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\nWe are looking for an engineer with a “find a way or make a way” attitude that is excited to join a small but growing team that has more projects than developers.  This opportunity is for someone excited for autonomy, ownership, and breadth of responsibility.\n\nOur environment is typical of a start-up:\n\n\n* We work in small teams, fast-paced, we all get a lot done by everyone wearing many hats.\n\n* We are serious about optimizing our time and staying focused on the most important goals and outcomes.\n\n* We are a remote team and are completely on board with 100% remote work, meaning we focus on over-communication to ensure we can stay in sync despite our physical distance.\n\n* We coordinate using a kanban board, hold a daily standup, and mostly communicate via ad hoc video calls and Slack.\n\n* We’re building lots of new things, but also maintaining a significant business.  We are mindful of the balance and need to monitor and pay down tech debt and also innovate with exciting greenfield projects.\n\n\n\n\nTech stack.\n\n\n* Our retail application is a frontend-heavy PWA written in NodeJS and React, containerized via Docker, and Deployed via Kubernetes. We also make heavy use of Parse Server, which provides an API to the MongoDB via REST and GraphQL endpoints.\n\n\n\n\nBuild something challenging.\n\nThis isn't just another CRUD application. Your challenge will be to deliver a highly-available service with complex business logic being used by hundreds of businesses 24/7 to keep their operations running.  Our entity model is vast and a major part of our domain is synchronizing data with third party traceability systems. Explore the limits of your resourcefulness by designing human and automated systems that deliver consistent performance, reliability and scale whilst working with less-than-ideal third-party requirements and systems.\n\nSee if you fit our requirements.\n\nFor this role, we are looking for someone with the following characteristics:\n\n\n* 5-10 years experience working in back-end applications\n\n* 5-10 years experience working with front-end applications\n\n* Deep Familiarity with Node JS and Express\n\n* Familiarity with GraphQL\n\n* Familiarity with Docker and containerized orchestration in a cloud environment. Bonus for experience with Kubernetes and Google Cloud (Google Kubernetes Engine). \n\n* Familiarity with PWA best practices\n\n* Familiarity with ES6 & ReactJS\n\n* Bonus for experience working in a fast paced / high-expectations startup environment\n\n* Ability to acutely focus on company objectives and mission at hand.\n\n* Proven dedication to creating maintainable, functional, and reliable systems.\n\n* Ability to pass a background check; have appropriate work authorization\n\n* Extremely articulate communicator in all virtual mediums.\n\n* An eye for design, detail, and user experience\n\n* Familiarity with GIT branching models, CI pipelines, and related workflows.\n\n\n\n\nYour Mission & Responsibilities:\n\n\n* Architect, plan and build new features, ranging from discussing wireframes to creating the data model to architecting deployment processes.\n\n* Contribute to maintaining and building out robustness of our Core implementation.\n\n* Contribute to our engineering culture by designing and developing with intention as well as our focus on continuous improvement.\n\n* Advise, mentor and lead other full time engineers and contractors on projects, small to large, from start to finish.\n\n* Technical Planning (Spec writing etc.)\n\n* Technical Estimation & Delegation\n\n* Team Evaluation / Process (Retros, grooming, velocity management etc.)\n\n* Implementing company technical initiatives (Jira, GQL, Apollo, Sentry error policies)\n\n* Accountability for team & product performance\n\n* Contributing to technical & product direction\n\n* Ensuring high availability of retail services for our customers\n\n* Assist with deployments and infrastructure architecture/orchestration.\n\n\n\n\n\nTo achieve our mission, we always look for high-caliber people who share our core values:\n\n\n* Value-Driven: Above all else, we are concerned with driving value to customers and partners through over-delivering on the benefits we’ve promised them. \n\n\n\n* Grit: We are resilient marathoners who finish what they start and love tackling problems of all sizes. We take critical feedback and push through to get the job done. \n\n\n\n* Rigor: We are data driven, analytical and exhaustive in decision making. We take in the evidence, integrate information from multiple sources quickly, draw conclusions and take actions - quickly.\n\n\n\n* Collaboration: We leave our egos at home, we challenge each other and we work together to find the best solutions, every day, day in and day out. \n\n\n\n* Accountability: We sign up for the hard stuff and take ownership to see it through. We make lemonade out of lemons when we have to and don’t let attitude get in the way of getting it done.\n\n\n\n* Curiosity:  Most of us dork out over non-work related topics at a ridiculous level of detail, because that’s how we’re wired. We’re naturally inquisitive, ask tough questions and aren’t afraid to ruffle feathers to find better answers. \n\n\n\n* Honesty: We’re transparent and honest because that’s the right way to treat other people. Integrity is the basis of trust, and trust is everything when you’re creating the future together.\n\n\n\nOther Details.\n\n\n* We are a fully remote company and this position will be remote.\n\n* We are looking for someone who is ready to join us full-time after a brief trial period (all our employees do this).\n\n* We offer health benefits, 401k, unlimited time off, charity matching, and other cool perks. \n\n* We are offering an annual salary in the range of $140,000 - $150,000 USD.\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, Full Stack, Video, Cloud, Git, Node and API 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

