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As part of the platform team in the Jack Henry Digital group, you’ll get the chance to make a positive impact on people’s lives. We believe that the world is a better place with community banks and credit unions. To that end we strive to make solutions that empower community financial institutions to make digital banking personal and to stay relevant in today’s competitive, technologically diverse market.
Our teams build, deploy, and manage resources to deliver the Banno Platform. We provide the foundation for development teams to build new services for deployment in a secure and scalable fashion. Emphasizing DevOps and observability, you’ll enable and assist our product engineering teams with deploying and monitoring their services.
This is a remote position with the ability if desired to collocate at several JHA locations nationwide (post-covid of course). Work hours are flexible, but gravitate towards US business hours. Occasional travel may be required for professional development conferences or company meetings (post covid).
Skills and Expertise
1+ years of experience deploying and managing infrastructure services and applications to public and private compute platforms.
2+ years building and maintaining deployment pipelines in production.
3+ years of experience in production container orchestration, operations, security, and networking.
4+ years of experience in software development or related field.
You may not be able to check off every item, but if you’re the type of person willing to stretch and learn then we’d like to hear from you.
Your Work is to:
Build strong work relationships based on open communication that encourage a creative, thoughtful and enjoyable work environment.
Collaborate with other engineers to propose and execute strategies, ideas and technologies well suited to the problems at hand.
Combine engineering and software development experience and skills to implement infrastructure as code.
Build a better platform team with us.
^ I mean I could stop here, but YES there's more!
Take part in an on-call rotation where you will aid engineering teams in responding to production issues quickly. Use early warning and alerting technologies to aid in the development of self-healing and/or well documented responses to problems.
Participate in post-mortems focused on identifying contributing causes. Providing actionable solutions to prevent the issue from recurring and increase service reliability.
Provide technical infrastructure insight and help to development and operations teams in the support of our platform.
Work to further develop your career with candid feedback, continuous learning and wide ranging experiences working with our production environments.
Timezone & Location
- Timezone: EST through PST
- US Residents only
Hiring Process
~30-45min Non-technical call w/ hiring manager.
~45-90min Zoom call to chat with core team members.
Senior Engineer (Golang) Kinetic Remote (US only, EST working hours) $120,000 to $150,000 a year
February 2021
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
About KINETIC
Kinetic is an award-winning startup building connected wearable products for the industrial workforce. Our experienced team is backed by top tier investors and insurance companies who share our passion for better predicting and reducing workplace injuries, and protecting workers during the pandemic.
Increasing workplace safety in industrial environments is a massive challenge. We’re not in this to be a “cool startup” but to have a profound and long-term impact on the lives of industrial workers that are key to our economy and our lifestyle: they manufacture our products, deliver our packages, mine our metals and build our homes. They deserve the best technology out there and you’re going to help us put it in their hands.
COVID transformed the world and our company. We extended our IoT wearable technology to help with contact tracing and social distancing in warehouse environments increasing demand for our product by over 10X in 6 months.
We just closed another round of funding to fuel our growth through this phase and are seeking a senior software engineer that can meet the demand generated by our new product strategy.
This role requires Eastern timezone work hours.
Role
We seek a Senior Software Engineer to work in a team of 4 highly skilled software engineers consisting of front-end, back-end and DevOps professionals. You’ll be responsible for leading a project, developing, testing and delivering reliable software solutions. You’ll use industry best practices, policies and procedures to produce high-quality software products. You’ll be part of the team helping scale our technology as we grow our customer base and 10x the number of wearables in the field in the next 6-9 months.
What You’ll Do
Individual contributor:
You’ll be an individual contributor who has domain expertise in our tech stack and can take ownership of projects. Prior experience with Go is required. Experience with React and AWS is a big plus.
You’ll be ensuring all the unit and integration tests are in place for your contributions, and also help peer engineers with that.
Collaboration and best practices:
You'll collaborate with Product Management, Design, Data and Hardware teams to create industry leading products and features that will delight our customers.
You’ll be deeply involved in RFC and RFP processes to ensure software specifications are agreed upon in advance for the most efficient use of software development time.
