Remote API + Full Stack + Python + Travel Jobs

# Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack)\n\n## Simple Poll\n\nFull Time – Remote\n\n\n# About Simple Poll\n\n- Simple Poll brings polls and surveys natively into Slack. Learn more about the product on [https://simplepoll.rocks](https://simplepoll.rocks)\n- Wilhelm created Simple Poll in early 2016 to improve his own workflow when working in Slack. Started as a side project and then grew up to be a real company!\n- Simple Poll is one of the most popular apps for Slack and over the course of a year serves millions of users. As a member of the engineering team, you will be able to directly impact the experience of all of those users.\n- We are a fairly early stage company with a small and growing team. We're profitable, bootstrapped (no external investment) and very much plan to stay that way!\n\nBecause we’re such a small team, you will be able to have a massive impact. Not just on Simple Poll the product and its millions of users but also on the company, our culture, and our day to day collaboration. \n\nFrom an engineering perspective Simple Poll can often feel similar to building an API. Slack apps work largely by receiving JSON payloads from Slack, making API calls to the Slack API, and then returning some JSON back to Slack. As such, our engineering work tends to be very backend-heavy and although we do have a web dashboard, writing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript is more rare.\n\nIn our day to day work we face an interesting set of evolving engineering and product challenges:\n\n- One such challenge is dealing creatively with the constraints of the Slack platform. Since Simple Poll exists almost entirely within Slack, we are bound by many of the constraints and extension capabilities of the Slack platform, such as the block kit framework ([https://api.slack.com/block-kit](https://api.slack.com/block-kit)). A powerful set of tools is available to us, but the path to bringing a feature to life is sometimes not as straightforward as it seems.\n- We also constantly face trade offs between making Simple Poll more powerful (and implementing a long list of customer feature requests) while simultaneously maintaining and improving the simplicity that out customers love. Finding a good balance is important here and often we find that there is a way to achieve both capability and simplicity.\n- Slack is also constantly evolving and it is our responsibility to keep up with this evolution to ensure that Simple Poll works no matter what Slack context users find themselves in. Recent wide-reaching changes have been the introduction of Slack Enterprise Grid (multiple Slack workspace under the same umbrella) and Slack Connect (shared channels between different Slack workspaces). These changes make it more challenging to model Slack entities like users and channels – if you’re curious to learn more about this problem, check out this blog post: [https://wilhelmklopp.com/posts/slack-database-modelling/](https://wilhelmklopp.com/posts/slack-database-modelling/)\n\n### Remote\n\nWe are remote-first with folks across Canada, the UK, and Germany 🌅  We love and embrace remote working (and have done so even in pre-pandemic times). But especially as the pandemic winds down and more travel opens up, we plan to regularly get everyone together for a one-week company offsite, probably twice a year. Our last company offsite took us to Toronto in Canada 🍁\n\n# The ideal candidate\n\n- Excellent verbal and written communication skills\n- A high degree of empathy\n- 3+ years of experience working on production web applications written primarily in Python\n- Experience with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS\n- You care about the product as well as the code\n- You enjoy picking up new skills and are always learning and growing\n- You have an ability to think critically and pragmatically about designing systems and building features\n- You enjoy shipping and getting things done\n\n# Responsibilities\n\n- Write, review, deploy, and maintain code in mostly Python (back end) and HTML/CSS/JavaScript (front end)\n- Collaborate with the rest of the team on defining and implementing new features and coordinate to prioritise engineering work\n- Debug production issues and implement corresponding fixes\n- Take ownership of parts of the codebase\n- Document the systems you help build, monitor, and maintain\n- Evaluate and recommend solutions to guide team decision making\n- Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes\n- Rotating responsibilities for on-call\n\n## You Might Work On\n\n- Architecting and implementing new features. Some of the things coming up on our roadmap are blind polls, ranked polls, exports to google sheets, and many more!