Remote API + Full Stack + Leader + React + Senior Jobs

LOCATION: Remote within the US\n\nDaily Kos is the nation’s largest liberal online political community, news organization, and activism hub. Powered by millions of highly engaged supporters, we’re building progressive power by connecting grassroots activists to hundreds of people-powered organizations and campaigns.\n\nWe are seeking an experienced and results driven Senior Full Stack Software Engineer to help build and scale the DailyKos platform. You will be hands-on and will actively collaborate with a team of 13 to guide projects, implement best practice solutions, champion the elimination of technical debt, and translate requirements into delivered products. Applicants must be self-motivated, efficient, and capable of delivering results with limited guidance.\n\nDaily Kos is an exciting workplace! Our site is used by hundreds of thousands of people a day who care deeply about progressive politics and are working to affect real political change. We provide an extensive feature set that extends from blogging to activism and beyond, built on top of a modern tool chain that includes Ruby on Rails, Sidekiq, SASS, JavaScript, React/Redux, Nginx, Varnish, and AWS/S3/Cloudfront. We have an energized team of great people with diverse backgrounds and skill sets. If you’re interested in a position that offers more than just a technical challenge, we’d love for you to join our passionate and dedicated team.\n\nOur offices are in Oakland, CA and Washington D.C., however, we are open to fully remote applicants.\n\nResponsibilities\n\n- Collaborate with coworkers across the organization to scope, design, and deliver solutions for large, complex challenges in the Daily Kos platform\n- Partner with internal stakeholders to deliver high-quality product releases in suitable timeframes\n- Actively participate in architectural planning and implementation\n- Effectively communicate technical vision\n- Evangelize best practices internally and externally\n- Clearly communicate technical issues and tie work to company objectives\n- Design for scale and reliability with the future in mind and do critical R&D\n- Persistently debug tough issues, finding a root cause or viable workaround\n- De-escalate conflicts and build consensus between team members about technical matters\n\nExperience\n\n- Strong experience with core web development technologies (Advanced JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript frameworks)\n- At least 5 years experience with Ruby on Rails\n- At least 2 years experience with React\n- Working knowledge of MySQL and pgSQL, possessing the ability to design, understand and edit database queries, optimization and profiling\n- Familiarity with AWS tool chain\n- Strong experience with Sidekiq\n- Strong experience with caching with a preference for direct experience with any of the following: redis, memcache, redis and/or varnish\n- Experience with large and complex code bases, utilizing API design techniques to help keep code clean and maintainable\n- A solid understanding of Linux\n\nQualifications\n\n- Deep understanding of modern web application best practices\n- Thought leader highly skilled in making technical decisions, influencing architecture, and prioritization across multiple teams\n- Ability to anticipate technical challenges, explore alternatives and tradeoffs thoroughly\n- In-depth understanding of full stack; can navigate and make legacy code maintainable\n- Focused on defining patterns and operational guidelines for your domain\n- Capable of successfully planning and delivering complex, multi-team, or system projects\n- Identifies problems that need to be solved and advocates for their prioritization\n- Able to reduce unneeded complexity\n- Comfortable with the Agile and Lean development process\n- Able to actively diagnose and address data scaling and optimization issues\n- Ambitious spirit and focus on delivering value into customers hands with excellent communication\n- Familiarity with principles of good user experience\n- Excellent communication skills, primarily in a virtual work environment\n- Familiarity with the Daily Kos application and commitment to become a platform expert\n- Willingness to travel occasionally for events or retreats\n\nSalary Range: $130,000 - $165,000\n\nBenefits:\n\nThis position is a 40 hour/week, full-time exempt position and reports to the Lead Staff Engineer. Candidates must be legally eligible to work in the United States. The position offers a flexible work environment, the ability to work remotely or from home, competitive salary, excellent benefits including: full medical, dental and vision benefits, 401K with a company match, remote worker stipend, professional development stipend, company-paid holidays, a generous vacation package, traumatic grief leave, as well as employer-paid parental/family leave. Our organizational commitment to personal growth and work-life balance reduces churn and encourages a very rewarding long term position.\n\nAt Daily Kos, we believe that the diversity of ideas, experiences, and cultures that our employees contribute to our organization help us be more effective activists, and we are proud to be an inclusive and equal opportunity workplace. We have a team of amazing people with different backgrounds and talents that are energized by the day’s news events, and people united by common cause. We’re a company that loves learning and supports growth and training for all our employees. \n\nPlease mention the word **RECOMMENDATIONS** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi42OA==). 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#Location\nUnited States

