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🐲Quantum Metric
We are obsessed with helping businesses deliver better digital products and experiences for their customers. Quantum Metric is paving the way for Continuous Product Design, a brand new methodology that is helping enterprises embrace digital transformation. Major enterprises across industries ranging from quick service restaurants to airlines and everything in between are reaping the benefits. The result: Teams agree on priorities, build products customers love, and innovate with speed and confidence.
😎Our Culture
Our number one goal at QM is happy people, happy culture. We offer numerous committees and resource groups, including the Women’s Resource Group, Parent’s ERG, and our DEI committee, to name a few. We bring the culture of a small knit startup to a rapidly expanding company, which has tripled its size in just 2 years. Our executives and managers come from an impressive range of backgrounds and are passionate about enabling their team to find their passion. Many of our employees work remotely, though we also have satellite offices in Chicago, Denver, and Colorado Springs.
🚀 Who are we?
Quantum Metric helps organizations build better digital products faster. Our platform for Continuous Product Design gives business and technical teams a single version of truth that’s fast, quantified, and grounded on what customers actually experience. The result: Teams agree on priorities, build products customers love, and innovate with speed and confidence.
🔧 What will you do?
The Platform Services team is responsible for creating and managing the platforms that power our products. For us, that means providing our teams with reliable, resilient, and performant data ingestion / data access systems. We ingest massive amounts of data, process it, and make it available for further use as quickly as possible. As a member of our team, you will have an opportunity to work on all aspects of these systems, typically using a combination of Go, Kubernetes, and hosted Google Cloud Services for your daily tasks.
While you'll occasionally work on the APIs and data pipelines that power our user-facing systems, you'll spend most of your time building the platforms that make the API and data pipeline work possible for other teams without our direct involvement. You'll work regularly with operations and other platform teams to continually enhance the stability of our systems, and you'll also work alongside our feature and data science teams to enhance our service offerings.
🐉 Who are you?
You love developing software and your passion for building with code is palpable. You love spending time creating efficient, performant, and reliable data processing systems. You are particularly fond of building and using distributed systems to solve problems at scale. You love building applications and tooling on top of Go and Kubernetes, and you are familiar with how to make your applications observable for production operations.
While you’re a developer with a passion for writing good code, you also enjoy brainstorming sessions with your peers and product owners to discover the best solution to a problem. You see the importance of providing input and considering the points-of-view of those around you. At the end of the day, you enjoy being part of a healthy team culture that practices mutual respect.
🏆 Perks and Benefits
This will be the best group that you ever work with! We support one another through challenges and win as a team. Your hard work will be well rewarded. Most importantly, you'll be strapped to a technology rocket ship bound for greatness! Your success at Quantum Metric will be a milestone in your career.
About Quantum Metric
As the pioneer in Continuous Product Design, Quantum Metric helps organizations put customers at the heart of everything they do. The Quantum Metric platform empowers a customer-centric culture, using quantified empathy to align business and technical teams to effectively prioritize customers needs based on business impact.
Today, Quantum Metric captures insights from 20 percent of the world’s internet users, supporting nationally recognized brands in ecommerce and retail, travel, financial services and telecommunications. 6 of our customers come from the top 25 Fortune 500 Companies. Our customer retention rate is 97%.
In January of 2021, Quantum Metric secured its place as the first tech unicorn of the year with an above $1 billion valuation and a $200 million Series B funding round, and we are using those funds to accelerate our product and people growth. Quantum Metric has been recognized as an excellent place to work by the Inc 5000 and the Deloitte 500.
If your background matches the above role and you’re interested in joining a team of people with exceptional potential from diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences, we want to hear from you.
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Please note: this position is full time and in Berlin (you need to already be in Berlin too). We don't use agencies.
Most messaging networks are created to serve their creators. Email is designed to serve humankind. For over 50 years inspired technicians have architected email to provide the greatest good to the greatest number. Their openness and design principles made email the world's #1 communication channel and identity provider with 4.2 billion users (2x Facebook). Email is a critical foundation stone of the Web.
