Position: Senior Back End Wizard โจ Company: joi.studio Location: Remote (Sydney EST and LA time) ๐ Working Hours: Flexible, with a preference for working between 1pm and 12am Sydney EST (8pm to 7am LA time) โฐ Role Type: Contractor, working ideally 40 hours per week
About Us: Hey there! ๐ We're a passionate team on a mission to revolutionize mental health and personal growth. Our platform blends the best features of Netflix and Udemy, providing a unique and joyful experience to over 350,000 students across five countries. We reached product market fit over three years ago without needing external capital and continue to scale and innovate every day. ๐
Role Overview: Are you a back-end wizard who loves autonomy and taking charge? ๐งโโ๏ธ We're on the lookout for an assertive Senior Back End Wizard who can set their own working hours while aligning with our fun and dynamic team. Your skills and opinions will be highly valued, and you'll play a crucial role in our development process. You'll be responsible for delivering stellar code and conducting your own QA to western standards. ๐
Key Responsibilities:
Autonomous Work: Set your own hours while aligning with team working hours (1pm - 12am Sydney EST / 8pm - 7am LA time). Expected that there would be at least 3 hours overlap each day with other team members. ๐
Backend Development: Design, develop, and maintain robust back-end systems using our awesome tech stack. ๐ฅ๏ธ
Assertive Leadership: Be bold and confident in team discussions and decision-making processes. ๐ช
Ownership and Reliability: Take 100% ownership of your work, including any mistakes, and be expected to own them. Be reliable and ensure you do what you say when you say it. ๐
Quality Assurance: Deliver top-notch code and perform thorough QA to meet western standards. โ๏ธ
Efficient DB Queries: Create lightning-fast database queries to ensure performance and scalability. โก
Re-Architecting Systems: Reimagine and re-architect back-end systems to adapt to new and growing application needs. ๐
Front End Understanding: Have a good grasp and some experience with front-end technologies. ๐
Stake Holder Management: Effectively communicate with key stakeholders, ensuring their needs and expectations are met and aligned with project goals. ๐
Tech Stack:
Node.js
React.js
Apollo
GraphQL
TypeScript
JavaScript
Python
MySQL (AWS RDS)
MongoDB
AWS Web Services (Route 53, CloudWatch, Terraform, S3, RDS, ECS, Lambda, API Gateway)
Cloudflare
Terraform
DataDog (or other similar logging platforms)
LangChain
Qualifications:
Proven experience as a Senior Back End Engineer. ๐
Strong proficiency in our tech stack. ๐ ๏ธ
Demonstrated ability to work autonomously and assertively. ๐
Experience in re-architecting back ends for scalability and performance. ๐
Strong QA skills with an eye for detail. ๐
Strong experience in MySQL and MongoDB. ๐พ
Passion for working with mental health and helping others. โค๏ธ
Excellent communication and collaboration skills. ๐ค
Reliable and trustworthy, with a commitment to owning your work. โ
Ideal candidate will have had 10 years of development experience. ๐
Beneficial, though not critical, to have a passion for AI, Python, and LangChain. ๐ค
Why Join Us:
Work on a unique and impactful platform that combines the best of Netflix and Udemy. ๐บ๐
Be part of a team that values your skills and listens to your opinions. ๐ฃ๏ธ
Contribute to a product that has achieved product market fit and continues to scale successfully. ๐
Make a difference in the mental health space, helping over 350,000 students improve their lives across five countries. ๐
Most of our team members stay with us for over 2.5 years. In fact, here's a heartfelt message from one of our wonderful team members about our leader (Robert) of the joi.studio on his birthday:
"Hi Robert, On this special day, I want to take a moment to wish you a very happy birthday! Your leadership, vision, and unwavering dedication have been a constant source of inspiration for all of us. Your ability to guide us through challenges with grace and wisdom is truly remarkable, and we are fortunate to have you as our leader. Beyond your professional excellence, your kindness, understanding, and genuine care for each team member make you an extraordinary person. You create an environment where we feel valued and motivated to give our best, and for that, we are deeply grateful. May this year bring you abundant joy, good health, and countless moments of happiness. Here's to celebrating you today and always. Happy birthday!"
