Remote API + Engineering + Redis + SaaS Jobs

## The proposition\n\n* The opportunity to work in a fast-growing, VC-backed HR tech startup\n* $60k - $70k (gross compensation incl. bonus), stock options\n* Your hours are flexible, and so is your vacation\n* You can work wherever you want – We work remotely!\n\n\n## The role in context\n\nWe are looking for a Backend Engineer to join our engineering department and help us bring our product to Enterprise level maturity. Your work will directly impact hundreds of thousands of users around the world.\n \nAs a senior member of the engineering team, you’ll build and deliver backend solutions such as APIs, integrations, and architecture components to enable the rapid growth of all our products.\n \nYou’ll own the design, code, and deployment of solutions and make sure they perform and scale in production. \n \n\n## You’ll Spend Time On The Following\n\n* Create highly scalable and reliable microservices architectures\n* Lead the entire software development and delivery cycle from ideation to deployment and everything in between\n* Write clean, tested, and well-documented code\n* Apply modern backend technologies, including but not limited to Python, Django, Redis, and AWS\n* Efficiently utilize DevOps tools and practices to deliver high-quality software as well as value to end customers as early as possible.\n* Work in a collaborative, talented distributed team across Europe, United States, South America, and Asia.\n* You will act as a mentor for less-experienced team members through both your technical knowledge and leadership skills\n\n\n## Here’s What We’re Looking For\n\n* You have at least 7 years of experience in software development & delivery\n* You can efficiently write high-quality, well-tested code and you are comfortable with functional and Object-Oriented programming languages\n* You have experience building distributed and highly scalable systems including REST APIs and event-driven architectures\n* You have strong knowledge about data storage design using relational and NoSQL databases\n* You understand the importance of reliable monitoring, deployment strategies, and a highly scalable and robust cloud infrastructure\n* You are passionate about improving skills and learning new technologies\n* You enjoy influencing others and always advocate for technical excellence while being open to change \n* You’re resilient in ambiguous situations and can approach challenges from multiple perspectives\n* You have strong written and verbal communication skills. You can validate your decisions and communicate them clearly.\n\n### Bonus points if . . .\n* you have experience in a SaaS product based company\n* you are comfortable with Agile methods, such as Extreme Programming (XP), Scrum, and/or Kanban\n* you have working knowledge of cloud technology such as AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, and Docker \n\n\n## About TestGorilla\n\nAt TestGorilla, we envision a world where everyone has their dream job. To achieve that, employers and employees need to have the right information about each other. \n\nWe started in 2020 by building a screening platform that allows employers to evaluate candidates in the skills that matter most for success in a role. Our product replaces subjective, incomplete, and often inflated CVs with objective, reliable, and fair test results that measure aptitude, practical job skills, culture add, and motivation. \n\nImproving and expanding this platform is our core focus at the moment, but it’s only the beginning of our journey to get everyone their dream job. Over time, we will launch more products that support this mission.\n \nIn early 2020 we attracted $1.2M in seed funding. Our platform went live commercially in July 2020, and we’ve experienced rapid growth since then.\n \nWe work remotely, spread across the Netherlands, Spain, Mexico, the US, Argentina, Serbia, and the Philippines.\n\n\n## Our values\n\nJoining TestGorilla means you’re joining a group of people who are committed to a set of values that guide our behaviors and decisions day to day:\n\n* We encourage each other: We bring a positive attitude to work. We help each other when stuck. We challenge each other in constructive ways. We celebrate wins as a team.\n* We are bold: We’re bold in our ambition and dare to create new things. We know what we’re capable of and learn from our mistakes. \n* We take full ownership of our work: We own the outcome of our work and do whatever necessary to improve it--including soliciting feedback and asking for help when we get stuck.\n* We strive for excellence: We hold ourselves to high standards and work hard to increase our competencies.\n* We do the right thing: We’re straight shooters and take our work seriously. We treat each other, our customers, and our collaborators with respect and empathy. \n* We respect our (work-style) differences: We all have different ways of living and working. We all find our own point of balance, respect our differences, and accommodate each other’s style and preferences. \n\nPlease mention the words **CONDUCT FACULTY HARBOR** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi42MQ==). 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 — $70,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 🌎 Distributed team\n\n
\n\n#Location\nWorldwide

