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Senior Software Engineer (Go) Proof Remote (US Preferred) $120,000 to $160,000 a year
January 2022
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
We're Proof, a startup in the legal tech industry. We’ve built a best-in-class legal services platform that is used by thousands of law firms, and growing over 10% month-over-month. We’re looking for talented individuals to join our team as we continue to scale and grow as a company.
What you’ll do:
Play an integral role in the development of the Proof platform, working with a small but powerful team of engineers. You will not be a cog in a machine, and the work you do will directly impact the lives of tens of thousands of law firms, lawyers, paralegals, and individuals throughout the US, and eventually the world.
Conduct design and code reviews to ensure scalability, performance and alignment with standards and best practices
Help the team define and maintain development practices
Work in an agile programming environment
Interface directly with the CTO
Write code primarily in Go & JavaScript
Build out new features & service offerings
Refactor existing systems as we move towards a service-oriented architecture
What we’ll expect you to know on day one:
5+ years experience writing production-grade code in a modern programming language
Extensive experience with at least one backend programming language. (e.g. Go, PHP, Ruby, Node.js, Java). Specific experience with Go is a plus.
Ability and willingness to learn and adapt to new languages and technologies
Experience with or desire to work with service-oriented architecture
Extensive experience with at least one modern frontend framework (e.g. React, Vue, Angular)
Are a self-starter, take initiative, self-manage and require little day-to-day direction to be successful
Proven understanding of REST APIs
Knowledge to evaluate trade-offs between correctness, robustness, performance, space and time
Experience in taking ownership of features, while working with a team on short and long-running projects
Senior Software Engineer Mojito Remote $80,000 to $160,000 a year
January 2022
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
About Mojito
Mojito is an end-to-end solution for branded NFT marketplaces and tokenized customer engagement. The space is growing at an incredible pace and we are in prime position to be a market leader. Mojito is the first project to graduate from the Serotonin Product Studio and is backed by industry veterans and VCs and partners. We combine technology with design thinking and user empathy to build products that make blockchain accessible to a mainstream audience.
We are passionate about building products for a diverse, global audience and think our team should be a reflection of that. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status.
About the role
To maximize this momentum we are growing the team and are searching for a Senior Software Engineer to build APIs and scalable backend systems to power Mojito's NFT marketplaces. You will work with front-end engineers, product managers, and designers to bring next-generation blockchain products into the mainstream. You will be important to moving Mojito's product strategy forward by building sales, payments, KYC, and NFT minting platforms. You will report to the Engineering Manager for the Mojito platform.
What you'll do
Work in an exciting and high-growth startup
Research novel solutions to nuanced and often unchartered engineering challenges
Work with designers, product managers, and engineers to design impactful products
Perform and uphold code best practices.
Produce high-quality code that raises the bar for all engineering team members
Improve scalable distributed systems on the cloud
Improve web applications for performance and scalability
Perform quality assurance/debugging procedures to provide a secure and functional delivery
Implement testing protocols for managing successful deployments across development, staging, and production environments
Recommend system solutions by comparing advantages and disadvantages of custom development and purchase alternatives
Requirements
5+ years experience as a software engineer or similar role
Advanced experience with Go.
Proficiencies with modern database technologies such as Postgres
Expertise with GitHub, GitLab, code repository best practices
Experience giving thoughtful code reviews.
Advanced Experience with AWS or similar cloud-based hosting/server solutions
Experience architecting software and designing data models
Senior Software Engineer, PKI JumpCloud Atlanta, Georgia, United States / Remote (United States) $140,000 to $180,000 a year
January 2022
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
About JumpCloud
JumpCloud’s mission is to Make Work Happen®, providing simple, secure access to corporate technology resources from any device, or any location. The JumpCloud Directory Platform gives IT, security operations, and DevOps a single, cloud-based solution to control and manage employee identities, their devices, and apply conditional access controls based on Zero Trust principals. Since launching in 2012, our global user base has grown to more than 150,000 organizations, with more than 5,000 paying customers including Cars.com, GoFundMe, Grab, ClassPass, Uplight and Peloton. JumpCloud has raised over $400M from world-class investors including Sapphire Ventures, General Atlantic, Sands Capital, Atlassian, and CrowdStrike. Our teams are growing fast, too, and we're looking for talent across engineering, sales, customer success, marketing, product management, and more. Join our team of dedicated, passionate, and creative people who are eager to change the IT industry forever.