Lightmeter is reinventing email infrastructure to overcome threats from centralised tech oligharchs like Microsoft and Google. An epic platform war is behind fought behind the scenes to wrestle control over digital comms and incorporate it into closed service platforms, where the customer is a product to be sold to the highest bidder.
We are 3 years of research and 1 year of development in to building Lightmeter Control Center - the all-in-one mailops management system repeatedly featured in Heise and ZDnet. It's fully Open Source (on GitLab) -- feel free to check the unit and user acceptance test code coverage : ) . Our engineering team has a background in embedded and fintech, with a focus on performance and feedback.
A mix of public and private funding fuels our work, and we've been recognised by the European Commission as part of 'Next Generation Internet'. We have hundreds of active users, a few of whom we interview each week, including banks, public universities, Internet Service Providers, and marketing agencies.
Our mission is to strengthen the foundations of digital society by making mailtech easy and convenient.
That’s a brief intro to what you’ll be working on. But first, you need to know if you’ll even like working with us. Let’s talk about life at Lightmeter and then we’ll go into detail about what we’re looking for.
Who you’ll be working with
One luxuary of being an early-stage team is that you get to work directly with everyone. That said, you'll be reporting to Sam, our CEO. He gets easily excited about engineering patterns and workflows, and likes bright colours and house music with vocals.
You'd work along-side Lead Developer Leandro, who calls himself a Software Craftsman, and who others call a philosopher. Leandro has deeply held unfashionable beliefs like "all code should be fast and light", and cares more about design patterns than what language he's coding in. He love the outdoors and pines for the mountains.
Suela is our Product Manager and x-ray seer of quality and value. She has a nack of turning our telescopes around, pointing out better perspectives, opportunities, and efficiencies. She's an Open Source fangirl, community organiser of the OpenLabs Hackerspace, and secretly learning Python so she can make bots to replace herself. Just kidding!
How You’ll Work at Lightmeter
We work hard to make working here a great experience, and have a team of truly exceptional people — the kind you’ll be excited to work with. You'll get to design and create new components and services, working on features like those on our roadmap (https://lightmeter.io/roadmap).
Here’s how we operate
No Crazy Hours
You'll very rarely work more than 40 hours per week, unless you really want to. Ocassionally things can heat up, but noones going to force you to work more than is comfortable. When you do work overtime you balance it out with time off afterwards. We work hard and smart, planning carefully, but we’re in this for the long haul: sustainability trumps anything short term.
Face time and alone time
Most of us have worked fully remote before and miss the benefits of face time, so we like to work together a lot of the time. However focused time alone, in cafes or home-office is nice too, so we aim for a good mix. So long as you can reach the people you need, when you need them, and vice versa, your preferences for office vs remote work shouldn't be an issue.
Take Vacation
A small team means it's easy to coordinate time off to relax and recharge. Notice you'll be away a week in advance is usually enough.
Up Your Game
We’re serious about helping you improve your craft. Everyone wins when you get better and your job, and enjoy the process. Think conferences, online courses and subscriptions, dedicated time away from work to learn something new.
Compensation and Legal
We can't currently offer you a salary to compete with Amazon or Microsoft. What we can offer you is the same salary that we are paying ourselves: €50,000 / year.
We’re an early-stage startup, funded, pre-revenue, and growing. We are owned and managed by our Founders. Making sustainable, profitable products with a committment to openness is hard; we're demonstrating how it's done. If you care deeply about digital freedom, empowerment, and collaboration, you'll probably fit right in!
What we're looking for
Lightmeter has ambitious goals and our team is growing to meet them. You're the Software Engineer we're looking for if you're collaborative, mission-motivated, creative, disciplined, and productive. (So far, so good?)
You love solving complex problems — both internally and for your users — and know what it means to build a mature, evolving product. You are more focused on the outcome than on the output of your work, and prefer to deliver something useful sooner, rather than something perfect later. You welcome feedback, and are curious about users' challenges and how to address them. You demand a lot from your colleagues and expect the same in return, taking personal pride in collective achievement.
