# 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 (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4yMg==). 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

\n**Position type:** Full-time employee\n\n**Seniority:** Senior Software Engineer \n\n**Location:** Remote (desired [time zone between UTC-3 and UTC+3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC_offset#/media/File:World_Time_Zones_Map.png))\n\n**Compensation:** 60k–65k EUR/year (67k-73k USD/year) + stock options (both based on seniority level)\n\n\n## About Athenian\n\nAt [Athenian](athenian.co) we help development teams get end-to-end visibility into how software is being developed & delivered, so they can improve towards best practices and find bottlenecks.\n\nAthenian provides an engineering insights platform ([see live product demo](https://app.athenian.co/demo/)) that turns software development metadata such as tickets (Jira), source code host providers (Github, etc), CI/CD tools (Github checks, Travis, etc.) and others into actionable metrics.\n\nAthenian is a technology startup founded at the end of 2019 which launched its SaaS product mid-2020. We already have paying customers, a healthy pipeline and traction with mid-market customers.\n\nWe are a [team of 16](https://www.linkedin.com/company/athenian/) who are entirely remote across many countries. \n\n## About the role\n\nAs a Senior Software Engineer of the Webapp at Athenian you can expect to have a big impact in shaping the product.\n\nYou will have the opportunity to work alongside our highly skilled team to design, build, and iterate on a world-class software web application.\n\nYou are expected to work on the frontend and to contribute to user experience decisions. We are developers building a product for other developers and we build our product with a sense of pride and ownership.\n\nYou will be in a collaborative environment where you will work closely together with product and engineering to understand user needs, and discuss new ideas to solve complex problems.\n\n## Responsibilities\n* Contribute to shape the web application which is a critical and customer-facing part of the product\n\n* Implement beautiful UI & great UX of a data-centric product with the end-user perspective in mind\n \n* Understand customers’ needs and propose ideas and discuss solutions collaborating also with the other engineering teams, product & design\n\n\n### Skills & Experience\n\n#### Essential\n\n* Full professional proficiency in English, written and spoken\n* Strong frontend coding skills (JavaScript/Typescript + ReactJS with functional components)\n* Strong experience with Web Standards (HTML5, CSS3)\n* Strong experience with data manipulation\n* Strong experience with writing React functional components that are reusable, high-performant, testable, and high-performant\n* Strong experience with the frontend ecosystem & tooling (ESlint, Prettier, Webpack, etc.)\n* Strong experience in building and improving an API client\n* Experience with improving client-side performance with in-memory responses caching, persistent caching on local storage, parallelism, etc.\n* Experience with building complex dashboards (filters, etc.) and data visualizations (histograms, time series, donut charts, etc.) using charting libraries\n* Experience with Docker and docker-compose as a user\n* Experience with bash scripting\n* Experience with different API interfaces (REST, GraphQL, etc.)\n* Experience with continuous integration and deployment (Github Actions, etc.)\n* Experience with relational databases (Postgres)\n* Experience with testing front-end code\n* Experience with Git workflows\n* Experience with collaborating with different types of stakeholders (Product, Engineering, etc.)\n* Familiarity with building and improving an API server (NodeJS)\n* Familiarity with web servers (Nginx)\n* Familiarity with debugging and troubleshooting on a remote server\n* Familiarity with basic mathematical & statistical concepts (median, percentiles, etc.)\n\n#### Desired\n\n* Strong experience with lodash\n* Strong experience with building complex dashboards and data visualizations with ReactJS\n* Strong experience with Git workflows\n* Experience with implementing a type-safe and tested components library along with Storybook\n* Experience with CSS-in-JS (EmotionJS)\n* Experience with Cypress and visual regression testing\n* Experience with advanced Docker (multi-stage builds, layers caching optimization, etc.) and docker-compose\n* Experience with building and improving an API server (NodeJS)\n* Experience with common operations on relational databases (backup, restore, etc.)\n* Experience with debugging and troubleshooting on a remote server\n* Familiarity with IaaS (GCP)\n* Familiarity with cloud computing concepts (load balancing, scalability, port-forwarding, etc.)