WHY A365 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING?\n\nBuild the cloud platform that’s transforming electronics design. Altium 365 for cloud lets design engineers communicate, collaborate and bring their ideas to market more efficiently than any platform in the industry.\n\nAltium offers the opportunity to conceive and build new product features for electronics engineers, and add your own ideas to the world’s most collaborative and efficient electronics design platform.\n\nAs Valispace embarks on a new journey integrating into Altium 365 platform we are looking to grow a team able to craft the best  experience for our users, delivering essential features to ensure they have the insights needed to drive their decisions, and the tools to act upon them\n\n \n\nValispace is a productivity software and a single source of truth for all of the ‘’loose’’ engineering data of hardware projects, helping engineers streamline efforts from concept to test and escape from document hell! We have one simple mission: to empower engineers to faster craft the complex products that help propel humanity forward.\n\n\n* Shape the future: You'll be part of a close-knit team with ambitious goals, but you'll also have the freedom and power to define the best way to achieve them. Collaborate with your team to map out the features and technical path that will bring our product vision to life;\n\n* Grow together, share knowledge: We foster a culture of continuous learning and knowledge sharing. You'll have the opportunity to learn from and mentor your teammates, contributing to a collaborative environment where everyone thrives;\n\n\n\n\nIf you like the idea of working in an environment that encourages creative and autonomous work, focuses on your growth potential and where there’s always room to discuss the quirks of living on this planet, then we might just be a perfect fit.\nABOUT THE ROLE: \n\nAs a QA Engineer, your primary responsibility will be to ensure the quality of product development for our complex cloud applications with the Altium365 - Valispace R&D team. You will work closely with the development team to design, implement, and execute tests that identify issues and ensure our software meets the highest standards. Your expertise will be crucial in maintaining the reliability and performance of our products, ensuring they deliver an exceptional user experience.\nA DAY IN THE LIFE OF OUR QA ENGINEER:\n\n\n* Craft comprehensive test documentation: Become a master of writing clear and detailed test documentation, ensuring every Altium feature is thoroughly tested and functions as intended.\n\n* Champion stability through rigorous testing: As a dedicated tester, you'll be on the front lines, meticulously testing new features to identify and prevent bugs before they reach users.\n\n* Safeguard the user experience with comprehensive regression testing: Perform in-depth regression testing across a broad spectrum of Altium products. Your work will be instrumental in maintaining a stable and reliable user experience.\n\n\n\nWHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR:\n\n\n* 4+ years of experience as a QA Engineer in testing complex software systems\n\n* Experience in testing web applications\n\n* Experience in writing comprehensive test plans and using test management tools (i.e. Testrail)\n\n* Strong understanding of software testing methodologies, tools, and processes\n\n* Experience testing software at the API level\n\n* You’re detail-oriented with an ability to see the bigger picture\n\n* You understand and have experience working with complex and evolved SDLC processes\n\n* Performance testing tools knowledge (i.e. Jmeter)\n\n* Strong analytical and problem-solving skills\n\n* Understanding of CI systems (i.e. Jenkins, Github Actions, TeamCity)\n\n* Excellent English communication skills, both verbal and written\n\n\n\n\nSalary: 52.000 - 70.000 euro per year\nCompensation, benefits and perks\n\n\n* Comprehensive health insurance\n\n* Nilo.health, a mental health and wellbeing support platform\n\n* Generous Learning & Development budget and training days\n\n* Remote-friendly (you can work from home or from our cool office in Lisbon - you choose!)\n\n* Commuting budget if you decide to come to the office\n\n* Home internet allowance\n\n* A lot of fun team activities every once in a while \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 Cloud, API and Engineer jobs that are similar:\n\n $30,000 — $80,000/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