Tech Stack
5+ years of software engineering experience
You are a skilled software developer that can fit anywhere by quickly acquiring any specific coding skills as needed by your team
You are a skilled software developer who enjoys collaborating with product, design, data, and your fellow software engineers to ship great products and features to our customers.
Always curious about new technologies and ways to do things better, and able to quickly pick up any specific coding skills you need to solve a problem.
You're motivated to deliver a great customer experience, and only sleep well knowing you've created a reliable, robust product.
Eagerness to learn as well as teach. We have a team of electrical engineers, mechanical engineers and data scientists, willing to learn from you and chat about the nuts and bolts of their respective fields.
Proven success working in cross-functional teams. You'll work regularly with other developers, data scientists, and product teams.
UbuntuSoftware ( https://www.ubuntusoftware.net/ ) is a Real Time Communications software provider providing secure communications in various vertical markets such as Finance, Health and Pharma.
Timing:
This is an urgent hire and instant start, so we will get back to people very quickly. Assessment will be via giving you a task to do in the existing code, interviews, etc.
Project:
Real time systems provide chat, video conferencing, and general CRUD functionality such that all clients are always up to date and can edit data whilst offline.
This is a chance to work with cutting edge technology in an all golang environment on a new cutting edge system. You will be working on our new GRPC / Envoy based golang system.
Stack:
Clients
GRPC clients using custom code generation based on:
WASM ( tinygo ) compiler for Web
GoMobile compiler for Mobile
Standard golang compiler for Desktop
This allows the GUI "pane of glass" to be built on top of this golang embedded layer using:
React
Flutter
GIO ( pure golang).
Servers
Control Plane:
Envoy
GRPC XDS
Consul
Stateless Microservices are written in golang using:
GRPC Middleware for Telemetry.
Security using Oauth, OIDC, JWT
Stateful Data Services are written in golang using
TIDB
Minio
NATS / Jetstream / Liftbridge
Prerequisites:
We are based in Berlin, Germany with developers in remote locations. To work with us you need to be in a similar time zone and be fluent in English.
Applicants must show their experience in some of these areas.
Good attitude to problem solving together. A preference to do what needs to be done, rather than sitting back and waiting to be told, but get agreement for new ideas rather than going it alone.
Responsibilities:
Developer the code with the team.
Development and DevOps are all in the same team, so you need to support what you write.
Issue management, CI , CD and Testing.
Compensation:
This role is initially freelance based, with the opportunity to advance to a permanent position.
Applications to include:
CV
Response to EVERY technology listed in the stack above. Add more if you see holes, such as Telemetry, Security, etc.
A little bit about yourself personally..
Expected hourly rate.
Senior Software Engineer (Go) Form3 100% Remote (UK/EU only) £60,000 to £90,000 a year
August 2020
11 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
WHO WE ARE
We’re a tech-first scale-up regarded as one of the hottest payments fintechs in London. Founded in 2016, our cloud-native payments platform is used by over 25 of the most exciting and disruptive banks and fintechs in the world including N26, Holvi, Viva, Tandem and Ebury.
WHAT IT'S LIKE TO WORK HERE
Building greatness in a disruptive era requires strong ambition, talent, curiosity, diversity of thought and a belief that we’re better together. We want our employees to grow whilst with us so we’ve created an environment that encourages everyone to learn, challenge each other and create extraordinary experiences for themselves, their colleagues and our customers. We are continually on the lookout for talented people from all backgrounds that can further contribute to this amazing culture.
OUR TECHNICAL ENVIRONMENT
Our Engineering Team consists of over sixty five Senior Software Developers that are responsible for the end-to-end ownership of our platform, from architecture through to infrastructure. Individually they are all exceptional at what they do, but by working collaboratively within a team, consistently applying best-practice and automating absolutely everything they are able to build world-class software for our customers.
We don’t mind whereabouts our Developers are based as we are happy for our team to work from anywhere in the UK or EU, with most of them choosing to work remotely most of the time. That being said, we do also have London and Amsterdam offices, so should they ever wish to work from these, they are most welcome.