Do you enjoy solving challenging problems using the latest technologies within a great team? Is knowing your work will be highly visible and mission critical a key component for the next step in your career? At JumpCloud, we’re looking for best-in-class talent to help define the future of modern identity and device management from the ground up.
JumpCloud is looking for an experienced Software Engineer to join an engineering team focusing on certificate based authentication and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). Identity Management (IM) services are a key part of the entire JumpCloud product portfolio. Along with our Authentication and Authorization services, IM provides the foundation for our identity and security solutions, both cloud and device based. The PKI team’s work will make using JumpCloud even easier and more seamless, while providing a very high level of security.
We're looking for...
Experience developing distributed systems, microservices, and REST APIs (including using them as integration points with third-party applications) in a variety of programming languages.
Experience using one of the public cloud providers (AWS, GCP or Azure) with CI/CD pipelines (Travis/CircleCI) to build, test and deploy.
Willingness to mentor junior members of the team.
Bonus points if you have experience with Python, Docker, feature flags, and BDD.
What you will be doing…
Feature implementation through both individual contributions and providing guidance in terms of organization, process and design.
Our team uses Go, Node.js, and/or Vue.js.
We collaborate closely with architects, UX, and DevOps to ensure our systems are highly available, scalable, performant, and deliver an amazing user experience.
We use the scrum framework.
Learning and working with cryptography and security concepts, including PKI and TLS/SSL agreement protocols, authentication, symmetric and asymmetric encryption, and related concepts. Bonus points if you have experience with these already.
Implementing services for CA operations and PKI management including certificate exchange protocols such as SCEP or EST and revocation. Bonus points if you have experience with these already.
Shape the future of our Identity Management services roadmap by participating in planning/scoping conversations with product managers.
Help the team and organization live by our core values: building connections, thinking big and getting 1% better every day.
In accordance with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, the approximate annual compensation range for this role is $140,000-$180,000, including base salary and any related bonuses or commissions. JumpCloud provides a comprehensive benefits package, with several medical plans to choose from including a high deductible HSA plan with employer contribution, two dental plans, vision insurance, flexible spending account (FSA), employee assistance program (EAP), short- and long-term disability, life insurance and a 401k savings plan with match. We have an unlimited vacation policy.
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Where you’ll be working/Location:
JumpCloud is committed to being Remote First. If a role requires you to be in a certain location or country, that will be clearly stated in the job description. All roles posted in United States locations do require that you be located within one of the 50 U.S. States.
Our Headquarters is in the Denver/Boulder, CO area. Once we reopen our offices you will have the opportunity to remain fully remote, work from one of our office locations (CO only currently) or flex your time.
Why JumpCloud?
If you thrive working in a fast, SaaS-based environment and you are passionate about solving challenging technical problems, we look forward to hearing from you! JumpCloud is an incredible place to share and grow your expertise! You’ll work with amazing talent across each department who are passionate about our mission. We’re out of the box thinkers, so your unique ideas and approaches for conceiving a product and/or feature will be welcome. You’ll have a voice in the organization as you work with a seasoned executive team, a supportive board and in a proven market that our customers are excited about.
JumpCloud is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
Location: USA (East Coast), Europe & Canada (East Coast)
About the company
Xata.io is a fully distributed startup building a serverless database service. We all work remotely, usually from home, and we meet in person a couple of times per year in a nice location (once the pandemic allows).
Having founders with management experience from Elastic, Xata is well financed by amazing investors, including Guillermo Rauch (founder of Vercel), Shay Banon (co-founder and CEO of Elastic), Neha Narkhede (founder of Confluent), Elad Gil, Christian Bach and Mathias Biilmann (founders of Netlify), and many others.
If you come from an underrepresented background in tech, we strongly encourage you to apply. We are challanging ourselves to build a healthy culture that allows us to build innovative and succesful products.
Our founder, Monica Sarbu, founded a non profit organization called tupu.io that helps tech companies support diversity in tech through mentorship.
About the role
This role is unique because you will be part of the initial team that builds the technical architecture, designs the product, and iterates quickly to react to customer feedback. If you are looking for greenfield development on a highly technical product that you can influence directly, this role is for you! We believe in well-tested and clean code, simple architectures, progress over perfection, and addressing technical debt early.
We value work-life balance, we don’t track hours and we don’t count PRs. We evaluate productivity and quality over a 3-4 months period.
Requirements:
Significant experience in developing performant systems-level software, preferably in Golang, but C/C++, Java, Rust are also valued.
