# Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack)\n\n## Simple Poll\n\nFull Time – Remote\n\n\n# About Simple Poll\n\n- Simple Poll brings polls and surveys natively into Slack. Learn more about the product on [https://simplepoll.rocks](https://simplepoll.rocks)\n- Wilhelm created Simple Poll in early 2016 to improve his own workflow when working in Slack. Started as a side project and then grew up to be a real company!\n- Simple Poll is one of the most popular apps for Slack and over the course of a year serves millions of users. As a member of the engineering team, you will be able to directly impact the experience of all of those users.\n- We are a fairly early stage company with a small and growing team. We're profitable, bootstrapped (no external investment) and very much plan to stay that way!\n\nBecause we’re such a small team, you will be able to have a massive impact. Not just on Simple Poll the product and its millions of users but also on the company, our culture, and our day to day collaboration. \n\nFrom an engineering perspective Simple Poll can often feel similar to building an API. Slack apps work largely by receiving JSON payloads from Slack, making API calls to the Slack API, and then returning some JSON back to Slack. As such, our engineering work tends to be very backend-heavy and although we do have a web dashboard, writing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript is more rare.\n\nIn our day to day work we face an interesting set of evolving engineering and product challenges:\n\n- One such challenge is dealing creatively with the constraints of the Slack platform. Since Simple Poll exists almost entirely within Slack, we are bound by many of the constraints and extension capabilities of the Slack platform, such as the block kit framework ([https://api.slack.com/block-kit](https://api.slack.com/block-kit)). A powerful set of tools is available to us, but the path to bringing a feature to life is sometimes not as straightforward as it seems.\n- We also constantly face trade offs between making Simple Poll more powerful (and implementing a long list of customer feature requests) while simultaneously maintaining and improving the simplicity that out customers love. Finding a good balance is important here and often we find that there is a way to achieve both capability and simplicity.\n- Slack is also constantly evolving and it is our responsibility to keep up with this evolution to ensure that Simple Poll works no matter what Slack context users find themselves in. Recent wide-reaching changes have been the introduction of Slack Enterprise Grid (multiple Slack workspace under the same umbrella) and Slack Connect (shared channels between different Slack workspaces). These changes make it more challenging to model Slack entities like users and channels – if you’re curious to learn more about this problem, check out this blog post: [https://wilhelmklopp.com/posts/slack-database-modelling/](https://wilhelmklopp.com/posts/slack-database-modelling/)\n\n### Remote\n\nWe are remote-first with folks across Canada, the UK, and Germany 🌅  We love and embrace remote working (and have done so even in pre-pandemic times). But especially as the pandemic winds down and more travel opens up, we plan to regularly get everyone together for a one-week company offsite, probably twice a year. Our last company offsite took us to Toronto in Canada 🍁\n\n# The ideal candidate\n\n- Excellent verbal and written communication skills\n- A high degree of empathy\n- 3+ years of experience working on production web applications written primarily in Python\n- Experience with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS\n- You care about the product as well as the code\n- You enjoy picking up new skills and are always learning and growing\n- You have an ability to think critically and pragmatically about designing systems and building features\n- You enjoy shipping and getting things done\n\n# Responsibilities\n\n- Write, review, deploy, and maintain code in mostly Python (back end) and HTML/CSS/JavaScript (front end)\n- Collaborate with the rest of the team on defining and implementing new features and coordinate to prioritise engineering work\n- Debug production issues and implement corresponding fixes\n- Take ownership of parts of the codebase\n- Document the systems you help build, monitor, and maintain\n- Evaluate and recommend solutions to guide team decision making\n- Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes\n- Rotating responsibilities for on-call\n\n## You Might Work On\n\n- Architecting and implementing new features. Some of the things coming up on our roadmap are blind polls, ranked polls, exports to google sheets, and many more!\n- UX Improvements to make Simple Poll *simpler* and more flexible\n- Performance improvements to make Simple Poll faster\n- Improving reliability, which could for example entail setting up a new Datadog dashboard\n- Work with a designer to build a new page in our frontend and then implement that page based on their design\n- Something completely different! As an early stage company, we tend to be pretty "all hands on deck" when something comes up that we need to get done\n- Use and provide feedback on [Kolo](https://kolo.app). A local Django development tool that we’ve been building\n\n# Practicals and benefits\n\n- You will report directly to the CEO (Wilhelm)\n- This is a fully remote, full time (40 hours per week) position. Your primary timezone must be between UTC-5 and UTC+2 (inclusive on both ends) to ensure we have enough overlap as a team\n- We'll buy you a new MacBook Pro and any other tools you need to do your best work (screens, accessories, etc.)