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Staff Software Engineer Copilot New York City, United States $150,000 to $230,000 a year
April 2023
4 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
About the role
As a senior software engineer, you will work closely with the CTO, be a critical part of our core team, and have a huge influence over the direction of the company. You will lead projects and work with cross functional teammates to design and implement systems like our API, notifications service, and authentication service while focusing on scalability and performance. We will compensate you well, invest deeply in your development, and do everything we can to make sure this is the single best work experience of your life.
What you'll do
You'll ship. You'll be working on the core product to engineer solutions across multiple modules including payments, messaging, and file-sharing. Whether it's fixing a bug or architecting a new feature, you'll move fast.
You'll be an owner. You'll be the leader of multiple projects and be responsible for their success. This involves closely collaborating with the founders and other engineers, creating engineering tasks, writing documentation, and setting up new services and scalable infrastructure.
You'll balance the short and long term. While knowing the importance of shipping quickly you also know how to craft thoughtful long-term technical strategy. You know when to address tech debt and when to improve infrastructure and processes (testing, code reviews, CI/CD).
You'll help build the team. The first 10 members of a startup dictate the next 100. You'll help interview and recruit more talented engineers.
You'll learn about startups. Aside from your core work, you'll have the opportunity to get involved in other areas - marketing, growth, ops, etc.
Who you are
You have good values. You understand why diversity matters and make others feel like they belong. You're low ego and make the workplace more fun for everyone.
You're entrepreneurial. You are comfortable with ambiguity and thrive in fast-pasted environments. You've likely worked at startups before or might want to start one in the future.
You're hardworking. You understand that building a category-defining company requires people that work smart and that also work hard.
You're experienced. You have 5+ years experience working on production software and have worked across the stack. You are comfortable with React, Typescript, Golang and NoSQL databases (Mongo, Dyanmo, etc.)
You know what matters. We believe your education is irrelevant; we only care that you can build great products. Likewise, in your work you're not religious about any one technology and care more about making progress.
You're a systems thinker. You don't identify as a particular (frontend/backend/etc.) engineer but are more interested in solving problems holistically.
You're resourceful. You are a fast learner and have a “get things done” mentality. If you don't understand something you quickly determine what to do to push forward.
You put users first. You think critically about the implications of what you're building. You're constantly putting yourself in shoes of the users and push back when necessary.
Tech
Mobile/Webapp: React-Native/React + Redux and Typescript
Backend: Golang and DynamoDB.
AWS Serverless architecture with Lambda, API Gateway, and Cognito.
Custom design system based on MaterialUI.
Bespoke websocket service to connect frontend and backend in real-time.
Lead Backend Engineer Wellthon Canada / United States / Remote $90,000 to $100,000 a year
July 2019
2 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
Wellthon empowers people to live their best life with active-aging personal training in their living room. We’re building a video exercise program for people with Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, heart disease, and for older adults who want to excel at their activities of daily living.
Think Peloton for Baby Boomers and the Silent Generation.
Wellthon has partnered with and been financially backed by one of the nation's leading healthcare systems, OhioHealth.
Why work for Wellthon?
Work 100% remotely
We’re a fully distributed team. Say good-bye to a daily commute, missing your family’s events, and being stuck living in a place with astronomical housing costs.
Meaningful equity compensation
It’s early. You’ll be shaping the brand, product, and customer experience, so you deserve to have real ownership in the company.
Purpose-driven product
We’re building something that will improve the quality of life of millions of people. Think about your parents, grandparents, and older family members. You’ll be helping them maintain independence as they age, alleviate pain, avoid medication, reduce the risk of disease, and delay disease.
About you:
You could work for any major tech company, but you have a conviction to build something that matters
Ability to thrive in a fast-paced startup environment
Great communication skills, high EQ, and the ability to work with a distributed team
Responsibilities:
Work within an Agile team to develop backend applications
Design, implement, test and maintain the backend environments for our application.
Integrate our backend with 3rd parties services, or bridging such services together.
Collaborate with frontend developers to define proper APIs
Educate yourself and others, continuing to growing skill set, and exploring and evangelizing new technologies where appropriate.
Contribute towards improving the stability of our systems through best practices (code reviews, process improvements, incident resolution, etc.).
