Job Description

Do you ever wonder what happens inside the cloud?

Based in New York, DigitalOcean is a dynamic, high-growth technology company that serves a robust and passionate community of developers, teams, and businesses around the world. We believe that today’s entrepreneurs are changing the world through software. Our mission is to empower these entrepreneurs by bringing modern app development within reach for any developer, anywhere in the world.

We want people who are passionate about building the systems, culture, and processes that will improve the resiliency, reliability, scaling, and performance for cloud services.

We are looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to work closely with our product engineering and infrastructure teams. Reporting to the Director of Platform Systems, the Site Reliability Engineer will be performing a mix of hands-on development, coaching, and collaborating with other teams and stakeholders to help bring DigitalOcean’s engineering systems and culture up to the next level.

This is a key opportunity to make a significant impact in DigitalOcean’s engineering and operational systems and influence future product designs and requirements. This role is essential to accelerate the improvement of the high expectations our customers have of DigitalOcean as we continue to grow and expand.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Performing hands on technical work to directly improve the reliability, resiliency, and scaling of our key platform systems
• Working with stakeholders to develop and implement reliability and performance metrics
• Facilitate DigitalOcean’s culture of learning by providing insight and recommendations for improvement
• Coaching teams and individuals on reliability best practices and solutions
• Working with other SREs and engineering leaders to define the architectures and practices that should be adopted in order to deliver on our engineering and operational goals
• Establishing best practices for development, architecture, deployment, and operations
• Working with peer SREs to improve services and processes (including architecture reviews, incident response, monitoring) in a cross-functional manner throughout the engineering organization

What We’ll Expect From You:

• Distinguished track record as SRE (or similar role) with hands-on experience implementing reliability, process, and scaling solutions
• History of fostering positive relationships with stakeholders and a track record of successful collaboration and coaching
• Clear communication skills (both written and verbal) to document processes and architectures
• Experience implementing disaster recovery best practices
• Developing robust solutions that facilitate streamlined resolution of customer inquiries through use of technologies for automation, deflection, and issue management
• Adept in Ruby and Go with a broad understanding of the full technology stack for a modern infrastructure
• Advocate of effective development environments with the use of CI/CD tooling and configuration management technologies such as Chef or Ansible

Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean:

• We have amazing people. We can promise you will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We work hard but we always have fun doing it. We care deeply about each other and take our “no jerks” rule very seriously.
• We value development. We are a high-performance organization that is always challenging ourselves to continuously grow. That means we maintain a growth mindset in everything we do and invest deeply in employee development. You’ll need to be great to get hired here and we promise you’ll get even better.
• We care about you. We offer competitive health, dental, and vision benefits for employees and their dependents, a monthly gym reimbursement to support your physical health, and a monthly commute allowance to make your trips to and from work easier.
• We invest in your future. We offer competitive compensation and a 401k plan with up to a 4% employer match. We also provide all employees with Kindles and reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education.
• We want you to love where you work. We have great office spaces located in the heart of SoHo NYC and Cambridge and offer daily catered lunches to keep your hunger at bay. We’re also very remote-friendly—we use Slack to communicate across the company—and all remote employees have the opportunity to onboard in-office and take an all-expenses paid trip to our annual company offsite, Shark Week, to get quality in-person time with the team at least once a year. We also allow employees to customize their workstations to meet their needs—whether remote or in office.
• We value diversity and inclusivity. We are an equal opportunity employer and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Job Description

About You:

You consider yourself a software engineer, with a strong understanding of operations. You are comfortable engineering custom solutions to operational problems. You take great pride in your craftsmanship. You never stop improving. You know the fundamentals of operating large scale web applications and supporting systems. You prefer a collaborative engineering environment. You are comfortable with scaling early stage companies.

About Our Tech Stack:

Microservices based architecture primarily made up of JVM services deployed on Linux.

No physical infrastructure, fully deployed on Amazon Web Services and Kubernetes.