\n- 30 days of holiday a year (including local national holidays), and you're encouraged to take all of it. You're also free to take additional time off for any other reasonable reasons, for example if you're sick (of course!) but also if you need to spend an afternoon taking care of something personal.\n- Sustainable and healthy working matters to us. We care about building delightful products for our customers, not hitting arbitrary daily hour counts.\n- The start date for this role is January or February 2022\n\n## Our principles\n\n*Inspired (often straight up copied) by the [Zen of GitHub](https://warpspire.com/posts/taste) and the [Zen of Python](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_of_Python)*\n\nExplicit is better than implicit\n\nSimple is better than complex\n\nFavor focus over features\n\nAnything added dilutes everything else\n\nMind your words, they are important\n\nCraft the details, they matter\n\nShip early and often\n\nNever miss an opportunity to delight\n\nBuild for the long term\n\nUse what you build with pride\n\nCreate lasting value for customers\n\nMistakes are possible when moving fast\n\nEmpower with courtesy and empathy\n\n## Our tech stack\n\n- Python + Django\n- PostgresQL\n- Heroku\n- Amazon Web Services\n- GitHub\n- HTML, Tailwind CSS, Vanilla JavaScript\n- Slack, Datadog, Zoom, Gmail, Google Calendar, Notion\n- Our own products! (including https://kolo.app)\n\n# How to apply\n\n[Apply via this form](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSerhXiCMolv2Y1dLodNvaRJu9eT-FCZ2LUgdrDwZtlDg2R0zw/viewform?usp=pp_url&entry.2062135242=Full-stack)\n\nHave any questions? Email me: [email protected]\n\nWe're excited to review your application! \n\n\n\n \n\nPlease mention the word **FASHIONABLY** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xMzc=). This is a feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n $90,000 — $120,000/year\n \n\n#Location\nWorldwide

\nAre you:\n\nEarnest and hardworking, thorough, and very efficient in completing the work at hand.\n\nWould you describe yourself as:\n\n\n* Independent/Autonomous; a confident self-starter\n\n* Enjoys troubleshooting and finding the most effective ways of getting things done\n\n* Strives for perfection; failing is not an option\n\n* Matter of fact and data-filled with your communication\n\n* You expect a lot out of yourself and others and will follow up with team members to ensure tasks are done correctly\n\n* Prefers project-based work, but can complete and delegate tasks to completion\n\n* A person who likes to cross items off their list as they’re completed\n\n* Known for your ‘by the book’ style and loves researching to obtain factual information to be a subject-matter expert\n\n* Very orderly and streamlined\n\n* Fluent in both written and spoken English.\n\n\n\n\n\nHave you:\n\n\n* 5+ years developing and deploying cloud/platform based systems using\n\n\n* Python:Django or similar, Postgres and Elasticsearch\n\n* Multiple API methods (REST, SOAP, etc… )\n\n* Payment processing and basic accounting\n\n\n\n\n\n* Setup systems running\n\n\n* AWS, Amazon EC2/Beanstalk, RDS, S3/Cloudfront, ELB\n\n* Bitbucket Pipelines (CI)\n\n* Django/Python\n\n\n\n\n\n* Tinkered with some of today’s most popular JS MVC’s\n\n* Worked with development team & senior leadership to develop, ideate and deliver functional features\n\n* Well versed and thrived in software development life cycle\n\n\n* Agile / Sprint based development\n\n* Test Driven Development (TDD)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhy?...Because:\n\n\n* You don’t want to spend 40+ hours in a cube\n\n* Productivity is how much time you save others from repetitive work and removing blockers in their path\n\n* You want to work in small teams with big ideas\n\n\n\n\n\nSpecifics:\n\n\n* Full-time/40h/wk, 100% remote, U.S. based.\n\n* Flexible vacation policy\n\n* 118k - 135k DOE, w/ benefits.\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Python, Senior, Full Stack, Developer, Digital Nomad, Amazon and API jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $130,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n

\nCompany Introduction \n\nHello! We are Opinew, a Scottish company with a small team and grand mission. We are helping online stores to become independent of large platforms like Amazon and eBay by providing a powerful review import and management system. Opinew helps shop owners to collect reviews from their customers while also allowing them to import existing reviews accumulated over years on Amazon, eBay or AliExpress. Reviews enable social proof, which increases sales conversation to make Opinew’s clients more successful. We are working with thousands of online stores around the world, including small stores and big brands, some of which you may recognise, including: MusclePharm, Status Anxiety, Vankyo and Betron.\n\nYour Role\n\nAs Lead Full Stack Engineer, you will play a pivotal part in Opinew’s mission to decentralise online shopping by empowering merchants of all sizes. You are excited to work on a SaaS platform with the latest technologies used by millions of shoppers and thousands of ecommerce stores around the world. Our engineers regularly work with all areas within Opinew as we continue to scale up our SaaS web products. We push updates to our websites almost every day so it won't take long to get your work out in front of millions of users.