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SOFTWARE ENGINEER (GENERALIST) ; CONTRACT OR EMPLOYEE You will be preferably be based in Bangalore, India and posses work experience of between 1 and 4 years.
At Fastah, we are helping build a faster mobile internet. We craft tools and APIs that make it easy to create mobile apps and services that work seamlessly on any network, around the world : "Faster apps for flaky networks!"
We are looking for a generalist Software Engineer who is happy to wear many hats at an early stage startup. If you are pretty good ANY ONE of the sections listed below, please do apply.
A) APIs FOR DEVELOPERS, WORLDWIDE:
You will work on our REST API product offering: specification, development, test, bug fixing, deployments, customer support and documentation
You will help with developer outreach and tech support
You will contribute working code and prototypes to Fastah’s open-source repositories to demonstrate Fastah APIs to a global developer audience.
You will monitor of our infrastructure, data pipelines, software upgrades, outages debugging and operational security.
You will understand or gain knowledge of security and Authorization concepts as applied to API services and backend servers
You will enhance and support billing and subscription management module such as those powered by Stripe.com APIs
B) DATA PROCESSING, VISUALIZATION, MODELING
We collect crowd-sourced data on the world's mobile 4G LTE networks, so need your help with the following activities.
Data processing: You will know how to cleanse data using combination of Go, Python and R using Unix tools, scripts, Jupyter.
Databases: You will be experienced with data-stores and querying them, preferable with geo-spatial capabilities such as Elasticsearch, Postgres/PostGIS
Query design, tuning and maintenance will be required to support our ever-evolving API requirements
You will need to map and visualize data sets using Mapbox GL JS, Google Maps JavaScript API, Kibana or similar exploration tools
You will be able to build static websites using generators such as Hugo or Jekyll
C) MOBILE DEVELOPMENT ON ANDROID
Our Android app helps drivers on on-demand transportation apps to stay online more reliably using commercial 4G LTE networks. Additionally we publish an Android SDK for developers.
You will improve core UI features such as Activities, Views layouts, and Material Design-compliant UI elements with an eye on aesthetics as well as performance.
Understanding of architecture concept is required: Service, lifecycles, background execution, networking, location services, aand persistence (via Room/SQLlite)
A strong plus is experience with mapping and markers via Google Maps Android SDK or Mapbox Android SDK
Improving and maintaining Fastah’s Android SDKs with public APIs via good documentation, release management and documentation
D) DEVELOPER EXPERIENCE:
Engaging with developer communities online via Stack Overflow, Fastah’s online discussion site, Hacker News etc.
Organizing local meet-ups such as the Bangalore Mobile Performance Meetup, or speaking at other tech events
Asking good questions online of your own, and helping others online
Writing high-quality developer documentation including diagrams, “getting started guides”, FAQs and tutorials.
Writing open-source code including examples for our APIs, with the right code hygiene, licenses etc. on GitHub.
Read more about what Developer Experience includes here: https://girliemac.com/blog/2016/08/16/developer-experience-matters/
OUR WAY OF WORKING:
We release frequently and often
We showcase our APIs via rich examples, demos and integration guides
We show phenomenal ownership of work: every person is responsible for fixing bugs, building features, improving quality and repeating the previous continually
We follow lightweight agile processes
We document everything internally.
We treat our customer's data with serious respect and all due privacy
We value constant learning and resourcefulness in the workplace.
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Expa is a startup studio led by the founders of Uber, StumbleUpon, Foursquare, AddThis, and Metrolyrics. After 10 years designing and building consumer services, the Expa team has identified many techniques that help create successful companies. With $150 million funding to date, the team founds new companies based on internal ideas, and occasionally collaborates with founders of early-stage companies whose missions Expa believes in. We help companies avoid common pitfalls in early-stage ventures, and actively remove roadblocks along the way, specializing in product strategy, system design, and user experience.
Expa has a strong presence in San Francisco and New York City, and has recently expanded operations to Vancouver, Canada. We are actively looking to hire the best talent to be a part of our growing team.
