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# 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 (#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 $90,000 — $120,000/year\n \n\n#Location\nWorldwide

### About Us\nAt Close, we're building the sales communication platform of the future. With our roots as the very first sales CRM to include built-in calling, we're leading the industry toward eliminating manual processes and helping companies to close more deals(faster). Since our founding in 2013, we've grown to become a profitable, 100% globally distributed team of ~45 high-performing, happy people that are dedicated to building a product our customers love.\n\nOur backend [tech stack](https://stackshare.io/close-crm/close) currently consists of Python Flask web apps with our TaskTiger scheduler handling many of the backend asynchronous task processing chores. Our data stores include MongoDB, Postgres, Elasticsearch, and Redis. The underlying infrastructure runs on AWS using a combination of managed services like RDS and ElasticCache and non-managed services running on EC2 instances. All of our compute runs through CI/CD pipelines that build Docker images, run automated tests and deploy to our Kubernetes clusters.Our backend primarily serves a well-documented public API that our front-end JavaScript app consumes.\n\nWe 💛open source – using dozens of open source projects with contributions to many of them, and released some of our own like ciso8601, LimitLion, SocketShark, TaskTiger, and more [here](https://github.com/closeio)\n\n### About You \nWe're looking for an experienced full-time Software Engineer to join our engineering team. Someone who has a solid understanding of web technologies and wants to help design, implement, launch, and scale major systems and user-facing features.\n\nYou should have senior level experience (~5 years) building modern back-end systems, with at least 3 years of that experience using Python.\n\nYou have hands on production experience woking with MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, or similar data stores. You have significant experience designing, scaling, debugging, and optimizing systems to make them fast and reliable. You have experience participating in code reviews and providing overall code quality suggestions to help maintain the structure and quality of the codebase. You care about the craftsmanship of the code and systems you produce.\n\nYou’re comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with a small and talented team where you're supported in your efforts to grow professionally. You are able to manage your time well, communicate effectively and collaborate in a fully distributed team.\n\nYou are located in an American or European time zone.\n\n### Bonus points if you have\n- Contributed open source code related to our tech stack\n- Led small project teams building and launching features\n- Built B2B SaaS products\n- Experience with sales or sales tools\n\n### Come help us with projects like\n- Conceiving, designing, building, and launching new user-facing features\n- Improving the performance and scalability of our GraphQL and REST API.\n- Improving how we sync millions of sales emails and calendar events each month\n- Working with Twilio's API, WebSockets, and WebRTC to improve our calling features\n- Building user-facing analytics features that provide actionable insights based on sales activity data\n- Improving our Elasticsearch-backed powerful search features\n- Improving our internal messaging infrastructure using streaming technologies like Kafka and Redis \n- Building new and enhancing existing integrations with other SaaS platforms like Google’s G Suite, Zapier, and Web Conferencing providers\n\n### Why work with us?\n- [Culture video 💚](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbyGnLhtj0o&feature=youtu.be)\n- [Our story and team 🚀](https://close.com/about/)\n- 100% remote-first company (we believe in trust and autonomy)\n- 2 x annual team retreats ✈️ [Libson Retreat Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKjyXMz-q-Q) -when travel is appropriate\n- 4 x quarterly virtual summits\n- 7 weeks PTO (includes company-wide winter holiday break)\n- 2 additional PTO days every year with the company\n- 1 month paid sabbatical every 5 years\n- $200/month co-working stipend\n- Revenue Share (after 1 year)\n- Paid parental leave (10 wks primary caregiver / 4 wks secondary caregiver)\n- 99% premiums paid for excellent medical and dental coverage, including an - - HSA option (US residents)\n- 401k matching at 6% (US residents)\n- Dependent care FSA (US residents)\n\nWe are a small team doing great things - every role is critical to the success of this company. People that are most successful at Close have a resourceful, “doer” approach and mentality. We focus on productivity, impact and quality of work. We’re looking for team members that genuinely understand the nature of being