\n\nAt Opinew we are using Flask/Python for the backend and Vue.js with Vuetify and Tailwind CSS on the frontend. Everything is containerised with docker and deployed via an automated CI/CD pipeline to AWS. \n\nThe project \n\nIn line with the tremendous global increase in ecommerce sales, Opinew has rapidly grown its customer base and product team in 2020. As Lead Full Stack Engineer you will be at the heart of our product development and software engineering efforts working on:\n\n\n* Implementing world-class software to improve and scale Opinew’s review management system  \n\n* Experience with designing RESTful API that supports a rapid growing user base\n\n* Ability to own and deliver end to end API functionality from design/architect, to implementation, to testing, to production release and monitoring\n\n* Ability to accomplish complex engineering task independently\n\n* Envision, implement and roll-out best tooling and automation for all our our services\n\n* Ability to evaluate and communicate different engineering solutions and trade-offs\n\n* Work with the Opinew team to constantly improve platform usability, onboarding, and customer retention\n\n\n\n\nThe engineering team consists of two full-time and two part-time engineers. Depending on their area of expertise, some engineers have a strong focus on backend, frontend or testing. However, generally each engineer works across the full stack and contributes to any part of the codebase. Engineers own their code, ensure maintainability and are responsible for writing unit tests and completing new features without breaking backwards compatibility. \n\nWhat we offer \n\n\n* Opportunity to help decentralise online shopping away from the ecommerce giants\n\n* Exciting opportunity to grow the start-up with us into a global software company\n\n* Competitive salary\n\n* Laptop and any other essential technical equipment\n\n* Education and relaxation: language classes / steam store games\n\n* Reading/Courses - books and online courses to help with your professional development are on us to help with your personal development.\n\n* Home cleaning - we will find somebody to take over house chores to help you focus on what matters most to you\n\n\n\n\nWhat you can expect \n\n\n* An agile, diverse and multidisciplinary fully remote team \n\n* A supportive, inclusive and transparent working environment where team mates learn from and help each other all the time. \n\n* A place to look at things differently, challenge and offer solutions. \n\n* You will be working in a (still) small start-up where the whole company consists of ~10 people. You will have a unique opportunity to make a significant impact and actively drive change in the technology, direction and culture of the start up. \n\n\n\n\nWhat we are looking for \n\nWe are looking for an experienced, talented software engineer to join the engineering team and help us scale Opinew to the next level.\n\nThis position is for full time, 100% remote work.\n\nWe would expect you to: \n\n\n* Always put the user first. \n\n* Be an active participant during technical decisions and discussions. \n\n* Be comfortable to work in a rapidly changing environment. \n\n* Be passionate and empathetic - you fall in love with problems, not solutions. You’re a doer, and a helper. \n\n* Take pride in your work. \n\n* Think like an owner. \n\n* Experiment, test, try, fail and learn continuously. \n\n\n\n\nQualifications \n\nFor this role, you must have: \n\n\n* Experience in working as part of a team to ship high-quality software using agile development processes. \n\n* Experience in developing UI with Vue.js /React/Angular\n\n* Experience in python backend frameworks like Flask/Django\n\n* Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript and Python.\n\n* Experience in e-commerce and Shopify beneficial.\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Engineer, Full Stack, Developer, Digital Nomad, Amazon, CSS, Python, API, Sales, SaaS, Backend, Ecommerce and Shopify jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n

\n\n\nSkills: Python, PostgreSQL, Amazon Web Services (AWS), JavaScript, React\n\n\n\n\nPostscript is building a best-in-class marketing platform specifically for ecommerce. Backed by Y Combinator (YC W19), Postscript is growing fast and looking for remarkable people to help scale the company.\n\n\n\n\n\nThis role is responsible for developing and managing our back end systems. Our stack is a Python (Flask) API with a PostgreSQL database hosted on AWS.\n\n\n\n\n\nWe are looking for someone with strong backend skills combined with a passion for early-stage companies. You will help the team to build out our architecture and processes as we scale, and help with hiring to grow the engineering team quickly. You will have a large influence on both the product and the company!\n\n\n\n\n\nOur company is 100% remote and we are currently hiring in North America only.\nPrimary Duties\n\n\n* Architect, build and maintain the REST API and frontend codebase for our web application\n\n* Work closely with the design team to deliver a beautiful, world-class product\n\n* Take ownership and get creative with your solutions\n\n* Manage AWS services as needed\n\n* Maintain and optimize our databases\n\n* Improve our internal development processes to minimize errors and improve team efficiency\n\n\n\nAbout You (experience)\n\n\n* 3+ years software development experience\n\n* 1+ years experience with React\n\n* Experience with Python ( Flask & SQLAlchemy a plus)\n\n* Experience managing AWS services\n\n* Experience managing relational databases (PostgreSQL)\n\n\n\nAbout You (culture)\n\n\n* You’re a hacker; done is better than perfect, and all development efforts should be tied to significant business value\n\n* You love early stage companies and being responsible for owning and improving a new, fast-growing code base\n\n* You’re excited for the chance to establish best practices in our development processes and act as a role model for the dev team as it grows\n\n* You’re excited to work a fully-remote team\n\n* You’re nice–no room for jerks on this team\n\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Engineer, Full Stack, Amazon, Python, API, Marketing and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nRemote