Requirements (these are real, actual requirements)
Our tech stack (repos: https://gitlab.com/lightmeter)
Recommended skills
Ideal skills
Work Remotely
COVID-19 Precautions
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VMware streamlines the journey for organizations to become digital businesses that deliver better experiences to their customers and empower employees to do their best work. Our software spans compute, cloud, networking and security, and digital workspace.
Bitfusion is a group inside of VMware that develops advanced virtualization technologies for the most compute-intensive applications delivering automatic acceleration and efficiency on any infrastructure. Bitfusion is looking for talent to drive market success by building readily deployable software solutions that redefine computing and unleash the power of heterogeneous computing to end users.
Bitfusion delivers the industry’s first AI Infrastructure platform enabling disaggregated, virtualized & remote attached compute accelerators (GPUs, FPGAs & AI ASICs) across any Environment / Cloud, & Application resulting in a 2X Performance Boost, 4X Cost Reduction for AI Training and Inference Deployment.
Bitfusion is a ground breaking technology for addressing disaggregation in the AI/ML accelerator market. As a technology Bitfusion allows clients to remotely attach to one or more acclerators, or fractional accelerators, and run Machine Learning applications. This substantially increases the utilization for these accelerators and the ability share them by our customers.
As a Backend Platform Engineer with the Bitfusion team you will be involved in creating a management cluster of these accelerator servers, integrating and communicating with vSphere and also ensuring the scheduling and allocation of these resources is done efficiently, amongst other tasks.
You will have experience in developing RESTful and RPC based APIs using Golang. Ideally you will have experience in developing and orchestrating with the vSphere management APIs.
Category : Engineering and Technology
Subcategory: Software Engineering
Experience: Business Leadership
Full Time/ Part Time: Full Time
Remote: No
Posted Date: 2020-10-26
VMware Company Overview: At VMware, we believe that software has the power to unlock new opportunities for people and our planet. We look beyond the barriers of compromise to engineer new ways to make technologies work together seamlessly. Our cloud, mobility, and security software form a flexible, consistent digital foundation for securely delivering the apps, services and experiences that are transforming business innovation around the globe. At the core of what we do are our people who deeply value execution, passion, integrity, customers, and community. Shape what’s possible today at http://careers.vmware.com.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement: VMware is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind: VMware is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at VMware are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. VMware will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. VMware encourages applicants of all ages. Vmware will provide reasonable accommodation to employees who have protected disabilities consistent with local law.
Hallmark Labs is the digital arm of Hallmark Cards, Inc., based in Santa Monica, California.
We currently operate two digital subscription services, Hallmark Movies Now and
Hallmark eCards, as well as ongoing initiatives in personalized, print-on-demand
greeting cards. We are a diverse team of innovators, creators and influencers
leveraging Hallmark’s deep experience in creating meaningful connections and
progressing it into the digital age with cutting-edge technology.
Senior Software Engineer, Platform - Go/Microservices
You're a seasoned polyglot engineer that is driven, takes ownership and is solution oriented and ready to join a stellar new team working on cross product foundational platform, shared by all our products written in Go. You'll be building robust and scalable software in multiple modern object oriented and functional languages. And making the company transitions to microservices using Go and Kafka.
As a part of this role, you will:
Required Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
We’re looking for a Lead Blockchain Developer experienced in developing and scaling financial solutions with global exposure to different regulated environments. We are seeking a problem solver who enjoys collaborating across teams. We are looking for a transparent communicator even when it is challenging, seeking to surround herself/himself with like-minded people. At the beginning of your journey at Elyps, you will work directly with the CTO designing and implementing decentralized applications that will support millions of transactions of our global user base. As we get ready for our launch in Q2, you will have the mission to build the best in class team of Blockchain Developers team with the purpose to build a scalable blockchain architecture that will support the offering of all our financial service products internationally. At Elyps, we encourage all our employees to have an effective positive attitude that shows we all care about each others' concerns, finding the way to tackle challenges in the best way possible as we keep moving forward with our mission of building one of the most secure and scalable banking products within the FinTech space.