Key Technologies:

PaaS - Kubernetes - Docker CI/CD - Spinnaker / Jenkins - Ansible - Terraform Database - HBase - Cassandra - Amazon Aurora - ElasticSearch Messaging - Kafka - RabbitMQ / AMQP - SQS

Experience & Requirements:

Proficient in at least one programming language Experience in creating and managing infrastructure as code Understanding of and opinions about CI/CD toolchains Familiarly with large clouds providers (AWS, GCP, etc) Familiarly with container deployment and development lifecycles Security is an instinctive part of your job.

Responsibilities:

Keep our infrastructure up and running smoothly. Build and maintain highly fault tolerant infrastructure. Stay current on the latest technologies used across the organization. Automate the build and deploy process so that you can maintain the entire infrastructure from the stool of a bar....or a beach. Work with the entire engineering org to solve difficult problems

Competitive salary based on experience

Generous stock options “Paid, Paid Vacation” bonus - gross amount of $7,500, eligible after first 365 days of continuous employment Fully PAID health, dental and vision insurance premiums Company funded Health Reimbursement Account (HRA) Unlimited Vacation Policy MINIMUM of 15 days of vacation, but as many you need, after receiving approval from your manager After 1 year of employment, the option to work remotely for one month per year. 12 weeks 100% paid leave after birth/adoption of child for primary caregiver (off the grid, of course) or 3 weeks 100% paid leave after birth/adoption of child for secondary caregiver (off the grid, of course) 10 Paid Holidays

Job Description

About the role

Massdriver is an internal development platform that enables engineering teams to self-serve secure, production-ready infrastructure and services in their own cloud. We are looking for an engineer to lead our Golang team to build out core features and guide the future of our platform.

Platform engineering at Massdriver is different. We dogfood our product and the platform components you design are the components we expose to our customers to design their platform engineering environments. Your work is the product.

This role will own and design platform engineering components and their APIs including our provisioning engine, command-line tools, and our cloud query API. You will have the opportunity to work and contribute to a number of open source tools as well as design custom tooling.

Required experience:

• Minimum of 3+ years of Golang development experience at startup / mid-sized companies
• Effective communication skills, a positive attitude, and ability to give and receive constructive feedback through mentoring, pair programming sessions, and code reviews
• Professional experience developing large, scalable backend applications
• Strong understanding of system architecture and design; with consideration given to security, performance, and scalability
• Owned the technical design of major features or projects and can articulate the reasoning behind trade-offs made in your designs
• Experience with IaC tools like Terraform or Pulumi

Nice to have:

• Experience with Kubernetes
• Experience with open telemetry
• Experience as an open-source maintainer

Responsibilities:

• Developing in a high-security micro-services oriented environment
• Event-driven systems development
• Follow software development best practices to create maintainable and extensible software solutions
• Open Source DevTools & CLI development
• Work in an agile manner with transparency and fluid communication within the engineering team and across other teams in the company

Benefits:

• Generous equity in an early-stage startup
• Generous paid vacation with a required summer and spring break
• 100% covered health, medical, and dental insurance
• 401k w/ 4% matching
• Half-day Fridays
• Conference stipend
• Flexibility. Massdriver is a remote-first company, and we want our employees to work the way that makes them the most productive.
• Ownership. Our engineers have felt the pain of being prevented from trying new things by the overhead of DevOps. We empower our engineers to solve customer problems and add value.
• Growth. As we build this core team of engineers, we are looking for the future leaders of our company that will help guide us as we scale.

About the interview

• 15-minute call w/ Cory (CEO)
• 30-minute discussion about the role and your experience w/ Dave (CTO)
• 1-hour coding session on an open source issue of your choosing. w/ Chris (COO)

Our coding interview is very different.

Our goal is for you to be the expert on the call and to see what it's like to work with you as the new employee:

• Pick an issue on an open-source project in Golang that you think will take an hour or more.
• Don't overthink picking the issue!
• Feel free to familiarize yourself with the codebase, the issue history, the test suite - whatever you think you need to be the 'expert' during the interview. Don't share the issue with us.
• At interview time, you are in the driver seat, you are the expert. Our goal is to see what it's like to work with you on our first day.
• Please don't actually start work on the issue until the interview.