Nice to haves:
Experience with various Cloud services, especially serverless platforms
Experience with database systems
BSc/MSc in Computer Science
We offer:
Competitive salary based on your location and stock options
Friendly and diverse work environment
Flexible schedule, work from anywhere you are productive
Software Engineer Honu AI Remote, United Kingdom / Europe £40,000 to £80,000 a year
November 2021
2 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
About Us
We are honu.ai, a venture backed startup building the next generation platform to give small business owners superhuman decision making capabilities. We are currently in stealth mode and are backed by Europe’s top investors who are early backers of (TransferWise, Tide, Coinbase, CityMapper, Cazoo, Nested, Habito, Cleo, King, Snyk, etc.). The technology we are building is novel and we will be pushing the boundaries of what has been done in this space.
The Role
We are looking for a strong, product focused, growth mindset software engineer to join our core-team. If you are excited to join a VC-backed startup early on in the journey, and your profile matches what we are looking for, please do get in touch. Here is a non-exhaustive description of the tasks and responsibilities for this role:
You will be working in small team, including the founder, to build the first MVP of the product.
You will collaborate with the team to define the strategy and vision for how we will build effectively and be successful.
Work with engineers across the company to build delightful features that span various parts of the system.
Ensure our platforms are reliable, scalable, secure and extensible.
Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.
Ideal Candidate
Experience shipping high-quality products from start to finish. Ideally, experience at top tier SaaS startups/companies.
Experience building Fintech products. e-Commerce and experience with small businesses is a huge plus!
2+ years professional experience in Golang. Rust, Kotlin or Java, nice to have.
Product focused
Experience with modern cloud tooling
Nice to have technical experience in:
Python, React, Typescript
Data engineering
Linux administration
API integrations
Experience with distributed systems
Must have soft skills:
Intellectual Humility
Growth Mindset
Attention to detail
Team Player
Good communicator
Ways of working:
You will believe in clean coding, simple solutions, automated testing and continuous deployment.
comfortable with Remote/Async ways of working.
Be a self-starter who is very comfortable building from scratch.
Company Values
Excellence: We constantly strive for excellence in what we do. We go above and beyond the call of duty.
Get Things Done: We acknowledge obstacles but orient towards solutions. We have a getting things done attitude, with laser focus on efficiency, as a team and individuals.
Open Communication: We communicate openly and respectfully about our opinions. Our conversations are constructive and all voices will be heard. However, when decisions are made, everyone commits to them.
Team Player: We are there for each other. As individuals we are reliable, responsible, collaborative and supportive. We respect each other’s time, we are punctual. We have got each others backs, and **accept everyone’s authentic self.
High Integrity: We are honest with each other and with our partners, clients and collaborators.
How to Apply
Email your CV, and any relevant links (we aim to respond in no more than 2 working days)
Our Process (1-2 weeks)
Introductory phone call with Founder ( 30 mins )
CV / Experience review - panel (1 hour)
Systems Design interview - panel (1 hour)
We are growing fast and will be sure to respect your time and expectations each step of the way.
Weaveworks was founded in 2014 and we are the company behind popular Kubernetes tools like Flux, Scope, the official CLI for Amazon EKS called eksctl and the flagship enterprise product Weave Kubernetes Platform.
Our mission is to help the world’s leading organizations to adopt Kubernetes and other Cloud Native technologies and working practices. Enterprises use our products and services to build better software and operate it reliably, at scale. Our approach brings together container-based application deployment, Kubernetes, and operations tooling in a model we call GitOps.
The role
We want to bring an empathetic and collaborative engineer into one of our teams that focuses on a blend of open source and commercial code. We are building a product that enables organizations to operate with a GitOps mindset.
This needs someone who is comfortable navigating sometimes unclear scenarios and is proactive in wanting to help figure things out.
You will be helping to develop and maintain tools and products which make using cloud-managed and on-premise Kubernetes installations easy.
What you’ll be doing
Hands-on development work in Golang
Working on building out our progressive delivery capabilities around the Weave GitOps Core product and the open source technologies that are its foundation
Enjoys iterative development and likes making things progressively better working in an agile process
Likes to think about our end users and cares about their experience.
Is comfortable collaborating with others; UX, design, QA, customer care
Collaborating with the product manager and tech lead to clarify and refine issues/requests/features.