\nSenior Integration Engineer, Boulder, CO OR Remote within U.S. for well qualified candidates \n\n \n\nAbout Ascend \n\nAscend Analytics’ climate technology software and services provide critical insights to power the energy transition. The company’s products enhance critical power supply decisions from short-term operating strategies to long-term investment and resource planning. Ascend’s solutions serve as the core analytic infrastructure for electric utilities, independent power producers, electric retailers, and financiers of energy infrastructure. To learn more about Ascend, please visit us at www.ascendanalytics.com.   \n\n \n\nYour Impact at Ascend Analytics \n\nWe are seeking a n Senior Integration Engineer with a strong background in third-party integrations to join our SmartBidder team. The SmartBidder team is growing quickly and is directly impacting the clean energy transition by helping Ascend’s clients realize the value of renewable energy and storage projects.  \n\nAs Senior Integration Engineer, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the smooth integration of our software with external systems that manage renewable energy assets, interface with energy markets, and provide key data needed to optimize energy market participation. Additionally, you will provide exceptional client support and insights regarding technical integrations during the onboarding process for new SmartBidder clients, lead testing before go-live, and provide ongoing support for these integrations after go-live. \n\n \n\nJob Responsibilities\n\n\n* Collaborate with clients and third-party engineers alongside Ascend analysts, customer success, and engineers to ensure proper hand-off from sales to implementation and to understand and deliver end-to-end technical implementations of key integrations that align with client requirements \n\n* Scope, design, develop, and implement integrations with third-party solutions and data providers\n\n* Troubleshoot issues and evaluate new requirements as they arise, proposing effective solutions and best practices\n\n* Develop a common framework for integrating third-party software and regularly execute a comprehensive test plan for integrations that use this framework  \n\n* Drive internal API, alerting, and QA design and development to improve efficiency, efficacy, stability, and risk management associated with third-party integrations\n\n* Maintain comprehensive documentation of implemented solutions, configurations, and troubleshooting procedures\n\n* Partner with the customer success team to project-manage integration work and help maintain tracking of implementation progress and status for communication to customers\n\n* Participate as primary technical support for platform as part of teams’ weekly support rotations\n\n* Own deployment of individual new releases as part of team’s rotation for managing new releases \n\n\n\n\nRequired Qualifications\n\n\n* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.\n\n* 4+ years experience in implementing third-party integrations and/or as a technical sales resource for a software product\n\n* Strong proficiency in Python\n\n* Extensive experience with data structures and API schemas, including an understanding of API design philosophies and patterns including common communication protocols (SOAP, REST) and data formats (JSON, XML).\n\n* Understanding of security requirements of integration work\n\n* Tenacity to navigate ambiguity and gather clear requirements from third-parties\n\n* Ability to flexibly work on multiple workstreams in parallel based on sometimes tight and shifting client timelines  \n\n* Familiarity with project management to stay organized and manage, track, and communicate progress internally and externally \n\n\n\n\nPreferred Qualifications\n\n\n* Familiarity with SCADA systems\n\n* Familiarity with Azure environments and Microsoft DevOps\n\n* Background in energy and/or electricity markets \n\n\n\n\n \n\nCompensation: $105,000 - $135,000           \n\nNegotiable based on qualifications and experience. Ascend highly values our employees and often pays above industry average. \n\nWe offer flexible work hours in a relaxed environment with opportunities for advancement and excellent benefits, including medical, dental, vision, short- and long-term disability, parental leave, dependent care spending account, and a 401k plan.  \n\nWe celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Ascend Analytics is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information or other applicable legally protected characteristics.  \n\nAscend Analytics is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at [email protected]  \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, API, Senior, Sales and Engineer jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $105,000/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\nBoulder, Colorado, United States

Who Are We?\n\nPostman is the world's leading collaboration platform for API development. Postman's features simplify each step of building an API & streamline collaboration to help create better APIs—faster. More than 30 million developers & 500,000 organizations worldwide use Postman today. After receiving Series D funding in 2021 & releasing our biggest & best version ever of Postman in September 2022, we continue to strive humbly towards our mission of 100 million connected developers & serving companies as they seek to innovate in an API-first world. \n\nP.S: We highly recommend reading The "API-First World" graphic novel to understand the bigger picture & our vision at Postman.\nThe Opportunity\n\nOur customer base is growing faster than ever. We are looking for an experienced leader to advance our Enterprise Solutions Architecture program and manage an existing team of expert Postman Solutions Architects.  