\nWho We Are; What We Do; Where We’re Going\n\n\nMagnet Forensics is a global leader in the development of digital investigative software that acquires, analyzes, and shares evidence from computers, smartphones, tablets, and IoT-related devices. We are continually innovating so our customers can deploy advanced and effective tools to protect their companies, communities, and countries.\n \nServing thousands of customers globally, our solutions are playing a crucial role in modernizing digital investigations, helping investigators fight crime, protect assets, and guard national security.\n \nWith employees based around the world, Magnet Forensics has been expanding our global presence. As a part of Magnet Forensics, you can expect to make a difference in the world, no matter what role you play. You’ll be supported through learning and development, not to mention an incredible team with unbelievable talent and integrity. \n \nIf you think you would be the right person to join our team working towards this goal, we would love to hear from you! \n\n\nMagnet Forensics is on the lookout for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Customer Hosted Review Team which is responsible for building the next generation of Digital Forensics products enhancing collaboration between various stakeholders in the agencies.\n\n\nThe Customer Hosted Engineering Team focuses on producing software that solves the most important problems faced by digital forensics and evidence review professionals today. Our web-based interface enables examiners to easily review, visualize, and report on the evidence they recover.\n\n\nWhy Join the Customer Hosted Review Engineering Team?\nNot only do we know the products we work on can make a difference in national terrorism cases and life-or-death situations, but we are also a community of smart, passionate, humble people who recognize that solving the industry’s toughest problems requires constant collaboration, a hunger to learn, and frequent doses of humor.\n\n\nNOTE: Candidates must reside in Canada. \n\n\n\nRole Expectations:\n* Analyze requirements, break down tasks and estimate effort;\n* Design robust, performant and secure solutions;\n* Develop efficient, modular, and maintainable software solutions;\n* Participate in code reviews;\n* Troubleshoot, debug and fix defects;\n* Take initiative, build strong teams and communicate effectively;\n* Guide best practices for building, delivering and maintaining multiple source code projects;\n* Understanding the intent of the product, and using that knowledge to make product design, and architecture decisions.\n\n\n\nSkills Required:\n* 4+ years of experience with C#;\n* 2+ years of ReactJS or similar frontend framework; \n* Proficiency with API architectures (REST or GraphQL);\n* Proficiency using Git based version control systems;\n* Proficiency using relational databases (MySQL or PostgreSQL);\n* Proficiency in a testing framework (i.e. XUnit, Jest, PyTest, or etc.);\n* Experience with Jenkins/GitLab/Azure DevOps.\n\n\n\nNice-To-Haves:\n* Experience with other Object-Oriented languages (i.e. Python);\n* Experience in Linux environments, including shell scripting, etc; \n* Experience with Infrastructure as code environments (Argo, Helm, or Terraform);\n* Experience with Distributed Document Stores (i.e. Elasticsearch, Redis, PostgreSQL JSONB, and etc.);\n* Experience working with Kubernetes;\n* Experience with alerting, observability, tracing, and general telemetry (Prometheus/Grafana/OpenTelemetry);\n* Experience working in high security environments.\n\n\n\nCompensation & Benefits:\n* The Compensation Range is for the primary location for which the job is posted. Please note that the actual compensation may vary depending on location and job-related factors such as qualifications, experience, knowledge and skills. If you are applying for this role outside of the primary location and you are selected for an interview, the Talent Acquisition Partner can share more information with you. If the compensation structure for the role includes an incentive component (ie. most Sales roles) the range below represents total target compensation (TTC) (base salary + variable).\n\n\nCompensation Range:\n* MIN: $107,200 - MID: $134,000 - MAX: $160,800 CAD\n\n\n\nMagnet Forensics is proud to offer Benefits such as:\n* Generous Time Off Policies;\n* Competitive Compensation;\n* Volunteer Opportunities;\n* Reward and Recognition Programs; \n* Employee Committees & Resource Groups;\n* Healthcare and Retirement Benefits. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Most Important Thing\nWe’re looking for candidates that can provide examples of how they have demonstrated Magnet CODE in their previous experiences:\nCARE – We care about each other and our mission to make a difference in the world.\nOWN – We are accountable for our results – while never forgetting to act with integrity, empathy, and respect.