\n* Having worked remotely\n* Having worked in a dynamic start-up environment\n* Having worked on a SaaS product\n* Having used modern collaboration tooling (Jira, GitHub, Slack, Zoom, etc.)\n\n### Profile\n* Responsible and professional\n* Independent, goal-oriented, proactive attitude\n* Disciplined and communicative in remote environments\n* Collaborative and with a strong team-spirit\n* Curious and interested in learning new things\n\n## Hiring Process\nThe hiring process is composed by multiple steps:\n1. CV Review\n2. Technical Assessment Project\n3. Technical Interview + Q&A + Manager Interview\n4. Communication of the outcome\n\n## Engineering at Athenian\nAt Athenian Engineering we are currently a team of 5, consisting of the Head of Engineering and 4 world-class Senior Engineers, each with a diverse area of expertise ranging from Language Analysis and System Architecture to Machine Learning on Code and modern APIs. Our team is currently growing and expected to double in size in 2022.\n\nWe collaborate with each other on a daily basis and we value each contribution and idea. We foster good collaboration through transparency and good communication, and we believe that teamwork is key to move fast and be successful.\n\n## Athenian Culture\n\n* Athenian is a fully remote company. At the moment, we are 16 people from many different countries working closely together in a fully-distributed way.\n* We put a lot of value into collaboration and feedback, no matter if it comes from our CEO, a customer, Product or Engineering because we know that the best ideas can come from anywhere.\n* We believe in transparency and collaboration, which reflects how we operate internally and externally.\n* We are humane and care about each other's growth and wellbeing.\n* Flexible hours, set your own schedule that fits you.\n \n\nPlease mention the word **EARNESTLY** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4yMg==). 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 $60,000 — $80,000/year\n \n\n#Location\nUTC-3 -- UCT+3

* 📈 401k\n* 🏖️ 30 Days PTO\n* 🕘 Flexible Hours\n* 👪 Parental Leave\n* 💸 $350 Referral Bonus\n* 💰 $130k – $160k per year\n* ⚕️ Benefits and Insurance\n* 💡 4+ Years of Experience\n* 🔑 Work with the Founders\n* 🗺 Anywhere in the Americas (U.S. Preferred)\n\n**Get Paid:** If you recommend this job to the person that gets hired, we will give you a $350 referral bonus! How will we contact you about giving you your bonus? Tell your referral to list your name and/or email in the “How did you hear about this job?” question. Once they’re hired, we’ll make sure you get paid.\n\n# Summary\n\nBlueRithm is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to work with the founders, be directly involved in developing product road maps, and be a catalyst for growth and success in the company. This role offers a lot of growth and you’ll be able to have a big impact on many parts of the company.\n\n# Who We Are\n\n[BlueRithm](https://bluerithm.com/) is made up of a small team of US-based engineers with domain and development expertise. Since 2016, we’ve built and shipped a project-management platform for specialized niches in the construction, manufacturing, and energy industries.\n\nWe’re backed by TinySeed and a deep bench of experienced business owners, founders, and high-caliber people who believe in our approach and mission.\n\n# What is it like working with us?\n\nEven though we’re small and agile, we work hard and strive for success. We do it humbly and never at the expense of what’s right and ethical. We value diversity in backgrounds and thought, and believe leaving our egos at the door, supporting each other, and working towards common goals is a recipe for success.\n\n**Remote Work**\nMost of us work remotely around the U.S. We communicate and collaborate on Microsoft Teams. Most of our work takes place during normal U.S. business hours. The founders are in Minneapolis so there are opportunities to come co-work in the office space located there.\n\n**Sane Hours**\nWe’re adults and we trust each other to manage our time responsibly. We look at what you accomplish, not how long you are in front of a computer. We work hard and smart. Sure, we need to drive the business hard and release features, but we’re most concerned with long-term success.\n\n# The Role\n\nThis ‘Senior Software Engineer’ role has been created to help out one of the founders and take over a lot of his development work.\n\nYou will bring the product vision to life. You’ll help develop and prioritize the product roadmap, contributing your creative vision and technical expertise to give our customers a first-class product that solves real problems.