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\nAvailability to join (< 1 month) \n\nLocation: Dubai, UAE (Company office) \n\n6-months contract for a Python Back-end role \n\nPossibility to convert into an internal hire based on performance, passion & commitment.\n\nAlthough the contract is for 6 months, yet there is a huge potential to be converted to an internal hire based on performance, passion & commitment. The contract is not tied to any specific project; thus, if the candidate proves he/she is a right fit, then they will be provided with the opportunity to join as an internal hire by the end of the contract. \n\nCobblestone Values: \n\n\n* Lifelong learning with continuous reflection \n\n* Independent thinking through a meritocracy of ideas \n\n* The team is more important than the individual \n\n* Being the best in any market we enter \n\n* Hiring and keeping only the most effective people \n\n* Others must benefit from our existence.\n\n\n\n\nJob Description \n\nAt Cobblestone Energy we are on a mission to build the most advanced European electricity trading and analytics platform, with our technology being used by our teams of commercial traders to create significant value. Being a Back-end developer of our team, you will work on exciting challenges that come with large-scale data processing, automation, and analytics. We work in an agile and highly collaborative environment and challenge the norms of traditional business leadership. We are looking for enthusiastic and resourceful engineers who are passionate about building highly reliable and performancedata processing solutions. You want to help the commercial team make data-informed decisions, have a curious mindset, and are motivated to understand our business better. Developing a strong domain knowledge of our industry over time is key to long term success in this role. \n\nThis is a rare opportunity to be part of the growth of a major player in the European Electricity Markets. We are looking for someone who would be committed to the long-term success of the business. We operate in the European Energy markets, but our commercial trading operations are in Dubai, UAE. This role will be recruited and on-boardedin our Dubai office. \n\nWe are looking for a superstar experienced Back-end developer to join our Tech team at Cobblestone Energy. You will be responsible for the server side of our applications with the potential of also participating in setting the right Infrastructure and developing the needed tools for our Analytics. \n\nIf you have excellent programming skills, strong problem-solving skills and a passion for developing/improving applications utilizing cutting edge technologies, then we would like to meet you. \n\nResponsibilities \n\n\n* Gather and address technical and design requirements. \n\n* Implement new features requested by our business and trading team. \n\n* Refactor existing applications to optimize its performance through setting the appropriate architecture and integrating the best practices and standards. \n\n* Participate in the entire application lifecycle mainly focusing on coding, debugging and testing. \n\n* Troubleshoot and debug applications. \n\n\n\n\n\n Job Location: \n\n\n* Our Dubai office \n\n\n\n\nOffice Location: \n\n\n* Jumeirah Business Centre 2, Cluster V, Jumeirah Lake Towers, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. \n\n\n\n\nSalary Range: \n\n\n* 19K to 25K AED (5.1K - 6.2K USD)\n\n\n\n\nSome videos for your reference: \n\nWho is Elexon? For the UK market, they are the system administrator. \n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5j-S6VGqpw#action=share \n\nSome general information about electricity trading arrangements in the UK \n\nhttps://youtu.be/UDv04q3U6e0 \n\nElexon sushi video. Tries to explain the balancing of the UKs electricity grid \n\nhttps://vimeo.com/65768597 \n\nThe videos above are UK centric, but our current interest is Europe wide. Feel free to research the other markets. This is a longer video that to me explains why there is such large opportunity going forward for the electricity traders who are able to efficiently analyse supply and demand fundamentals and move power between countries, for the benefit of all. \n\nhttps://youtu.be/gacGuWjqKco. \n\nAs mentioned in the add, once Europe is conquered, we do genuinely intend on going global. The American power markets look next on the plate, followed by the Australian and Japanese. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Python, Backend, Developer, Digital Nomad and Video jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $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 Overview\n\nWe’re Encircle, nice to meet you! We’re leading the $2 trillion dollar property and casualty insurance industry out of the dark ages of pen-and-paper processes, into the digital age of transparency and empowerment. Our easy-to-use mobile and web software enables thousands of restoration contractors and insurance professionals to create efficiency, optimize resources, and maximize productivity. We’ve got some huge goals and are looking to add new members to our all-star team to help get us there!