About Massdriver

Massdriver is changing the way software engineers provision, secure, and observe cloud infrastructure.

We aim to provide all of the benefits of infrastructure-as-code including parity, reproducibility, and auditability in a simple to use diagramming platform. No more fighting with HCL or spending hours reading cloud-specific API documentation. Now you can manage your infrastructure the same way you design it, at the drawing board.

Job Description

Go Full Stack Engineer

Bring your full self to work.

SwiftComply strives to create an environment for all to participate, be authentic, and feel valued.

We are committed to building an equitable workplace that moves our company and industry forward and know there is work to be done in advancing diversity and inclusion.

About the role

As a Go Full Stack Engineer, you will help develop our software and be empowered to take on tasks as part of a small and growing team.

In this role, you will:

• Design, develop, and maintain high-quality, scalable, and secure software solutions using Go Language, microservices, Postgres database, and Google Cloud Platform
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement new features and functionality that meet the needs of our customers
• Develop and maintain APIs that integrate with third-party systems and applications
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code that follows best practices and coding standards
• Ensure the quality and stability of the software through testing, debugging, and troubleshooting
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to the continuous improvement of the development process
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to the team
• Work independently and effectively manage time and priorities to meet deadlines and deliverables
• Collaborate with a remote team in a highly distributed and self-managed environment

Who you are

We are seeking a new member to join our Engineering team! This might be a great team for you if you thrive in a setting that you can:

• Be self-motivated and work independently as part of a small team, proactively consulting with the team for tasks as opposed to waiting to be assigned one
• Use your communication/interpersonal skills to collaborate with a remote team
• Demonstrate excellent problem-solving and analytical skills to build creative solutions
• Manage priorities and meeting deadlines in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment to build a software that impacts the future of water and environment

Experiences that could help you succeed in this role include:

• 5+ years of experience in software development, with a focus on building enterprise, multi-tenant solutions
• Experience building complex applications using Go Language, microservices, Postgres database, and Google Cloud Platform services; strong understanding of distributed systems and cloud computing
• Solid understanding of software development principles, including agile methodologies, version control, and automated testing
• Experience designing and optimizing databases applications that can scale and maintain security
• Experience developing and maintaining APIs that integrate with third-party systems and applications
• Familiarity with front-end technologies such as React, Angular, or Vue.js
• Experience writing clean, maintainable, and testable code that follows best practices and coding standards
• Experience ensuring the quality and stability of the software through testing, debugging, and troubleshooting
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams to design and implement new features and functionality that meet the needs of customers
• Experience providing technical guidance and mentorship to the team

Bonus points:

• Experience in integration and platform development
• Experience managing the exchange of data between various systems and applications

Excited about making a positive impact with SwiftComply but don’t feel you meet 100% of the list? If you’re excited about working with us, we’d still love to hear from you!

Benefits

• Healthcare - we offer medical, dental, and vision insurance with an HSA option
• Life insurance - we offer free life insurance plan for you
• 401(k) - we provide pre-tax/roth options and the company makes a contribution equal to 3% of your compensation, regardless of your contribution amount
• Remote - we work remotely and provide a $1000 home office setup stipend
• Time off - we offer 31 paid days off (PTO, holidays, birthday, etc; 1 additional day off provided for each year you’re with the company) and encourage you to take time for vacation, wellness day, etc, for a positive work-life balance
• Parental leave - we want you to enjoy some time with your new addition to the family with paid leave

Compensation
$145-175k/yr

*To provide equitable pay, we benchmark our compensation. This is the data provided at the time we created this job description. We will re-evaluate the range at the time of offer and thus this range is subject to change.

Please note: Offer is contingent upon a successful completion of a background check. And we are unable to sponsor visas at this time; you must be a US Citizen or Permanent Resident authorized to work in the US.

