About Commit
Commit is a VC-backed professional network built for engineers by engineers. We are currently hiring Senior Back-End Developers looking to join some of North America’s most innovative startups as one of their first engineers.
We exclusively work with financially stable startups with great salaries and exciting tech stacks who prioritize engineers’ growth and have exceptional team culture. We provide the information you need to make the best decision for yourself and continue cultivating your craft.
Why Commit?
No technical interviews!
Work with over 75 pre-vetted impactful startups in North America
Gain access to transparent salary bands AND mentorship to grow your career
Collaborate with like-minded tech junkies
Build new tools with Node, Golang, Ruby and much more!
Our Hiring Process
Apply to be a Senior Back-End Developer
Go through a short 3-step interview process with Commit. Learn more.
If you’re accepted into the program, you’ll be paid a full salary while we work together to match you to an aligned startup.
Once matched, you pilot a startup for 3 months. If you love it, you stay with them; if not, we’ll work together to find a better match.
What You’ll Get
Full-time paid employment as an Engineering Partner
Base salary of $115K to $140K CAD depending on experience
Extended health and dental plan for you and your family
The right equipment to do your best work
Access to your own career coach and a mentor for your job search
We provide 15 vacation days on top of statutory holidays while you're part of the Engineering Partner program. There is no limit on Sick Days or Personal Days
Invitation-only events with technical leaders
We are a fully distributed, remote-first community launched in Vancouver. We raised $6M from Accomplice, Inovia Capital, Kensington Capital Partners and Garage Capital.
Who You Are
Eligible to work in Canada
4+ years of software engineering experience
Experience working on SaaS, marketplace, consumer or infrastructure
Entrepreneurial mindset and growth-oriented attitude
Ambitions of excellence in your craft. Some of our past EPs have grown into CTOs, principal engineers, and joined companies as the first engineer
Our Tech Stack
Nice To Haves
Understanding of Basic DevOps: MongoDB, AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes/Terraform, CI/CD
Understanding of RESTful APIs and/or GraphQL
Understanding of cloud-native distributed systems and microservices
Experience with relational databases, NoSQL databases, cloud infrastructure, product design
We believe that language is a tool. It’s more important that you have experience with one or more modern coding languages than that you have experience with any particular language itself.
Our Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion
As an early-stage startup, we know it’s critical to build inclusive processes as a part of our foundation. We are committed to building and fostering an environment where our employees feel included, valued, and heard. We strongly encourage applications from Indigenous peoples, racialized people, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities and/or people with intersectional identities.
If you require accommodations during any stage of our recruitment process, please let us know how we can best support you.
MLS is a privately owned company developing next generation software solutions for European Intelligence Agencies.
We are looking for a Senior Golang Software Engineer, with prior hands-on experience in creating networking proxy software. Job involves creating client/server software, using often proprietary, binary communication protocols. Good understanding of advanced networking concepts is required and prior experience with creating proxy software.
You should have a natural ability to establish trust and make people feel comfortable. You approach your work with a spirit of partnership and collaboration, not exclusion or rigidness. You're a resourceful problem solver; you can feel for gaps in what you're working on and suggest solutions. You're a manager of one. You can take a stand yet commit even when you disagree. You prefer direct feedback, and you
Requirements:
• Working remotely requires excellent asynchronous communication skills. We use Basecamp to manage projects and pitch ideas in form of long-form write ups. • Several years of experience programming in a systems programming language, including at least a couple of years of Go experience. • A good understanding of Go idioms and conventions. • Several years of experience designing and implementing distributed systems. • A good understanding of networking protocols (layer 2-7), especially TCP, UDP and QUIC. • Experience designing and implementing custom networking protocols. • Experience with observability tools, like DTrace, eBPF, etc. • An understanding of how to build scalable and secure systems. • An understanding of how the operating system kernel works and interracts with user software. • An understanding of how Tor works, including its weaknesess, possible deanonymization attacks, etc. • Familiar with both Linux/macOS.
Nice to Have
• Several years of C experience. • Hands-on kernel programming experience. • XNU (macOS) kernel experience. • Reverse engineering experience, proficient in tools like gdb, IDA, ghidra, etc. • Practical experience in how to evade Internet censorship. • Experience implementing and operating SOCKSv5 or HTTP proxies.