Required Experience and Skills:
5+ years of backend development experience building consumer facing software at scale
Experience building backends with Go, and all the modern tooling that it requires (or really excited to learn it all)
Comfortable managing production environments.
A passion for great UX, attention to detail, and an empathy for the customer experience.
A high bar for code quality, and an interest in building toolchains that make building, testing, and releasing application code as efficient as possible.
Experience writing unit, integration, and functional tests, specifically for backend apps
Comfortable working in an agile, yet pragmatic startup environment where quality / user experience is not a tradeoff when building and releasing software.
Bonus points for experience with video, health, fitness, SAAS
If you join us, you’ll get:
Competitive compensation
Stock options -- shared success is core to our mission
Comprehensive medical, vision, dental benefits
A family-friendly work environment
A shiny Mac and the other productivity accessories you need
Flexible schedule and freedom to work from wherever you please
Sense of purpose and satisfaction when you start to receive emails from the people whose lives you’re changing.
Interested?
Send us a note or cover letter with what excites you about Wellthon along with your resume.
We're looking for a talented multi-faceted full stack developer who also has a good baseline in systems, networking, security.
This person is going to continue/takeover/assist with the CTO's development effort and will report to the CTO.
At a high level, here's what you'll be doing:
Coding API Integrations with a bunch of systems
Expanding our own API
Development of multiple web front-end interfaces - both customer facing & internal facing
About you:
You dig Node.js, but let's be real, if you can really code, the details shouldn't matter that much
You understand [at least relational] databases and you have a good balanced idea of when to abstract
You love at least one front-end library (Angular, React, et al)
You code with a 'REST API first' mentality and front-end comes after
You see JSON blocks as art
You consider security implications while you're coding
Ideally, you'll also:
Have a systems/network background to understand the DevOps side and implications of what you're doing
Have comfort with cloud infrastructure orchestration & automation
Have some depth in cryptography and/or security
Have a passion for data and have played with D3.js or similar
Can code mobile apps for Android and iOS
You should have the following experience & education:
Just kidding. We're not going to throw out arbitrary lengths of time and list external validations and pretend that matters.
If you can do this stuff and are interested in what we're building, reach out.
Obligatory keyword skills list:
Languages: JavaScript, Go/Golang, PHP, Python
Frontend/Backend: Node.js, Agular, React, Vue, HTML, CSS
SOA: Microservices, REST, RESTful
Data structures: JSON, XML
SQL & NoSQL: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
Cryptography: PKI, SSL, TLS, and much more
Systems & Network: Linux, nginx, apache, IP, IPv4, TCP, HTTP, SSL/TLS
Security: SIEM, Splunk, Suricata, Bro, DNSBL
Cloud: AWS, EC2, RDS, CloudFormation
Authentication/AAA: JWT, Radius, LDAP, SAML, et al
SaaS Integrations
Development: OO, GIT, Agile, CICD
Senior Backend Engineer Pager New York City, United States $120,000 to $150,000 a year
October 2018
2 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to develop backend solutions for our suite of mobile and web-based products. The ideal candidate’s prior work experience reflects high standards for engineering with proven capabilities. The candidate possesses the ability to take on important business challenges and execute them with precision and quality.
MUST HAVES
4+ years experience in a similar role
Fluency in Javascript
Meaningful, real-world experience with any other of the following: Go, Python, Ruby, Java, or similar
Experience with Database technologies (MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB, etc)
Experience with messaging (RabbitMQ, Kafka)
Knowledge of cloud computing
Experience with modern source code management (git)
Excellent communication skills, particularly when explaining technical matters to less technical teammates
Ability to integrate concepts and methodologies into concrete product implementations
Ability to work independently and quickly, but cares about precision and details, doing whatever it takes to get the job done
Encouraged to take risks and push yourself to new heights
Ability to estimate, plan and prioritize own tasks
Extremely detail-oriented
NICE TO HAVES
BA/BS degree, preferably in a technical field (Computer Science, IT, etc) or equivalent practical experience
Strong experience with node.js
Experience with hapi.js framework
Experience with Go
Strong unit testing experience
Experience with HIPAA and strong security practices
Experience integrating with third party health systems
Senior Backend Engineer Verivest Portland, Oregon, United States / Remote (United States) $90,000 to $180,000 a year
May 2021
2 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
Verivest is a tech-enabled real estate investment services platform built upon a mission to bring transparency and accountability to the middle market to increase the speed of trust creation between real estate sponsors and investors. Our platform provides a sponsor directory connecting accredited investors with real estate sponsors across the country, as well as a range of integrated end-to-end back-office services, including track record verification, active investment financial monitoring, fund and syndication administration, investor servicing, investor portal technology, tax return and K-1 preparation, and more. Verivest’s strict focus on the middle market real estate private investment industry, expertise in the esoteric parts of the business that many real estate entrepreneurs do not understand well or like doing, and third-party objectivity combines to bring genuine value to both sides of this dual sided market.