About SwiftComply

SwiftComply is an award-winning early-stage technology company with a mission to protect human health and the environment with an all-in-one cloud-based software that empowers local governments to easily manage their water, wastewater, and stormwater compliance programs.

We were founded in 2016 by our founder and CEO, Mick O’Dwyer. As a water & wastewater engineer at Dublin City Council (Ireland), Mick saw first hand how manual, paper-based and inefficient compliance programs can be. He created SwiftComply to fix this problem with modern, collaborative technology.

Today, SwiftComply supports over 400+ utilities that deliver water service to 50+ million citizens - and we’re expanding the team to make an even bigger impact!

Job Description

Reddit is a community of communities where people can dive into anything through experiences built around their interests, hobbies, and passions. Our mission is to bring community, belonging, and empowerment to everyone in the world. Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on content, stories, and discussions about the topics they care about the most. From pets to parenting, there’s a community for everybody on Reddit and with over 50 million daily active users, it is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. For more information, visit redditinc.com.

As a staff engineer on the Data Access team, your work will be crucial to supporting Reddit’s data-driven Sales & Marketing stakeholders through improving this unique internal platform which provides a great source of overall revenue generation for the company. Since this is a growing team, the role provides room for creative problem solving and independence.

How you will contribute:

• Impact the development of the team and organization’s long term strategy.
• Refine and maintain our data visualizations to support real-time analysis of hundreds of millions of users.
• Be a key contributor in the scaling and integration of in-house technology company-wide.
• Use the unique programming language, Nim, for frontend and backend work.
• Experiment with mass amounts of data and share strategic data-driven insights.

Who you might be:

• 7+ years of experience building clean, maintainable, and well-tested code in a production environment.
• Excellent communication skills to collaborate with stakeholders in engineering, sales and marketing.
• Experience with programming languages such as Nim, Rust, Go, Python, C++, Java.
• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical field.
• Experience working with infrastructure technologies Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Experience with SQL and query parsing, generating and planning. Bonus points for database maintenance.

What you’ll learn:

• How to be a steward for large amounts of data.
• How to be a technical liaison between engineering and Sales & Marketing.
• The ins and outs of how programming languages work, parsing and query planning.
• Best practices for data and how to thrive in a data-driven environment.

Benefits:

• Comprehensive Health benefits
• 401k Matching
• Workspace benefits for your home office
• Personal & Professional development funds
• Family Planning Support
• Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off
• 4+ months paid Parental Leave
• Paid Volunteer time off

Pay Transparency:

This job posting may span more than one career level.

In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.

Job Description

Backend Software Engineer - Remote in US or In Office (UT, PA, CA)  

**Senior, Staff, and Sr. Staff levels **

Nav is democratizing small business financing. In other words, we give small business owners access and control.  Yes, this challenges the norm, but it means working with curious, purpose driven, dedicated, and inquisitively smart people who push themselves, our company and the community to the next level (and every level after that). We are the people behind the tech. And when it’s good, we look for better. We don’t over think the value we bring nor spend time trying to revamp mantras. We also do not come up with some crafty way to tell you who we are and what we offer. We are Nav!  Here, you’ll gain a wealth of experience, learn the tricks of the trade, and work with winners. All companies say people are connected to their mission but in our case our mission and our people are one – it is a way of being not just a cause you are committed to.  And since 2013, Nav has holistically and organically developed its own ideology because Nav can only be Nav.

WHAT WE EMPOWER YOU WITH:

• Build and scale services that integrate with banking data vendors, Salesforce, and other internal services. Our focus is in Go, but we support other services in languages such as Ruby, Elixir, and Python.
• Optimize Nav’s customer experience, from first contact, through sign-up, and applying for loans and credit cards.
• Build the framework that Nav’s solutions (credit reports, alerts, financing marketplace) plug into.
• Turn business requirements into technical solutions.
• Help establish best practices within Nav's growing Engineering organization.

WHAT YOU BRING TO THE TABLE:

• A track record of successfully delivering maintainable backend systems in a Linux environment.
• Experience programming in Go, Ruby, or Elixir. Active interest in learning new paradigms and languages.
• Relentless problem solver.