What your day will look like - You will take ownership of designing and implementing decentralised applications built on blockchain technology that will improve Elyps' product offering. - You will design and develop the smart contract ecosystem and create POC's based on potential areas of success within Elyps. - You will work with backend and infrastructure teams to make sure the blockchain ecosystem fit nicely within the infrastructure, and scalability/reliability is designed and implemented from scratch. - As we scale, you will build and mentor a team of highly skilled blockchain developers, creating a culture of low stress and growth-oriented. - You will identify training and development opportunities for your team, encouraging them to be the best version of themselves. - You build tools for yourself and others to increase efficiency and to make hard or repetitive tasks easy and quick. - You will continuously explore new technologies that will delight the user experience of Elyps customers, being at the forefront of a rapidly changing digital environment.
Your Skills - You bring extensive years of designing and developing large scale, high availability software applications in Go, JavaScript and/or Java, preferably for banking or payments companies. - You have 1+years of Bytecode, Ethereum, Geth, Hyperledger, Infura, Parity, Quorum, Solidity, Truffle or other blockchain platforms and technologies. - You have a robust understanding of algorithms, cryptography, distributed systems architecture, security and data structures. - You have hands-on experience in cryptography such as digital signature, encryption based on asymmetric or symmetric keys, key agreement. - You have a good understanding of cloud platforms, preferably GCP and you are familiarised with CI and/or CD. - You have experience building and mentoring teams of skilled developers creating innovative and forward-thinking digital products for consumers. - You want to work in a startup environment because you like the idea of doing a bit of everything. - You like to take ownership of your work and you are accountable for it.
We are Healum - a well funded digital health company on a mission to improve and save 100 million lives across the globe. We believe that everyone should have access to better personalised preventative healthcare and healthcare professionals should be empowered to deliver this experience to their patients. Digital solutions can make this a reality. We build digital products to enable patients to monitor and understand their health, and software that empowers health professionals to achieve better outcomes with their patients. Our single aim is to maximise people’s engagement with their health by delighting them with products that make them feel confident, supported and motivated.
We are looking for a Golang Software Engineer based for a full-time position, to help further build Healum's distributed services platform to enhance our value proposition to our users. Are you excited about building petabyte-scale, business-critical, distributed software that helps people to transform their health outcomes? Do you find a peculiar satisfaction in bringing efficiency through intelligent algorithms? Do you enjoy looking at real-time data and incorporating that in to how you build software? The most important characteristic is that you can wear many hats and you’ll love getting your hands dirty with planning, scaling, security and testing. You’ll have a passion for playing a lead role in envisioning our platform services and preparing Healum for scale and high availability. You will work closely with the founders to build high quality and scalable systems that are integrated with our products that establish Healum as a leader in providing useful and intelligent solutions for clinicians and their patients.
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To land this gig, you need...
Quality experience in building large scale distributed systems, a formal degree in computer science, physics or mathematics. Background and expertise in software development, micro services, API integrations, data analytics, security and huge scale thinking!
Would you like to make a lasting impact in people’s lives and change them for better? Then get in touch. Absolutely NO recruitment agencies or outsourcing companies as we work with our PSL only.
If you are interested in this role email us at hello@healum.com with your CV, and one feature about Golang that you like and why!
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For us, digital transformation is constant - not a one-off event. It’s our obsession. And it’s how we forever evolve our technology to improve the lives of our customers. We continually experiment with ways to make our journeys more intuitive, simple and enjoyable. And we’re constantly testing and trialing ways to give customers faster access to our services, more flexibility - and the richest, most rewarding experience.
All you need is the right mindset and the desire to help us create award-winning digital experiences – we work at pace, we love ideas and collaborate on agile project.
About the role
We're looking for a talented and enthusiastic Software Engineer (Innovation) to join our innovation team in London, bringing with you a broad range of experiences and a passion for modern development technologies and practices. As an Innovation Software Engineer you'll be part of innovation team, building and testing great products that delight, transform and have a revolutionary impact on our business.
Working as part of the Innovation team and collaborating with teams across the Digital department to solve business problems - internal and external; by coming up with creative solutions and employing future technologies that can have revolutionary impact on our bottom line.
