Remote API + Engineer + Node + Serverless + System Jobs

### A bit about Newfront\nFrom the Mayflower to the moon landing, every venture relies on insurance. The $1 trillion insurance industry is fundamental to our economy and society, but remains stuck in the stone age. Incumbents rely on antiquated pen-and-paper process and there's a huge opportunity to transform it through technology. At Newfront, we're building software to supercharge insurance brokers and help them deliver a delightful experience to clients.\n\nWhile we’re a technology-driven company, we believe that people and trusted relationships matter. Newfront believes in empowering people rather than "disrupting" them. Our singular mission is to create the future of work for this massive industry.\n\nWe believe breakout growth creates breakout opportunities and diversity drives innovation.\n\nAs an Engineering Lead at Newfront, you will work with a team building features across the platform to help clients manage their risk and supercharge our brokers. There are tons of challenging technical problems to solve that directly impact the lives of your teammates and Newfront clients.\n\nNewfront scales by hiring brokers who join with their book of business. Through automation and artificial intelligence, we eliminate paperwork and pay brokers a higher split of their commission revenue. We represent a paradigm shift in the industry and career path for tens of thousands of brokers.\n\nThis position is open to remote candidates with Pacific Time Zone preferred. ***#LI-Remote***\n\n\n* 🎥 To learn more about the technology we're building, watch our video [Engineering at Newfront](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6513862682058330112/)\n* 🚀 To learn more about our mission and values, check out our [Careers Page](https://www.newfront.com/careers) or [Key Values](https://www.keyvalues.com/newfront)\n* 💰 To learn more about our funding, check out this [Forbes article](https://www.forbes.com/sites/igorbosilkovski/2020/10/20/exclusive-meet-the-entrepreneurs-who-have-raised-over-100-million-to-digitize-insurance/?sh=727e74a03206)\n\n### What you'll work on\n\n* ***Lead the development of product features:*** You'll be involved during product discovery and you'll contribute to the technical design process. You are product-minded and able to collaborate with a Product Manager to define the product roadmap and vision. You'll be responsible for speccing and guiding your team in building out features and infrastructure.\n* ***Shape business processes:*** As Newfront is a technology-enabled brokerage, we are looking for new ways to improve business processes by using technology. You will become the expert on how an area of the business functions and work directly with stakeholders to build optimizations.\n* ***Define technical direction:*** You will help shape the technical vision and roadmap for a large area of the product. You will also influence best practices and introduce new technologies when appropriate. You'll need to clearly communicate your vision with the team to gain support and a shared understanding of the technologies.\n* ***Mentor other engineers:*** You will working with more junior engineers on your team to help them grow and develop their skills.\n\n### Requirements\n\n* ***5+ years of engineering experience.*** You have previous success developing and shipping a large-scale application with a user-empathetic mindset\n* ***2+ years of experience leading an engineering team.*** You have proven abilities in providing technical direction for a small to medium team of engineers.\n* ***You're product-minded.*** You take initiative to understand production intention, team goals, business context, and user problems to propose improvements, eliminate gaps, and reduce risk in the project. You contribute to and drive the teams roadmap with product and design. You meet with stakeholders across the company when needed to eliminate gaps in your knowledge. You work closely with design to make sure that a design is able to be built and that it has a logical system behind it.\n* ***Security-minded,*** You have a detailed understanding of security protocols like OAuth2/OIDC/JWT. You understand client-side cookie authentication and JWT. You should have an understanding of front-end security risks and how to mitigate them.\n* ***You're highly skilled with web technologies including JavaScript (React/Node), HTML, and CSS.*** These are important foundational skills for a front-end engineer and impact everything from performance, to maintainability, to accessibility. You understand which features can be used across the various browsers, you understand how to make a website accessible, and you know how to implement responsive design.