WHO YOU ARE:

• You uplift those around you.
• You’ve got great verbal and written communication skills.
• You’ve got amazing relationship-building and relationship-management skills.
• You are comfortable working on complex projects with multiple stakeholders.
• You have a bias for action, a “driver” that gets stuff done, using analytical thinking.
• You are comfortable with ambiguity, ability to change course quickly based on new insights.

INCLUSION AT NAV:

At Nav, we celebrate what makes our employees unique because the businesses we serve are progressively diverse and distinctly original. Navericks are diverse, side hustlers, immigrants, veterans, queer, and we push generational boundaries. We are college dropouts, PhDs, special needs parents, allies, pet owners and community leaders. Navericks are human.  We are committed to upholding a safe, supportive environment where everyone matters. We are committed to making a better future for all of us. We have created a workplace where people of all backgrounds can express their identities authentically. To put it simply we want you to be proud to be you.

OUR COMPENSATION PHILOSOPHY IS SIMPLE BUT POWERFUL:

• We believe great, enduring relationships are grounded in trust and transparency.
• Compensation shouldn’t be a distraction, and employees should understand how pay and career advancement decisions are made.
• Providing equal pay for equal work is table stakes for being a great place to work.
• Gender and ethnic inequity should only be something that our children read about in history books.
• We believe providing Navsters with company ownership, competitive pay, and a range of meaningful benefits is the start of creating a culture where people want to give the best they’ve got — not because they’re simply making money, but because they’ve fallen in love with our vision, mission, values, and team.

OUR IMPACT ON YOU:

• Competitive Pay
• Company Ownership
• Unlimited Vacation
• Benefits Day One
• 6 Weeks Paid Parental Leave
• Work From Anywhere (yes we were distributed before it was cool)
• Flexible Work Arrangements
• Free Telehealth and Telemental Health For All Employees
• Employee Networking and Events
• Community Network Groups (women’s, PRIDE, culture)
• Meaningful Perks and Rewards
• Learning and Development Opportunities
• Pet Insurance

A NAVERICK’S DNA: 

• We look at the future and say “why not”;  we see possibilities where others see problems or routines
• We show the way ahead and are committed to achieving ambitious goals.
• We practice straight talk and listen generously to each other with empathy
• We value different opinions and point of views
• We ensure that we connect outside as well as inside to learn from others and inspire each other.
• We hold ourselves accountable for delivering results
• We choose to not to be a victim of circumstance.
• We make decisions &  take responsibility so that we can act & support each other, rather than adopting defensive, and “finger pointing” behaviors.
• As leaders we motivate & engage our teams to undertake beyond what they originally thought possible, by developing our teams & creating the conditions for people to grow and empower themselves through enabling & coaching.

Job Description

Senior Software Engineer Developer

PeopleConnect (formerly The Control Group) is hiring for our People Search Division (aka The Control Group TCG) as our business is GROWING!!! We are looking for a talented, collaborative Senior Software Engineer Developer who is excited to learn/grow Go/Golang skills by moving to a Go environment on an award-winning team. Would you like to be part of a pioneering tech community in a highly successful company? Does the idea of keeping up with and learning the newest technologies with other brilliant techies sound exciting? If so, then read on!

People Search (aka TCG) is an award-winning web development company with over 15 million customers nationwide. Our cutting-edge technology connects, informs and protects people — both online and off. Our websites are consistently ranked in the top 500 top traffic sites in the US. Our products have been featured on the Discovery Channel, Mashable, Vice, Entrepreneur, Business Insider — and even made a cameo in a Disney animated comedy! A pioneer of new ideas, we’re constantly looking to develop and deploy innovative strategies and solutions. Our people and culture are second to none: we’re innovative, creative, collaborative and talented. We work hard, play hard, and together — we work magic!