Your key skills and experience will ideally include:
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DEPARTMENT DESCRIPTION The Fox Digital Consumer Group is a strategic business unit with a customer-driven focus that is leading the consumer-driven revolution in media and entertainment. The group is strengthening and improving Fox Networks’ already successful TV Everywhere apps as well as developing, building and executing new consumer offerings that deliver fantastic Fox content in new and exciting ways.
Fox DCG is responsible for driving the development of platforms and capabilities and overseeing the ongoing enhancement and support of Fox Networks’ existing apps and TV Everywhere, including Fox Now, FX Now, Fox Sports Go and the National Geographic TV Apps, as well as the creation of new direct to consumer TV products. Additionally, DCG works hand-in-hand with the network marketing groups to promote awareness, adoption and usage of our TV Everywhere offerings, guide strategy and business development for new offerings, and manage key partner relationships (including the integration with Fox’s regional businesses in Europe, Asia and Latin America).
JOB DESCRIPTION As a Go developer in Fox DCG’s engineering group, you will be an integral part in the architecture, design, development, and deployment of authentication services for Fox’s digital video products across web, mobile as well as the next generation of devices. This role will develop end-to-end solutions and services using Golang other relevant technologies that drive our global digital products. The ability to not only code and develop tools but also to understand a wide range of technologies and integrate them would be critical to this role. A deep understanding of systems, modern development best practices and open source tools will be required to excel in this role.
QUALIFICATIONS 3+ years of relevant engineering experience. 2+ years of Golang programming experience. A strong foundation in object-oriented software architecture and programming principals. Experience with source code and knowledge repositories such as Git, Jira, or equivalent systems. Experience in cloud-based hosting and systems architecture (AWS or other). Understanding or experience with Agile development methodology Excellent problem solving skills with ability to synthesize information from multiple sources, identify relevant data, formulate and test hypotheses, and implement solutions. Self-motivated, flexible, collaborative. Strong verbal and written skills Passion for television/entertainment is a major plus
**THE COMPANY ** Solsten is advancing the human experience by empowering companies to build deeply resonating and healthier human-centered digital experiences and products.
At the intersection of play, psychology, and AI, our suite of products (Traits, Navigator, and Wavelength) give brands the ability to understand and meet their audiences’ experiential expectations at every step of their journey—ushering in a new era of technology that is better for people, and brilliant for businesses.
**THE ROLE ** Our engineering team is responsible for creating the platform that empowers this next generation of digital resonance. As a part of this team, you will work within a world-class team of engineers as well as with data scientists and UX designers to build the Solsten platform and products. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will bring your own technical expertise, help design new services as well as improve current ones, and carry projects from initial requirements, implementation, up to production.
**WHAT YOU WILL DO ** * Design software architecture based on business requirements, strategy, and priorities * Design and implementation of Microservices in Go * Write reusable, testable, and efficient code * Write highly scalable, high volume services * Create optimized database schemas * Advise and implement best practices in multiple technical domains * Proactively seek and realize new value-add opportunities for customers * WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR * BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject * 7+ years of practical backend development * Demonstrated experience with building Microservices in Go as well as high load production systems based on microservice architecture * Very knowledgeable about distributed systems and technologies (gRPC, Kafka, NoSQL, SQL, Redis, ...) * Hands-on experience with leading commercial Cloud platforms, preferably GCP * Sound understanding of Software Development Life Cycle * Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments * Pay attention to detail and strive for excellence in all aspects of your work * Manage complex situations with a structured and organized approach * Strong communicator that expresses ideas and information clearly and concisely * Detail-oriented, with excellent analytical, technical and problem-solving skills * A portfolio of activities / a side project that showcases your intellectual curiosity **WHAT MAKES YOU STAND OUT ** * Hands-on experience with Kubernetes * gRPC / Protobuf experience * DevOps and application deployment skills * Python is a plus * Experience with message brokers * Good ability to derive and design technical specifications from general product requirements * Familiarity with and interest in psychometric data
**YOUR SOLSTEN EXPERIENCE ** At the heart of Solsten is our people. We pride ourselves with the incredible team that makes up the company and are deeply humbled by each one of our employees. We have grown beyond measure and have amassed an incredible team of talented, passionate, and amazing individuals. It is our biggest priority to give all members of Solsten the space and motivation to WANT to journey on this career path with us and continue to be a part of our success. Here are some of the things our current employees appreciate:
Our team is spread out across the world, with hubs in Berlin, and Minneapolis. We believe that having our team close to one another fosters better communication and productivity. This role requires you to be based in Berlin, Germany where you will have an exciting working environment.