THE TOOLS WE USE
It’s very much a “best tool for the job” mentality at Form3 and our tech-stack is continually evolving but to give you a flavour of what we’re currently working with here are some of the tools we use;
Whilst experience of the above technologies would be nice, it is by no means essential. We are looking to speak with well-rounded, Senior Software Developers who have a breadth of experience across a variety of programming languages, have an understanding of distributed systems and cloud computing alongside an appreciation of automation and the DevOps culture. Candidates should also value the importance of code quality and software development best-practice, whilst being passionate about technology and enjoy working collaboratively within a team.
Interview Process
Our hiring process varies depending on the role and the candidate, but this should give you an idea of the steps you should expect to follow:
Phone screen with our Talent Team (30-45 minutes)
Take home assignment written in Go (approx 4-8 hours)
Technical interview with 3 members of our Engineering Team via video-link (1 hour 30 minutes)
Beat is one of the most exciting companies to ever come out of the ride-hailing space. One city at a time, all across the globe we make transportation affordable, convenient, and safe for everyone. We also help hundreds of thousands of people earn extra income as drivers.
Today we are the fastest-growing ride-hailing service in Latin America. But serving millions of rides every day pales in comparison to what lies ahead. Our plans for expansion are limitless. Our stellar engineering team operates across a number of European capitals where, right now, some of the world’s most ambitious and talented engineers are changing how cities will move in the future.
Beat is currently available in Greece, Peru, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Argentina.
About the role
We constantly strive to innovate. Our systems are written in a modern, testable and object-oriented manner that promotes reusability, generic functionality and high performance. We are in the process of redefining our backend by re-architecting some of our core services as microservices. At the same time, we are integrating high throughput pipelines throughout our platform to enable rich insights for our data science and business intelligence teams. We seek people capable, willing and enthusiastic about participating in both maintaining our systems as well as building the next generation systems for our service.
Are you a Senior Go Backend Engineer who has excellent problem solving skills and loves technical challenges? Can you deliver under pressure, take initiative, work well as part of a team? If yes, then join us and participate in building an amazing product with international reach!
Our remote workforce works East Europe Timezone hours (10am - 6pm) and therefore we will need you to be located within UTC to UTC+3 to reasonably overlap with your team members' work schedule. With the various tools and communication technologies we're using, you'll feel connected to your team. You always have the option to travel to our headquarters for meetings, events, and team bonding—or you can join virtually. Whatever works best for you and your work style.
What you'll do day in day out:
Design, develop, manage and support microservices and tools written in Golang.
Solve scalability and performance issues on an operating environment that constantly evolves and grows.
Debug and resolve issues and perform resolution follow ups.
Participate in project planning including research and development.
What you need to have:
Expert understanding of OOP and Design Patterns in one or more languages like: Go, PHP, Python, C#, Java or Kotlin, with more than 5 years of proven, production-grade software development expertise
At least 2 years of hands-on experience with the design and implementation of large Go based production systems
Good understanding of distributed systems and architecture
Solid understanding of synchronous (HTTP, gRPC, etc.) and asynchronous communication (message oriented)
Knowledge and experience (modelling and architecture) of SQL and relational databases (MySQL)
Knowledge and experience of non-relational databases (one or more of MongoDB, Redis, ElasticSearch)
Solid experience with Software Testing
Experience in version control (Git preferably)
What it's nice to have:
Experience in Agile Methodologies (Scrum, Kanban)
Experience in DDD
Experience with messaging systems like AWS SQS, Apache Kafka, etc.
A DevOps mindset
Experience with Observability (Logs, Metrics, Distributed Tracing) like ELK, Prometheus, OpenTracing
Experience with spatial data and queries
Open source contributions
What's in it for you:
Competitive salary package
Flexible working hours
High tech equipment and top line tools
A great opportunity to grow and work with the most amazing people in the industry
Being part of an environment that gives engineers large goals, autonomy, mentoring and creates incredible opportunities both for you and the company
Please note that you will be working as contractor.
As part of our dedication to the diversity of our workforce, Beat is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity without regard for race, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion.