We are currently working remote and Sr Software Engineer candidates outside the greater San Diego area may continue to be full-time remote even after we return to the office on a hybrid schedule. Employees enjoy flexible work hours every day whether working remote or in office. Our hybrid work schedule will offer flexibility to work from home a few days a week and work in office a few days a week. When in office, employees are able to enjoy our state-of-the-art office with stunning views of beautiful downtown, Petco Park and the San Diego Harbor. Our dog-friendly office includes complimentary snacks, beverages and crazy-good perks (like free massages, kombucha on tap, free catered lunches, ping pong, video games, offsite team events and more)!

We offer very competitive pay + generous bonus package, 100% company paid health insurance (Medical, Dental, Vision), UNLIMITED vacation, Paid Sick Leave, Paid Holidays, Student Loan Repayment Program, 529 Education Savings Plan, Training/Education Reimbursement, free Gym Membership, Paid Parking and 401k Plan with Company Match. Check us out here!

You will already have extensive experience building applications in a service oriented or microservice architecture. You are excited to learn/grow Go/Golang skills by moving to a Go environment. You relish complex technical challenges yet prioritize simplicity in your solutions. You understand the business requirements behind the software you build. You are passionate about learning and stay current with new technologies. You play well with others yet can operate independently as needed.

Responsibilities Include (but not limited to):

• Build and maintain ecosystem of high-volume services and APIs.
• Scaling and optimizing services and databases for performance.
• Own features from technical design through maintenance.
• Build features, investigate and fix bugs, write routine-complex tests.
• Break down complex tasks/requests into sub-tasks, make consistently good decisions, operate independently between regular or periodic check-ins.
• Consistently use software engineering best practices.
• Lead day to day tasks and priorities, accurately estimate time to complete tasks, resulting in high quality and high productivity for at least one (or more) product team(s).
• Independently lead tasks to completion gathering requirements from stakeholders. May be responsible for driving initiative to completion.
• Provide training and mentorship to other Software Engineers on their team. May do same for other teams.
• Other duties as required.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree (or higher) in Computer Science or relevant field (or equivalent).
• At least 5-7+ years’ directly related software development experience.
• Advanced-expert backend programming skills using one or more backend languages such as Go/Golang, C++, Python, Java or Ruby. Go/Golang desired.
• Advanced-expert experience with relational databases (preferably PostgreSQL) and a deep understanding of database performance optimization.
• Advanced-expert experience using Linux.
• Advanced-expert understanding of underlying architecture and infrastructure that runs their team's projects.
• Extensive experience with cloud computing.
• Solid experience with git.
• Experience using Docker in production highly desired.
• Some experience using Kubernetes and Terraform highly desirable.
• Intermediate-advanced ability to assess/improve performance and increase observability within team's projects.
• Strong ability to develop unique, outside the box ideas.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving abilities.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Excellent communications skills and highly collaborative within their team, other teams and cross-functionally.
• Ability and willingness to lead projects and mentor other growing software engineers.
• Able to work with teams as well as independently with minimal supervision.
• Exceptional work ethic, driven, self-motivated, highly accountable with strong initiative and passion.
• Excited to learn new things and share knowledge and best practices with others.

Location: Fully Remote (USA) or Hybrid San Diego, CA, USA

Note for Principal Agencies - Principal agents should not forward resumes to The Control Group (TCG). TCG will not be responsible for any fees arising from the use of resumes submitted from agencies without a prior written and signed agreement and authorized job order for this position in place.

Job Description

What are we doing: we are a tech company, operating a thriving and growing broadcast platform, Alexa ranked in the top 100 sites internationally, and the top 25 in the United States, with approximately 10 million daily users, and a worldwide community of fans. Independent Broadcasters use our platform to create and share live streaming video, photographs, and similar content, generally adult in nature, (but no adult content is required).

Our sophisticated system has multiple parts, including but not limited to payment gateways, live chats, and video streaming technology. Every contribution here is of high impact and affects the experience of millions of users using the site every day.

We always explore new ways to use cutting-edge tech stack and move toward modern micro-services based architecture.

How we build the product: The platform is built on Python/Django framework with TypeScript on the front-end. Some parts of the platform use Java, Golang, and Rust.