You can read more about Expa on our site. The project you would be involved in is under stealth and more information will be provided at the time of interview.
JOB DESCRIPTION
We are looking for experienced software engineers, with strong backend experience in Cloud based environments excited for the challenge of working with a small team of front-end engineers. The position requires excellent problem solving and engineering skills when working with systems at scale. We are seeking individuals that are motivated to build cutting edge backends for products and manage the underlying infrastructure and deployment processes. The perfect candidate will be comfortable working closely with front-end engineers and can communicate effectively within a small team.
RESPONSIBILITIES - Build scalable, secure, effective and well documented backend systems in alongside well motivated front-end engineers - Collaborate with front-end engineers to ensure on-time and performant solutions - Assess and build test frameworks for backend systems, as well as track metrics and performance over time - Ensure that code written is to a high standard, with excellent reusability - Help develop a service orientated architecture for cutting edge products
SKILLS & REQUIREMENTS - Strong development skills with Go ( golang ), NodeJs or Python for backend development - Ability to write clean, maintainable and well documented code - Strong understanding of front-end development and integration of services and APIs for front-end developers - Experience with Elastic Container Service and Docker is a must - Ability to maintain and manage databases and infrastructure within AWS - Understanding of Highly Available infrastructure environments and systems - Experience with infrastructure management and deployment through Automation tools and systems - Comfortable with OS Internals / Infrastructure on Debian, Redhat and Ubuntu systems - Experience with load balancing and web server technologies (Nginx, HAProxy) - Ability to build scalable infrastructure on Amazon Web Services (EC2, RDS, S3, ES, ECS, ELB etc) - Strong understanding of network communications within Cloud environments - Computer science degree or equivalent experience - Security hardening / experience with SANS or OWASP frameworks
YOUR BENEFITS - A competitive base salary - Stock options - Full medical and dental benefits - A very flexible vacation policy - Custom workstation designed to your needs - A beautiful office in downtown Vancouver and a talented team
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★ IMPORTANT: MUST have 4+ years of working experience as a developer
ABOUT US
★ AngelPad #10 - Spring 2016 ★ All-Star Company
NexGenT is on a mission to provide affordable IT education through an innovative approach that combines the best of online learning with the best of in person learning. The company is striving to spark a change in the educational system, which is currently leaving people in high amounts of debt and not giving them the skills they need to succeed in the workforce.
★ RESPONSIBILITIES
CS Bachelors or Masters degree from a top school (or equivalent experience and talent). A strong background in CS fundamentals is a must for this position.
★ QUALIFICATIONS
You must be incredibly smart and a fantastic engineer. Bonus points if your friends have ever described you as a "beast" and you have super hard work ethics.
★ Bonus - Experience with React.js - Experience with Serverless Framework - Experience with Terraform - Experience with Golang - Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
★ BENEFITS
Medical, Dental & Vision, Life Health Plans For You and Your Dependents Very Cool Startup Office in Downtown Silicon Valley San Jose Full Gym and Shower On-site Included
★★ Stock Options/Equity with HUGE upside as employee #6-10. Come join the next Silicon Valley Unicorn and help us disrupt tech education once and for all!
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★ IMPORTANT: MUST have 7+ years of working experience as a developer
ABOUT US
★ AngelPad #10 - Spring 2016 ★ All-Star Company
NexGenT solves the growing shortage of IT engineers for enterprise companies with cutting edge education software. Our intelligent learning platform provides smart career guidance, skills assessment, and access to world class engineers for 1:1 mentorship.
★ OUR MISSION
To inspire, create, and empower the next generation of IT engineers by providing the highest quality tech education that is affordable to anyone.
★ RESPONSIBILITIES
CS Bachelors or Masters degree from a top school (or equivalent experience and talent). A strong background in CS fundamentals is a must for this position.
★ QUALIFICATIONS
You must be incredibly smart and a fantastic engineer. Bonus points if your friends have ever described you as a "beast" and you have super hard work ethics.
Excited to work in downtown San Jose (Heart of Silicon Valley). We will relocate you if necessary.