You will be responsible for day-to-day team management and coaching, exploring new ways to improve our post-sales operations, and leveraging analytical insights to ultimately retain and grow our customer base.  You will own the technical aspects of our post-sales process for the Enterprise customer segment. You'll be supported by all other Postman teams - from sales and engineering, to product management, data science, and our executives - to ensure our customers achieve value from their usage of Postman.\n\nThe Solutions Architecture Manager at Postman plays a pivotal role in leading a team who is responsible for delivering technical post-sales support and consultation to our customers. The Solutions Architecture team is composed of experts in APIs and Postman products, who work closely with customers to ensure successful implementation, integration, and utilization of Postman solutions.\n\nThis role is perfect for a visionary leader passionate about creating scalable solutions to enhance customer engagement, satisfaction and retention.\n\nWhat You’ll Do\n\nTeam Leadership:\n\n\n\n\n* Lead and mentor a team of Solutions Architects, fostering a culture of collaboration, technical “know-how”, continuous curiosity, and customer-centricity\n\n* Provide guidance and support to Solutions Architects in resolving technical challenges and addressing customer needs effectively and efficiently\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCross-functional Leadership:\n\n\n\n\n* Partner with leaders in Customer Success, Sales, Solutions Engineering, and other GTM teams to develop processes and resources that accelerate customer adoption of Postman\n\n* Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to convey and advocate for customer feedback and enhancement requests that will improve customer satisfaction and address their key use cases, serve as the voice of the customer within the organization\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCustomer Consultation:\n\n\n\n\n* Collaborate with Sales, Solutions Engineering, and Customer Success teams to understand customer use cases and develop tailored solutions that meet their needs\n\n* Build strong relationships with customers, fostering long-term partnerships and driving customer satisfaction and loyalty\n\n* Advise on consultations with key customer stakeholders by assessing technical requirements and offering recommendations for optimal API development workflows\n\n* Work closely with Solutions Architects and customers to design and architect scalable and robust solutions using the Postman platform\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTechnical Expertise:\n\n\n\n\n* Stay abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices related to API development methodologies and workflows\n\n* Act as a subject matter expert on the Postman platform, providing insights and guidance to both internal teams and external customers\n\n\n\n\n\n\nData-driven Strategy and Knowledge Sharing:\n\n\n\n\n* Leverage data analytics to identify trends and areas of improvement in how we can deliver value to customers\n\n* Develop and maintain technical documentation, best practices, and use case examples to enable customers to maximize the value of Postman solutions\n\n* Facilitate knowledge sharing sessions and workshops internally to enhance the technical expertise of the Solutions Architecture team\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout You\n\n\n* Strong technical background from a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering, a related field, or relevant work experience\n\n* 3+ years leading customer-facing technical teams, or similar, with a track record of driving business growth\n\n* Strong experience with the enterprise SaaS sales process and customer relationship management\n\n* Skilled at problem-solving, decision-making, and ability to navigate challenging situations professionally with an extreme focus on being customer-centric\n\n* 5+ years of enterprise solutions architecture or sales/solutions engineering experience\n\n* 2+ years of software development experience\n\n* Comfortable engaging and working with all levels of technologists from individual developers, development teams, QA teams, architects, product managers, and engineering and product management leaders\n\n* Experience with engaging senior management and executive audiences to convey Postman's value proposition\n\n* Strong understanding of APIs, and experience with producing and consuming with APIs across different domains\n\n* Strong understanding of modern development methodologies and DevOps with an appreciation of the software development life cycle\n\n* Familiar with typical developer tooling: IDEs, Git, CI/CD, monitoring services, microservices, containers, cloud computing services, etc.