\n\nYou’ll be doing full-stack development on our ASP.NET MVC web app, RESTful API, and Xamarin mobile app. Some features span the whole platform, while some are specific to one part (for example, just the web app). You’ll be building many new features and supporting existing ones. Occasionally you’ll join customer calls to stay engaged with our customers and understand, in their words, what they need.\n\nAs the company continues growing, you’ll also have the opportunity to grow your role in scope and responsibility. That could mean helping mentor and develop a more junior developer in the future.\n\nThis is a full-time role that can be fully remote. Ideally, you are located in the United States, but we are open to other locations as well.\n\nWe are an established company with a strong product, but sometimes we operate as an early startup. Not all of our SOPs are ironed out and there’s no big employee handbook. This role is for someone who is OK with ambiguity, loves to solve problems, and can work through issues. This also presents the opportunity for lots of growth and to have an impact across many parts of the company.\n\n**Day to Day**\n\n~80% of your time will be spent coding and working on our product. The rest of the time will be working on the product roadmap, brainstorming issues, and problem-solving, and continuous deployment.\n\n# Who We’re Looking For\n\nIdeally, we’d like to have someone who has strong experience with web app development and is also very comfortable in a startup, entrepreneurial environment.\n\n**Personality and Type of Person We’re Looking For:**\n\n* Someone who gets a thrill and satisfaction from building real features that people need and use.\n* The desire to have creative, visionary, as well as technical influence over product direction.\n* Understanding of the importance of urgency of work and creating results, but has a big-picture, long term mindset.\n* A self-improvement spirit.\n* Someone who enjoys solving difficult problems.\n* Passion for the work\n* A data-driven attitude\n* Perseverance\n* Adaptability\n* Self-reliance\n* Comfort with risk-taking and ambiguity that comes with working for a small company.\n\n**Your Experience and Skillset:**\n\n* Expertise with ASP.NET MVC web applications\n* Expertise with HTML, JavaScript, jQuery, CSS, other common web development technologies.\n* Expertise with full .NET framework as well as .NET Core.\n* Expertise in developing Web APIs.\n* Experience with various databases relational and document-based (Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Mongo DB, MySQL, etc..).\n* Experience developing enterprise solutions with Microsoft Azure.\n* Experience utilizing Azure and Azure DevOps automation in the context of automating infrastructure deployments.\n* Experience developing applications with Azure DevOps (Repositories, Build and Deploy Pipelines).\n* Experienced in design and UX principles. Prioritizes exceptional user experience in engineering and execution.\n\n# Bonus points\n\n* Experience developing mobile applications with Xamarin (cross-platform: iOS, Android, UWP).\n\n# Compensation and Benefits\n\n**Salary Range**\n$130-160k per Year\n\n**Stock Options**\nBlueRithm offers stock options in addition to salary and benefits. This vested interest in the company is something that would be discussed with the founders.\n\n**Insurance Coverage**\nFor our U.S. employees, we offer health insurance.\n\n**401k Plan**\nEmployees are eligible for a 401k plan that’s integrated into our payroll system. Plans are employee-funded.\n\n**Equipment Budget**\nHome office budget available to help you do your best work\n\n**Time Off / Vacation**\nTaking time off makes you happier, healthier, and more productive. We want you to take the time you need to rejuvenate, reflect, and take care of your and your family’s health. That’s why we have a 30 day off vacation policy. We’re not going to micromanage your day-to-day work when you’re taking off early or starting late, or just need a day to handle personal business. Results are what matter.\n\n**Parental Leave**\nAll parents who welcome a new child by birth, surrogacy, foster, or adoption are eligible to take 8 weeks of paid leave.\n\n**Remote and Flexible Hours**\nThis is a full-time role that can be fully remote. Ideally, you are located in the United States, but we are open to other locations as well. We don’t micromanage your time at the desk. We are focused on results. Our team is generally communicating during U.S. business hours, but you’re able to have some flexibility about when you choose to do your work.\n \n\nPlease mention the words **DISH SPATIAL FOREST** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4yMg==). 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 $130,000 — $160,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 🖥 Home office budget\n\n
\n\n#Location\nRemote, Americas (U.S. Preferred)