★ Bonus
★ BENEFITS
Full Medical, Dental & Vision, Life Health Plans For You and Your Dependents Very Cool Startup Office in Downtown Silicon Valley San Jose @ WeWork Valley Towers Full Gym and Shower On-site Included
BONUS ★ Stock Options/Equity with HUGE upside as employee #6-10. Come join the next Silicon Valley Unicorn and help us disrupt tech education once and for all!
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There’s no denying it, the financial world is messy and confusing. People suffer as they try to manage their financial lives and financial institutions haven’t cracked the code at helping them along the way. Legacy systems and antiquated distribution models have created a huge gap in the market, leaving hundreds of millions of people vulnerable in North America. As unexpected events occur in these people’s lives, many will encounter life changing situations and serious debt. It’s an inconvenient truth, but the one size fits all products, paper forms and fax machines are often the harsh status quo of the industry.
At Breathe Life, we’re building technology that helps people take control of their financial future so they can do what’s right for them, their loved ones and have peace of mind. Our platform helps them learn about financial products, identify the ones best suited for them, and make their purchase online when they’re ready. Breathe Life is shaping an industry that hasn’t changed in 100 years and having a massive impact in the process.
Breathe Life has secured significant financial and strategic backing from Diagram, a venture launchpad focused on insurance, financial and health technology. Diagram is backed by Power Financial Corporation, Great-West Lifeco, and IGM Financial through Portag3, along with 50+ leading angel investors. Our backing from Diagram gives us a significant competitive advantage that will help us win our market.
We’re looking for software engineers, programmers, devs, coders to join our growing engineering team. We believe it’s important for our team to represent the society we serve and we value diversity.
There is a lot of software to build as we tackle this huge opportunity: from managing and deploying great content online, to building education tools for our consumers, to building best in class user experiences on par with the best consumer startups in the world, to building tools for brokers to assist where they are most valuable. Our company is inherently data driven and there are plenty of opportunities down the road to apply Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning against actual problems with high quality data.
Come join us as we change this high impact industry that inherently touches many many lives.
What you’d be doing: - Participate in projects from initial idea to launch; - Design and implement features in small teams; - Work closely with peers across functions (dev, design, product, marketing); - Contribute full-stack features; - Specialize in important areas that play to your strengths; - Write software and configuration that defines and manages our deployment using Kubernetes on Google Cloud Platform; - Build powerful APIs using languages like Go and Python; - Build reusable components using React, Redux and a modern frontend stack; - Analyze performance and reliability - data should move fast and accurately; - Contribute to open source software we use; - Implement security and data protection best practices; - Stay up to date on latest technology and help us stay aligned with emerging best practices where practical; - Help onboard and ramp up the next software engineers as we grow the team.
What we’re looking for: - Bachelor’s degree or more in Computer Science or Software Engineering OR Demonstrated achievements in software development; - A great track record demonstrating growth and drive; - Excellent communications skills (English - French); - Humility; - Hard worker; - Ambitious.
What we’d like to see: - Startup experience or interest; - Mastery or strong interest in technologies we use.
What we offer: - We will give you the opportunity to have a strong impact in shaping the product of a heavily backed new startup.
We are a team of visionary and caring individuals who are committed to help you learn and grow professionally. Having two parents in our co-founding team, we recognize the importance of personal and family time, flexible hours and great benefits. By joining us, you will get a competitive salary, stock options, a telemedicine service for you and your family and a healthy and accessible working environment.