\n\n* Great communication skills (presentation, verbal and written)\n\n* Enjoys a fast-paced environment and loves teamwork and collaboration\n\n\n\n\n \nOur Values\n\nAt Postman, we create with the same curiosity that we see in our users. We value transparency & honest communication about not only successes, but also failures. In our work, we focus on specific goals that add up to a larger vision. Our inclusive work culture ensures that everyone is valued equally as important pieces of our final product. We are dedicated to delivering the best products we can.\nWhat Else?\n\nThis is a remote role with a salary range of $157,000 - $212,000, plus a competitive equity package. Postman has an informal and fun working team environment. We believe in a hybrid workplace, and although this role is remote, there will be opportunities for you to meet and collaborate with teammates from around the globe. We offer comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance, and cool perks. Our employees enjoy unlimited PTO because we believe everyone should take the time off needed to refresh, relax, and reflect. Our wellness program offers fitness-related reimbursements, a meal stipend, home office set-up reimbursement, internet reimbursement, book reimbursements for professional development, and a training platform for continued learning and education for personal growth. Also, our donation-matching program can support causes you care about. We’re creating a long-term company, and we want you to be part of it. Join us and become a Postmanaut!\nEqual Opportunity\n\nPostman is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status. Headhunters and recruitment agencies may not submit resumes/CVs through this Web site or directly to managers. Postman does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes. Postman will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Postman.\n\nPostman will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records where directed under applicable law, such as pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, SaaS, DevOps, Education, Cloud, API, Senior and Sales jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $110,000/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

\nIf you’re an outstanding Technical Support Rep, come join us at Voxy and use your talent to help teach the world! Voxy’s Product team helps change the way millions of people around the world learn English by using sound science combined with innovative (and patented!) technology. We feature research-driven learning activities coupled with live streaming for topic-based live tutoring sessions. We use advanced technology to build a customized experience using authentic content sources from names you know (Bloomberg, AP, Financial Times and more.) Voxy’s goal is to become THE vendor of choice in the $80 billion dollar language education market and our Product team is instrumental in reaching this goal.\nHere at Voxy we share team values to Start with Empathy, Communicate Courageously, Dig Deep, Own Your Outcomes, Ask Why, and Think Bigger. We are committed to an inclusive and diverse hiring process and team. You can learn more about our Product Team values in this blog post.\n\n\n\nWhat is the job?\n* Consult new customers to identify the best solutions using API and SSO integration \n* Administer Voxy's Okta instance for customer identity management including new SSO setup, ongoing maintenance, and compliance with Okta product updates\n* Serve as the Product Support team's first responder for technical issues related to Partner API, SSO, and firewall compliance\n* Serve as the Product Support team's primary point of contact with external IT support:\n* You may manage tickets with Okta, Marketo (email deliverability), Zoom, and possible future tools to support troubleshooting and ensure customer access\n* If development work is required from Voxy, you will be able to clearly define the work requested\n* Manage all customer-facing documentation to support integration products \n* Serve as the primary business stakeholder for future product development in API and SSO features, identifying gaps in our product offering as you work with customers \n* Manage bug triage and issue intake along with Product Operations and QA to respond to product questions, clarify technical specifications and requirements, and diagnose issues using data analysis, logging tools, and manual reproduction \n\n\n\nQualifications and experience\n* You have directly supported customers to use API products and maintained customer-facing documentation\n* You understand identity management and have worked with the most popular protocols like SAML, OIDC, and possibly LTI \n* You have administered a corporate identity product like Okta or Active Directory\n* You aren't afraid to dig into the technical docs for an external product to figure out how it works\n* You are fully proficient in English and can provide professional support in writing and over video calls\n* Proficiency in English, Portuguese, and Spanish\n\n\n\nNice to have: \n* Okta certification\n* Proficiency with SQL and/or Tableau \n* Experience with security protocols and ability to assist sales in RFP completion \n\n\n\n\n\nWe are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Video, Education, API and Sales jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $90,000/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\ntakealot.com, a leading South African online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Test Automation (Web/Apps) Engineer to join our team in either Cape Town, Stellenbosch or Johannesburg.