If you are a highly skilled, autonomous, and assertive Senior Back End Wizard with a passion for mental health, giving back to those in need, and making the world a better place, we would love to hear from you. Join us in making a meaningful impact through innovative technology. โจ
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Salary and compensation
$20,000 — $80,000/year
Benefits
๐ Unlimited vacation
โฌ๏ธ No whiteboard interview
๐ No monitoring system
๐ซ No politics at work
๐ We hire old (and young)
How do you apply?
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\nEach day you will work with a cross-functional team of brilliant professionals combining business, design, product, user experience and engineering expertise, working relentlessly to push the boundaries of whatโs possible and paving the road for the future of news and entertainment media.\n\nThe Audience Technology group is looking for an experienced, talented and knowledgeable Software Engineer to join the Consumer/Network Services team responsible for developing, supporting and maintaining our microservices, core backend APIs, and systems that power donor/subscriber conversion experiences on NPR platforms . These are the APIโs and services that drive innovation and engagement across NPRโs audience facing digital platforms and member station touch points.\n\nWe are looking for someone to help develop, support and maintain our audience revenue platforms which include donations and our premium podcast offering. Examples of technology youโll work with include our payment processing solution (Stripe), the systems powering our Podcast Subscription Service (NPR+). You will be a vital contributor to NPRโs efforts to increase financial support from our audience for our mission as we build the technology needed to service long term sustainable growth.\n\nYouโll also work on the Listening and Identity services, which directly power the NPR One and NPR mobile applications as well as our NPR One Alexa skill. These services provide NPR content recommendations directly to thousands of users on a daily basis. Youโll also collaborate closely with our client-side engineering teams who manage NPR.org and the NPR mobile app.\n\nThis is a union represented role covered under the terms of a collective bargaining agreement with DMU. \n\nRESPONSIBILITIES\n\n\n* Write clean, efficient and reusable code based on product specifications\n\n* Participate in all phases of quality assurance and defect resolution\n\n* Aid in the development and maintenance of CI/CD pipeline implementations\n\n* Knowledge share, write technical designs & participate in code reviews\n\n* Mentor and coach junior engineers on code quality and best practices\n\n* Consult with senior engineers across the department while designing comprehensive solutions\n\n* Provide input on system design and architecture within the feature areas and services owned by the team\n\n* Work closely with other software engineers, partner teams, dev ops engineers, infrastructure engineers, product designers, QA engineers, engineering managers and product managers\n\n* Improve team/development processes\n\n* Join agile ceremonies,including daily stand-ups, sprint retros, sprint reviews and more\n\n* Join our on-call rotation\n\n* Other duties as assigned\n\n\n\n\nThe above duties and responsibilities are not an exhaustive list of required responsibilities, duties and skills. Other duties may be assigned, and this job description can be modified at any time.\n\nMINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS\n\n\n* Fluency in or working knowledge of PHP (or alternative back-end language)\n\n* Fluency in JavaScript / TypeScript\n\n* Fluency in or working knowledge of PHP (or alternative back-end language)\n\n* Experience in developing and working with RESTful APIs that utilize cloud infrastructure such as AWS\n\n* Ability to develop software that is scalable and performant under high loads.\n\n* Familiarity with SQL and RDBMS technologies \n\n* Strong Object-Oriented programming skills \n\n* Familiarity with deploying and monitoring production systems\n\n* Experience writing unit and other automated tests\n\n* Knowledge of web development best practices, coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, deployment, rollback, testing, monitoring\n\n\n\n\nPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS\n\n\n* Experience with Stripe or other payment processing platforms.\n\n* Experience with Supporting Cast or other podcast subscription platforms.