**At Vizibl, we’re on a mission to help every company work better, together. We want to help all companies make a difference in the world by revolutionising the way they work together, empowering them to reach their full potential.**\n\nWe’re off to a great start too. Teams in some of the world’s largest enterprise companies are already collaborating with their suppliers through Vizibl and transforming the way they work to drive innovation together.\n\nWe welcome people from all backgrounds who seek the opportunity to help build a future where every company sees the benefit of working openly and collaboratively. If you have the passion, curiosity and collaborative spirit, work with us, and let’s help every company work better, together.\n\nVizibl is a growing SaaS platform used by the world’s largest organisations to help change the way they work. Our unique blend of Enterprise know-how coupled with our beautiful and usable products is one of the things our customers love about us.\n\nVizibl is looking for a talented Back End Engineer that’s passionate about building scalable, maintainable, performant backend services that put security first without compromising on our commitment to openness. As Vizibl grows, so do our ambitions for the future of our backend services, which is why this is a great opportunity for the right person to join a talented team to drive exciting new projects that will help change the way the world’s largest companies work with each other.\n\nThis person will work across our backend services to help maintain our REST api, develop solutions to new problems, be involved in the design and architecture of the platform and work collaboratively to support the growth of the platform. The ideal candidate is a self-motivated person that cares deeply about building excellent products. They don’t settle for OK and have a desire to integrate themselves deeply into the working of the business.\n\nAs this is a fully remote position we'll be looking for strong communication skills and the ability to motivate yourself and your team to work independently.\n\nIf you’re interested in building products that challenge the status quo in the enterprise space and you enjoy an abundance of autonomy with just the right amount of alignment then we’d love to hear from you.\n\n**Open to Everyone**\n\nVizibl is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.\n\n**Working for Vizibl you will..**\n* Have a huge amount of autonomy\n* Work remotely\n* Work with cutting edge technologies\n* Manage and support applications in production on our Kubernetes cluster\n* Contribute to the design and architecture and development processes for a system used by the world’s largest enterprise organisations\n* Be involved in the planning and development of solutions\n* Be an ambassador for our product values\n* Work with an amazing team of people spread out across Europe\n* Contribute to a positive and empowering company culture\n* Help to build and improve a platform used by some of the worlds biggest organisations \n* Get support to grow and develop in your career\n\n**What You’ll Need**\n* Have experience working in a professional engineering team\n* 3+ years of Python experience (strong candidates with experience in another language may be considered)\n* Experience building production-ready REST APIs\n* Strong skills in information security architecture and security best practices\n* Understanding of data modelling and querying in (Postgres) SQL\n* Experience with Git\n* English fluency and excellent communication skills\n* Experience with TDD/BDD methodologies\n* A desire to learn and improve\n* Be organised and self motivated\n* Be a great team player. Our product squads work very closely together to build solutions \n\n**We’ll be impressed if**\n* DevOps experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Google Cloud, etc\n* You have experience working in an agile team\n* You have experience working in a remote team\n* You have experience with queuing systems like Celery, Kafka\n* You have worked on products that have been subject to regular security audits\n* You write about back-end technologies\n* You have frontend Javascript experience\n* You have experience architecting complex systems\n* You have experience scaling web applications\n* You’re familiar with the enterprise project management space\n* You’ve integrated with large corporate IT environments before\n\n**Benefits**\n* Huge amounts of autonomy\n* Flexible working\n* Work from anywhere\n* Competitive compensation packages\n* Options in a growing SaaS business\n* Work with a great team\n* Great carrer development opportunities\n* Annual retreats \n\nPlease mention the words **DIRT INTEREST TRY** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi42MQ==). 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\nEurope

**About Us**\n\nAt[ Close](https://close.com/), 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 ~33 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/Gunicorn web apps with our TaskTiger scheduler handling many of the backend asynchronous task processing. 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 ](https://developer.close.com/) 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](https://github.com/closeio/ciso8601), [LimitLion](https://github.com/closeio/limitlion), [SocketShark](https://github.com/closeio/socketshark), [TaskTiger](https://github.com/closeio/tasktiger), and more at https://github.com/closeio\n\n\n**About You**\n\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 also have around five years experience using 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.\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\n**Bonus point if you have**\n\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\n* Conceiving, designing, building, and launching new user-facing features\n* Improving the performance and scalability our API. Help expand our GraphQL implementation.\n* Improving how we [sync ](https://close.com/emailing/) millions of sales emails each month\n* Working with Twilio's API, WebSockets, and WebRTC to improve our [calling features](https://close.com/calling/)\n* Building user-facing analytics features that provide actionable insights based on sales activity data\n* Improving our Elasticsearch-backed powerful [search features](https://close.com/search/)\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\n**Why work with us?**\n\n* 100% Remote *(we believe in trust and autonomy)*\n* 2 x Annual Team Retreats ✈️ ([Lisbon Retreat Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKjyXMz-q-Q&feature=youtu.be))\n* Competitive salary\n* Medical, Dental with HSA option - 99% premiums paid (*US residents)*\n* 5 Weeks PTO + 6 Government Holidays + Dec 24 - Jan 1 Company Holiday\n* Parental Leave *(10 wks primary caregiver / 4 wks secondary caregiver)*\n* 401k matching at 4% *(US residents)*\n* [Our story and team](https://close.com/about/) 🚀\n* [Glassdoor Reviews ](https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Reviews/Close-Reviews-E1155591.htm)\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. Work/Life 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 14 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. We see these retreats as an opportunity to strengthen the social fiber of our community.