What we offer • The ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, learn rapidly, and master diverse web technologies and techniques • Responsible and challenging activity • International and dynamic work environment • Broad, varied task area in which everyone is compelled to make things look beautiful and work flawlessly • Extensive range of further education and training
Organise is striving to build a team that reflects the diversity of our community and is truly inclusive. We welcome applications from under-represented groups, particularly people of colour, trans and non-binary people, new parents, and disabled people.
Organise is a fast-growing startup on a mission to give everyone the tools, network and confidence to improve their life at work. Our vision is for a world in which decent, fairly paid work is available and accessible to all, and where all of us are treated with dignity and respect at work.
More than 1 million people are already using Organise. We put power in people’s hands, building a progressive force for change inside companies.
The Organise staff team pride ourselves on nimble, focused workplace campaigns. That means our team is decisive, ambitious and happy to take risks. We’re characterised by our energy and enthusiasm; we’d rather aim high and see what happens, than play it safe. We’re passionate about putting Organise members first – we believe change at work happens when more people get involved.
We're expanding our team and building out our platform to include a peer-to-peer network. We're building a space for people to build power and support each other at work pseudonymously. A space for our core members to talk to each other in a space their boss can't see. Small monthly subscriptions from members will verify their identity. The Organise network is paid for and protected by the workers. We currently operate in the UK, and are aiming to launch in the US by 2022.
Read more about our principles:
"I can't believe it! It's only been a week since I started my Organise campaign to stamp out harassment in gyms. And already, the CEOs of Pure Gym and The Gym Group want to talk about how they can make their gyms safer." Organise member, April 2021
Are passionate about making high quality digital products that give our users power to improve their lives at work
Can collaborate effectively, inspire other team members, and start from a position of empathy
Understand the business and social mission of Organise, and work with the broader team to prioritise ideas and features that will deliver for our users
Are comfortable working in an early-stage environment, and the uncertainty (fun!) that change can bring. We get the right balance between thoroughly-tested code, and getting things done
We’re looking to scale our engineering team to build out our network product, on an infrastructure that's fit to scale with us.
We have a great starting point: hundreds of thousands of active users that love the Organise product, a straightforward deployment process, and a big focus on great user experience. We have plans to ensure scalability while we grow as a team - pairing as much as we can, an agile approach to product development and dedicated time to evaluate and improve our processes.
We build most of our software in Ruby (mostly Rails) and React, use Postgres hosted on AWS RDS for our databases, and use Heroku to host most of our web applications.
Play a leading role shaping the culture and developer experience of the engineering team - building a team that has a deep commitment to delivering products that empower our users and improve working life for everyone
Work closely with our CTO and CEO to set priorities and direction for our product and infrastructure. You'll play a scrum master role for development of our network product - inspiring and setting clear direction for team members
Get to know (and work on) the entire product and infrastructure - you'll spend time with our campaign coaches and Organise users to see our product in action. You'll get into the detail of how our tech empowers members to improve their lives at work, and you'll feed ideas from the whole team into our tech strategy
Work directly with our backend engineers to improve our infrastructure, so that we're ready to scale globally for millions of users
Support, coach and develop engineers to thrive in their roles through regular 121s, feedback and team retrospectives
What we're building at Organise excites you!
You have experience managing and developing software engineers and building collaborative, caring, and high performing teams
You have experience with Ruby on Rails and React
You are curious and passionate about solving problems and building products that empower millions of users
You enjoy thinking about data and architecture, and can demonstrate an understanding of good database design
You have experience leading product development in a scrum/agile environment
You have experience setting priorities at a high level - bringing together long-term infrastructure goals and product design
You have experience working with legacy codebases
You are able to communicate effectively and work well with a diverse range of non-technical colleagues
You are open-minded and willing to learn new approaches to your role and our culture
Equity in the business
Wellbeing benefit and access to mental health support with Spill
Remote working budget
Learning & development budget + progression support
Involved in other aspects of the business, from strategy, management and training, to shaping team culture
Being part of something that's both commercially successful and socially important
Using Organise, Amazon drivers landed national media coverage, including an exclusive BBC Newsnight investigation, exposing their working conditions & calling on Amazon CEO to lower their parcel targets back to a safe level. They’ve also met directly with MPs and got the Amazon CEO grilled in front of Parliament. 40% of drivers have had their targets lowered to a safer level now as a result - a huge win for their collective action.