Contribute to sprint planning and sharing ideas
Participating in wider Weaveworks engineering culture (lunch and learns/sprint reviews)
We’re looking for you if you
Have coding experience in Golang within a commercial context
Basic understanding of Kubernetes and/or Cloud Native technology in general
Have an understanding of Git
Have experience with distributed systems
Appreciate unit testing and a high-standard for quality
Enjoy working in a fully remote and distributed team
Have a team-first mindset; Enjoy communicating, collaborating, demonstrating curiosity and helping each other out :)
Like working in an agile environment and getting things done iteratively to make things better for our users
Are familiar with or have experience with one or more public cloud providers (Google Cloud, AWS, Azure)
We really want to hear from you if you
Think this sounds cool and are unsure if you should apply, especially typically underrepresented folks, please apply anyway
Are excited by developer tooling
Want to contribute to making a corner of the tech industry more inclusive, collaborative and welcoming to all
Demonstrates curiosity and willingness to learn
Sounds good? Excellent!
Weaveworks is committed to diversity in its workforce and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Weaveworks considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class. Weaveworks is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer.
Golang Developer - k6 Grafana Labs Remote - EMEA €70,000 to €120,000 a year
August 2021
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
About Grafana Labs:
There are more than 700,000 active installations of Grafana around the globe, monitoring everything from beehives to climate change in the Alps. The instantly recognizable dashboards have been spotted everywhere from a SpaceX launch and Minecraft HQ to Wimbledon and the Tour de France. Grafana Labs also helps companies including Bloomberg, JPMorgan Chase, and eBay manage their observability strategies with full-stack offerings that can be run fully managed with Grafana Cloud, or self-managed with Grafana Enterprise Stack. The Grafana stack has grown to include two other open-source projects, Grafana Loki (for logs) and Grafana Tempo (for traces)
About k6:
In June 2021 Grafana Labs acquired k6 - a Stockholm-based startup behind the open-source load testing tool for engineering teams. With k6, Grafana Labs adds extensible testing to its open and composable Grafana observability stack.
At k6, we build next-generation performance testing tools for developers and DevOps engineers.
We are pushing forward the state-of-the-art in our industry, creating open-source tools that have great developer experience and enable engineers to build reliable systems. k6 is an open-source tool that we built to reinvent the engineering principles around performance testing and enable engineers to build systems that scale.
About the role:
You will be one of five developers and maintainers of k6, a modern open-source tool for performance testing, written in Go. k6 was released publicly in early 2017 and has already received over 12,500 stars on Github and has an active community of users and contributors.
You will have a lot of influence on the project road map and will work with a high degree of autonomy, building and maintaining the tool.
Your responsibilities will be to both write code, extending the functionality of k6, and maintain the code base, interface with the user community (i.e. review patches :) and potentially evangelize the tool. Your main, long-term goal will be to create the best possible tool and to get as many people as possible to use it.
You may also be involved with the k6 cloud integration, a SaaS service built on top of k6. Specifically, the parts of the cloud service written in Go, that orchestrates a distributed k6 test across 17 data centers around the world.
Due to our small teams and fast development pace, you will have a substantial and immediate impact on how the end product is architected, developed, and how the engineering team operates. Most importantly, you will work with competent colleagues and will be able to expand your knowledge and skills in different directions.
Required skills:
We are looking for a person combining very strong programming skills with experience in contributing to open-source projects.
Have a strong programming background and experience developing applications in Go (or another language with high-concurrency/parallelism)
Good technical communication skills
Understand internet protocols well, primarily IP, TCP, HTTP but also preferably HTTP/2, SPDY, WebSockets, QUIC, gRPC
Are familiar with modern development processes and practices. Preferably having recent experience developing large scale applications
It is great if you also:
Have worked in open source projects, either as a heavy contributor or, even better, as maintainer for projects with multiple contributors
Have experience working with web performance, testing & optimization
Have experience working with network performance, testing & optimization
Have experience working with Python or JavaScript
Know about things like Docker, AWS, microservices architecture, Grafana/APM tools
Equal Opportunity Employer- At Grafana Labs we’re building a company where a diverse mix of talented people want to come, stay, and do their best work. We know that our company runs on the hard work and the dedication of our passionate and creative employees.
We will recruit, train, compensate and promote regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, disability, age, veteran status, and all the other fascinating characteristics that make us different and unique. We believe that equality and diversity builds a strong organisation and we’re working hard to make sure that’s the foundation of our organisation as we grow.