Company Values
Collaboration: We win together.
Grit: We are persistent and consistent, driven by a passion for what we do.
Trust: We are driven to understand and solve our clients’ issues.
Continuous Improvement: We are always learning and always evolving.
Get It: We exist to understand the complex and simplify it for our clients.
We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Backend to support our rapidly growing organization. In this role, you will collaborate closely with data analysts, frontend engineers and cross-functional partners across our product, design, and quality assurance teams to contribute to and build out our strategic initiatives.
Responsibilities
Your role is to collaborate with the team to deliver on these objectives and contribute to evolving our platform's infrastructure to meet expanding scope and scale. Specifically, you will:
Contribute to large, complex projects in a team, providing technical reviews and execution
Participate in project kick offs and translate projects requirements into technical specifications for implementation
Define new and expand existing data models, including database schema and object models in the data access layer
Implement any required business logic in the service layer
Implement enhancements to our asynchronous task worker infrastructure
Define and implement API endpoints, collaborating with front end engineers
Write integration and unit tests for your code and perform code reviews for colleagues
Provide technical support for stakeholder groups such as customer success
Participate in monitoring, diagnosing, and addressing production issues
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or equivalent work experience
4+ years of professional software development experience. 6+ years preferred but not required.
2+ years of professional experience working with Golang
Experience with SQL database schema design and query optimization
Experience with AWS is a plus
Experience with blockchain and crypto a plus
You must be flexible and adaptable—you will be operating in a fast-paced startup environment
Software Engineer Algorithmia Seattle / San Francisco, United States / Vancouver, Canada / Remote $100,000 to $150,000 a year
August 2018
3 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
Software Engineer (Production & Deployment)
Seattle, Vancouver, NYC, or Remote
Empower large enterprise to run AI/ML at scale, leveraging the best in modern distributed systems and automation technology
Join a truly remote-friendly company - work anywhere in the US or Canada including your sofa, the beach, or our Seattle waterfront office
Experience rapid growth in the first AI startup to be funded by Google
Algorithmia automates, optimizes, and accelerates every step of the journey to deploying of AI/ML at scale. We allow anyone to run models on massively parallel infrastructure in minutes instead of months. In our cloud or your datacenter - all completely managed for maximum performance at minimum cost. Already trusted by over 60k developers and major enterprise customers, Algorithmia makes scalable Machine Learning fast, simple, and cost-effective for everyone.
Undergoing enormous customer growth, we’re rapidly scaling our Customer Operations team to meet demand. We’re looking for talented Software Engineers to join a passionate, distributed group that's driving the design, deployment, and optimization of Algorithmia with our Enterprise customers. This unique role is a broad mix of automation, DevOps, infrastructure engineering, and software development - offering an unparalleled opportunity to learn, grow, and impact the most important financial institutions, intelligence agencies, and private companies in the country.
As a Software Engineer on the Customer Operations team at Algorithmia, you will:
Deploy Algorithmia Enterprise into Fortune 500 and Government environments
Design, build, and maintain the automation and infrastructure needed to deliver Algorithmia effectively, and to help us achieve even greater scale
Work cross-team to ensure Algoritmia supports unique customer environments, and to design solutions to meet specific customer needs
Eventually automate your role out of existence - then join us in doing something even more amazing
Handle the highest-tier of engineering support for AI/ML leaders
Have a real career plan, with mentorship and fast-track opportunities to promotion, technical leadership, people management, or wherever your interests may be
Work from anywhere in the USA or Canada. We have teams in Seattle, NYC, Vancouver BC, Nova Scotia - or go 100% remote from home (Snuggie, bunny slippers, and all - no judgement!)