Over 100,000 members pressured the government to abandon their plans to scrap the laws protecting paid holidays and rest breaks (working time directive) - including sending tens of thousands of messages sent directly to the Business Secretary in the 24 hours leading up to the U-turn. Civil servants tell us (off the record) that the department were ‘astonished’ by the level of public backlash to the plans.
Dan*, a Census worker, started a campaign when he noticed Census temporary workers were being asked to travel to attend their first-day induction without being offered to have their travel expenses covered. In response to thousands of people joining the campaign, ONS has agreed to make sure all temporary workers are reimbursed for their travel expenses. With this and the update to the Census Jobs FAQs page clarifying the expenses policy, Census workers can start their jobs without being out of pocket.
🧑💻 Location: Can be remote (within +/- 5 hours of GMT) or based in our London Kings Cross office (a dog-friendly office 🐶 with a lot of plants 🌱) and will we provide you with all the tools you need!
💰 Competitive salary: Our salary formula adjusts to your cost of living and experience. For this role, the range is: £72,000 - £90,000 GBP in the UK // $101,000 - $127,000 in the US. We use a transparent salary formula based on experience + you'll get substantial stock options as part of our EMI scheme.
😍 Benefits: 38 days holiday per year (including Bank Holidays), Flexible working hours, Childcare benefits/vouchers, forward thinking parental leave policy, menstrual and menopause policy, discounted gym membership, time off in lieu policy, team lunches and activities. Please note, these will keep evolving as we continue to grow!
More about working at Organise:
If all of the above interests you, please follow the steps below! You do not need to have previous experience on all of the aspects of the job role to be shortlisted. What's more important is your willingness to learn and your commitment to Organise's principles and mission.
Here's the steps of the application process:
Before you apply, you can jump on a 10 minute call with one of Organise's co-founders (Nat and Bex) to talk through the role and answer questions that will help you decide whether to apply. Please follow this link https://calendly.com/bex-organise/lead-engineer-pre-application-chat if you would like to set up a call
When you are ready to apply. You'll be asked a few questions aiming to understand your motivations in applying and why this role is the right fit for both sides
To ensure fairness, your application will be anonymised and randomised when we are shortlisting. Instead of reviewing your CV, we will make shortlisting decisions based on your answers to the application questions. These answers will tell us a bit about your skills, experience and motivation for the role. **
After shortlisting based on your answers to the application questions, we'll invite you to a 20 minute call to chat through the role and a bit more about you and our culture
If both sides decide this could potentially be the right opportunity for you, we’ll invite you to an interview over zoom, followed by a practical task. This interview and task will relate to the tasks you might do in the role, and for us to understand your current skills. We'll also give you plenty of time to ask questions, learn more about Organise and what it’s like to work as part of our team.
If both sides are keen, then we’ll invite you to a final interview that will focus on team culture and how you work best. You'll also have to ask any final questions about the role and working at Organise
You can see more about the technical interviewing process here:
Organise is deeply committed to inclusive working practices, so during the application process we commit to:
Paying for childcare whilst you’re doing your interviews or tasks
Making any reasonable adjustments - for example ensuring we can organise BSL interpreters in advance if you’d like them
If there anything else you’re concerned about or think we could provide, please let us know!
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nextmv (YC W20) is changing how companies automate and optimize their operations. We provide developers with the building blocks to create and test decision models, quickly. From logistics to healthcare to finance, every company can benefit from decision engineering using optimization and simulation. We’re looking for incredibly motivated people to help!
In a little over a year we have made substantial progress. We’re already landing enterprise clients. We’ve raised over $11 million from leading VC firms including Y Combinator, Firstmark Capital, Dynamo Ventures, and 2048 VC. And we’re just getting started.
We are looking for a DevOps Engineer II who is familiar with cloud platforms, container technology and loves automation. As the first dedicated hire supporting cloud infrastructure, internal tooling and automation you will have an impact on how we operate all our systems and services. In this role you will help build and maintain cloud infrastructure for our tools and products as well as assist with customer deployments ensuring we are following best practices and industry standards. You'll directly contribute to the success of our new hosted product by serving a hybrid DevOps / SRE function. This role will participate in our on-call rotation.