\n\nWe're big on training and helping members of our team broaden their skillset to meet new challenges.\n\nAs a member of the development organization, you will play a critical role in maintaining and enhancing our infrastructure; working closely with our support team to manage customer escalations; and performing complex and challenging upgrade and migration operations. You will understand in detail the cloud services that we use and how they are managed; factors that influence the reliability of our infrastructure; and the configuration and layout of our services. You will help us anticipate load issues, improve our scalability, and innovate methods to improve the visibility of our business analytics and alerts. You will be entrusted with customer data and its integrity and privacy.\n\n\nRole Profile\n\nThis is primarily an internal-facing role at a leading software provider to the insurance restoration industry. You will be constantly drawing on both your technical and problem-solving skills. You will be responsible for working with many different employees, including developers, other members of the development operations team, the VP development and the CTO. \n\n\nResponsibilities\n\nThroughout the course of your job, you will be responsible for a diverse and mission-critical range of tasks, such as:\n\n\n* Perform deep-dive investigations into the root cause of complex issues potentially involving the interaction of low-level operating system components, cloud services, and networking\n\n* Develop end-to-end features and fixes that promote system stability\n\n* Stay in contact with the support team to be apprised of current issues\n\n* Advise development leadership to help triage and prioritize new issues\n\n* Help to document and build corporate working knowledge on our operating procedures\n\n* Stay in contact with the development team to maintain a mutual understanding of the impact of known and new performance issues, new changes, and how and where they will take effect\n\n* Research, plan and develop ways to make our analytics dashboards and error monitoring more meaningful and improve their signal-to-noise ratio\n\n* Research, plan and develop ways to ensure that our alerts are being sent on meaningful events\n\n* Develop ways to reduce manual work associated with internal administrative procedures\n\n* Perform both planned and unplanned deployments to our staging and production environments\n\n* Be a member of the on-call rotation to resolve critical multiple-customer-affecting issues\n\n\n\n\n\nRequirements\n\n\n* Excellent organizational and communication skills.\n\n* A comfort level with working on multiple projects at once.\n\n* Knowledge of fundamental back-end technologies - Linux, SQL and Python - is needed\n\n* Familiarity with DevOps/SRE tools and concepts - Ansible, Azure and Docker/Kubernetes experience is beneficial.\n\n* Familiarity with parts of our application stack (Typescript, Swift, Kotlin) or similar technologies is beneficial.\n\n\n\n\n\nReporting\n\nThis role reports to our VP Development.\n\n\nInterview Process\n\nEncircle is proud of our bias-reducing interview process, which has three steps:\n\n\n* An introductory call with the hiring manager (VP Development)\n\n* A small take-home project to evaluate your programming\n\n* A videoconference interview with a mix of directed and open-ended technology questions\n\n\n\n\nMost of the emphasis is placed on your performance in the take-home and interviews rather than on past experience, curriculum vitae or academics.\n\n\nCompensation\n\nEncircle invests a lot of effort into designing salary ranges that are competitive for the industry, the Kitchener-Waterloo area and your role. This will be discussed in the introductory call with your hiring manager. Compensation also includes an Employee Stock Option Plan (ESOP), a competitive health benefits package, and access to the Employee Assistance Program (EAP) counselling service.\n\n\nEligibility\n\nTo be eligible to work for Encircle, you must be able to legally work in Canada. We support working from home or from the Kitchener office\n\n\nEncircle is an equal opportunity employer. In accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005, upon request, accommodation will be provided by Encircle throughout the recruitment, selection and/or assessment process to applicants with disabilities \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Admin, Engineer, Sys Admin, Developer, Digital Nomad, Cloud, Python and Mobile jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $125,000/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