\n\n* Previous work in PCI-compliant environments, or comparable security experience\n\n* Experience with CRM platforms used by NPR and Member stations such as Salesforce \n\n* Advanced experience with Amazon AWS or equivalent cloud computing platform, including Lambda, EC2s, ASGs, ElastiCache, DynamoDB, RDS and CodeDeploy\n\n* Familiarity with Google BigQuery\n\n* Additional programming languages and frameworks fluency (for example, Python)\n\n* Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Github Actions, Jenkins, CodeFresh, or equivalent)\n\n* Experience using performance monitoring and log aggregation applications (Datadog, New Relic)\n\n* Knowledge and experience with different caching layers of caching (browser, DNS, web server, application, etc) and caching technologies/services (Redis, Elasticache, CDNs, AWS CloudFront)\n\n* Exposure to NoSQL databases (Elasticsearch, DynamoDB)\n\n* Experience with React and Redux\n\n* A/B testing experience \n\n* A passion for NPRโs content and/or familiarity with our digital products\n\n\n\n\nWORK LOCATION\n\nRemote Permitted: This is a remote permitted role. This role is based out of our Washington, DC office but the employee may choose to work on a remote basis from a location that NPR approves.\n\nJOB TYPE\n\nThis is a full time, exempt position.\n\nCOMPENSATION\n\nSalary Range: The U.S. based anticipated salary range for this opportunity is $117,968 - 121,507 plus benefits. The range displayed reflects the minimum and maximum salaries NPR expects to provide for new hires for the position across all US locations.\n\nBenefits: NPR offers access to comprehensive benefits for employees and dependents. Regular, full-time employees scheduled to work 30 hours or more per week are eligible to enroll in NPRโs benefits options. Benefits include access to health and wellness, paid time off, and financial well-being. Plan options include medical, dental, vision, life/ accidental death and dismemberment, long-term disability, short-term disability, and voluntary retirement savings to all eligible NPR employees. \n\nDoes this sound like you? If so, we want to hear from you. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n
No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, React, Testing, JavaScript, Cloud, PHP, NoSQL, Mobile, Senior, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n
$60,000 — $110,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n
๐ฐ 401(k)\n\n๐ Distributed team\n\nโฐ Async\n\n๐ค Vision insurance\n\n๐ฆท Dental insurance\n\n๐ Medical insurance\n\n๐ Unlimited vacation\n\n๐ Paid time off\n\n๐ 4 day workweek\n\n๐ฐ 401k matching\n\n๐ Company retreats\n\n๐ฌ Coworking budget\n\n๐ Learning budget\n\n๐ช Free gym membership\n\n๐ง Mental wellness budget\n\n๐ฅ Home office budget\n\n๐ฅง Pay in crypto\n\n๐ฅธ Pseudonymous\n\n๐ฐ Profit sharing\n\n๐ฐ Equity compensation\n\nโฌ๏ธ No whiteboard interview\n\n๐ No monitoring system\n\n๐ซ No politics at work\n\n๐ We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nWashington, District of Columbia, United States
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In a world where we spend more time on screens than not, Opal is a partner to your digital well-being, helping you save time, find focus and develop a healthier, more balanced relationship with screens.\n\nSince launch in January 2021, we have raised $5.5m from great investors who share our vision.\n\nThe Opal full-stack team is responsible for everything JavaScript, from frontend clients to backend services. The team is early stage, so there are lots of opportunities to make your mark!\n\nOur stack includes:\n- TypeScript\n- React & ES6 Features\n- Node.js\n- Koa.js\n- Test-Driven Development\n- MYSQL\n- REST API\n- WebSockets\n- AWS\n\nThis position is fully remote!\n\n### What you will be doing\n- Design and build the frontend and backend components of the Opal web infrastructure;\n- Collaborate with the product team to define app features;\n- Ensure quality and performance of application;\n- Write tests of code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability;\n- Work on bug fixing and on improving the application performance;\n- Maintain the application code base;\n- Design and implement application updates;\n- Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency;\n\n### What you should bring along\n- 2+ years of experience developing for the web;\n- Experience with React.js, Node.js, Databases, API development, third-party libraries.\n- Proficient in code versioning tools like Git;\n- Experience with continuous integration;\n- Ability to take initiative and employ good judgment;\n\n### Would be nice to have\n- Experience with Amazon Web Services;\n- Experience with Test Driven Development;\n- Experience in VPN technology is a plus;\n- Experience with Server deployment, OAuth and web sockets, and Chrome Extensions;\n- Familiarity with push notifications, APIs, and cloud messaging;\n- Interest in Artificial Intelligence;\n- Passion for personal projects & development, saving people's time, helping people feel better, and/or mindfulness in general.\n\n### Recent projects\nSome projects the Full Stack JavaScript team recently worked on are:\n- Creating ElasticBeanstalk environments in AWS\n- Setting up user accounts\n- Creating multiplayer rooms for sharing sessions (including live data with Socket.IO)\n- Setting up a React frontend with Next.js for web payments\n\n### Submission Requirements\n- Your resume\n- If you have a portfolio/website/Github link, add to top\n- A brief note about your past experiences\n- Incorporate into this note, a thought on one of the following:\n - Our product\n - How to market our product\n - Online distractions or mindfulness (legal or technical)\n\n### Hiring Process\nOur hiring process includes the following steps:\n- Step 1: Initial online assessment (1 hour)\n- Step 2: Interview: Non-technical with full-stack engineer (1 hour)\n- Step 3: Take home code test\n- Step 4: Interview: Code test review (1 hour)\n- Step 5: Offer extended \n\nPlease mention the words **CITY LIVE STAY** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xODA=). 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