Requirements
Not required, but a plus:
These are some of your traits:
How we work
We are remote first
We value amazing work and a strong work-life balance. The majority of our collaboration happens on Slack and Zoom. We get together quarterly for team offsites so we can get some facetime (Covid Pending).
Salary Transparency
We believe that financial transparency creates trust, and that teams with a high level of trust are able to execute more effectively. We view salary transparency as a way to challenge a rampant problem in our industry: the wage gap. The base salary for any two employees in the same role is the same. Performance in that role is the differentiator, not upfront negotiation.
Benefits
This is a salaried role. In addition, nextmv offers:
This role (and all roles at nextmv) is remote. That being said, all employees should be able to travel to company retreats quarterly (when COVID settles down).
About nextmv
nextmv helps companies automate and optimize even the most complicated operational decisions. The nextmv platform allows any developer to quickly build, test, and deploy models that automate routing, assignment, matching and scheduling.
Our Values
Our values are aspirational and affect everything we do. At nextmv, we hope to instill core attributes and practices into our daily lives. We will work toward these goals together, and help each other along the way.
Community
We act as a group of skilled contributors with diverse backgrounds and a common mission.
We listen to each other to actively instill empathy in ourselves.
We introspect about our actions and their impacts.
Candor
We share information, from company strategy to small insights and feedback.
We collaboratively review our decisions and code using the same process.
We own our mistakes and admit our vulnerabilities.
Focus
We are ambitious and value achievement over status.
We are innately driven to innovate and improve the world.
We apply our time and skills effectively to challenging problems.
Balance
We separate our work from our self-worth to view and improve it objectively.
We don't overwork, and take regular time away to encourage creativity.
We take care of ourselves so we can give our best to our team.
Also, we love animals.
GetCourageNow (in development with mvp beta 2-4 wks from completion) is an open source innovative, highly secure privacy focussed ladder of engagement tool consisting of enrollment and CMS-like components that will be free to climate, economic, social, and election justice campaigns.
This is a chance to work with cutting edge technology in an all new GRPC/Envoy-based Go system that arguably could be the most important social change tool of 2021.
https://github.com/getcouragenow
Our mission is to make it far easier to embolden, recruit and commit more volunteers and supporters for nonviolent civil resistance campaigns than ever before, while evading internet censorship and data breaches. We are close to completing our beta and were initially funded by two EU foundations and a few medium level US progressive donors.
There is also a highly monetizable spinoff; a real time communication product (an alternative to the myriad of organization and collaboration tools all in one secure place) that would enable major media, human rights and environmental groups etc to operate free of censorship in countries like Russia, China, and Saudi Arabia.
We use Flutter for GUI and Go for all networking. The architecture, product fit, and stakeholder relationships have been established and tested. We are now looking for senior or near senior level Go developers for an immediate start within a Tech Advisor role to review the code quality, documentation clarity, and progress of our platform’s development. Prerequisites: Applicants must show their experience in Go and ability to give technical advice Solid understanding of the systems and security architecture used within this project Flutter experience or friends who are flutter developers would also be highly beneficial
Responsibilities: Review the progress, quality, and pace of current and previous development Report back your findings to the business team
Compensation and Hours: Negotiable (One-off or ongoing) Hours: one time evaluation (6-8hrs) or ongoing averaging 2hrs/wk
Applications to include: Email your CV, a little bit about yourself personally, and expected hourly rate.
About Cuvva
Cuvva is a new kind of insurance that’s fast, friendly, and flexible.
We get it - insurance doesn’t sound exciting. But this isn’t insurance as you know it. It’s insurance the way it should be. We’re putting the customer first and building products that solve real human needs.
We were the first company in the UK to sell hourly insurance, and the first to sell insurance through an app. We’ve sold over 1 million policies. We’ve written over 260,000 lines of code. And we’re a fast-growing team of over 70 talented people.
Why work for Cuvva?
We’re shaping the future of insurance. So we don’t cut corners. We try to do the right thing, even when that makes life more difficult for us.
We’ll speak up when we have an idea - but we know when to let go and get behind something else.
And we’re comfortable giving and receiving honest feedback, and trying new ways of doing things. It’s the Cuvva way.
