Remote Android + Cloud + Engineering + Web Developer Jobs

\nCome and work at the Associated Press alongside some of the most talented technologists in any industry.  The AP is the largest and most trusted source of independent newsgathering in the world, with deep technology roots, and a passion and track record for using the latest technology to deliver world class customer experiences.\n\nThe AP seeks a Senior Web and Mobile Architect to lead an engineering team that envisions, builds and evolves our advertising-driven direct-to-consumer products, including the AP News website http://www.apnews.com and our mobile apps on the iOS and Android platforms. As the leader of the AP News engineering team you will be responsible for all aspects of technology delivery and be a thought-leader among the advertising, product and editorial teams, bringing insight and vision as AP grows direct-to-consumer revenue.  And as a member of the development team, you will make significant hands-on contributions, leveraging your engineering expertise to build, deploy and support a cloud-based content management platform that delivers news to 2/3 of the world’s population every day.\n\nResponsibilities\n\n\n* Lead and evolve the development team using cutting edge engineering practices\n\n* Become an expert on AP’s direct-to-consumer stack (web, mobile, backend), identifying  transformation opportunities related to stability, agility, security and fit for future roadmap\n\n* Translate business and editorial requirements into architectural vision and implementation details\n\n* Ensure the security, scalability and performance of the web and mobile platforms to a global audience, particularly during breaking news events\n\n* Develop, code, test, deploy and support the platform as a hands-on member of the team\n\n\n\n\nQualifications\n\n\n* 10+ years hands-on experience building highly scalable consumer facing websites and mobile applications\n\n* 5+ years’ experience as the leader of an engineering team setting architectural vision\n\n* Hands-on experience with most of the following technologies:\n\n\n* Google Cloud Platform including AppEngine and Cloud Storage \n\n* Amazon Web Services including compute and storage technologies\n\n\n\n\n\n* Python, Django/DRF, Postgres, Sphinx, Swagger\n\n* Redis/Memcache, Elastic Search\n\n* TypeScript, ReactJS, NodeJS, MobX, Koa\n\n* iOS and Android: Kotlin, XCode, Swift, RealmSwift, Firebase, Facebook SDK\n\n* Google Ads, Taboola, Nativo and other ad stack technologies\n\n\n\n\n\n* Deep experience with video and photo publishing workflow and content management, including optimization and delivery of video to consumer channels such as YouTube and other social networks\n\n* Experience architecting and implementing caching solutions using best of breed techniques, including both client and server-side rendering and use of vendor caching technologies\n\n* Experience architecting, building, and deploying well-reviewed, highly trafficked media driven apps for both iOS and Android platforms, including specific approval workflow for each app provider\n\n* Experience automating the testing and deployment of multi-tiered web solutions in a continuous deployment model\n\n* Experience integrating advertising stack technologies including video ad unit placement\n\n* Experience exploiting and implementing best of breed search engine optimization techniques\n\n* Some experience and perspective with commercial content management solutions and ability to lead a technical evaluation and potential transformation (i.e. Drupal, WordPress, etc)\n\n\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

\nHOMER is looking for a collaborative and results driven Senior Web Engineer to join our energetic, growing team. This is a remote role, but must be able to work East Coast hours. You will have a profound impact on a company that touches the lives of children, parents, and teachers across the globe with one of the most celebrated reading and learn-to-read platforms in the industry. We are looking to create world class digital learning experience available. Your work will help build a beautiful, personalized experience to meet every child's specific needs as they learn to read, love to read, and read to learn. Overall success in this position means you have helped the children using our products find the lessons, stories, and other content that best fit their age and interests.\n\nHOMER is a venture-backed, high-growth business that offers competitive compensation including equity and full benefits in a creative, flexible environment that invests in professional development\n\nAs Senior Engineer on our growing Web and Android team, you will be responsible for improving and maintaining several websites and web apps and contribute to the backend infrastructure that supports them as well as potentially developing games, lessons, and other interactive educational content consumed by a growing number of cross platform web and mobile apps. You are a maker at heart and have experience in and temperament for mentoring others on your team and across engineering. You will focus on elegant and effective technical solutions that enable Homer’s vision described above. As you grow, you will participate in growing our technology platform to support the needs of rapidly growing user-base. Above all, you should care about delivering quality software in a sustainable and timely manner.\n\n\nYour responsibilities will include:\n\n\n* Make direct technical contributions (writing, debugging, reviewing and deploying code) using Javascript, React framework, Node and other languages as necessary.\n\n* Provide technical guidance and feedback to your team members on a team distributed in several time-zones using agile project management methodologies.\n\n* Collaborate effectively with your stakeholders (product owners, animators, illustrators, UX designers, engineers, data scientists and others) to define and refine requirements.\n\n* Lead technical design of applications and participate in larger system design efforts.\n\n\n\n\nYou must have:\n\n\n* Demonstrable expertise designing and building websites and web apps and other systems using Javascript, React and Node.\n\n* Sound Computer Science fundamentals (Bachelor’s degree in CS or related fields preferred).\n\n* Strong interpersonal and communication skills.\n\n* At least 5 years of relevant work experience (or Undergraduate degree in Computer Science and 3 years of relevant work experience).\n\n\n\n\nWe are also looking for:\n\n\n* Knowledge of full stack engineering especially how scalable frontend and backend systems interoperate.\n\n* Knowledge of deployment technologies in cloud hosted environments like AWS.\n\n* Knowledge and experience with GraphQL.\n\n* Experience developing web or mobile 2D games, interactive apps, or animation systems.\n\n* Ability and openness to switch programming languages as necessary.\n\n\n\n\nWe like people who are:\n\n\n* Results oriented, hands-on and passionate about our industry (education) and our consumers (children, parents and educators).\n\n* Collaborative, and thrive in startup environments.\n\n\n\n\nWhat you’ll get:\n\n\n* HOMER offers competitive compensation including equity and full benefits\n\n* Smart, passionate, and engaged co-workers\n\n* Excellent top-tier Medical/Dental/Vision benefits\n\n* A chance to have a big impact\n\n* A chance to bring a love of reading and learning to children globally\n\n\n\n\nHOMER is an equal opportunity employer and enthusiastically encourages people from a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences to apply. HOMER does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), gender, national origin, citizenship, age, mental or physical disability, veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation or any other basis prohibited by law. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Senior, Engineer, Web Developer, React, Cloud, Node, Mobile, Android and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $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