And we might make the perfect match if you:
Want to work with modern cloud technologies and large scale distributed systems
Have experience multiple languages (Java, Scala, Go, Python, Bash, etc.), deployment tools (Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform, etc.), and cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenStack, etc.)
Are passionate about automation, and believe nothing should ever be done manually twice
Enjoy working with customers to deliver solutions that meet business need, empower engineers (and data scientists!), and solve real-world problems
Feel most comfortable in hybrid roles that blur the line between Developer, Site Reliability Engineer, Deployment Engineer, Solutions Architect, and Consultant
Bonus points for a love of data science, any kind of AI/ML experience, interesting public code, or the implementation of something cool on our AI marketplace (hint: free trial!)
As a Software Engineer at Algorithmia you’ll join a passionate team that’s changing the way everyone uses AI and ML. You’ll solve real problems, make an impact, and work in a flexible environment that encourages you to follow your own interests as well. You’ll be welcomed into an intelligent, quirky, and diverse group and gain access to fantastic perks beyond just salary, equity, and insurance benefits - all from the comfort of your own sofa (or our dog-friendly office).
If this sounds like you APPLY NOW, or learn more at algorithmia.com
Algorithmia is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity at our core. We will never discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status and encourage everyone to apply.
TextNow is based around a simple idea: Communication belongs to everyone. We work hard to help people stay connected by offering a solution that makes phone service free. At TextNow, we work together to solve complex and interesting problems that have a positive impact on our customers' lives.
Join us in our mission to help people stay connected with technology that is free (or as close to free as possible.)
TextNow is looking for SDET Software Development Engineer in Test to come join a backend team that uses cutting edge technologies like cloud computing, micro-services via gRPC, high performing databases, streaming and queueing.
We manage hundreds of millions of user interactions and terabytes of raw data in real-time. We are extending the capabilities of our in-house platform to streamline calling experience into a wholistic and refined user experience. As a Backend engineer in test, you will gain real world experience in being part of building scalable and high performing systems.
What You’ll Do:
Work as part of scrum teams in crafting test plans, test cases, and test strategy
Develop test frameworks and automate test cases as well as maintain existing automated tests and tools
Be an advocate for quality and collaborate with developers, product and care teams
Investigate, mitigate, and create testing around production errors and incidents
Who You Are:
Brilliant Collaborator with 3+ years of experience or its equivalence in a software engineering role
Someone who takes action and ownership with experience with GO, Rest API testing, gRPC, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS
Creator of cool stuff with experience in modern testing frameworks
Resourceful and scrappy with experience with telecommunication specifically on (VoIP/RCS messaging) is a major asset
A bold risk-taker and self-starter that can build out our Automation framework
Benefits:
· Strong work life blend
· Flexible work arrangements (wfh, remote)
· Employee Stock Options
· Unlimited vacation
· Competitive pay and benefits
· Parental leave
· Benefits for both physical and mental well being
Diversity and Inclusion:
At TextNow, our mission is built around inclusion and offering a service for EVERYONE, in an industry that traditionally only caters to the few who have the means to afford it. We believe that diversity of thought and inclusion of others promotes a greater feeling of belonging and higher levels of engagement. We know that if we work together, we can do amazing things, and that our differences are what make our product and company great.
For TextNow Candidates:
The People and Culture team is available to support you through the hiring process by providing reasonable accommodations to help enable a barrier-free interview experience. If you need assistance applying for a role due to a disability or special need, please let us know by completing this form. Once received our Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Specialist will reach out to you and assist with accommodations that you may require
Seeking Ambitious Golang/Python Developer To Build Modern Marketing Platform - (Remote)
The Opportunity
Get.It has a singular focus on empowering and helping business owners grow their businesses on the Internet. Our platform enables organizations to simply and quickly leverage the scale of the Internet to promote their business without any previous expertise in digital marketing. This is a true ground floor opportunity, where you will have the ability to envision, design, and build the products our customers will use every day. This role is perfect if you want to have real people with real needs using your concepts, design, and code!
About The Role:
Get It LLC is looking for an ambitious developer to join our team. This represents a rare opportunity to assume an integral position within our organization and make an immediate impact.
You will collaborate with product management and engineering to execute, extend and scale a services-based architecture. You will create, user flows, process flows, and architectural diagrams to communicate interaction and development concepts. You will advocate and defend system design and key deliverables to peers and executive-level stakeholders.