We’re building a diverse team with different backgrounds, outlooks and experiences. So we give everyone a fair chance of getting a role at Cuvva. Even if you secretly don’t love insurance. (Don’t worry - we didn’t either.)
And if you need any adjustments or support when you’re applying to Cuvva, no worries. Just let us know.
As well as a competitive salary (£75-90k, dependent on experience) and equity based remuneration, benefits of working at Cuvva include:
Equality
We’re committed to ensuring that everyone has a fair chance to join Cuvva, whatever your background. We will always treat your application in a fair and equal manner.
About the role
We're looking for a software engineer who has held senior positions in engineering teams within high-growth, high-scale startups, who will operate with a high level of autonomy, ensuring impeccable reliability and availability. You care deeply about building rock-solid infrastructure for the long term, with a track record of delivering solutions which support your team and your product.
You will develop Cuvva's core platform, abstracting the key processes required to sell insurance, delivering solutions that allow the team to develop strong and stable products, without having to spend time ensuring they get the basics right.
Aside from developing core platform services, we expect you will also become heavily involved with ops and security activities, contributing towards the maintenance of our servers, AWS account, etc.
"Core platform"
When we refer to the "core platform", we mean the services which underpin the processes of all insurance activities on our system.
For example, we expect one of these to be the "policy service", which might be responsible for ensuring compliant issuance of policies, coordinating mid-term adjustments, preventing overlapping policies (double insurance), etc.
Other services could include user authentication, risk & pricing calculation, handling the process of modifying user data in-line with any mid-term adjustment requirements.
All services we consider to be part of the core platform will have strict requirements around stability, data integrity and transactional safety. All functionality must fail safely and explicitly, for example using 2-phase commit processes or other similar techniques. This will also require a reasonable level of testing to validate this safety.
The perfect addition to our team will have:
We are a small team so it is important that the successful candidate is not only technically highly competent, but also a great cultural fit!
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Admiral is looking for a full-stack engineer for our team. This role is primarily backend oriented but requires in-depth knowledge about front end technologies. Our back-end software is written primarily in Go and utilizes MongoDB, Bigtable, and Redis. Front-end exposure will include writing some javascript and debugging third party advertising code in the browser.
What you'll do: * Be an important member of a small and productive team * Build and take responsibility for backend services that serve and support billions of impressions * Reverse engineer undocumented third party javascript in order to ensure compatibility with our core technologies * Be up to date on changes to the browser ecosystem, especially Chrome, which affect ad blocking * Provide input and collaborate on product roadmap and future functionality * Help improve ad quality across the internet
Who you are: * You see limitations and novel problems as an exciting challenge * You have great communication skills and work well in a team * You care about code quality and what it means to commit quality code * You are generally familar with how ads are served * You are familiar with deploying and operating software on Linux * You have experience building software from start to finish
Specific Technologies: * Knowledgeable about web protocols like HTTP, WebRTC, WebSockets, QUIC, and others * Able to write code in Golang or Javascript * Understands how databases like MongoDB, Bigtable, and Redis work and are different
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BACKEND SOFTWARE ENGINEER
We are looking for an ambitious, growth-minded developer who loves coding, is ready to apply their skills to bring our web applications to market and contribute to the growth of our startup.
We have created an engineering culture where there is a high level of trust, autonomy and transparency.
We’re open to candidates with various levels of experience. From junior to very senior, come join us!
Why LYNK? - LYNK is a VC-backed, product-driven startup working with leading institutional clients, top level experts and thought leaders globally - We operate in a high-octane environment where our people think about the big picture and always strive to “make it happen” - Our team, spread across four countries today (and growing!), is multinational, multilingual and multicultural. Our clients have likened us to a mini United Nations. - You will be constantly challenged with new problems to solve every day. - We are here to realize big dreams and have a firm belief in our core mission – to democratize access to knowledge.