part of a small team that operates in a bootstrapped / start-up-like environment. \n\nAt Close, everyone has a voice. We encourage transparency and practicing a mature approach to the work-place. In general, we don’t have strict policies, we have guidelines. Life-work harmony is an important part of our organization - we believe you bring your best to work when you practice self-care (whatever that looks like for you). \n\nWe come from 12 countries and 16 states; a collection of talented humans rich in diverse backgrounds, lifestyles, and cultures. Twice a year we meet up somewhere around the world to spend time with one another (however we’re opting for quarterly virtual summits during 2020/2021). We see these retreats as an opportunity to strengthen the social fiber of our community. This team is growing in more ways than one - we’ve recently launched 14 babies (and counting!). \n\nUnanimously, our favorite and most impactful value is “Build a house you want to live in.” We strive to make decisions that are authentic for our organization. At Close, we have a high care factor for one another, in making an awesome product and championing the success of our customers.\n\nInterested in Close but don't think this role is the best fit for you? View our [other positions](https://jobs.lever.co/close.io/). \n\nPlease mention the words **HURRY TURKEY WRITE** 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 $90,000 — $180,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n ⏰ Async\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n
\n\n#Location\n Americas & European Time Zones - 100% Remote

\nSummary\n\nThis senior API engineer will be a valuable member of a Scrum team responsible for developing and supporting one of our web-based SaaS offerings. This person will be an expert in Python and have extensive experience designing, refactoring, and supporting enterprise applications. This person must have team and/or project leadership experience, be self-motivated and possess strong communication and coordination skills between Product, Engineering, and QA. This person must be an Agile enthusiast, partnering with the team scrum master to drive sprint success and partnering with the product owner to oversee features and maintenance task execution and address technical debt.\n\n Essential Duties and Responsibilities:\n\nLeadership:\n\n\n* Apply “one team, full system, whole product” perspective and thinking to lead ownership of architectural integrity, code quality, development project execution, service and support, and releases\n\n* Champion and participate in value delivery through Agile, Scrum and SAFe  processes\n\n* Build for quality through code reviews, support of continuous integration and test automation, and the burndown of technical debt\n\n* Define, estimate, code, review, test and document solutions for feature development, maintenance and refactor initiatives\n\n* Install and maintain your individual development environment\n\n* Uphold DIGARC’s software development processes and standards\n\n\n\n\nSupport:\n\n\n* Assist in tier-3 support of SaaS-based enterprise product (client issues, performance, data integrity, integration with related applications)\n\n* Handle issue triage independently and by coordinating the efforts of the right team members\n\n* Communicate solution measures with affected departments (Support, Systems, other Product teams)\n\n\n\n\nCommunication:\n\n\n* Communicate ideas, problems and solutions effectively with the VP of Product Development, the chief architect, other engineers, and across other teams\n\n* Engage other engineers in healthy collaboration about code and processes\n\n* Act as a cross-department communication point person for  innovation, continuous improvement and issue status, causes and resolutions\n\n\n\n\nCompetencies: \n\n\n\n* Self-motivated, high energy, results oriented contributor who thrives in a fast-paced setting\n\n\n\n\n\n* Extremely organized with strong time management and prioritization skills\n\n\n\n\n\n* Creative thinker with proven success in providing solutions to solve business issues\n\n\n\n\n\n* Excellent listening and interpersonal skills\n\n\n\n\n\n* Ability to build rapport and relationships quickly and develop trust with others\n\n\n\n\n\n* Ability to listen, understand, anticipate needs\n\n\n\n\n\n* Able to multi-task and deal with shifting priorities\n\n\n\n\n\n* Proven ability to inspire, motivate and lead others\n\n\n\n\n\n* Demonstrated aptitude for constantly learning new technologies\n\n\n\n\n\n* Demonstrated experience with agile development and software development life cycles\n\n\n\n\n\n* Demonstrated experience developing and maintaining enterprise SaaS software \n\n\n\n\n\n* Experience with a noSQL persistence layer\n\n\n\n\n\n* Understand and troubleshoot the application stack (Python, Angular) and infrastructure on AWS\n\n\n\n\n\n* Understand, configure, and optimize a full text