\nWe are looking for an engineer with a “find a way or make a way” attitude that is excited to join a small but growing team that has more projects than developers.  This opportunity is for someone excited for autonomy, ownership, and breadth of responsibility.\n\nOur environment is typical of a start-up:\n\n\n* We work in small teams, fast-paced, we all get a lot done by everyone wearing many hats.\n\n* We are serious about optimizing our time and staying focused on the most important goals and outcomes.\n\n* We are a remote team and are completely on board with 100% remote work, meaning we focus on over-communication to ensure we can stay in sync despite our physical distance.\n\n* We coordinate using a kanban board, hold a daily standup, and mostly communicate via ad hoc video calls and Slack.\n\n* We’re building lots of new things, but also maintaining a significant business.  We are mindful of the balance and need to monitor and pay down tech debt and also innovate with exciting greenfield projects.\n\n\n\n\nTech stack.\n\n\n* Our retail application is a frontend-heavy PWA written in NodeJS and React, containerized via Docker, and Deployed via Kubernetes. We also make heavy use of Parse Server, which provides an API to the MongoDB via REST and GraphQL endpoints.\n\n\n\n\nBuild something challenging.\n\nThis isn't just another CRUD application. Your challenge will be to deliver a highly-available service with complex business logic being used by hundreds of businesses 24/7 to keep their operations running.  Our entity model is vast and a major part of our domain is synchronizing data with third party traceability systems. Explore the limits of your resourcefulness by designing human and automated systems that deliver consistent performance, reliability and scale whilst working with less-than-ideal third-party requirements and systems.\n\nSee if you fit our requirements.\n\nFor this role, we are looking for someone with the following characteristics:\n\n\n* 5-10 years experience working in back-end applications\n\n* 5-10 years experience working with front-end applications\n\n* Deep Familiarity with Node JS and Express\n\n* Familiarity with GraphQL\n\n* Familiarity with Docker and containerized orchestration in a cloud environment. Bonus for experience with Kubernetes and Google Cloud (Google Kubernetes Engine). \n\n* Familiarity with PWA best practices\n\n* Familiarity with ES6 & ReactJS\n\n* Bonus for experience working in a fast paced / high-expectations startup environment\n\n* Ability to acutely focus on company objectives and mission at hand.\n\n* Proven dedication to creating maintainable, functional, and reliable systems.\n\n* Ability to pass a background check; have appropriate work authorization\n\n* Extremely articulate communicator in all virtual mediums.\n\n* An eye for design, detail, and user experience\n\n* Familiarity with GIT branching models, CI pipelines, and related workflows.\n\n\n\n\nYour Mission & Responsibilities:\n\n\n* Architect, plan and build new features, ranging from discussing wireframes to creating the data model to architecting deployment processes.\n\n* Contribute to maintaining and building out robustness of our Core implementation.\n\n* Contribute to our engineering culture by designing and developing with intention as well as our focus on continuous improvement.\n\n* Advise, mentor and lead other full time engineers and contractors on projects, small to large, from start to finish.\n\n* Technical Planning (Spec writing etc.)\n\n* Technical Estimation & Delegation\n\n* Team Evaluation / Process (Retros, grooming, velocity management etc.)\n\n* Implementing company technical initiatives (Jira, GQL, Apollo, Sentry error policies)\n\n* Accountability for team & product performance\n\n* Contributing to technical & product direction\n\n* Ensuring high availability of retail services for our customers\n\n* Assist with deployments and infrastructure architecture/orchestration.\n\n\n\n\n\nTo achieve our mission, we always look for high-caliber people who share our core values:\n\n\n* Value-Driven: Above all else, we are concerned with driving value to customers and partners through over-delivering on the benefits we’ve promised them. \n\n\n\n* Grit: We are resilient marathoners who finish what they start and love tackling problems of all sizes. We take critical feedback and push through to get the job done. \n\n\n\n* Rigor: We are data driven, analytical and exhaustive in decision making. We take in the evidence, integrate information from multiple sources quickly, draw conclusions and take actions - quickly.\n\n\n\n* Collaboration: We leave our egos at home, we challenge each other and we work together to find the best solutions, every day, day in and day out. \n\n\n\n* Accountability: We sign up for the hard stuff and take ownership to see it through. We make lemonade out of lemons when we have to and don’t let attitude get in the way of getting it done.\n\n\n\n* Curiosity:  Most of us dork out over non-work related topics at a ridiculous level of detail, because that’s how we’re wired. We’re naturally inquisitive, ask tough questions and aren’t afraid to ruffle feathers to find better answers. \n\n\n\n* Honesty: We’re transparent and honest because that’s the right way to treat other people. Integrity is the basis of trust, and trust is everything when you’re creating the future together.\n\n\n\n\nOther Details.\n\n\n* We are a fully remote company and this position will be remote.\n\n* We are looking for someone who is ready to join us full-time after a brief trial period (all our employees do this).\n\n* We offer health benefits, 401k, unlimited time off, charity matching, and other cool perks. \n\n* We are offering an annual salary in the range of $140,000 - $150,000 USD.\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, Full Stack, Video, Cloud, Git, Node and API 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