Top-3 reasons to join our team:

• People first culture - many initiatives that support the well-being of our employees.
• Impressive team members who joined us after working at Google, Imgur, etc.
• An inclusive environment that induces a high impact of everyone on a team.

What will you do: Being a part of our infrastructure team, you will be working with Lead backend Engineer on complex migration of our codebase to Python 3 with its further optimization. As a top-notch software engineer in our team, you will be accountable for building comprehensive technical solutions with high-quality standards and practicing clean coding styles.

This includes working on features that are supported across all major web browsers, mobile devices, smart TVs, and video consoles. As a backend engineer, it is expected to work with large data sets and being an expert in designing efficient algorithms, queries, and caching methods.

We value an initiative and are willing to support you in making appropriate technical decisions

Requirements

• A degree in STEM and/or relevant professional experience.
• Solid knowledge of programming fundamentals - algorithms, data structures, design patterns, and paradigms.
• 7+years of professional experience with Python in a high-paced production environment.
• Familiarity with Django or extensive experience with similar Python-based frameworks.
• Expert knowledge of inner workings of Django is highly desirable.
• Expert knowledge of web development with a deep understanding of inner workings of major browsers, including how they render HTML/CSS and their Javascript runtime environment.
• Proven problem-solving and fast-learning skills.

Benefits

• Health&Life insurance with dental and vision plan
• 401k matching
• Paid holidays, vacation and sick days
• Paid lunches

What does the recruiting process look like: we value the sense of urgency and aspire to build a smooth and transparent recruiting process. These are our stages in the recruiting process: phone screen with a recruiter, resume review by our hiring manager, first technical interview with a backend team lead to test your knowledge of Python/Django, 1-hour live coding session with the Head of Engineering, Meet&Greet with your potential team.

We reserve the right to add additional selection stages to the process depending on the specific skills of each candidate.

Job Description

Kava Labs is seeking an experienced Senior Backend Engineer for the Kava lending platform, Kava's blockchain solution enabling decentralized stable coins, bonds, and lending for crypto users. This is a full time remote position. Candidates can apply from time zones ranging from PST (USA Pacific), to CET (Central Europe). We are looking for your experience and perspective to contribute to our growing company and culture! We are a 100% distributed workforce with teams in the US, Canada, Asia-Pacific, and Europe.

You will be directly developing and deploying on a platform that is worth $500M and working to have $1B+ assets under management by the software. You will work alongside a team of world class crypto experts, and take ownership of an open-source project on a platform that transfers millions of dollars in assets daily and provide the financial primitives for the next evolution in crypto. You will have a huge impact on product and technology development.

What You Will Do.

• Write financial applications using a blockchain application framework written in Go-lang called the Cosmos SDK.
• Write interoperability software for communicating between blockchains (IBC relayer, BEP 3 Deputy).
• Write supporting applications and developer tools in Golang that are used by Kava developers or users of the Kava DeFi platform.
• Familiarize yourself with the Kava codebase and related components of the cosmos-sdk (Kava, Tendermint)
• Review pull requests and provide valuable feedback to members of the team and open source contributors.
• Work with Kava blockchain engineers to optimize performance and squash bugs.
• Report to the Head of Engineering and attend Daily Stand-up meetings via Zoom.

Who You Are.

• 7+ years minimum as an experienced Backend Engineer, at least 3 years in senior position required.
• You are a strong individual contributor in Go with 3+ years of experience.
• You have solid engineering fundamentals, a computer science degree is preferred.
• You are comfortable working in an open source environment, your work is out there for everyone to see and scrutinize.
• You are meticulous and detail oriented. This is financial software, it’s of utmost importance that it is secure.
• You care about quality and you know what it means to ship high quality code.
• You have an interest in blockchains and decentralized technologies. A willingness to learn is a must.
• A self-starting and ambitious attitude that thrives in a startup environment.
• Committed to values of diversity, equity, and inclusion reflected in all aspects

What We Offer.

🤩 The chance to work in a fast-paced start-up environment with experienced industry leaders.