FullStack Engineer Katana Labs Remote £70,000 to £90,000 a year
April 2020
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
Katana Labs is looking for experienced full stack engineers. We are a well funded FinTech startup based in London, working on an AI powered trading platform.
Your main focus will be developing Go applications but we’re looking for a strong all rounder with experience in containers, kubernetes and cloud as well as the occasional frontend task. A DevOps mindset and focus on QA is a must.
Requirements
- 5+ years of full stack experience
- 2+ years of production grade Go experience
- 1+ years of kubernetes experience
- 1+ years of cloud experience
Tech Stack
- Go
- React
- Kubernetes
- PostgreSQL
- Google Cloud Platform
Headquartered in London, the FinTech capital of the world, Form3 are building the most exciting banking technology company on the planet. Our mission is simple: transform payments technology to enable the global financial community to move money in real-time.
CULTURE
Being a tech-first business, we place emphasis on thinking outside-the-box. By utilising the latest cloud-native technologies we find innovative solutions to problems that others would deem unsolvable. We live and breathe open-source, prioritise best-practice and automation while Slack is at the heart of everything we do.
We advocate a positive work-life balance and offer a super flexible, remote-friendly working environment. We don’t mind whereabouts our Engineers are based as we are happy for our team to work from anywhere in the UK or EU, with most of them choosing to work remotely most of the time. However, we also have offices in London and Amsterdam, so should they ever wish to work from these, they are most welcome.
ENGINEERING TEAM
Our Engineering Team consists of over fifty Senior Engineers that are responsible for the end-to-end ownership of our platform, from architecture through to infrastructure. Individually they are all exceptional at what they do, but by working collaboratively within a team, consistently applying best-practice and automating absolutely everything they build world-class software for our customers.
There are a wide range of problems to tackle as an Engineer at Form3, from configuring nginx proxies to writing custom payment routing and handling logic. It’s very much a “best tool for the job” mentality here and our tech-stack is forever evolving. Our primary programming language is Go however we do have some services written using Java, Python and Ruby.
We are looking to speak with Senior Engineers that are EU citizens and based in the UK or EU with;
Experience or interest in Go programming language
Understanding of distributed systems and cloud computing
Appreciate the DevOps culture and the value of automation
Place emphasis on code quality, BDD/TDD and software development best-practice
Are passionate about technology and enjoy working collaboratively within a team
Have a breadth of experience across a variety of programming languages
For more information on Form3 please visit our website or take a look at our company profiles on StackOverflow, GitHub and LinkedIn.
Perks & Benefits
• 100% remote working • 30 days annual leave (plus Bank Holidays) • Great tech-stack, challenging projects and an exceptional team of Senior Engineers to work alongside • Regular paid trips to London to spend time with our awesome team • Tech-first FinTech scale-up with limitless possibilities to progress your career
Senior DevOps Engineer Funding Circle London, UK / Limited Remote £80,000 to £90,000 a year
March 2020
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
Funding Circle brings together small businesses and investors in a way that is truly revolutionary. We're here to foster an environment where small business can thrive. Our online platform provides a marketplace where investors receive better returns and small businesses find lower rates. The driving force behind our product is our engineering team; we are building elegant, sustainable, and scalable infrastructure on a global scale, and we want you to be a part of it!
Our mission: to build a better financial world.
Prospectus:
Would you describe yourself as a creative and ambitious engineer who’s always ready to take on the next cutting-edge technology and build scalable infrastructure? If your answer is yes, you’re going to fit right in with our team.
We’re looking for a passionate and efficiency-driven Senior Platform Engineer who can build automated, testable, and repeatable projects. We are a group of passionate engineers whose bread and butter is learning new technologies and fostering a collaborative and inclusive environment - we’re looking for partners in crime who feel the same.
Be an automator: we’re using cutting-edge technology to facilitate automation and repeatability. We practice continuous integration and are working towards continuous deployment.
Be a builder: our engineers are building and expanding our highly-available architecture to handle over $2 billion in loans originated through our pipeline.
Be a game changer: we’re building infrastructure that has a competitive edge; we’re using technologies like Docker in production on top of Mesos, Kubernetes, and Apache Kafka.