\n* ***You have experience architecting complex front-end web applications. We use React/Next.js,*** but you might have experience with Ember or Angular. You understand the concepts of services, stores, state management, build tools, routing, testing, serverless functions, and API design. You might have experience working with micro front-end applications and you are able to discuss trade-offs when slicing up a front-end app. You have created frameworks and libraries to abstract away complexity in your application to amplify your impact across the team.\n* ***You have some experience with micro-service/cloud and enterprise architecture patterns.***  You have an understanding of cloud architecture patterns, like pub-sub and BFF APIs, and are able to work with other engineers to discuss the trade-offs and benefits. While you might not be setting up these systems, you understand how they work, why they're used, and how they can impact front-end app performance, product requirements, and front-end code architecture.\n* ***You have a strong understanding of design:*** You understand that as a front-end engineer it is your job to help uphold the quality of the product. You're aware that loss of quality is often death by a thousand cuts and you care when elements are a few pixels off. You're able to understand why particular interactions should be used and when and you're able to recommend particular UI patterns to solve user problems. You'll have contributed to or have built design systems in the past.\n\n### Some of the technologies we use\n* Node\n* Typescript/JavaScript\n* React/Nextjs\n* styled-components\n* Vercel\n* Docker\n* NestJS\n* Redis\n\n### Nice To Haves\n* Proficiency with Typescript, React, Jest, and Next.js.\n* Experience with styled-components or similar CSS-in-JS libraries.\n* Understanding of containerization technologies such as Docker.\n* Experience using Vercel to deploy applications.\n* Experience with Node.js and/or serverless functions.\n\n### Compensation + Benefits\n* $50k-$100k USD (based on experience)\n* All employees receive equity (based on experience)\n* $500 work from home stipend\n* Unlimited vacation\n\n---\n\nNewfront is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. [Learn more about our commitment to diversity and inclusion.](https://www.newfront.com/diversity-and-inclusion)\n\nNewfront provides reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at [email protected]. \n\nPlease mention the word **SUCCESSFULLY** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xOTg=). 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 $50,000 — $100,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n
\n\n#Location\nLatin America

The VOLT Marketing Agency is a comprehensive leader in the direct-to-consumer eCommerce industry that focuses on scaling international brands to 8 figures of revenue. With a combined focus on performance marketing and full-stack development, VOLT presents a unique & compatible service offering that fosters sustainable growth.\nAs a Senior Backend Engineer at Volt, you will be tasked with delivering high-performance APIs and backend systems, handling hundreds of millions of requests while implementing best practices. Our top priority across all projects is the use of best practices and writing clean performant code. No code you write will ever be perfect, you must be open to regression, refractoring, and constructive critisim to drive our team forward. Furthermore, you'll be responsible for identifying any foreseeable bottlenecks in project timelines before they surface. You'll be reporting to your department head, who will be hands-on in supporting your development efforts.\n\nAt Volt, our Backend stack consists of Laravel (PHP8), PostgreSQL, Cloudflare Workers (microservices), and Cloudflare Workers KV (microservice key-value store). All services we build are built to be high-performance. On average, our services combined receive ~5 million API calls daily. Most of our services integrate with various eCommerce, PIM, and ERP systems.\n\n**Day to Day Tasks:**\n- Architect high-performance APIs and backend systems\n- Learn and adapt to new frameworks and technologies\n- Work with serverless technology\n- Analyze current programs including performance, diagnosis, and troubleshooting\n- Respond promptly and professionally to bug reports\n- Review and maintain code\n- Test new programs to ensure that logic and syntax are correct and that program results are accurate\n- Review changes in code and the environment that will impact system performance\n- Communicate effectively with leadership, other engineers, project managers, clients, and partners\n\n**Requirements:**\n- Proficient with Git\n- Proficient with JavaScript (5+ Years)\n- Proficient with Laravel / Symfony Frameworks\n- Proficient with PHP (5+ Years)\n- Proficient with PostgreSQL or other Relational Database\n- Familiar with Jira and other Atlassian products\n- Familiar with agile-focused workflows\n- Familiar with Shopify, BigCommerce, Sylius, or similar eCommerce platforms \n\nPlease mention the words **PIGEON ABOUT DIVIDE** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xOTg=). 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 $100,000 — $140,000/year\n \n\n#Location\nUnited States, United Kingdom