\n- UX Improvements to make Simple Poll *simpler* and more flexible\n- Performance improvements to make Simple Poll faster\n- Improving reliability, which could for example entail setting up a new Datadog dashboard\n- Work with a designer to build a new page in our frontend and then implement that page based on their design\n- Something completely different! As an early stage company, we tend to be pretty "all hands on deck" when something comes up that we need to get done\n- Use and provide feedback on [Kolo](https://kolo.app). A local Django development tool that we’ve been building\n\n# Practicals and benefits\n\n- You will report directly to the CEO (Wilhelm)\n- This is a fully remote, full time (40 hours per week) position. Your primary timezone must be between UTC-5 and UTC+2 (inclusive on both ends) to ensure we have enough overlap as a team\n- We'll buy you a new MacBook Pro and any other tools you need to do your best work (screens, accessories, etc.)\n- 30 days of holiday a year (including local national holidays), and you're encouraged to take all of it. You're also free to take additional time off for any other reasonable reasons, for example if you're sick (of course!) but also if you need to spend an afternoon taking care of something personal.\n- Sustainable and healthy working matters to us. We care about building delightful products for our customers, not hitting arbitrary daily hour counts.\n- The start date for this role is January or February 2022\n\n## Our principles\n\n*Inspired (often straight up copied) by the [Zen of GitHub](https://warpspire.com/posts/taste) and the [Zen of Python](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_of_Python)*\n\nExplicit is better than implicit\n\nSimple is better than complex\n\nFavor focus over features\n\nAnything added dilutes everything else\n\nMind your words, they are important\n\nCraft the details, they matter\n\nShip early and often\n\nNever miss an opportunity to delight\n\nBuild for the long term\n\nUse what you build with pride\n\nCreate lasting value for customers\n\nMistakes are possible when moving fast\n\nEmpower with courtesy and empathy\n\n## Our tech stack\n\n- Python + Django\n- PostgresQL\n- Heroku\n- Amazon Web Services\n- GitHub\n- HTML, Tailwind CSS, Vanilla JavaScript\n- Slack, Datadog, Zoom, Gmail, Google Calendar, Notion\n- Our own products! (including https://kolo.app)\n\n# How to apply\n\n[Apply via this form](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSerhXiCMolv2Y1dLodNvaRJu9eT-FCZ2LUgdrDwZtlDg2R0zw/viewform?usp=pp_url&entry.2062135242=Full-stack)\n\nHave any questions? Email me: [email protected]\n\nWe're excited to review your application! \n\n\n\n \n\nPlease mention the word **FASHIONABLY** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xMzc=). 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 $90,000 — $120,000/year\n \n\n#Location\nWorldwide

We're looking for a talented Full Stack Engineer that leads by example and gets stuck into everything that touches our product. Come help us shape a product of lasting value for our first and future customers.\n\n### [Cogsy](http://cogsy.com/about/)\n\nWe're building products that will help fast-growing ecommerce brands optimize their purchase decisions and grow even better. We believe in the idea of economies of better (not just economies of scale) and have strong values.\n\nWe're building our initial team and beyond our values, we want diverse, unique individuals to show up as their magical, best selves in the work they do within our team.\n\n### The role\n\nYou will be responsible for creating the early versions of Cogsy's application. This includes but is not limited to:\n\n- Product development\n- API design & development\n- Database and systems administration\n- Metrics / Growth / AB testing\n- 3rd-party integrations\n\nWe expect you to be a generalist with the ability and confidence to work on any part of our stack. These are (some of) the tools that we work with every day:\n\n- NodeJs\n- React\n- Database (MongoDB / PostgreSQL)\n- Aggregation engine (Elasticsearch)\n- Caching (Redis)\n- Async messaging (RabbitMq)\n- Bonus: Python experience\n\nThis is a remote position and you can work from wherever. It is however important that we maintain connectedness as a team and have sufficient time for synchronous work too. We'd prefer team members that are on CET or EST (or +- 1 hour difference) or work on those schedules, as that means that there is 3 / 4 hours overlap for the whole team every day.\n\n### Requirements\n\nIf you were to join Cogsy today, you'd be one of the first team members and can have great influence on the next steps we take.