What You’ll Do: - Build user-friendly new features by writing well designed, testable and efficient code with superb quality to improve platform quality and stability - Develop full-stack web applications with high availability, simplicity, maintainability and reusability - Design and develop RESTful APIs with high scalability and availability - Create and maintain high standard documentation for APIs and software - Collaborate with product managers, UI/UX designers and UX researchers to define the product vision, review specs, make architecture decisions, create user-friendly designs and build new features for end-to-end product development - Integrate data from various back-end services and databases - Integrate test automation into workflows - Implement code review and continuous integration from a bottom-up approach with other developers
What Expertise You’ll Add To The Team: - 3+ years of experience in software development with a focus on Javascript MVC framework such as backboneJS, AngularJS or React or EmberJS or MeteorJS or or equivalent, AWS, HTML, CSS, NodeJS, RESTful API - 3+ years of experience with one of the following backend technologies: NodeJS, Python (Django), Golang, Ruby on Rails - 3+ years of experience in developing RESTful APIs, NoSQL database development such as MongoDB, Redis, AWS, WebSockets, Git (GitHub), Jira and Confluence, reusable and simple Data Structure, microservices architecture, TDD/CI/CD with Jenkins Pipeline - Experienced in modern browser technologies, e.g. WebSockets, Local Storage, Worker Threads, etc. - Knowledgeable of how web applications work including security, session management - Hands-on experienced with network diagnostics, network analytics tools - Experience building high-load scalable systems - Keen to learn devops experience (Linux, Docker, Nginx, Ansible, Databases, Queues) - Experience working in an Agile or test-driven development environment - Open source contributions desired
Bonus Attributes: - Strong passion for business and enthusiastic about taking part in shaping LYNK’s growth - Function well in a very fast-paced startup environment - Track record of excelling in small teams - Team players who thrive in uncertainty and like to “make things happen”!
Our Tech Environment: AngularJS/React Single Page Application development, MVC-based web architecture, RESTful APIs programming, API design, HTML, CSS, large distributed system and highly scaled request handling services (e.g. microservices architecture), WebServices, Docker, Ansible, AWS, Redis, MongoDB, Cassandra, ElasticSearch
What We Commit To You - Competitive remuneration package in a rapidly-expanding startup - Work in a collaborative, co-creation hub in the heart of the city - with amazing facilities - Comprehensive medical insurance coverage, including dental - Generous leave policy, including a ‘work remote policy’ - The opportunity to travel and work around the globe with our international clients and growing number of offices (Hong Kong, Singapore, Mumbai, New York City) - The opportunity to be a part of something impactful
Visit http://lynk.global for more info.
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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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Swish is a world-class development studio whose teams have delivered products for Google, Microsoft, Kik, Nasdaq, Factset, and other major enterprises. The blockchain engineering team at Swish is looking for talented distributed systems engineers to optimize protocol transaction throughput and network reliability for blockchains in development.
Our mission is to bring the promise of a decentralized blockchain-based future to reality for clients.
As a systems engineer, you will work with our blockchain developers, protocol researchers and clients to implement and improve on a byzantine fault tolerant blockchain architecture based on the Tendermint consensus layer, by increasing the throughput, reliability and stability of the network. This role is ideal for engineers who have experience optimizing performance and robustness of distributed systems, and are excited to be working on the cutting edge of high-performance blockchain protocol development.
You might have experience as an Unix/Linux distributed systems engineer optimizing performance and reliability for large-scale cloud servers, and be relatively new to blockchain and distributed consensus protocols. Or you might be a blockchain engineer who is very familiar with distributed consensus protocols like delegated proof-of-stake, and newer to working on low-level performance optimizations. Experience with Tendermint is a huge plus. Either way, you are a great detective and passionate about pushing the performance of your infrastructure to its limits, without compromising on safety or stability.
We are also looking for: Strong communication skills. Experience with performance and load testing.
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 * Optimize Tendermint consensus protocol codebase for speed, reliability and performance, including making PRs as needed to the OSS Tendermint project * Troubleshoot reliability issues of distributed systems, e. g. connection losses between Tendermint nodes under heavy load * Monitor the infrastructure and blockchain performance to identify issues * Measure and improve server response times in different conditions and environments * Guide protocol design decisions
Requirements * 1+ years experience with Golang, C or C++ * 4+ years of experience in a systems engineering role * Deep experience with networking and concurrent computing * Deep experience with Unix/Linux systems * Experience with AWS/GCP * Comfortable operating in dynamic environments
Bonus Points * Background in networking or distributed systems * Familiarity with Cosmos / Tendermint * Proficiency in 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.
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