Remote API + Engineering + Redis + Strategy Jobs

Over the last few decades, technological innovation has relied on democratizing some of its key ingredients: knowledge (open publishing platforms), algorithms (code repositories) and computing (cloud providers). However, the last key component, data, largely remains trapped behind barriers of regulation, privacy, schema standards and competitive risk. Enabling scalable access to data will unlock enormous value for both individual developers and companies. This has only been made possible in the last few years, through advances in manifold learning algorithms and privacy-preserving computing. See our blog for more details.\n\nOne of the most valuable kinds of data today is in the financial sector. Financial data plays a key role across many industry verticals. However, it has notoriously been locked behind regulatory barriers and a lack of format standards. Our first product is an API that makes financial transactions accessible with minimal engineering overhead to both humans and machine-learning models in a scalable and privacy-preserving way.\n\nWe\n - are allergic to over-engineering.\n - are anarchists at heart and like to hack around the status quo.\n - are radically honest and appreciate challenging one another, rather than giving out “pats on the back”. Yet, we can always rely on each other for support, feedback and results. \n - are willing to learn and adapt quickly to new situations and requirements. Languages, frameworks, libraries, compilers, etc. are just tools for a job. A new problem might need a new tool. If it doesn’t exist yet, we will build it.\n - have a sense of humor (well, we think we do).\n\nAs an early member of our sales engineering team, you will help\n- scale and optimize our sales operations\n- shape our sales process, distribution strategy and culture.\n- experience the direct impact of what you build on hundreds of millions of people’s financial lives.\n- preparing and developing technical presentations to explain our company's products and services to customers\n- collaborating with sales teams to understand customer requirements and provide sales support\n- setting and achieving sales goals and quotas\n\nThe following are required:\n- experience with software engineering and REST APIs\n- at least 2 years of experience with the enterprise sales process\n\n\nFAQ\n\n\nWhat if I recommend someone who ends up getting hired?\n\nWe will give you 10k USD for the referral.\n\nWhere is Ntropy located?\n\nWe are fully remote, with a virtual base in New York, US.\n\nWhat time-zones is this position for?\n\nAnywhere in the US. Preferably on the east coast. \n\nDo you consider part-time work?\n\nNot at the moment. Full-time roles only.\n\nHow are you funded?\n\nWe are backed by some of the top fintech investors in the world. Have raised single-digit millions of dollars so far. Can share more details over the call.\n\nDo you already have a product?\n\nYes. We have been in production since 1st April 2021 and have been rapidly growing since.\n\nDo you plan to sell customer data?\n\nNtropy is on a mission to enable products without data barriers. We will never sell customer data and will always put privacy and customer benefit ahead of any auxiliary financial gains.\n\nWhat is the interview process like?\n\n1. Send us problems you have solved before and how. Please include as much detail as possible: code, algorithms, derivations, proofs, etc. We will then do a video call to kick things off and go through it (45 mins).\n\n2. We will give you a take-home project in which you will use our API to build a simple personal finance app. Alternatively, if you have a relevant project that you worked on previously that demonstrates your skills as an engineer, you are welcome to use that instead.\n\n3. We will then do a deep-dive through the project over a call and discuss the implementation, improvements and bottlenecks.\n\nAbove all, we respect your time and commitment and will keep you up to speed on where we are at during the whole process.\n\nWhat are your hiring plans?\n\nWe aim to be 22-25 people in the next 6 months. Mostly engineering roles.\n\nWhat is your current stack?\n\nback-end - Python + Rust (where performance matters)\ncompute - AWS + Azure\nML - PyTorch + ONNX\ninfra - Redis (cache), RDS + S3 (storage), EKS + Lambda (auto-scaling), EC2 4xGPU nodes (training)\n\nWork / life balance?\n\nWe are a startup which requires you to put in a lot more work and soul than a regular job. We believe, however, that nothing easy is worth doing. We will expect a lot from you, and you should expect a lot from us.\n\nWhat is the compensation?\n\n$110k • 0.03% - 0.05%\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Sales, Engineer, Video, Finance, Python and API 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
\n\n#Location\nRemote

\nLean Library is a scale-up that provides online services to academic institutions across the globe. Our clients include Harvard, NTU and Cambridge.\nWe are a remote-first cross-functional team of 15 based across the globe with a goal to advance student learning and academic research by amplifying the voice of the library – that’s a fancy way of saying we build great tools to help researchers and higher education students access the research they need from the library.\nWe are looking for a Senior PHP Engineer who can write clean code to help us achieve this.\nWe need a self-motivated team player who can bring their experience in problem-solving on busy applications while applying best practices by writing clean code. We are interested in someone who can help build a kind and motivated engineering culture at Lean Library.\n\n\nTHE ROLE\nThe role will involve working within a cross-functional team to deliver the Lean Library platform. Our API platform currently serves approximately 350 million requests/month and we are adding new features to respond to an exciting market.\nThe role will not only involve writing features but also providing strategy on technology choices and direction. We are in the process of rewriting and migrating some old systems into a more modern and cleaner platform, as well as creating new ones (such as a usage logging system). We use Terraform, AWS and Kubernetes and there will be plenty of opportunities to learn these technologies at scale, as well as explore other cloud opportunities.\nSearch is a big part of what we do and we want to explore more around how we’d use search tools such as Elasticsearch to push the product into new directions. \nThe challenges you would expect to face in your first 6 months would be:\n\n\n\n\nhow we build for the future in a clean and maintainable way\nhow do we scale up for growth\nwhat technologies and approaches should we use to solve problems when scaling\nadvise on what the team should look like over the next 2-5 years\n\n\n\n\n\nWe have plenty of projects that are on the roadmap from Greenfield projects to rebuilds and refactors. We are looking to build an engineering culture that promotes people above technology\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSKILLS, QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE\n\n* Technologies\n* PHP 7+\n* Laravel\n* Git\n* MySQL/MariaDB\n* Elasticsearch\n* Docker\n* REST APIs\n* Web stuff (HTTP, CORS etc…)\n* Comfortable with the Linux CLI\n* Nginx\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCode\n\n* Commercial experience writing and delivering software\n* Object Oriented\n* API integration\n\n\n\n\n\n\nClean Code principles\n\n* Decoupled code (and an understanding of SOLID principles)\n* Unit testing with high coverage\n\n\n\n\n\n\n* Worked within an agile development team with code reviews providing honest feedback and best practice\n* High level of communication and interpersonal skills\n\n\n\nNice to have:\n\n* Experience with AWS and Kubernetes - we use this to run our apps\n*  Experience with Redis - we use this for caching\n* Experience with GitLab CI – we use this to deploy\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to PHP, Senior, Engineer, Education, Elasticsearch, Cloud, API and Linux 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
\n\n#Location\nUnited Kingdom