About You:
You are a creative thinker, who is passionate about creating elegant, scalable, and thoroughly tested code. You know your way around high-level product requirements and can transform them into efficient, purpose-built code. You love new challenges and geek out at the opportunity to experiment. You play well with others and love being part of a team. You are a risk-taker. You are an ambitious go-getter who is looking for an unconventional, yet exciting career move.
We Have:
A fun, collaborative team.
Leadership committed to your success and growth.
A working environment where your voice and ideas can be heard and, actually, implemented.
A strong commitment to innovation and technology
Accelerated long-term growth opportunities
You should be comfortable working with:
Languages:
Golang
Python
Django
Vue
Storage Engines:
Elastic Search
Vespa
Postgres
Bigquery
Hosted Services:
GCP (Google Cloud Platform)
The Following concepts:
RESTful API's
GRPC
Kubernetes
Git
GitOps
AI (Artificial Intelligence)
ML (Machine Learning)
As part of this role, you should expect:
Be available for travel to Washington DC (our home office)
Be comfortable working remotely/working from home
Be comfortable working with stakeholders and be comfortable explaining/demonstrating your work in video calls, verbally with a camera on
Be comfortable with providing documentation, visualizations, and high-level diagrams of architecture and interactions (we strive for highly visual communication)
To be considered for this position please provide in your cover letter why you think would be a good fit as well as any publicly available code samples and any other certifications or tests you think would assist us in evaluating your work and potential fit.
Platform Engineer Watchtower AI San Francisco, United States $120,000 to $200,000 a year
September 2019
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
As an early Platform Engineer at Watchtower, you’ll enable us to deliver our platform reliably, securely, and at massive scale. You’ll help architect low latency, real-time microservices that process & detect sensitive data at scale.
Responsibilities:
Building highly-available and secure authentication and API services
Maintaining and evolving mission-critical internal databases and services
Optimizing and operating high volume auto-scaling streaming data services
Instrumenting streaming data services for visibility into utilization per customer
Qualifications:
Expertise in one or more systems/high-level programming language (e.g. Go, Rust, Python, Java, C++) and the eagerness to learn more.
Eagerness to wear multiple hats in a startup environment
Experience running scalable (thousands of RPS) and reliable (five 9’s) systems.
Experience with developing complex software systems scaling to substantial data volumes or millions of users with production quality deployment, monitoring and reliability.
Experience with large-scale distributed storage and database systems (SQL or NoSQL, e.g. Cassandra, CockroachDB, Spanner)
Ability to decompose complex business problems and lead a team in solving them
Data Processing - experience with building and maintaining large scale and/or real-time complex data processing pipelines using Kafka, Hadoop, Hive, Storm, or Zookeeper
Watchtower is a cybersecurity startup dedicated to helping enterprises secure and manage their sensitive data. As a leading enterprise technology company, our product affects the personal data that people entrust businesses to store & process with care every day. Critical data in the modern enterprise is often sprayed across a broad set of cloud systems (e.g. SaaS & data infrastructure), and it’s a herculean task for security teams to monitor, manage, and protect this highly sensitive data. Via machine learning, our product makes it easy for companies to discover, classify, and protect this sensitive data across their cloud footprint - such as their corporate SaaS, data infrastructure, and APIs. In doing so, we prevent data leakage, provide unprecedented data visibility & protection across the cloud, and enable compliance. We're a technology startup based in San Francisco and Palo Alto, well-funded by leading institutional investors with deep expertise in the cybersecurity industry. Learn more at our website www.watchtower.ai or by reaching out via email at careers@watchtower.ai.
Senior Backend Developer PowerSpike New York City, United States / Remote $80,000 to $100,000 a year
August 2019
6 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 19,000+ gaming and esports influencers to execute premium, authentic influencer marketing campaigns. PowerSpike’s influencer network reaches over 125M viewers every month and grew over 1000% in 2018. The 4-year-old company is backed by Techstars, Cox Enterprises, the Philadelphia 76ers, 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 19,000+ 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 head 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, candor, 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
-Create adaptable solutions to collect and process data from an api
-Develop scalable APIs for both internal and public consumption
-Implement, maintain and improve scalable databases
-Write scalable solutions to process mass data in real time
-Design and ensure data security and integrity
-Develop reusable and sustainable code
Requirements
-3-5+ 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
-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
Perks & 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