search\n\n\n\n\n\n* Troubleshoot an application from all angles (client issues, performance, data integrity)\n\n\n\n\n\nEducation and Experience: \n\n\n\n* B.S. in Computer Science, Information Systems or related Engineering or equivalent experience\n\n\n\n\n\n* Minimum 8 years of experience in a software product development environment\n\n\n\n\n\n* Minimum 6 years of experience designing, building and supporting end-to-end web-based systems for enterprise applications\n\n\n\n\n\n* 6+ years of professional development in Python on Linux\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n* 2+ years of professional experience developing RESTful APIs\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n* Experience developing software hosted in a cloud environment.\n\n\n\n\n\n* Experience as a software development project leader or technical lead including project planning and execution, staffing, tasking and reporting\n\n\n\n\n\n* Experience with enterprise software development, maintenance, and processes\n\n\n\n\n\n* Experience with Agile processes, especially Scrum, Scrumban, or Scaled Agile (SAFe) \n\n\n\n\n\n* Experience problem-solving with large, complex web-based applications\n\n\n\n\n\n* Experience with enterprise, web-based data integration including transactions, full CRUD and ETL across business applications\n\n\n\n\n\n* Experience working in and maintaining a Docker environment\n\n\n\n\n\nPhysical Demands and Work Environment: \n\nThe physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  Travel outside of the office is minimal but can happen on occasion.  Typical professional office working conditions.\n\n** U.S. Citizenship or ability to work in the United States without sponsorship (currently and in the future) **\n\nAll DIGARC employees are expected to display unquestionable integrity in every aspect of work and dealing with others.  Respect for diversity and inclusion of all individuals is imperative to our business success and required. \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, Cloud, NoSQL, Python, API, Travel and SaaS 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

Who We Are\n\nMonetate helps digital marketers make their content more personal. We turn data into action on our customers' sites by doing real-time data analysis and DOM manipulation at a large scale, to help our customers put the right experience in front of their customers users. We are a small team focused on delivering the best experience possible for our customers and enabling them to understand their customers needs at arbitrarily high volumes. We’re looking for engineers who want to do highly scalable work on great brands and solve tough problems.\nAbout the Job\n\nOur engineering team is passionate about scale and truly usable products. As a software development engineer, you will be a technical owner. You'll work on a talented and nimble team of engineers creating real-time decisioning API's with millisecond-level SLA's. You’ll write distributed applications that scale across hundreds of servers. At Monetate we are pragmatists and use open source across our stack. We work primarily in Python on AWS. We're looking for talented engineers who are want challenges at scale. We are very flexible on schedules, and offer a very competitive package. We also have an established, highly productive remote development team you will be working with.\nProfessional traits of a Monetate Engineer:\n\n\n\n\nExhibits excellent judgment\n\n\n\nHas relentlessly high standards (is never satisfied with the status quo)\n\n\nIs able to dive deep and is never out of touch with the details of the business or technology\n\n\n\nThinks big\n\n\nStrong engineering background and software development skills \n\n\n\n\nWhat We’re Looking For:\n\n\n\nBachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent preferred\n\n\n\n2+ years experience in software development - this can be open source side projects while you were studying, or you might have 10+ years of professional experience!\n\n\nProficiency in at least one modern programming language, preferably Python\n\n\n\nKnowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operation\n\n\nAbility to take a product from scoping requirements through actual launch of the product\n\n\n\nExperience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, describe software product features, and technical designs\n\n\n\n\nBecause you’ll be remote, there are some additional requirements:\n\n\n\n\n\nable and allowed to travel to the Philadelphia area 2-4 times a year\n\n\n\nhave a quiet place to work all day\n\n\nable to work, concentrate and stay on top of things by yourself, though we’ll be in constant communication by chat and videoconferencing\n\n\nhave a solid internet connection\n\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 Python, Scala, API, Marketing, Excel, Engineer, Developer, Digital Nomad and Travel 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