🤓 A learning environment where you can deep-dive into the frontier of blockchain technologies and make an impact to active users.

💰 Competitive salary.

📈 Competitive stock options.

🤫 Token grants for exploration, investment, and/or profit.

💪 $200 monthly stipend for health and wellness.

🏝 Flexible vacation policy - work with your manager to take time off when you need it.

🦷 Medical, dental and vision insurance for employees.

👵 401(k) matching.

🏡 A remote work environment with an international and diverse team.

About Kava Labs.

We are a remote-first, globally distributed team that values first principle thinking, experimentation, and learning to ensure long-term success. We are not dogmatic in our approach, but we are relentless in our pursuit to create impactful technology for the future. We have a diverse set of backgrounds, skills, and culture but we’re all united in our passion about building new open financial infrastructure — together, so that our efforts will make a real impact and create lasting change in the world.

With backing from leading blockchain investors including Ripple, Digital Asset Fund, and Arrington XRP Capital, we’re constantly pushing the bounds of DeFi and blockchain technology to bring new products and innovation to the world.

Our Commitment to Diversity

Kava is proudly an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. and celebrates the diversity of its growing team.

All applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the US. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment Visa at this time.

Recruitment agencies and consultants may not submit resumes/CVs through this website or directly to managers. Kava Labs does not accept unsolicited agency resumes, and will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Kava Labs.

Job Description

We are building the world's premier Operational Intelligence platform for Blockchain. We strive to develop our systems by observing the best practices of our craft; this means writing testable, performant, easy to maintain and constantly improving code, while enabling our company to iterate our product fast and stay ahead.

These are the early days of our platform, and as a Senior Backend Engineer you will be able to contribute, influence and take ownership in significant parts of our systems. Our goal is to build a very high performance platform, capable of analyzing thousands of transactions across multiple blockchain networks in real-time.

If you are a Senior Software Engineer, with a solid understanding of distributed systems, passion for your work and would love to work with a geographically distributed team, join us!

What this position is all about:

1. Designing and implementing crawlers, software agents and accompanying backend services that feed our Operational Intelligence platform with hundreds of metrics pertaining to the performance and health of Blockchain networks. You will be expected to demonstrate capacity to code (or pick up competence in) Python or Golang.
2. Working under a Scrum or Kanban framework and releasing product increments on a continuous basis.
3. Owning your work. This means writing unit tests, ensuring proper containerization, observability/instrumentation and documentation for your code.
4. Understanding, participating and contributing to the company goals, regardless of your role. Metrika is a small company with a very inclusive culture. We are looking for people that share those values with us.

Please note: Our Engineering team is predominantly based in Europe. This position is currently open to those resident and currently able to work in the European Economic Area (EU, Norway, Liechtenstein), Switzerland, the UK as well the eastern United States/Canada (UTC-4/UTC-5 timezone)

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Metrika Inc. is an Equal Opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered without regard for race, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion._

Job requirements

You will need:

1. A bachelor's degree in Computer Science. Masters or higher degrees preferred.
2. Considerable experience in building production-grade, distributed, cloud native, asynchronous/event-based microservices-based or serverless systems, using Python, Golang, Java/C# or Scala. (At Metrika we're predominantly using Python and Golang for our services at this time.)
3. Excellent understanding of TDD, agile development methodology and version control.
4. The ability to function autonomously to solve problems, and deliver working software. Our geographic distribution requires people that can work well on their own.
5. The ability to communicate well with your team, both interactively and asynchronously, and that of being a positive, constructive team member.
   

You'll probably be a great fit if you have:

1. Expert knowledge of Python or Golang.

2. Experience with blockchain systems.

3. Experience with key-value, document, time series or other non-relational databases.

4. Experience with CI/CD.

5. Experience with Docker/Kubernetes or Serverless environments.

6. Experience with SQS/SNS, Kafka, Pulsar, RabbitMQ or other brokers.

7. Experience with public cloud providers, e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure, DigitalOcean etc.