\n\nWe are a young, dynamic, hyper-growth company looking for smart, creative, hard-working people with integrity to join us.  We offer a market related, Total Remuneration Package which allows full flexibility according to your needs, a great work environment and a promise that you won’t be bored as long as you are prepared for a challenge and want to build something great.\n\n \n\nReporting Relationships\n\nWork closely with the QA Manager to ensure quality is implemented as part of the processes and that quality standards are adhered to.\n\nYour mission should you choose to accept it:  \n\n\n* Raise development quality by developing processes and best practices for testing in Dev\n\n* teams\n\n* Improve and automate test strategies.\n\n* Develop and execute automated test cases to diagnose issues and bugs, creating test\n\n* data when required.\n\n* Identify, design, develop, execute and maintain automation scripts/code.\n\n* Implement automation framework with continuous integration/deployment covering UI,\n\n* API, unit, DB and integration tests.\n\n* Identify testing deficiencies and subsequently implement automated tests based on their\n\n* requirements\n\n* Identify, record, document thoroughly and track bugs\n\n* Perform regression testing when bugs are resolved\n\n* Increase code coverage across the team’s technology stack\n\n* Develop status reports based on test completion/findings and communicate these to\n\n* team leaders including any impact on the overall project plan.\n\n* Mentoring and guiding the test team on test approaches and automation suite.\n\n* Production on-call availability on a rotational roster\n\n\n\n\n \n\nSkills needed:\n\n\n* Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to understand and\n\n* critique requirements.\n\n* Strong interpersonal skills including the ability to promote cooperation between a\n\n* developer, Technical project managers, and QA team.\n\n* Flexibility to learn new technologies and explore new tools with ease\n\n* Flexible and adaptable to changing priorities or circumstances.\n\n\n\n\n \n\nQualifications and experience:\n\n\n* Bachelors Degree or Advanced Diploma in Computer Science, Information Systems or Information Technology or related field and a minimum of 3 years Test Automation experience. \n\n* In the event that a candidate does not have a Bachelors Degree or Advanced Diploma (in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or a related field), an equivalent experience requirement must be met, which equates to a minimum of 6 years of Test Automation experience. \n\n* Experience with Jenkins, GitLab, Travis CI or another Continuous Integration\n\n* application will be advantageous.\n\n* Experience testing and administering in Linux and/or other Unix environments will be an\n\n* advantage.\n\n* Experience installing, upgrading, configuring and verifying (smoke tests) virtualised\n\n* testing environments (VMs) Docker, Kubernetes, Vagrant, etc…\n\n* Basic understanding of backend logistics systems is highly advantageou\n\n* Experience managing testing throughout the SDLC (development testing, unit/integration\n\n* testing, API testing, performance testing, system testing, regression testing, etc..)\n\n* Experience in testing multiple platforms, including desktop, web and mobile-based\n\n* systems\n\n* Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies and processes.\n\n* Strong experience with Python,\n\n* Experience with automation of event-driven systems e.g. Kafka\n\n* Understands web services (REST) and underlying protocols (HTTP/S, TCP/IP).\n\n* Hands-on experience with automated testing tools and frameworks Pytest, Robot\n\n* Framework, Postman, SOAPUI, Selenium (python), Appium, etc\n\n* Experience with unit test frameworks PyTest, JUnit, NUnit, etc…\n\n* Strong knowledge of databases and scripting using MySQL and/or SQL.\n\n* Experience in writing test documentation such as test plans and test cases depending upon the project\n\n* Experience using configuration management and version control using GIT or SVN.\n\n* Experience in using test management tools such as Xray, Tesflo\n\n* Experience in using bug-tracking tools such as Jira\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nThink you’ve been challenged before? Think again!\n\n\n* Scale: Over 2.5 million happy shoppers shop online on takealot.com. Show them what you can do.\n\n* Learn: We work with the best of the best, and then some. Code alongside industry leaders and upskill in record time.\n\n* Grow: Expand your career in the fast-growing Takealot Group: takealot.com, Superbalist.com and Mr D Food. We like to promote from within: Here’s your chance.\n\n\n\n\nLet’s talk about life @ Takealot Group\n\n\n* The power is in your hands: We offer a market-related, Total Remuneration Package which allows full flexibility according to your needs. Go on, be the master of your own destiny.