There are more than 700,000 active installations of Grafana around the globe, monitoring everything from beehives to climate change in the Alps. The instantly recognizable dashboards have been spotted everywhere from a SpaceX launch and Minecraft HQ to Wimbledon and the Tour de France. Grafana Labs also helps companies including Bloomberg, JPMorgan Chase, and eBay manage their observability strategies with full-stack offerings that can be run fully managed with Grafana Cloud, or self-managed with Grafana Enterprise Stack. The Grafana stack has grown to include two other open-source projects, Grafana Loki (for logs) and Grafana Tempo (for traces)
About Grafana Cloud:
Our Grafana Cloud pipeline moves millions of data points, log lines and traces per second from our customer's environments into a highly available, low-latency stack that processes and stores the data, and serves it to dashboards and alerting tools. We aim to grow this to hundreds of millions per second, and it's critical that as we grow, we improve our performance, increase our reliability and do it all more efficiently.
Backend engineering roles at Grafana require engineers with a passion for performance, reliability, and who enjoy taking projects from conception to production.
Since we deploy production services, we have on-call rotations to ensure the health of the system. We dogfood our own services, so being on call is an important way to understand our system and how to use the products we create.
Our culture is one of remote-first, and our engineering organization is largely remote. We provide guidance and meet regularly using video calls, and we need people who can work independently and can communicate well.
We care deeply about open source and the projects generally are open source, check them out: https://github.com/grafana.
We primarily use Go.
Requirements:
* You are familiar with programming languages like Go, C, C#, C++, Java or Rust
* You are able to write clean, robust and performant software
* You have experience with network programming or distributed systems development
Nice to haves:
Familiarity with operations/SRE
Experience with the monitoring space in general (metrics, logging, tracing, observability)
Familiarity with time-series applications and concepts, especially Graphite or Prometheus
Experience with Kubernetes / Kafka / Cassandra / Bigtable / syslog / opentracing or similar technologies.
Benefits:
Flexible hours
The equipment you need to get the job done
Generous vacation policy of 30 days per annum with national holidays in your country of residence on top
Grafana operates in 44+ countries. We try to operate as one team and focus on global benefits which our whole team can enjoy. Inevitably there are some regional variations and we discuss the benefits offered in your country of residence through our interview process.
We offer a competitive healthcare plan (Medical, Dental & Vision) for our US based employees via our co-employer JustWorks.
We offer a 4% employer contribution match on our 401K/pension plans or a one time 4% salary increase after 6 months tenure depending on your location
Our hiring process:
Video chat with one of our Talent Managers (30 mins)
Video chat with a Hiring Manager (30 mins)
Live Coding Interview with 2 Engineers (60 mins)
Systems Design focused interview (45 mins)
Equal Opportunity Employer- At Grafana Labs we’re building a company where a diverse mix of talented people want to come, stay, and do their best work. We know that our company runs on the hard work and the dedication of our passionate and creative employees.
We will recruit, train, compensate and promote regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, disability, age, veteran status, and all the other fascinating characteristics that make us different and unique. We believe that equality and diversity builds a strong organisation and we’re working hard to make sure that’s the foundation of our organisation as we grow.
PowerSpike is a media & technology company focused on building the most compelling and streamlined destination for activating sponsorships within gaming communities. PowerSpike collaborates with 30,000+ gaming and esports influencers to execute premium, authentic influencer marketing campaigns. PowerSpike’s influencer network reaches over 150M viewers every month and has already grown over 1000% in 2020. The 5-year-old company is backed by Techstars, Cox Enterprises, the Sixers Innovation Lab, the Dorm Room Fund, and Ocean Azul Partners.
What we’re building
PowerSpike is building the world’s first Influencer Exchange.
Like a traditional ad exchange, where buyers can place bids for ads in real-time, PowerSpike’s technology instead enables brands to bid on influencers. We’re taking the simple and streamlined experience of programmatic advertising, and combining it with the authenticity of influencer marketing to deliver instantly scalable influencer campaigns. Think Google Ads meets influencers. Currently focused on the gaming space, our technology enables brands like Intuit Quickbooks and Activision Blizzard to launch influencer campaigns across our network of over 30,000+ Twitch streamers, just like they'd make a media buy.
Your work will directly help influencers pursue their dreams and assist some of the biggest brands in the world in streamlining their influencer marketing efforts.
What we need
We’re looking for a dedicated, passionate, innovative, and security-oriented Backend Web Developer to work on bringing PowerSpike’s databases and API’s to life.
Reporting directly to the VP of Development, you will be responsible for building bug-free data solutions which will deliver information to influencers, brands and advertisers to help them make critical marketing decisions for their spends. If the words RPC, distributed servers, and scalable architecture excite you - then we want to talk.
