Remote API + Cloud + Lambda + Serverless + UI Jobs

Full Stack Engineer (React+Python)\n\nThere’s a big shift in the way people work towards self-employment and entrepreneurship in the UK and around the world. \n\nCoconut is a current account that takes care of accounting and tax. It’s designed specifically for freelancers, self-employed people and small business owners.\n\nWe launched our first product in January 2018. We’re at an exciting point in our journey and we now have 31,000 customers. Our mission is to free millions of people around the world from business admin by combining banking and accounting into one simple product.\n\nIn order to achieve this, we need more incredible people in our team. We are now looking for an experienced Full Stack Engineer with strong React/Python (Django) experience to join our engineering team to help us deliver our ambitious roadmap.\n\nWe’re a friendly, welcoming and diverse team and look forward to speaking to you if this role sounds of interest.\n\nOur primary technology stack has:\n\n- React for web application experiences\n- Python 3 for server side application code\n- Django for web applications and APIs\n- Celery for async task management\n- Redis for caching and async task brokering\n- Lambda for serverless parts of our application like transaction processing\n- AWS for infrastructure and other services supporting the platform\n\nA bit about the role:\n\nEvery day is different at Coconut so we are looking for somebody that takes change into their stride. A typical week might include:\n\n- Understanding requirements from across the business and translating them into technical solutions for external and internal customers \n- Creating exceptional front end web experiences from high fidelity digital designs for customers using modern React and associated technologies (Redux, Webpack etc.)\n- Creating features/APIs supporting either web applications and/or mobile applications\n- Helping the Growth Team run web-based experiments\n- Working on the Coconut website\n- Working closely with design to review UI and UX\n- Improving performance of our web products\n- Improving our front end tool chains\n- Bug fixing or enhancement work\n- Demoing your work to the business for feedback\n\nSkills you need:\n\n- 3+ years of strong Javascript and React web applications (including Single Page Applications) development experience including networking with APIs to deliver functionality\n- Exceptional front end web development skills and proven experience in construction of high quality component-driven user interfaces\n- API development, most ideally in python/Django/DRF or similar framework programming experience working on various systems and problems including exposure to Cloud computing and databases\n- PHP and Wordpress experience a bonus\n- Good understanding of and experience implementing web security\n- Strong design sensibility, product intuition and a creative mind and enjoy brainstorming and solving problems\n- Writing unit and functional tests of your work\n- Understanding of performance and scaling issues and how to affect these\n- Understanding of the importance of best practices vs pragmatism\n- Strong drive to own your work and ensure its delivered from start to finish\n- Able to work independently and seek help where needed\n- Deep care for quality in your work\n- Passionate about delivering value to customers\n- Experience of working within a product team and understand agile methodology\n- are highly collaborative and helpful\n- Communication to a high standard to both technical and non-technical people\n- Knowing when to ask for help and being open in times of difficulty\n- Desire to work in a fast-paced, demanding but rewarding and fun environment\n\nInterested in learning more?\n\nIf you’re interested we would love to hear from you. You can apply below or you can contact harriet@getcoconut to learn more. We have a 4 stage virtual interview process as follows:\n\n- Initial call with Head of Talent\n- 45 minute chat with CTO\n- 45 minute chat with Design, Product Management and Growth\n- 1.5 hour technical interview including discussion around a technical exercise that you prepare before the interview\n\nWorking at Coconut\n\nBenefits:\n\n- Be a member of a small growing team that is building something exceptional\n- Competitive salary + options available\n- Company pension with matched contributions\n- 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays)\n- Remote working indefinitely\n- London office available if preferred\n- Work environment that values creativity, personal growth and collaboration\n- Continuous learning and development: you will be challenged with lots of responsibility and exciting projects\n\n\n \n\nPlease mention the words **NEXT LOBSTER EVIL** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xNDY=). 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 /year\n
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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 you‘ll 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 - We’re into React on the front-end, using AWS Lambda and serverless architecture on the backend. We’ve deployed ‘static-CMS’ 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 “serverless” 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 (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xNDY=). 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 🌎 Distributed team\n\n