# 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 (#RMy4xNDIuNDMuNTM=). 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

##**Who are we?**\nWe're a team of nerds. Creatives, developing and designing our product since 2016. We're a mix of different characters and whilst English is the common language across the team, you can try out Hebrew, Polish, Russian, Japanese, and even German with some of us.\n\n##**What do we do at Xapix?**\nWe're pioneers in the fast-growing eCommerce aggregation space, where a wealth of data is trapped behind APIs across multiple marketplaces, such as Amazon and Shopify.\nOur job is to help eCommerce aggregators make fast and accurate business decisions, by providing automated seller reporting, data visualization, and unique insights.\n\n##**How do we like to work?**\nEvery team member is heard when it comes to how we do the things we do … (how we work, what we work on, and where we are heading). Our amazing Product Manager Jimmy takes care of creating a clear vision of our product roadmap and is connecting engineering with the business team. We have a “user first”-attitude and don't compromise on that. Sometimes we dive in head first, always planning ahead.\nWe listen to each other. In our monthly 1on1s with Michael, our CTO, and people-hero Limor we discuss our well-being and ways to improve as a team and company. We want everybody to grow and will support you on the way.\n\n#**Your role**\n##**What you’ll do:**\n* Work closely with the team on building out our product for our customers within the eCommerce space\n* Expand and improve our eCommerce platform integrations with Amazon, Shopify,\n* Expand and improve our ERP platform integrations with NetSuite, …\n* Work closely with our customers to understand their integration needs\n* Help us run and maintain our services on Kubernetes (AWS)\n* Design and develop new features based on internal and external requirements\n* Discover and discuss technical requirements with the team\n* Help improve how we build and operate as a team\n\n##**We would like you to**\n* Be very familiar with Ruby and Javascript,\n* Be very familiar with SQL and data warehousing solutions (such as BigQuery)\n* Write secure, tested, and maintainable code,\n* Be willing to give and receive constructive feedback,\n* Be vocal about your ideas, doubts, and expectations,\n* Be a proactive communicator with proficiency in English,\n* Enjoy working in a small agile team,\n* Travel to Berlin once a month and be vaccinated\n\n##**A plus would be**\n* Experience with eCommerce platforms and their API interfaces (ideally Amazon Selling Partner APIs, Shopify APIs)\n* Expertise in Kubernetes\n\n##**What we offer**\n* Workation - support fund if 2 or more team members want to work abroad / away for some time (1-3 weeks),\n* Individual learning budget,\n* Mentoring by other seniors or outside professionals to grow your skills,\n* A stylish office conveniently located around U8 in the heart of Berlin,\n* Team events, Free drinks and fruits\n\nSounds good? Now it’s your turn!\n##**This is how our recruitment process looks like:**\n* First video call with our People & Ops that allows us to get to know each other: know more about you and what makes you glow and an opportunity for you to ask questions to see if we're a right fit for you too.\n* Coding challenge or reviewing of your existing projects\n* Second call with Jimmy, our Product Manager, and Michael, our CTO to discuss your coding challenge\n* Meet Christian, our founder & CEO\n* Team session / meet the team to allow you to get to know your future team members. We’ll be happy to hear about you, your passions, or things you like to do in your spare time.\nWe will be happy to hear about you and what you would like to do at Xapix. Please reach out to [email protected] in case of any questions or if you'd like to speak to one of our developers. \n\nPlease mention the words **ORDER FOG RACK** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMy4xNDIuNDMuNTM=). 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 $40,000 — $70,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 📚 Learning budget\n\n
\n\n#Location\nEurope

We are looking for a person that can solve problems independently and lead a team. The person that is not only playing with code but solves customer problems. \n\nWe assume this person is backend oriented, can code excellent in Python using Django/Flask. You must be also familiar with front-end development. Including any popular HTML/CSS  and js framework. Twitter Bootstrap and Angular.js knowledge is a big plus.\n\nWe assume you can deploy your code and setup server environment. You can deploy your code to Amazon EC2 or setup deployment to heroku, as well as tune nginx configuration, setup proper cache. You can also setup proper configuration of MySQL/Postgre db. What is more, you know how to profile slow SQL queries.\n\nYou must be aware of the TDD peculiarities and be able to deliver robust, clean, modular and well-documented code.\n\nAnd yes, you must be able to communicate with customers directly. So good command of English is required.\n\nPluses: you have commits accepted for well-known projects on github, you have worked on outstanding projects in travel industry.\n\n\nWe are:\nSmall distributed company (~10 person) working on different projects (2 weeks - 2 years long). We have worked on projects like: http://localu.co http://roomlr.com http://cityshelves.com. Our expertize: travel, payment system integrations, mvp projects.\nWe have two targets:\n a) outstaffing work\n b) project based work using our internal service that helps to develop MVP project very-fast.\nWe like good technologies and try to be on the cutting edge of technology stack.\n\nAlthough all our team members work independently and very often from different countries, we are always in touch, educate each other, help and collaborate. \n\nWe need a full-time developer who will allocate not less than 40 hour work every week. Payment is hourly based.\n\n\nContacts:\nYulia\n- email: [email protected]\n- skype: iulia-link\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n $2,000 — $3,000/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