Remote API + Engineering + Full Stack + Python + UI Jobs

\nCompany Introduction \n\nHello! We are Opinew, a Scottish company with a small team and grand mission. We are helping online stores to become independent of large platforms like Amazon and eBay by providing a powerful review import and management system. Opinew helps shop owners to collect reviews from their customers while also allowing them to import existing reviews accumulated over years on Amazon, eBay or AliExpress. Reviews enable social proof, which increases sales conversation to make Opinew’s clients more successful. We are working with thousands of online stores around the world, including small stores and big brands, some of which you may recognise, including: MusclePharm, Status Anxiety, Vankyo and Betron.\n\nYour Role\n\nAs Lead Full Stack Engineer, you will play a pivotal part in Opinew’s mission to decentralise online shopping by empowering merchants of all sizes. You are excited to work on a SaaS platform with the latest technologies used by millions of shoppers and thousands of ecommerce stores around the world. Our engineers regularly work with all areas within Opinew as we continue to scale up our SaaS web products. We push updates to our websites almost every day so it won't take long to get your work out in front of millions of users.\n\nAt Opinew we are using Flask/Python for the backend and Vue.js with Vuetify and Tailwind CSS on the frontend. Everything is containerised with docker and deployed via an automated CI/CD pipeline to AWS. \n\nThe project \n\nIn line with the tremendous global increase in ecommerce sales, Opinew has rapidly grown its customer base and product team in 2020. As Lead Full Stack Engineer you will be at the heart of our product development and software engineering efforts working on:\n\n\n* Implementing world-class software to improve and scale Opinew’s review management system  \n\n* Experience with designing RESTful API that supports a rapid growing user base\n\n* Ability to own and deliver end to end API functionality from design/architect, to implementation, to testing, to production release and monitoring\n\n* Ability to accomplish complex engineering task independently\n\n* Envision, implement and roll-out best tooling and automation for all our our services\n\n* Ability to evaluate and communicate different engineering solutions and trade-offs\n\n* Work with the Opinew team to constantly improve platform usability, onboarding, and customer retention\n\n\n\n\nThe engineering team consists of two full-time and two part-time engineers. Depending on their area of expertise, some engineers have a strong focus on backend, frontend or testing. However, generally each engineer works across the full stack and contributes to any part of the codebase. Engineers own their code, ensure maintainability and are responsible for writing unit tests and completing new features without breaking backwards compatibility. \n\nWhat we offer \n\n\n* Opportunity to help decentralise online shopping away from the ecommerce giants\n\n* Exciting opportunity to grow the start-up with us into a global software company\n\n* Competitive salary\n\n* Laptop and any other essential technical equipment\n\n* Education and relaxation: language classes / steam store games\n\n* Reading/Courses - books and online courses to help with your professional development are on us to help with your personal development.\n\n* Home cleaning - we will find somebody to take over house chores to help you focus on what matters most to you\n\n\n\n\nWhat you can expect \n\n\n* An agile, diverse and multidisciplinary fully remote team \n\n* A supportive, inclusive and transparent working environment where team mates learn from and help each other all the time. \n\n* A place to look at things differently, challenge and offer solutions. \n\n* You will be working in a (still) small start-up where the whole company consists of ~10 people. You will have a unique opportunity to make a significant impact and actively drive change in the technology, direction and culture of the start up. \n\n\n\n\nWhat we are looking for \n\nWe are looking for an experienced, talented software engineer to join the engineering team and help us scale Opinew to the next level.\n\nThis position is for full time, 100% remote work.\n\nWe would expect you to: \n\n\n* Always put the user first. \n\n* Be an active participant during technical decisions and discussions. \n\n* Be comfortable to work in a rapidly changing environment. \n\n* Be passionate and empathetic - you fall in love with problems, not solutions. You’re a doer, and a helper. \n\n* Take pride in your work. \n\n* Think like an owner. \n\n* Experiment, test, try, fail and learn continuously. \n\n\n\n\nQualifications \n\nFor this role, you must have: \n\n\n* Experience in working as part of a team to ship high-quality software using agile development processes. \n\n* Experience in developing UI with Vue.js /React/Angular\n\n* Experience in python backend frameworks like Flask/Django\n\n* Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript and Python.\n\n* Experience in e-commerce and Shopify beneficial.\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 Engineer, Full Stack, Developer, Digital Nomad, Amazon, CSS, Python, API, Sales, SaaS, Backend, Ecommerce and Shopify 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

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 (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xMA==). 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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