\nCloud Software Developer- (Node.JS, Golang)\nRailroad19, Inc. ~  Remote - United States\nCloud  Software Engineer (Remote United States)\nAt Railroad19, we develop custom software products and provide software development services. \nWe are looking for a Cloud Node.JS Software Engineer with 8 years of experience that is fluent in both AWS Cloud and Node.js and Golang to be a strong advocate for clean and maintainable code. In addition to contributing to the codebase you will work as an adviser to help create best-in-class solutions.  Candidates should also have previous experience working with Cloud Native tool kits.\nWhile there are no management responsibilities for this position there are opportunities for leadership for those who want to grow.\nAt Railroad19, you are part of a company that values your work and gives you the tools you need to succeed. We are headquartered in Saratoga Springs, New York, but we are a distributed team of remote developers across the US. \nThis is a full-time role with vacation, health insurance, and a 401k. Railroad19 provides healthy compensation with excellent benefits and a great corporate culture.\nThe role is remote - U.S. located, only full time (NO- contractors, Corp-to-Corp or 1099). \n\nPrimary responsibilities:\n\n\n* Understand our client's evolving needs\n\n* Advocate for appropriate solutions with multiple stakeholders\n\n* Write and maintain scalable enterprise quality software\n\n* Work closely with product management and the lead architect to translate business requirements into scalable and highly available tools\n\n* Be able to participate and implement Cloud and Microservice best practices while adhering to standard architecture patterns\n\n* Develop microservice applications to support the media asset management systems and implementing them using appropriate technologies & frameworks\n\n* Drive the adoption of new technologies including containers, clustering, cloud computing, serverless and API\n\n* Follow Agile best practices and tools adopted by the team\n\n* Integrate various software platforms and external 3rd party systems through vendor APIs.\n\n* Work with vendor(s) on API implementation and troubleshooting, suggesting necessary features and identifying enhancement opportunities.\n\n* Configure Development, QA and Production environments with proper packages and dependencies to enable implementation, working closely with DevOps and QA teams\n\n* Participate when needed in 24x7 application support schedule; some overnight/off hours shift-schedule support will be required during on-air rollouts, emergencies, and special broadcast events.\n\n* Work with client user groups to ensure operational needs are being appropriately met.\n\n* Other duties as assigned.\n\n\n\n\nExperience:\n\n\n* 5+ years working with IT systems, with a solid understanding of cloud technologies, network and storage systems.\n\n* 5+ years of experience working with Unix/Linux environments for development, including package management and basic system administration.\n\n* Experience with building serverless applications in AWS using NodeJS.\n\n* Comfortable using Amazon Web Services (Step Functions, S3, RDS, EC2, ECS, Lambda, SQS, SNS, DynamoDB, CloudFormation)\n\n* Education/experience in Computer Science, IT, Engineering or related field/equivalent experience.\n\n* Experience developing software in a team environment.\n\n* Excellent verbal and written communication skills.\n\n* Schedule flexibility is needed to meet on-air operational needs.\n\n\n\n\nExperience preferred but not required:\n\n\n* Exposure to using, Golang, Python & Java in containerized and serverless applications\n\n* CI/CD: Jenkins, Nexus, Cloud Formation, Code Pipeline\n\n* Familiarity with broadcast production or video content management systems\n\n* Exposure to implementing ML/AI technologies\n\n* Experience working with Agile and Scrum methodologies for software development and project execution.\n\n* Familiarity with project tracking and collaboration tools such as JIRA and Confluence (Wikis)\n\n* Hands-on experience with Spring Boot, Spring Cloud(using Netflix OSS) is a plus\n\n* Hands-on experience with Oracle or similar relational database technology\n\n* Hands-on experience with AngularJS or similar JavaScript frameworks is a plus\n\n* Demonstrates a passion for learning new technologies and takes pride in delivering working software\n\n* Experience collaborating on an Agile team\n\n* Git experience preferred\n\n* Continuous integration practices are a plus\n\n* Familiarity with AWS\n\n* Bachelor's or master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical discipline; or equivalent work experience\n\n\n\n\nNo Agencies***\nThis is a non-management position\nThis is a full time position\n\nWe are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to JavaScript, Cloud, Node, Developer, Digital Nomad, Jira, DevOps, Video, Amazon, Java, Serverless, Python, API, Golang and Engineer 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