**About the Opportunity**\n\nAt JLL Technologies, we are a team of passionate technologists, real estate professionals, and forward-thinkers committed to shaping the future of commercial real estate for a better world. We’re focused on creating rewarding opportunities, amazing spaces and sustainable real estate solutions for our clients, our people and our communities. We have been recognized as one of the 2019 World’s Most Ethical Companies for the 12th consecutive year. \n\nJLL is looking for a Full Stack Engineer with React experience to join our platform engineering team to implement and support web applications across critical business areas. \n\nAs a Full Stack Engineer at JLL, you will apply your depth of knowledge and expertise to all aspects of the software development lifecycle, as well as partner continuously with your many stakeholders on a daily basis to stay focused on common goals. If you’re an experienced software engineer passionate about solving business problems through innovation, we’d love to hear from you!\n\n**What You Bring**\n* 6+ years of experience in full stack development\n* Strong C#/.Net, Web API, ASP.Net Core skills\n* Strong React JS, Redux, Jest, React component UI skills\n* Experience with React.js and its core principles including Virtual DOM, Data Binding, State & Props and React Lifecycle\n* Experience with React Middleware such as Saga or Redux\n* Experience with: Node.JS, JavaScript, jQuery, Json, AJAX,\n* Experience with: Bootstrap, SaaS/ LESS, CSS, HTML5\n* Experience with: GraphQL\n* Experience developing RESTful API using the ASP.NET Web API\n* Responsive web design\n* Familiarity with code versioning tools such as Git, SVN, Azure Devops\n\n**The Right Fit**\n* You are passionate about applying creative solutions to difficult problems to create and scale best in class software products.\n* You are ambitious with a growth mindset and the ability to take a new perspective using existing solutions. \n* You have a proven ability to identify and implement process improvements to continuously increase the team's productivity and efficiency.\n\n**What You’ll Accomplish**\n* Design and develop applications using .NET 4.5 or above, ASP.NET, and C#.NET\n* Demonstrate capabilities to connect to other REST API or storage systems (SQL and NoSQL based)\n* Write high quality code that is easy to maintain and test\n* Demonstrate skill for performance optimization for both front end and backend\n* Ensure design and architecture is extensible across multiple projects and participate in technical design and code reviews\n* Work with Product Management and other developers to understand design requirements and provide estimates for development\n* Work closely with QA to identify test cases and devise efficient, scalable testing processes\n* Apply technical problem solving to create reusable components and tools that scale across applications and can be leveraged to accelerate the engineering and development process\n* Stay current with the latest development best practices and share your findings with the team\n\nMore Information\nAbout JLL\nWe’re JLL—a leading professional services and investment management firm specializing in real estate. We have operations in over 80 countries and a workforce of over 91,000 individuals around the world who help real estate owners, occupiers and investors achieve their business ambitions. As a global Fortune 500 company, we also have an inherent responsibility to drive sustainability and corporate social responsibility. That’s why we’re committed to our purpose to shape the future of real estate for a better world. We’re using the most advanced technology to create rewarding opportunities, amazing spaces and sustainable real estate solutions for our clients, our people and our communities.\nOur core values of teamwork, ethics and excellence are also fundamental to everything we do and we’re honored to be recognized with awards for our success by organizations both globally and locally.\n\nCreating a diverse and inclusive culture where we all feel welcomed, valued and empowered to achieve our full potential is important to who we are today and where we’re headed in the future. And we know that unique backgrounds, experiences and perspectives help us think bigger, spark innovation and succeed together.\n\nIf this job description resonates with you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all of the requirements below. We’re interested in getting to know you and what you bring to the table!\n\nThe Commercial Real Estate (CRE) industry is at an inflection point. The technological disruptions that have already transformed retail, travel, and transportation have been slower to emerge here, but they are coming at full speed. JLL, a globally recognized leader in CRE, recognized these forces early, and is making massive investments in technology to transform both itself and the industry as a whole.\n\nJLL Technologies (JLLT) is the tech arm of JLL, with the dual mandate of growing the company’s technology revenue while also driving market share and margin gains in our existing business. Our mission is to leverage technology to increase the value and liquidity of the world's buildings, while enhancing the productivity and the happiness of those that occupy them.