Be a collaborator: you’ll be expected to forge deep bonds with your business counterparts to truly understand the needs of our Borrowers and Investors. We work in an Agile environment including pair programming and daily standups.
Be a teacher: be generous with your time and expertise to continue the development of our world-class engineering team.
Our ideal candidate has:
Expert knowledge of working in cloud-based infrastructure (AWS)
Experience using containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos)
Expert knowledge of auto scaling, load balancers, proxy servers, DNS, CDNs and WAFs
Capable of architecting security and compliance best practices into global cloud infrastructure
At ease troubleshooting in complex environments using monitoring and logging tools (such as New Relic, Datadog, Graylog and Kibana)
Knowledge of Ansible, Terraform & Go.
Experience with build tools (e.g. Jenkins, CircleCI), and artifact repositories (e.g. Quay.io),
Experience working with RDBMS (e.g. PostgreSQL)
Knowledge of using distributed stream processing platforms specifically Apache Kafka
Experience in requirements identification, solution analysis, and product selection
Excellent communication and presentation skills
Brownie points for:
Contributions to open source projects
Advanced networking experience
Security experience
Experience with microservices and event-driven architecture
Experience with data warehouses
Past experience working in a highly-regulated industry
Experience working in global companies with multiple geographies
Why Join Us?
Happy employees are productive employees, that’s why we offer a hearty benefits package including:
Our employees make our mission a reality, and we want you to share in the companies success by offering generous shares.
Cool kit - Mac or PC
Private healthcare, pension and healthcare cash back schemes
Discounted onsite gym membership
Learning and development through FC Academy
Personal development funding
Flexible working
Free breakfast, barista coffee and discounted hot lunch at our Funderbar!
We are a regular host of Meet-Ups and events.
Company wide socials
At Funding Circle, we celebrate and support the differences that make you, you. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and affirmative action employer. We truly believe that diversity makes us better.
Headquartered in London, the FinTech capital of the world, Form3 are building the most exciting payments technology company on the planet. Our mission is simple: transform payments technology to enable the global financial community to move money in real-time.
CULTURE
Being a tech-first business, we place emphasis on thinking outside-the-box. By utilising the latest cloud-native technologies we find innovative solutions to problems that others would deem unsolvable. We live and breathe open-source, prioritise best-practice and automation while Slack is at the heart of everything we do.
We advocate a positive work-life balance and offer a super flexible, remote-friendly working environment. We don’t mind whereabouts our Engineers are based as we are happy for our team to work from anywhere in the UK or EU, with most of them choosing to work remotely most of the time. However, we also have offices in London and Amsterdam, so should they ever wish to work from these, they are most welcome.
ENGINEERING TEAM
Our Engineering Team consists of over forty Senior Engineers that are responsible for the end-to-end ownership of our platform, from architecture through to infrastructure. Individually they are all exceptional at what they do, but by working collaboratively within a team, consistently applying best-practice and automating absolutely everything they build world-class software for our customers.
There are a wide range of problems to tackle as an Engineer at Form3, from configuring nginx proxies to writing custom payment routing and handling logic. It’s very much a “best tool for the job” mentality here and our tech-stack is forever evolving. Our primary programming language is Go however we do have some services written using Java, Python and Ruby.
Whilst experience of the above technologies and methodologies would be nice, it is by no means essential. We are looking to speak with Senior Engineers that;
• Understand distributed systems and cloud computing
• Appreciate the DevOps culture and the value of automation
• Place emphasis on code quality and software development best-practice
• Are passionate about technology and enjoy working collaboratively within a team
• Have a breadth of experience across a variety of programming languages
For more information on Form3 please visit our website or take a look at our company profiles on StackOverflow, GitHub and LinkedIn.