$60,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Location\nWorldwide
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Senior Software Engineer (React, Redux)\n\nSlashData is the leading research company in the developer economy: We help the world understand developers and developers understand the world. We survey 40,000+ developers annually - across mobile, IoT, desktop, cloud AR/VR and machine learning - to help clients such as Microsoft, Facebook, Google and Amazon understand who developers are, what tools they love or hate and where they are going next.\n\nWeโre now looking for a full-time, senior software engineer to help drive data and visual insights out of millions of developer data points. The position is fulltime, either remote or based in our Athens office (if you happen to live near). We will consider locations within 2-3 hours of Central European Time or further for candidates willing to shift their working day to have significant overlap with the other team members in Europe. Depending on your location, you will be working from your home office, a co-working space as part of a distributed team or our Athens office.\n\nWho weโre looking for\n \nWhat skills we are looking for\n5+ years of experience developing web applications with modern JavaScript (ES6) frameworks\nExperience with React, Redux, webpack and related technologies\nFamiliarity with testing tools such as Mocha, Chai, Jest\nAppreciation for good UX & UI design, ability to contribute to a design discussion\nBackend web API development experience, preferably with some exposure to Node.js\nExperience with AWS and other cloud providers\nExperience with a language other than JavaScript, preferably one with static types\nExperience working with relational and NoSQL databases\n\nBonus points for\nHaving built single-page web apps and server-side rendered apps\nExperience with AWS Lambda or other โserverlessโ backend architecture\nExperience with Python\nHave worked with an intermediate data layer, that sits between multiple data sources and the front-end applications\nExperience with data visualisation (e.g. using D3.js)\nAn appreciation for data and understanding of statistics\n\nWhat youโll be responsible for\n\nBuilding a custom data dashboard web app (backend in Python and frontend in React) for displaying data to clients and developers. There are lots of dashboard tools in the world, but we have fairly rare data needs and an ambition to create world-class visualisations.\nIterating on our in-house survey tool (built on AWS Lambda, React and Redux) to reach developers everywhere in the world and provide a delightful UX.\nMaintaining and enhancing our developer and client-facing websites. Weโve deployed โstatic-CMSโ sites using Gatsby, Contentful, Prismic and Netlify. Much of our stack is using Node.js.\n\nIf youโre that person, weโd love to talk.\n\nKey success metrics\n\nYou will be successful in the role if in the first 6 months you have\n\nImplemented a data dashboard MVP web app.\nShown ability to maintain and improve our existing codebase and your code is readable, testable, and understandable six months later. \nBuilt successful working relationships across the company to support other technology-related activities.\n\nBenefits\nWhat we offer\nOpportunity to make a difference as part of the research company that works with the biggest tech brands to help the world understand developers.\nCompetitive salary\nFlexible working environment\nCome to work in a t-shirt, shorts and flip flops, or tie and a suit\nAnnual training budget to develop your skills and career\nMonthly book allowance from Amazon, on any book you like\nSpotify Premium subscription or Netflix\nPart of an entrepreneurial company that's raising the bar, and calling the trends of the developer economy\n\nIf you think a link to your LinkedIn profile or public projects is helpful then include one, but itโs not required.\n \n\nPlease mention the words **CUP AVERAGE CENTURY** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xODA=). 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
No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to JavaScript, React, Senior, Engineer, Developer, Digital Nomad, Amazon, Cloud, NoSQL, Python, API and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n
$67,500 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n
๐ Distributed team\n\n
# How do you apply?\n\nThis job post has been closed by the poster, which means they probably have enough applicants now. Please do not apply.