\nAbout us\n\nRavenPack is the leading big data analytics provider for financial services. Financial professionals rely on RavenPack for its speed and accuracy in analyzing large amounts of unstructured content. RavenPack’s products allow clients to enhance returns, reduce risk and increase efficiency by systematically incorporating the effects of public information in their models or workflows. Our clients include the most successful hedge funds, banks, and asset managers in the world!\n\nWe’re looking for\n\nIn RavenPack we are searching for a Python Web Developer to join an international team of developers skilled in technologies like Python, Java, Common Lisp, and SQL. \n\nTo join RavenPack, you will need to have the ability to communicate effectively in English both in writing and verbally. \n\nThis position can be based on our Marbella office, where you should be eligible to work in Spain. Relocation assistance is available.\n\nThe option of Remote Work is also available, preferably in similar EU time zones.\n\n Your responsibilities as a Python Web Developer\n\n\n* Work with a large amount of data and make it usable for non-data professionals\n\n* Design, develop, deploy, maintain and improve medium/big web applications\n\n* Continually work to improve processes, implement engineering best practices, and develop automated solutions. \n\n* Work with other Engineers, Managers, Product Management, QA, and Operations teams to develop innovative solutions and meet client expectations.\n\n\n\n\nThe next RavenPacker will have\n\n\n* BS in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field or equivalent work experience\n\n* +2 years of extensive coding experience in Python using Django or Flask\n\n* Working knowledge of Javascript, HTML, CSS. Understanding of ReactJS will be a plus.\n\n* +2 years of professional experience working in real-time applications\n\n* The ability to work efficiently in both a team and self-directed manner\n\n* A high degree of independence\n\n\n\n\nNice to Have\n\n\n* Professional experience with Nginx, Apache in some large production deployment.\n\n* Knowledge of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and servers such as Redshift, Kinesis, DynamoDB, and ECS.\n\n\n\n\nWhat's in it for you\n\n\n* Flexibility on when to take a vacation\n\n* Team of Superstars! We are proud to gather an international and diverse team of talented professionals (ex-Silicon Valley executives, Lispers and more)\n\n* Motivational leadership: Here your job title doesn’t matter, we all sit together and work for the same goal. Grow together, you might even have the CEO sitting next to you!\n\n* Competitive compensation, ongoing training and growth opportunities.\n\n* International and dynamic environment (over 29 nationalities and 24 languages spoken!)\n\n\n\n\nWe are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Python, Web Developer, Developer, Digital Nomad, Amazon and Apache jobs that are similar:\n\n $65,000 — $125,000/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

\nAbout the Role: \n\nAdRoll’s dynamic creative team processes approximately 300 million products every day using a highly available platform to generate real time product recommendations for serving dynamic ads. As a part of the dynamic creative team, you will collaborate with back-end and front-end engineers, product management, and business analytics engineers, to develop novel systems, algorithms, and processes to handle millions of products using languages such as Python and Java.\n\nOur team welcomes programming language polyglots and entrepreneurial engineers who strive to know how everything works. We are committed to using modern frameworks and technologies. Do you want to build a highly available system that generates recommendations and serves ads in a latency sensitive environment using infrastructure on Amazon Web Services? Those opportunities are with our team.\n\nResponsibilities:\n\n\n* Maintain and improve our product feed and image transformations pipeline & infrastructure\n\n* Work closely with both back-end, front-end and product management teams to maintain and develop dynamic creative teams infrastructure\n\n* Tackle some of the most challenging problems in high-performance, scalable data processing.\n\n\n\n\nQualifications:\n\n\n* A BS or MS degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience\n\n* 3+ years experience\n\n* Experience with one or more general purpose programming languages including but not limited to: Java, C/C++, C#, Python\n\n* Experience with scalable systems and large-scale data processing\n\n* Experience with big data technologies such as Hadoop, Hive, Spark, or Storm\n\n* Experience with NoSQL databases such as DynamoDB, Redis, Cassandra, or HBase\n\n* Experience with SQL and relational databases such as Postgres or MySQL\n\n* Experience developing and deploying applications on Linux infrastructure\n\n\n\n\nBonus Points:\n\n\n* Development & operations experience on AWS using Simple Storage, Elastic Container, DynamoDB, and Relational Databases\n\n\n\n\nCompensation:\n\n\n* Competitive salary and equity\n\n* Remote and Work From Home friendly environment\n\n* Medical / Dental / Vision benefits\n\n* Paid time off and generous holiday schedule\n\n* The opportunity to win the coveted Golden Bagel award\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 Senior, Engineer, Developer, Digital Nomad, Amazon, NoSQL, Python, Ads and Linux 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