\n\nWhat You Can Expect From Us\nWe succeed together and believe the best inspire the best, so we invest in supporting each other, learning together and celebrating our success.\n\nOur Total Rewards program reflects our commitment to helping you achieve your career ambitions, recognizing your contributions, investing in your well-being and providing competitive benefits and pay.\nWe can’t wait to see where your ambitions take you at JLL. Apply today!\n\nJLL Privacy Notice\nJones Lang LaSalle (JLL), together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading global provider of real estate and investment management services. We take our responsibility to protect the personal information provided to us seriously. Generally the personal information we collect from you is for the purposes of processing in connection with JLL’s recruitment process. We endeavour to keep your personal information secure with appropriate level of security and keep it for as long as we need it for legitimate business or legal reasons. We will then delete it safely and securely.\nFor more information about how JLL processes your personal data, please view our Candidate Privacy Statement .\nFor additional details please see our career site pages for each country.\n\nFor employees in the United States, please see a full copy of our Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action policy here .\n\nJones Lang LaSalle (“JLL”) is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process – including the online application and/or overall selection process – you may email us at [email protected] . This email is only to request accommodation. Please direct any other general recruiting inquiries to our Contact Us page > I want to work for JLL.\n\nPursuant to the Arizona Civil Rights Act, criminal convictions are not an absolute bar to employment.\nPursuant to Illinois Law, applicants are not obligated to disclose sealed or expunged records of conviction or arrest.\nPursuant to Columbia, SC ordinance, this position is subject to a background check for any convictions directly related to its duties and responsibilities. Only job-related convictions will be considered and will not automatically disqualify the candidate.\n\nCalifornia Residents only\nIf you are a California resident as defined in the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) please view our Supplemental Privacy Statement which describes your rights and disclosures about your personal information. If you are viewing this on a mobile device you may want to view the CCPA version on a larger device.\nPursuant to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, JLL will consider for employment all qualified Applicants, including those with Criminal Histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.\nPursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. \n\nPlease mention the words **TRACK PROFIT GRASS** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi42OA==). 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 $80,000 — $140,000/year\n \n\n#Location\nPoland

**Synthesia is the global leader in synthetic media.** \n\nOur vision is to build the first fully programmable video generation platform and help everyone transform non-video content into video.\n\nSynthesia is already working with some of the world’s biggest companies and celebrities such as Lionel Messi, David Beckham, BBC, EY, McDonalds and WPP.\n\nOur investors include Marc Cuban, Seedcamp, LDV Capital, MMC Ventures and more.\n\n**About the Position**\n\nIn this position you'll join our small and extremely talented product team that is building the future of programmable video. You'll have a chance to work on scaling our current, fast-growing product and shape some of the next products in our pipeline.\n\n**Requirements**\n\n- 3+ years of experience in working as a software engineer (preferably in a startup)\n- Ability to work both on front and back-end of our application. You can of course be leaning more in one direction, but we expect you to not be afraid of doing some full-stack work. Our technical stack is Python, React, PostgreSQL, AWS. You don't need to have prior experience with exatcly this stack, but just willingness and ability to learn.\n- Strong attention to details\n- Upper-Intermediate English\n\n**Benefits**\n\n- Stock Option Plan\n- Flexible Work From Home Policy\n- Company Team Retreats\n\n**Why now is a really exciting time to join Synthesia?**\n\n- Synthesia is the world’s leader in synthetic AI video generation working with some of the world’s biggest corporate and media brands\n- We have crazy user traction with our first self-service product for businesses in just 6 months since the unveiling\n- Despite the product still being in public beta, we have a very high NPS of 61\n- We are launching new products in 2021: from personalisation API to integrations into different messaging platforms\n- We launched our beta product on Product Hunt in September 2020 and it was one of the most popular products of the year\n\n\n🚀 We are still a very small team of 25 people. Join the rocketship while it's taking off.\n \n\nPlease mention the words **ANKLE CLIMB AGREE** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi42OA==). 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 — $110,000/year\n \n\n#Location\nCet -1/+1