\n\nThis team is growing in more ways than one - we’ve recently launched 8 babies (and counting!). Unanimously, 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\n*Interested 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 **NEGLECT YEAR POSITION** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi42MQ==). 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 No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Elasticsearch, Python, Senior, Engineer, Backend, Redis, Developer, Digital Nomad, JavaScript, API, Sales and SaaS jobs that are similar:\n\n $62,500 — $125,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n ⏰ Async\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n
\n\n#Location\nAMERICAS OR EUROPEAN TIME ZONE

**ABOUT US**\n\n\n\nAt Close.io we’re building the sales communication platform of the future. We’ve built a next-generation CRM that eliminates manual data entry and helps sales teams close more deals. We are hiring engineers to join our DevOps team to help take our platform to the next level by adding new features, providing better performance, and even higher reliability. We are a ~30 person entirely remote team (with ~13 engineers) that is profitable and building a product our customers love.\n\n\n\nOur backend tech stack currently consists of Python Flask/Gunicorn web apps with our TaskTiger scheduler handling many of the backend asynchronous processing tasks. Our data stores include MongoDB, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Redis. Our infrastructure runs on AWS using a combination of managed services like RDS and ElastiCache as well as EC2 instances managed by Puppet. These EC2 instances run everything from our databases to our Kubernetes clusters.\n\n\n\n**ABOUT YOU**\n\n\n\nWe're looking for a full-time DevOps Engineering Manager / Team Lead to join our core team who has significant experience in building, managing, and monitoring infrastructure and backend services at scale.\n\nIn this Team Lead role, you will be doing *both* hands-on technical work yourself *and* managing/leading a small remote team (2-3 people) of exceptional Senior SRE/DevOps Engineers.\n\n\n\n**Come help us with projects like**\n\n\n\n* Building out our Kubernetes infrastructure to include additional services, increased redundancy/scalability, and harnessing new k8s features\n\n* Scale our Elasticsearch and MongoDB clusters to support our data growth\n\n* Tune our MySQL and PostgreSQL databases\n\n* Improve our public Close.io API performance and resiliency\n\n* Tighten security across our infrastructure\n\n* Implement autoscaling techniques that balance performance, workload demands and costs\n\n* Improve our CI/CD process making builds/deployments faster and safer\n\n* Further develop our Prometheus/Grafana monitoring infrastructure\n\n* Enhance our Elasticsearch/Logstash/Kibana (ELK) logging stack\n\n\n\n**And leadership responsibilities like**\n\n\n\n* Being responsible for the happiness, well-fare, and productivity of the DevOps team; do regular 1:1s.\n\n* Leading the strategy, roadmap, and goals for the DevOps team\n\n* Coordinating with other engineers on current and upcoming infrastructure needs for Product and overall business goals\n\n* Having the primary responsibility for the stability, performance, and security of our infrastructure\n\n* Hiring/growing the team as needed, while keeping a high quality bar\n\n\n\n**You should**\n\n\n\n* Have 2+ years managing & leading an engineering team, including experience recruiting/hiring great engineers\n\n* Have a servant leadership attitude with the ability to foster a collaborative & positive energy work environment, especially when PagerDuty is calling\n\n* Have real world experience building scalable systems, working with large data sets, and troubleshooting various back-end challenges under pressure\n\n* Have significant experience with *nix, Python, bash, and Puppet or similar backend systems and frameworks\n\n* Experience working with large databases running on MySQL, PostgreSQL, and/or Mongo\n\n* Have experience configuring monitoring, logging, and other tools to provide visibility and actionable alerts\n\n* Enjoy automating processes using Python, bash, Puppet, or other scripting languages\n\n* Have experience with Docker containers and microservices\n\n* Understand the full web stack, networking, and low level Unix computing\n\n* Always be thinking of ways to improve reliability, performance, and scalability of the infrastructure\n\n\n\n**Why work with us?**\n\n\n\n* Our story and [team retreat video!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKjyXMz-q-Q&feature=youtu.be)\n\n* Stellar team reviews on [Glassdoor](https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Close-io-Reviews-E1155591.htm)\n\n* Work remotely and create your own schedule (we believe in trust and autonomy)\n\n* Enjoy face-to-face time with the whole team on all-expense paid retreats 2x year.\n\n* Experience building a truly successful SaaS company with a dedicated, small team where you can have a huge impact\n\n* Above market salary\n\n* Excellent medical & dental coverage, including 99% paid premiums and HSA option (**US residents)\n\n* Matching 401k (**US residents)\n\n\n\nInterested in DevOps but think this Team Lead role isn't the right fit? View our [SRE/DevOps Engineering role](https://jobs.lever.co/close.io/38d0c4ac-c3eb-47e9-a49e-4611f96eef8d) or all our other positions. \n\nPlease mention the words **THUMB PERSON ROUTE** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi42MQ==). 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 No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to DevOps, Elasticsearch, Engineer, Redis, Executive, Python, API, Senior, Sales, SaaS, Medical and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n ⏰ Async\n\n