\n\nYou're likely a good fit for this position if you:\n\n- **[Read these values](https://cogsy.com/about/#headline-428-14)** and they resonate with you.\n- Are a true product builder and can make progress both independently and within a team.\n- Can put an infrastructure in place that handles / parses a lot of data.\n- Can move fast and help us ship a first version (that is revenue-ready) in a cost- and time-efficient manner.\n- Have always wanted to build your own team.\n- Take action and pay attention to detail.\n- Have superior communication skills\n- Have professional experience building B2B web applications.\n\n### Salary\n\n7**0-120,000 USD** depending on level of seniority / experience. We'll assess seniority during interview and a brief test project.\n\n### Benefits\n\n- True **flexible** work: work wherever and however you need to work to be at your best **and** ensure you stay connected to the team.\n- Once global travel is open again, we'll do **week-long team retreats** in fun locations. All expenses paid of course.\n- A **Minimum holiday policy**, which basically means you take time off whenever you need it to recharge or attend to other matters. And the team will hold you accountable to taking a minimum amount of time off in any rolling 12-month window.\n- Parental leave for those individuals that plan to discover to joys of having (more) kids.\n- A **health insurance** (powered by [Safety Wing](https://safetywing.com/remote-health)) tailored for remote team members, whether you're at home, traveling or being a nomad.\n- Monthly **learning** and **wellness allowance**. Buy books, pay for your yoga class or get a Calm subscription for greater mindfulness. Whatever helps you develop as an individual and *the best you* is what we'll pay for.\n- We are a **life- and family-first** company that seeks meaningful experiences outside of work and we endeavor to help our customers do the same. \n\nPlease mention the words **YARD VERY DAY** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xMzc=). 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 $70,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n ⏰ Async\n\n
\n\n#Location\nWorldwide

\nFull Stack Developer - Emphasis on Angular.js / Node.js / MongoDB / Redis\nThe Opportunity:\nWe're looking for an experienced full stack developer based in either the Phoenix, AZ or the Washington, DC metro area, however remote teleworkers will be considered for the position also if they have excellent communications skills and are willing to travel to either of the above locations quarterly.\nThe Day to Day:\n* Develop web apps and APIs people use every day\n* Find ways to make apps fun and natural, so users intuitively know how to work the app\n* Build apps and back-end frameworks that are maintainable, flexible and scaleable (think TB)\n* Anticipate tomorrow's problems by understanding of what users are trying to accomplish\n\n\nRequirements:\n* Substantial experience with Javascript, Angular.js and Node.js\n* Comfort with asynchronous programming methodology\n* Experience with web tech including REST, HTML 5 and CSS\n* Experience with MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra, or other BIG databases\n* Familiarity with jQuery\n* US Citizenship or authorization to work in the US\n\n\nBonus Points:\n* DevOps experience with Linux or FreeBSD\n* Experience with Linux Containers and Docker\n* Familiarity with data visualization tools like D3.js\n* Experience working with XML or JSON data\n* Experience with sigmajs or graphviz\n* Experience with Python, Ruby, Perl and/or shell scripting\n* Experience with the Go programming language\n* Mac OS X familiarity\n* BS or MS in a technology or scientific field of study\n* High energy level and pleasant, positive attitude!\n* History of participation in organized sports (high school or college athletic teams)\n* Evidence of working well within a diverse team\n\n\nCompensation:\n* Salary commensurate with experience, generally higher than competitive industries\n* Comprehensive benefits package\n* Opportunities for advancement and a clear career path\n\n\nAbout Us:\nWe conduct advanced technical research and develop innovative software and systems that help meet network security and reliability challenges for organizations world-wide. You can read more at our web site.\nCareer Opportunities:\nWe have many other openings available. For a complete listing, visit jobs.vostrom.com \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to DevOps, JavaScript, InfoSec, Perl, CSS, HTML, Python, Angular, Node, Ruby, API, Admin, Excel, Data Viz, jQuery, Linux, Sys Admin, Cassandra, Full Stack, Design, Developer, Digital Nomad and Travel 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