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You have:
Solid Kubernetes experience in a professional environment ● You have experience scaling Kubernetes (including auto-scaling) ● You have deployed a Kubernetes deployment on AWS ● You've implemented metrics, logging and tracing ● You know how to get under the hood to diagnose issues when things go wrong
Good knowledge of AWS (or GCE) ● EC2 & VPCs ● S3 ● DynamoDB ● RDS (Postgres/Aurora) ● Cloudfront ● SQS ● Route 53
Worked with some of the following technologies ● Golang ● Ruby/Python ● Bash script ● Postgres
Knowledge of fundamentals of GIS ● You can use PostGIS to run basic queries
Your responsibilities: ● As a fast growing company, scaling our systems as we grow will be a core part of your job. ● Building out our metrics, logging and tracing infrastructure to give us full insight into our stack. ● Looking after our AWS & Heroku accounts & infrastructure. ● Managing our external services (CDNs, Databases etc) ● Ensuring security standards throughout our infrastructure. ● Improving the performance and reliability of our tile and data stacks. ● Maintaining and improving our user databases. ● Iterating on our PostGIS adventure databases. ● Mentoring our more junior developers. ● Building on our current engineering processes such as code reviews, pull requests etc. ● Helping us continue to build our engineering culture.
Your profile: ● You're an engineer that can see the bigger picture, you understand why performance and quality is important to our end users and why automated tests and documentation are important to our wider engineering team. ● You care deeply about the quality of the work you produce. ● You can distill complex requirements into a non-complex solution. ● You have excellent communication skills and can explain complicated problems in an easy to understand way. ● You are dynamic and can effortlessly transition between the various facets of the company as required. ● You are a self-starter and comfortable taking the lead on certain aspects of your role. ● You are comfortable mentoring other members of the engineering team.
GrayMeta is looking for a mid- to senior-level Golang Developer to join our team and work with our scalable, highly-available Golang platform. We are looking for someone that has experience with building great user experiences, high performant single page applications and loves the creative aspect of building.
Love a challenge? Anyone can manage a single application - we manage and processing petabytes of video and image files along with the components supporting billions of operations with very different workloads. You'll be part of a highly capable and motivated team working on solving the hard problems of scalability, availability, and performance on a global platform across multiple data store technologies.
ESSENTIAL POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES
· Work closely with Marketing, Product, and other stakeholders to ensure product requirements are understood
· Perform a technical analysis of requirements
· Write clean, modular, robust code to implement the desired requirements
· Tackle tough design and UX problems
· Create new ideas with our digital team and continually iterate on the experience
· Ensure high level of quality
· Take full ownership of the product from design to implementation and deployment
QUALIFICATION & EXPERIENCE:
· 5+ years of web production or site operations experience
· Deep understanding of SQL/NSQL
·Deep experience with Golang, experience in Machine Learning a +
· Ability to work both independently and in cooperation with others
· Ability to instill and enforce best practices around web development
· Ability to navigate large existing code, and improve it as it changes
· A sense of urgency and ownership over the product
· Great attitude towards work and people
· Intellectually curious, passionate, and inventive
· Focus on quality and simplicity, sweat the details, and delight our users
· Motivated to solve problems in unique and innovative ways
· Desire to make things beautiful, and a strong understanding of usability and visual design
· Preferably strong working knowledge of: Golang, Elastic and Postgres
Onsite in Austin, TX 78704 Must be authorized to work in the U.S.
Description
Do you enjoy building processing pipelines for massive amounts of data? Adaptable time-series databases? Machine learning? Streaming analytics pipelines? We’ve got a lot of opportunities for you to leave your mark.
A Backend Developer at Meshify will have the opportunity to work on a myriad of projects and applications. We have just finished 1.0 of our platform rewrite, entitled Carbon. It is a full scale redesign and rewrite of our legacy platform. We migrated from an old .NET API server to Go, from MySQL to ScyllaDB (Cassandra) for time-series data, and from MySQL to Postgres for relational data. It includes a query and analytics engine, highly customizable rules and notifications engine, and even custom javascript code triggered by messages in the data pipeline (Lambda Engine). Future projects will include a Hardware Identity Server providing identity and security to our hardware, simple integration with big data tooling, improved GPS rule processing, integration with common ticketing systems like Pager Duty, and more.
First Few Months
Key Responsibilities
Skills & Requirements
Sample of what we currently use
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uSwitch’s purpose is to simplify complex marketplaces with intuitive and accessible applications that genuinely improve people’s lives. Saving a few hundred pounds a year on bills makes a fundamental difference to vulnerable people who sometimes have to choose between paying for utilities or groceries.