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SlashData is the leading research company in the developer economy: We help the world understand developers and developers understand the world. We survey 40,000+ developers annually - across mobile, IoT, desktop, cloud AR/VR and machine learning - to help clients such as Microsoft, Facebook, Google and Amazon understand who developers are, what tools they love or hate and where they are going next.\nWe are now looking for a Technology Lead to architect and lead the development of the data gathering and visualisation tools and web apps that we use to conduct our research and present it to clients. Get to design solutions used by the top tech brands based on React, Lambda, Redux, Contentful and more leading edge tech.\nThe position is fulltime, either remote or based in our Athens office (if you happen to live near). We will consider locations within 2-3 hours of Central European Time or further for candidates willing to shift their working day to have significant overlap with the other team members in Europe. Depending on your location, you will be working from your home office, a co-working space as part of a distributed team or our Athens office.\nWhat youโll be doing\nLeading the development of a custom data dashboard web app for displaying data to clients and developers. There are lots of dashboard tools in the world, but we have fairly rare data needs and an ambition to create world-class visualisations.\nIterating on our in-house survey tool (built on Lambda, Redux and React) to reach developers everywhere in the world and provide a delightful UX.\nMaintaining and enhancing our developer and client-facing websites - by leading a team of developers.\nUsing modern technologies - Weโre into React on the front-end, using AWS Lambda and serverless architecture on the backend. Weโve deployed โstatic-CMSโ sites using Gatsby, Contentful, Prismic and Netlify. Much of our stack is using Node.js.\nWhat we are looking for\nSkills needed:\nExperience leading/managing new development projects (designing systems from scratch)\nExperience managing a small team and leadership skills\nFront-end web development experience with strong JavaScript skills\nAppreciation for good UX & UI design, ability to contribute to a design discussion\nBackend web API development experience, preferably with some exposure to Node.js\nExperience with a language other than JavaScript, preferably one with static types\nExperience working with relational and NoSQL databases\nBonus points for\nHave built single-page web apps and server-side rendered apps\nExperience with React, Redux, webpack and related technologies\nExperience with AWS Lambda or other โserverlessโ backend architecture\nExperience with data visualisation (e.g. using D3.js)\nHave built / worked with an intermediate data layer, that sits between multiple data sources and the front-end applications\nBasic understanding of statistics\nKey success metrics\nYou will be successful in the role if in the first 6 months you have\nLed the development of an MVP for the new data dashboard web app\nPrioritised and managed the implementation of upgrades to the survey tool for our next global survey wave\nBuilt successful working relationships across the company to support other technology-related activities (e.g ensuring compliance with EU data protection regulations)\nWhat we offer\nOpportunity to make a difference as part of the leading research company in the developer economy\nCompetitive salary\nFlexible working environment\nCome to work in a t-shirt, shorts and flip flops, or tie and a suit\nAnnual training budget to develop your skills and career\nMonthly book allowance from Amazon, on any book you like\nSpotify Premium subscription\nYour laptop of choice + large monitor\nPart of an entrepreneurial company that's raising the bar, and calling the trends of the developer economy\nApply here: https://www.slashdata.co/jobs#D9E4E9ECA7 \n\nPlease mention the words **VICTORY VOLUME GLORY** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xODA=). 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
No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to JavaScript, React, Executive, Amazon, Serverless, Cloud, NoSQL, API and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n
$70,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n
๐ Distributed team\n\n
# How do you apply?\n\nThis job post has been closed by the poster, which means they probably have enough applicants now. Please do not apply.