues as they arise Architecting solutions to complex systems tasks Testing, managing and releasing high-quality code Working with other engineers to produce a highly-reliable and easy to use advertising API Requirements:

B.S. in Computer Science Strong familiarity with backend REST APIs and relational databases, SQL knowledge and PHP experience is a plus A desire to be deeply involved in product definition. Our engineers are expected to contribute to the direction of their projects. Working knowledge of Javascript, HTML, and CSS Ability and desire to build great software


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Blockchain Engineer (Protocol Level)
Swish
Toronto, Canada / San Francisco, United States / Remote
$120,000 to $180,000 a year
October 2018
3 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available

Job Description

Swish is a world-class development studio which teams have delivered products for Google, Microsoft, Kik, Nasdaq, Factset, and other major enterprises. The blockchain engineering team at Swish is looking for talented protocol level engineers to design and implement core protocol features (like sharding, multi-chain architecture, two-way pegs, zk-Starks, zk-Snarks, and state channels) for new blockchains. Our mission is to bring the promise of a decentralized blockchain-based future to reality for clients.

As a blockchain engineer, you will work on protocol level infrastructure for blockchains. We acknowledge that the blockchain space is in its infancy. Prior experience with blockchain development is required but we are flexible as to which paths you’ve taken to get it.  You should have prior experience developing high quality server and blockchain architecture and be excited about doing that at a studio that is transforming the way companies run their businesses.

We are looking for individuals who are passionate about being at the forefront of a new technological paradigm and can lead the design and development of scalable applications. A successful candidate will bring deep analytical ability, a security-first mindset, and the ability to deliver results within a fast-moving, agile environment.

We are also looking for: • Strong communication skills • Experience with measuring and improving server response times in different conditions and environments. • Experience with unit and integration testing, continuous integration, and deployment workflows.

You should be motivated by a desire to solve the most important problems, obtain unprecedented results, and push your methods to their maximal performance.

Responsibilities

• Write secure, well-documented, well-tested code • Write code to interface with data stores, including databases (relational and non-relational) and a blockchain • Design, implement and document clear and consistent APIs to be consumed by web and mobile clients • Guide product decisions

Requirements

• 1+ years experience with Golang or C++ • 4+ years of experience in a backend engineering role • Experience with distributed systems • Familiarity with a modern web development framework such as Python (Django/Flask), Ruby (Rails), or Javascript (React/Flux) • Comfortable operating in dynamic environments

Bonus Points

• Background in cryptography, networking, or distributed systems • Familiarity with Cosmos / Tendermint • Proficiency in React/Flux, Node, Drizzle, Truffle, cryptoeconomics, or protocol-level blockchain development • Contribution to open source software • Degree in STEM field, especially software engineering or computer science related. • Experience in small start­up environments helping large enterprises. • Experience with a distributed team

About Swish

Launched in February 2013,Swish is a fast-growing business with an innovative working culture and teams spanned across the world with teams in Toronto, San Francisco, Berlin, Auckland, Bruxelles, Medellin, and more.

We create products for successful business using cutting-edge technologies: Blockchain, Machine Learning, and Apps Dev. Working with Swish puts you in contact with prestigious brands, wherever your base is. We are a 100% remote-work company because we believe it is everyone’s choice to live and work the way they prefer.

Work is organized in sprints  - 2 weeks periods to which, as a member of our talent community, you choose to commit. You always have the choice to accept or decline a sprint, or take-on multiple sprints simultaneously.

We let members choose what suits them best depending on their current situation: family, travel, studies, finance. We know life is not linear and we respect the humans behind the screens.

Our work ethic relies on six core values: Transparency, Directness, Meritocracy, Autonomy, Responsibility, Continuous Learning.

Ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace where we learn from each other is core to our values. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. We are an equal opportunity employer and a fun place to work.

Join the future of work today.


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Sr. Full-Stack Developer
TV Time
Santa Monica, United States
$115,000 to $155,000 a year
October 2018
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available

Job Description

There's been a massive shift in television over the past several years, both in quality of content and the way we all consume it. TV Time is at the center of this transformation. Our product enables well over two million active users all over the world to track, discover and discuss their favorite shows, no matter what, when or how they’re watching. It has quickly become the go-to product for cord cutters, streamers, bingers and premium subscribers alike to organize and connect around their passion for television.

In addition to providing a valuable service to fans, TV Time is building an immense data business. The behavioral and sentiment information we collect has become invaluable to content producers, networks and advertisers. Our billions of first-party insights allow them to discover insights and trends they can’t from any other source, which is driving strategic decisions across their businesses.

If you’re the sort of person who can discuss your favorite TV shows for hours and have the passion to be a part of small, well-funded team that’s building something monumental, you just might have found what you’re looking for.

DESCRIPTION As our Sr. Full Stack Engineer, you will direct the technology and implementation associated to our various web projects. These projects include a rebuild of our main site tvtime.com, a progressive web app to compliment our iOS and Android app, and the transition to microservices to support the aforementioned three api clients. We need a strong full stack engineer who has done it all and understands how to build reliable and robust systems that integrate seamlessly with one another.

WHAT WILL YOU DO? - Lead the effort to rebuild our site, tvtime.com - Build a new CMS system to support publishing content to our site and apps - Build progressive web app to compliment our native iOS and Android apps - Build microservices for all 3 platforms - Implement best web development practices

WHAT DO YOU NEED? - 3-5 years of full stack development experience with high traffic sites - Backend technologies NodeJS, PHP, Python, or Golang - Frontend technologies React, Angular, or VUE.JS - CSS3, HTML5, Sass, Less, or Gulp experience - JAM Stack or MEAN Stack experience - NO-SQL and MySQL experience - Caching layer using Redis, Memcache, Nginx, or Varnish - AWS/Cloud Experience - Lambda and Serverless Architecture - Microservices Experience - Extensive experience working in unit testing frameworks and proper testing

ADDITIONAL PERKS - Stock Options - Full Health Benefits - Unlimited Vacation time - Fully Stocked Kitchen - Team Lunch Weekly And Special Events - Tuition Reimbursement Program - Free Fitness Classes In The Office - 5-minute Walk From An Expo Line stop


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Software Engineer Backend
Kraken
Berlin, Germany / Remote
$90,000 to $150,000 a year
October 2018
3 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available

Job Description

This role is fully remote and can be based anywhere.

Our Engineering team is having a blast while delivering the most sophisticated crypto-trading platform out there. Help us continue to define and lead the industry.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implementation of Micro-services in Rust
  • Port legacy Micro-services to Rust
  • Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
  • Implementation of security and data protection systems
  • Write highly scalable, high volume services
  • Create optimized database schemas

Requirements

  • Expertise writing network services in Rust, or other languages such as C, C++ or Go and a willingness to learn Rust.
  • Experience using a Linux server environment
  • Ability to independently debug problems involving the network and operating system

A strong candidate will also

  • Be familiar with deployment using Docker
  • Have experience with SQL and Redis
  • Be proficient with HTTPS and Websockets
  • Be passionate about secure, reliable and fast software
  • Be Familiar with PHP

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