We value learning, creativity, radical candor, positivity and collaboration - and as one of the first people at PowerSpike, we’re looking for someone who can help us define our culture and processes for years to come. Simply put, we believe in hiring A+ people, giving them clarity in what success means, and then supporting them to their fullest potential.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Managing, maintaining and upgrading Powerspike’s internal API
Developing and maintaining microservices
Develop scalable APIs for both internal and public consumption
Implement, maintain and improve scalable databases
Design and ensure data security and integrity
Develop reusable and sustainable code
REQUIREMENTS
2-5+ years experience in backend development
Server side language (Go/Python preferred)
Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
Familiarity with AWS and Google Cloud
Database language (MySQL preferred)
Experience with distributed systems and microservice architecture
Experience with machine learning
Ability to adapt to new situations and learn new skills/languages
Knowledge of Git
BONUS POINTS IF
You’ve worked at a startup or attempted to launch your own startup before (even if it failed)
You’re a gamer, streamer, or fan of live streaming platforms like Twitch/Mixer/YouTube Live
You’ve worked on ad exchanges or advertising/influencer related technology in the past
BENEFITS
Competitive compensation
Stock options
Generous PTO
Medical Insurance
Early access to new products, games and services emerging in the space
Opportunity to be on the ground floor of one of the fastest growing startups in the gaming ecosystem
PowerSpike, Inc. is proud to be an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status.
Backend Developer, API’s Powerspike Remote (United States) $80,000 to $120,000 a year
December 2020
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
Who We Are
PowerSpike is a media & technology company focused on building the most compelling and streamlined destination for activating sponsorships within gaming communities. PowerSpike collaborates with 30,000+ gaming and esports influencers to execute premium, authentic influencer marketing campaigns. PowerSpike’s influencer network reaches over 150M viewers every month and has already grown over 1000% in 2020. The 5-year-old company is backed by Techstars, Cox Enterprises, the Sixers Innovation Lab, the Dorm Room Fund, and Ocean Azul Partners.
What we’re building
PowerSpike is building the world’s first Influencer Exchange.
Like a traditional ad exchange, where buyers can place bids for ads in real-time, PowerSpike’s technology instead enables brands to bid on influencers. We’re taking the simple and streamlined experience of programmatic advertising, and combining it with the authenticity of influencer marketing to deliver instantly scalable influencer campaigns. Think Google Ads meets influencers. Currently focused on the gaming space, our technology enables brands like Intuit Quickbooks and Activision Blizzard to launch influencer campaigns across our network of over 30,000+ Twitch streamers, just like they'd make a media buy.
Your work will directly help influencers pursue their dreams and assist some of the biggest brands in the world in streamlining their influencer marketing efforts.
What we need
We’re looking for a dedicated, passionate, innovative, and security-oriented Backend Web Developer to work on bringing PowerSpike’s databases and API’s to life.
Reporting directly to the VP of Development, you will be responsible for building bug-free data solutions which will deliver information to influencers, brands and advertisers to help them make critical marketing decisions for their spends. If the words RPC, distributed servers, and scalable architecture excite you - then we want to talk.
We value learning, creativity, radical candor, positivity and collaboration - and as one of the first people at PowerSpike, we’re looking for someone who can help us define our culture and processes for years to come. Simply put, we believe in hiring A+ people, giving them clarity in what success means, and then supporting them to their fullest potential.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Managing, maintaining and upgrading Powerspike’s internal API
Developing and maintaining microservices
Develop scalable APIs for both internal and public consumption
Implement, maintain and improve scalable databases
Design and ensure data security and integrity
Develop reusable and sustainable code
REQUIREMENTS
2-5+ years experience in backend development
Server side language (Go/Python preferred)
Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
Familiarity with AWS and Google CloudDatabase language (MySQL preferred)
Experience with distributed systems and microservice architecture
Experience with machine learning
Ability to adapt to new situations and learn new skills/languages
Knowledge of Git
BONUS POINTS IF
You’ve worked at a startup or attempted to launch your own startup before (even if it failed)
You’re a gamer, streamer, or fan of live streaming platforms like Twitch/Mixer/YouTube Live
You’ve worked on ad exchanges or advertising/influencer related technology in the past
BENEFITS
Competitive compensation
Stock options
Generous PTO
Medical Insurance
Early access to new products, games and services emerging in the space
Opportunity to be on the ground floor of one of the fastest growing startups in the gaming ecosystem
PowerSpike, Inc. is proud to be an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status.