Our platforms serve millions of users a month, process thousands of comparisons a day, and drive hundreds of complex integrations with vastly different partners. We’re a tech-driven business that focuses on agile delivery and cross functional product teams.
We are creating the next generation of comparison platforms, and as we scale we are looking for passionate, empathetic engineers to build highly performant, accessible, and beautiful consumer experiences to facilitate switching and comparisons on the web.
What you might be working on:
We pride ourselves in delivering accessible, performant, and functional experiences to the consumer, hopefully you do too.
The things we look for in you:
You want to grow within your career and are looking for a place that lets you have immediate, meaningful impact - we deploy up to 150 times a day
Care about the product life cycle and the lifetime value of the customer - without our customers we wouldn’t have a business
Passionate about accessibility, performance, UX, and A/B testing
Pragmatic and deliver thoughtful and awesome solutions to solve business problems
Have had experience or want to have experience working in diverse, cross functional agile teams - we value people that want to push themselves into unknown territories
Want to be involved in the larger engineering community, and contribute back to that community through open source projects and conferences
Have a deep understanding of web applications and the surrounding stacks
We aren’t wedded to languages, but you should know how an application works for a customer :)
We want to give you a great work environment; contribute back to both your personal and professional development; and give you great benefits to make your time at uSwitch even more enjoyable. Some of these benefits include:
A competitive salary and bonus package
A healthy learning and training budget, as well as the chance to go to conferences around the world every year
The latest equipment - be it a Linux or Apple or Windows machine
Free breakfast, healthy snacks, coffee and soft drinks
Paid parental leave for those key moments in your life
We have lots of other great benefits within the business, these are just a few of them
Health insurance
Moving day off, birthday day off, charitable day off
In office gym and pilates + yoga classes
Flexi holiday policy
Bike to work scheme
Season ticket loans for those long commutes
Employer matching pension up to 7.5%
1 month full paid paternity leave to spend more time with the kids
We also want to help you with your life events, so offer interest free loans for special moments in your life like moving home, buying your first home and your wedding
Our application process is outlined here - so if you’re interested in reading about it in more detail go check it out!
Our interview process comprises of 3 steps, after which we will give you an offer. We will always give you feedback along the way as we value it within the company just as much as you will when you are interviewing :)
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What will you do at Social Point?
As a Lead Backend Engineer you will manage a team of backend developers and guide them towards successful project deliveries.
To achieve sustainable results, you should be providing technical leadership through coaching and mentorship and maintain high standards of software quality by establishing good practices and habits. You will also be in charge of identifying and encouraging areas for growth and improvement within the team and work in collaboration with other backend leads and departments on company-wide projects.
Our backends are developed using several technologies and programming languages (Golang, PHP, Python,Lua, etc…), so you should not be afraid to work with our existing code, extend, maintain and continuously refactor the backend of our games.
As a Lead Backend Engineer, you will also work in designing and implementing high available systems for the server part of our games. You will be part of our games team and work closely with systems engineers, game developers and other departments. You will be integrated in business decisions as part of our technology strategy.
This is you
Professional, problem solver, proactive, team worker, rigorous, with leadership skills and detail oriented. You are smart, creative and practical at the same time. And you have the ability to work fast, quickly get up to speed with existing code, and learn new concepts easily.
You also have
*More than 8 years of programming experience. *More than 3 years of professional experience managing teams. *Worked and mastered languages like Java, C#, C++, Erlang, Golang, etc... *Intermediate systems knowledge and understand what happens behind your code *Experience designing and implementing complex systems with multiple parts and technologies *Experience with application scalability, performance and reliability *Experience with application and system orchestration: understand where you code fits within the big picture. *You are ambitious: you want to learn, improve, try new roles… *You accept challenges: you’ll be happy to see our traffic doubling instead of being daunted :-) *Common sense and can get things done. *You are a good team worker. *You are able to explain technical issues to both technical and non-technical people.