\nRuntime Sr., Lead, or Principal Level Platform Engineer, Heroku\nHeroku operates the world’s largest PaaS cloud, continuously delivering millions of apps with 6+ million container deployments, 16+ billion routing requests, and 10+ terabytes of application logs per day. Our vision is for developers to focus on their applications and leave operations to us.\nWe work in small groups who are heartfelt about our users’ problems. We plan weekly, chat daily and work closely together. Our team is a remote community with members excited to work together on challenging distributed systems problems. Equality is a core value for Salesforce; it's at the heart of everything we do and strive to be. That means Equal Opportunity, Equal Advancement and Equal Pay for all. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.\nWe hope you are passionate about joining our community of engineers who love to learn, work, and operate a gigantic distributed system, build and sustain a remote culture and help grow and mentor other engineers.\nExamples of recent work Runtime engineers have done at Heroku\nCore infrastructure scaling and growth: broke up a critical, monolithic Ruby application that performs many container scheduling tasks and refactored it as a set of well scoped gRPC Go services.\nSupporting critical customer applications: diagnosed and fixed a very elusive bug in how signals are forwarded between our platform logging process and customer containers that was causing customer apps to crash unexpectedly.\nDelivering features to customers: built an automated cert management capability using the Let's Encrypt API to provision free customer SSL certs for domains added to apps and automatically renew expiring certs.\nResearching and learning: prototyped a Kubernetes orchestration backend for our internal Runtime API as part of a larger effort to learn about and adopt new technologies in our runtime.\nInfrastructure improvements: transitioned our use of K8s from self-managed to managed by integrating EKS and implemented a new authentication scheme to integrate our container registry with EKS.\nIncident response: conducted emergency response when a remote operation timed out during routine API maintenance in our EU runtime, corrupting routing state data for a single node. Incident responders followed documented procedure in our ops playbooks to identify the corrupted node and flush its cache. Remediation work included refining our metrics to reduce our time to diagnose and improving our automated tooling used for system maintenance.\n\nProfiles relevant specifically to the Senior Engineer role would feature:\n3+ years in a full-time, professional software engineering role\nExperience developing production software in Go or Ruby\nExperience developing on IaaS (AWS, GCP, Azure, OpenStack, etc)\nDemonstration of strong software development best practices, such as documentation driven design, code review, test coverage, continuous integration, continuous delivery, phased rollouts\nEnthusiasm for learning new languages, frameworks, and skills\nExcellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to work effectively with geographically distributed teams and people of various backgrounds\nExperience participating in an on-call rotation\n\nProfiles relevant specifically to Lead and Principal roles would additionally feature:\n5+ years in a full-time, professional software engineering role\nExperience in a technical leadership role in a collaborative team environment\nExperience deploying, operating and supporting critical production systems\nExperience deploying services on Kubernetes\nExperience participating in an on-call rotation\n\n\nSalesforce, the Customer Success Platform and world's #1 CRM, empowers companies to connect with their customers in a whole new way. The company was founded on three disruptive ideas: a new technology model in cloud computing, a pay-as-you-go business model, and a new integrated corporate philanthropy model. These founding principles have taken our company to great heights, including being named one of Forbes’s “World’s Most Innovative Company” six years in a row and one of Fortune’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” nine years in a row. We are the fastest growing of the top 10 enterprise software companies, and this level of growth equals incredible opportunities to grow a career at Salesforce. Together, with our whole Ohana (Hawaiian for "family") made up of our employees, customers, partners and communities, we are working to improve the state of the world. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Heroku, Engineer, Executive, Cloud, Scheme, Salesforce, Node, Ruby, API, Senior and Backend 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