**OUR COMMITMENT ** Solsten is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, genetics, disability, or age.
Juni who? 👋
We’re Juni. The fastest-growing FinTech in Europe. We’re born remote, built for remote, and busy building the future of banking for digital entrepreneurs.
What we do 🤔
Think of us as the world’s best financial companion for ecommerce entrepreneurs. We build products that help our customers sell smarter and understand their business better. We even finance their working capital so they can smash their goals and dream up new ones. See for yourself at https://demo.juni.co/demo. If you are curious about upcoming features and what you will help build, you can also find our public roadmap at https://www.juni.co/roadmap
How & why we do it 🚀
We give our people the same thing we’re building for our customers: freedom. Freedom to work wherever there’s good WiFi. Freedom to be 100% yourself. Freedom to explore your potential and what’s more – make the most of it. We truly believe we’re making the world a better place for small businesses, and we want you to be a part of that mission.
Your role 🙋
Beyond being just a manager of the engineering team, you will be a key team player. Being hands on with the code, but with the skills and experience to discuss solutions, evaluate code and having the capacity to assist the team when needed. You will balance everything related to code quality, time to market and ensure the team delivers top quality software following best practices.
Your responsibilities 💪
In this role you’ll:
Your qualifications 👨🎓 * What we need to see: * Experience at developing, mentoring and growing a high performing team * A desire to spend a significant percentage of your time close to the code * Excellent communication skills * A proven track record of successfully leading teams and delivering new products, preferably in complex and high transaction fintech and/or banking environment
What we’d love to see: * Golang expertise * Experience from high growth fintechs * Experience from the ecommerce space
Your tool stack 💻 Mac. Chrome. Even… Windows. Choose the hardware that helps you work best. We’ll also support whatever software you need. From Miro to Slack and everything in between.
Tech stack * * React, Javascript/Typescript * * Go * * gRPC (Protocol buffers) * * PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Elasticsearch, Redis * * Kafka * * Kubernetes, AWS
Your people 👥 Forget office-based culture. This is people-first culture. We’re real. We never wait. We care deeply. About building better for our customers and each other. About doing something that’s never been done before. Here, you can work with people at the top of their game, who didn’t get there by playing games. You can help us change business, change banking, change the world – wherever in the world you may be.
Your benefits 😍 We’re born remote-first. Transparent. Caring. Empowering. So our benefits are too. The good stuff: * Hello work. Meet freedom. Join us anywhere within 6 hours of Sweden. * Swap 2D for 3D. Meet the team IRL at fun onsites every quarter. * Work with the best people for the job. Not the best people within 1 hour’s commute. * Diversity is at our core. We’re part Swedish. Part British. Part French. Part Italian. Part Hungarian. Part Canadian. Part Spanish. You get the idea. * Great players can stay great players. Progress your career whether you choose to manage people or not. * Get support to switch things up. People change. Careers can too.
The really good stuff: * Happiness stipend. The best things in life are free. But money can buy you a herd of puppies. Get €8,500 per year to spend on whatever makes you happy. * Work al desko. Get €500 a month towards a co-working space. * Stock options. We can’t promise you’ll make a fortune. But we’ll give it our very best shot. * Vacation days. At least 30 per year as standard. Awesome. * Global health insurance. You know. Just in case. * Get sick? No stress. Feel better with unlimited sick leave.
Free your nine to five 🤘 Hit apply and help us be the financial companion of choice for digital entrepreneurs.
The process 📅 CV screening > Get to know us call > CTO interview > Tech interview > Values interview > Offer (for some roles we’ll include a task, but we’ll notify you if this is the case)