Perks & Benefits
• 100% remote working
• 30 days annual leave (plus Bank Holidays)
• Great tech-stack, challenging projects and an exceptional team of Senior Engineers to work alongside
• Regular paid trips to London to spend time with our awesome team
• Tech-first FinTech scale-up with limitless possibilities to progress your career
Senior Backend Engineer FindHotel Amsterdam / Remote €45,000 to €75,000 a year
November 2019
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
At FindHotel, we discovered early that travel is the one thing that opens people's minds to new ideas, cultures, and ways of thinking. Our team comes from a variety of countries and backgrounds, and share the same passion for traveling and discovering new worlds and unconventional ways of doing things. We're a bunch of independent thinkers, always looking to challenge each other and get better at what we do.
Our mission is to get every traveller in the world the best accommodation deal. From adventure and backpacking to honeymoons and family vacations, we give travellers access to all the information and the available offers for their accommodation of choice. We're a passionate and diverse team of amazing humans who value and respect each other. We're spread between our HQ in Amsterdam and the countries our remote folks work from. We're growing fast! In 2017 and 2018 we've been doubling our business year-over-year, and we've been helping one million customers in 2019 alone.
We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our team. If you are looking to join us remotely, we'll need you to be located within UTC-4 to UTC+6 to reasonably overlap with your team members.
At our core, we build highly performant, scalable and reliable services and components. We work with modern technologies such as Go and Elixir - and, as we embrace the DevOps culture, our infrastructure-as-code in the cloud (AWS) is managed and run using tools like Docker, Jenkins, and Terraform. You will be a part of a squad of bright engineers with a passion for delivering great software, as well as team members from a broader range of disciplines - data analysts and scientists, product owners, UX experts, and marketing specialists.
What you will actually be doing / responsibilities
Work in a team to solve challenging problems, integrating accommodation providers and building blazing-fast services that serve their data
Identify bottlenecks and opportunities for improvements in terms of performance and code quality
Help improving our infrastructure and scale it to support our continuous growth in a cost-effective way
Support the growth of junior and intermediate engineers by coaching them in their daily tasks, as well as raising the bar of how things are done within both your team and the bigger engineering group
What can you expect at the beginning of this experience?
In your first week, you will get acquainted to the squads, its codebase and the tooling, with the goal of shipping something to production and build confidence early on;
In your first month, you will get to know more people from the other squads and disciplines, in order to understand the foundation of the business and the various bits it is made of;
One quarter in, you will be effectively an active member of your squad and your teammates will fully count on you; you will have built meaningful relationships within the company and be comfortable discussing ideas, inside and outside of your squad's scope; ideally, you will have presented a topic you are fond of in one of our internal knowledge sharing sessions and/or demoed some work the team did during our weekly all-hands meeting
Typical day activities
Team sessions (with your fellow engineers and PO) to check data and brainstorm ways to improve several services performance and design scalable solutions
Solve open issues that affect component infrastructure reliability
Propose and discuss with fellow engineers efficient solutions for components and architectural design.
Requirements: Who we're looking for
You are used to work and think outside of the box, and not afraid to present unconventional ideas and solutions.
You have at least 6 years experience in back-end development using a modern set up and tooling
You have a great understanding of APIs, databases, data structures, queues, and all things back-end, with a strong passion for automation
You have worked on a production system that was exposed to significant scale (whether traffic or amount of data) and you are excited by these kinds of challenges
You have a sense of pragmatism, constantly finding the right balance between achieving technical excellence and delivering value to the end users
You are flexible, curious, and data-guided in helping us decide what to work on next
You engage with your team and all the engineering group actively, sharing knowledge and best practices in order to improve with them every day
You have production experience working with AWS and you have taken care of CI / deployments / infrastructure in the past
Production experience with Golang or Elixir is a big plus
Experience with Terraform is a nice to have
What we offer:
Challenging problems and tech to work on.
Growth opportunities within the team and cross-functionally.
An amazing team of curious and diverse personalities, with a passion for learning (everyone has access to an annual learning budget to attend conferences or courses).
A growing Remote culture where you have a chance to deeply influence the way we work with each other.
A competitive compensation package and Stock Appreciation Rights.
Flexible time off (take as many holidays as you need) and a chance to work remotely - we measure results, not time spent at keyboard.
Annual company retreat in some great location - check out our Mallorca trip in 2019
Regular trips to Amsterdam's HQ for remotes (depending on team priorities, 1-4 times a year)