\nHOMER is looking for a collaborative and results driven Senior Web Engineer to join our energetic, growing team. This is a remote role, but must be able to work East Coast hours. You will have a profound impact on a company that touches the lives of children, parents, and teachers across the globe with one of the most celebrated reading and learn-to-read platforms in the industry. We are looking to create world class digital learning experience available. Your work will help build a beautiful, personalized experience to meet every child's specific needs as they learn to read, love to read, and read to learn. Overall success in this position means you have helped the children using our products find the lessons, stories, and other content that best fit their age and interests.\n\nHOMER is a venture-backed, high-growth business that offers competitive compensation including equity and full benefits in a creative, flexible environment that invests in professional development\n\nAs Senior Engineer on our growing Web and Android team, you will be responsible for improving and maintaining several web and android apps and contribute materially in the backend infrastructure that supports them. You are a maker at heart and have experience in and temperament for mentoring others on your team and across engineering. You will focus on elegant and effective technical solutions that enable Homer’s vision described above. As you grow, you will participate in growing our technology platform to support the needs of rapidly growing user-base. Above all, you should care about delivering quality software in a sustainable and timely manner. \n\nYour responsibilities will include:\n\n\n* Make direct technical contributions (writing, debugging, reviewing and deploying code) using Node, Javascript, React framework and other languages as necessary\n\n* Provide technical guidance and feedback to your team members on a team distributed in several time-zones, especially in agile techniques like TDD and retrospectives\n\n* Collaborate effectively with your stakeholders (product managers, UX designers, engineers, data scientists and others) to define and refine requirements\n\n* Lead technical design of applications and participate in larger system design efforts.\n\n* Help with hiring and developing members of the team.\n\n\n\n\nYou must have:\n\n\n* Demonstrable expertise designing and building web and android apps and other systems using Node, JavaScript and React\n\n* Sound Computer Science fundamentals (Bachelor’s degree in CS or related fields preferred)\n\n* Strong interpersonal and communication skills\n\n* At least 5 years of relevant work experience  (or Undergraduate degree in Computer Science and 3 years of relevant work experience )\n\n\n\n\nWe are also looking for:\n\n\n* Knowledge of full stack engineering especially how scalable frontend and backend systems interoperate\n\n* Knowledge of deployment technologies in cloud hosted environments like AWS\n\n\n\n\nWe like people who are:\n\n\n* Results oriented, hands-on and passionate about our industry (education) and our consumers (children, parents and educators)\n\n* Collaborative, and thrive in startup environments\n\n* Able and willing to learn new technologies and styles\n\n\n\n\nWhat you’ll get:\n\n\n* HOMER offers competitive compensation including equity and full benefits\n\n* Smart, passionate, and engaged co-workers\n\n* Excellent top-tier Medical/Dental/Vision benefits\n\n* A chance to have a big impact\n\n* A chance to bring a love of reading and learning to children globally\n\n\n\n\nHOMER is an equal opportunity employer and enthusiastically encourages people from a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences to apply. HOMER does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), gender, national origin, citizenship, age, mental or physical disability, veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation or any other basis prohibited by law. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Senior, Engineer, Web Developer, React, JavaScript, Cloud, Android and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $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