\n\n* No doors: We aren’t fans of stuffy offices or siloed work environments. See someone you like? High five, collab and make something great.\n\n* Remote working: Love water cooler chats and working from home? Takealot.com offers a hybrid working model for the best of both worlds.\n\n* Mentorship programme: We aren’t kidding when we say the people with the best people win. Now’s your chance to be one of the best, by learning from the best.\n\n* Naspers Tech Community & Online Learning: Share ideas and grow with global industry leaders who are all just a Slack message away. Love to learn? Up-skill with free access to courses on MyAcademy, Udacity, Coursera and more.\n\n* Good times: Get to know the other extraordinary minds at takealot.com during regular social events and out-of-office activities (think hikes, think mini golf, think good times).\n\n* Staff discount. Millions of products across 28 departments. What more could you ask for?\n\n* Birthday leave: Cake Day all the way. Enjoy your day off - you deserve it. \n\n* Right tools, right job: Mac or Windows, two monitors or one. Whatever your preference, you’ll work on the latest tech, off the latest tech.\n\n* Help when you need it most: Confidential counselling, legal support and financial guidance, for free, anytime, anywhere. \n\n* Tech stack (for days): ReactJS, Python, Scala, Kotlin, Swift, Google Cloud, Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes and all things machine learning. If you build it, they will come.\n\n* Free parking: No more 5km fun runs to your desk (unless you want to). \n\n\n\n\nLike what you see? \n\nIf you meet the above you are an Extraordinary Mind. Apply today!!\n\nTakealot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from the previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference\n\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 Testing, API, Legal, Engineer, Linux and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $55,000 — $105,000/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\nCape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

\nAbout Formation Bio\n\nAt Formation Bio, we are building the pharma company of the future , redefining drug development with our proprietary, tech-driven platform, focused on bringing new treatments to patients faster and more efficiently.\n\nAt Formation Bio we license clinical stage drug assets and develop them in-house using our proprietary, technology-driven platform. Over the past few years, we have been able to significantly expedite the drug development process, evidenced by our acceleration of over 300 clinical trials and reducing trial durations by up to 50%. This innovation translates to getting life-saving drugs to market 1-3 years faster, where we specialize in partnering with and nurturing in-house clinical-stage drugs. Our diverse team of experts come from across multiple industries, combining the best of tech and pharma talent.\n\nJoin our culture of innovation where your work directly contributes to transforming patient care in areas such as rheumatology, dermatology, CNS, and cardiometabolic diseases. Our dynamic environment blends advanced technology with strategic drug development, speeding up the delivery of new treatments. Here, every role plays a part in our mission to bring new treatments to patients faster and more efficiently.\n\nAbout the Role\n\nAs the Director of Analytical Development and QC, you will spearhead the strategic direction and execution of analytical research and development and quality control activities for active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) and drug product (DP) at Formation Bio and our contract R&D and manufacturing partners for assets in Phase 1 to Phase 3. You will oversee all API and DP release stability testing as well as analytical   regulatory documentation to support global clinical studies.  Your role will be pivotal, ensuring alignment with regulatory standards and company objectives. This role requires a blend of technical expertise, strategic thinking, leadership capabilities, and a strong regulatory background.\n\nResponsibilities\n\n\n* Provide technical leadership and guidance across CMC development disciplines to all outsourced analytical methods and testing activities by providing clear objectives for multiple CDMO partners.\n\n* Oversee the establishment of testing methodology specifications, and stability programs for raw materials, intermediates, excipients, APIs and DPs including trend analysis, and retesting strategy for clinical trial materials. \n\n* Prepare budgets and forecast expenditures related to drug substance and drug product analytical development activities, including expenditures with contract manufacturing organizations (CMOs) and consultants.\n\n* Mentor and guide both internal and external team members, fostering talent growth while ensuring project success and desired outcomes. Evaluate performance, provide feedback, coach team members, and build effective cross-functional teams. Mentor them in all matters related to drug product development and manufacturing.  \n\n* Define project deliverables, take ownership, and ensure accountability to internal stakeholders. Collaborate with the broader team to achieve set outcomes. \n\n* Author, review, and strategically contribute to regulatory filings (including INDs, IMPDs, NDAs, briefing packages, and other regulatory dossiers).\n\n* Support, in collaboration with Quality Control and Regulatory, selection of strategic CDMO, manufacturing, analytical, and packaging partners.\n\n* Cultivate strategic relationships with CMOs, suppliers, and consultants, providing oversight and recommendations for alliances.\n\n* Build collaborative relationships across functional areas to translate research and clinical program objectives into aligned, clear, and fit-for-purpose CMC objectives and milestones.\n\n* Author and review technical documents, staying abreast of industry trends, regulations, and best practices. Drive the adoption of innovative technologies and quality-by-design (QbD) approaches.\n\n* Review and approve analytical methods, specifications, change controls, deviation, investigation, out-of-trend, or out-of-specification reports.\n\n* Work in close collaboration and support with other members of the CMC team responsible for API and DP development and support to management as necessary.\n\n* Work with Drug Substance and Drug product colleagues, as well as QA in the selection of CDMOs partners for all stages of development. \n\n* Develop strong relationships with external said partners to establish and manage appropriate scopes of work, and to ensure all activities are within program expectations.\n\n* Work with Regulatory, QA and Senior Management to ensure that all company policies are followed, and all external manufacturing activities comply with relevant regulations.\n\n* Create new systems/SOPs/policies and work with Quality Assurance to oversee these for compliance with current GXP regulations.\n\n* Provide presentations and reports on progress on multi-disciplinary development teams, as necessary to the leadership team.\n\n\n\n\nAbout You\n\n\n* A PhD in analytical chemistry or related field with at least 15 years of analytical/CMC team leadership in the CDMO, biotechnology or pharmaceutical industry.\n\n* Experience in Contract Research Organizations and/or contract laboratory relationship management.\n\n* Extensive technical expertise in analytical development and validation for API and DP, characterization, and stability of a variety of formulations including solid oral dose, dermal, and injectable. \n\n* Proficiency in reviewing and analyzing release and stability data for trending, shelf-life, and specification establishment. Thorough understanding of phase appropriate methods qualification and/or validation and specifications for APIs and DPs.\n\n* Manufacturing experience and a good understanding of cGMP requirements\n\n* Proficient in writing RFPs, protocols, reports, and regulatory documents.\n\n* Exceptional interpersonal, negotiation, problem-solving, communication, and analytical skills.\n\n* Leadership qualities including emotional intelligence, strategic thinking, mentorship, and continuous improvement focus.\n\n* Thorough understanding of ICH, FDA, and EMA guidance and GMP requirements governing product/process development and manufacture, and stability.\n\n* Excellent interpersonal skills, including negotiation skills and a tactful approach that leads to high value on services obtained and outcomes achieved.\n\n* Excellent risk management, problem-solving and crisis management skills.\n\n* Ability to work in cross-functional teams as related to drug development.\n\n* Must be well organized, proactive, and detail-oriented.\n\n* Demonstrated leadership and management skills, with prior experience collaborating with and directing the work of others on assigned projects (including both internal teams and external collaborators) in multiple CMC programs. \n\n* Well versed with the latest technologies, trends and practices in analytical development, manufacturing, and the outsourcing industry.\n\n\n\n\nTravel\n\nTravel may be required up to 25-30% of your time.\n\n \n\nWe offer competitive compensation because we want to hire the best people and reward them for their contributions to our mission. We pay all employees competitively relative to the New York City market, regardless of their location. In compliance with NYC’s pay transparency law and in pursuit of pay equity and fairness, we publish salary ranges for all open roles at Formation Bio. The target salary range for this role is $240,000 - $280,000.\n\nOn top of base salary, we also offer equity, generous perks, location flexibility, and comprehensive benefits – learn more about them and our compensation philosophy here.\n\nIf this range doesn’t match your expectations, please still apply because we may have something else for you.\n\n\nYou will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Testing, API and Senior jobs that are similar:\n\n $50,000 — $80,000/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\nNew York City, New York, United States