\nDEDICATE – We put our heart and soul into meeting the needs of our customers and helping them serve the people they protect.\nEVOLVE – We are constantly innovating and exploring new ways to work together to make an impact with our work.\n\n\nHere at Magnet Forensics, we are committed to continuous learning and are focused on building a diverse and inclusive workforce. This commitment will be reflected in our hiring processes and embedded in our values and how we treat one another. If you’re interested in this role, but do not meet all of the qualifications listed above, we encourage you to apply anyways. \n \nMagnet Forensics is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetics or any other basis forbidden under federal, provincial, or local law. We are committed to providing an inclusive, accessible recruitment process and work environment. Accommodation is available to all applicants upon request throughout the hiring process. Please contact [email protected] should you require any accommodations.\n\n\nAll offers of employment at Magnet are contingent upon satisfactory completion of a background check. All background checks will be conducted in accordance with all applicable laws. Magnet will consider each position’s job duties, among other factors, in determining what constitutes satisfactory completion of the background check. Refusal to consent to a background check may be grounds for revoking an offer of employment.\n\n\nUS Applicants: Magnet Forensics participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Testing, API, Senior, Sales, Engineer and Linux jobs that are similar:\n\n $75,000 — $117,500/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\nCanada

\nWe’re a highly skilled team of software engineers who are building an awesome product and moving fast. We value people who take initiatives, and empower everyone at Klue to make a real change in the product or processes. \n\n\nWe are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to work with our Consumer team to deliver high-quality products in the most efficient way.\n\n\n💡FAQ \n\n\nQ: Klue who?\nA: We’re Klue and from a technical perspective, Klue’s mission is to descale huge amounts of data to the human level, so people can process it and make use of it. Klue is that trusted intermediary, right now it’s proven for sales enablement, but tomorrow it’s all teams enablement.\n\n\nQ: What level of experience are we looking for?\nA: Right now we are looking for a Senior-level Back-end Engineer. \n\n\nQ: What is our development team working on?\nA: As part of our backend team, we are concerned with data storage and retrieval and the infrastructure to enable that. Here’s what our development team is working on and the opportunity for motivated Software Engineers to dig into, alongside us:\n- Big Data - lots of data \n- Ingesting thousands of news articles, web pages, marketing and sales data points per day. The challenge is indexing them for a long period of time and making them searchable and ready for different analysis.\n- Expanding our Rails REST API and offering public APIs to enable integrations.\n- Architect infrastructure for a scalable, resilient and robust service. We are migrating from a monolith architecture to K8S-hosted microservices. \n\n\nQ: What tech stack is this team working with?\nA: Ruby (Rails), Python (Flask), PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Redis, GCP, AWS, Tensorflow, Keras, Docker, Kubernetes.\nWe code review all changes, continuously integrate, pay down technical debt, and aim for high automated test coverage. We love microservices and, while we mostly use Python, Ruby, Google Cloud Platform, Linux, JavaScript, and React, new services can be built using whatever tools make sense to get the job done and support our game-changing innovation.\n\n\nQ: Are you HYBRID FRIENDLY 🤩 ?\nA: YES! Hybrid. Best of both worlds (remote & in-office)\nOur main Canadian hubs are in Vancouver and Toronto, and most of our teams are located in EST and PST.\nYou and your team will be in office at least 2 days per week.\n\n\n\nQ: What skills do you bring? \n* Expertise in at least one of the general programming languages, with a strong preference for Ruby on Rails\n* Expertise in relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL\n* Experience in designing REST APIs\n* Experience using NoSQL databases such as Elasticsearch or MongoDB is a plus\n* Experience using Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP is a plus\n* Bonus if you have Data Engineering interest and experience; ETL Pipelines, Snowplow, Snowflake, Big Query Redshift, Airflow, or equivalent.\n\n\n\nQ: What motivates our current team right now?\n* The type of work. Challenging, stimulating and meaningful work. New and relevant tech stack. We know engineers/developers especially want to work on hard technical and innovative problems.\n* The inspiration from skilled and proven leaders.\n* Entrepreneurial fingerprints on what will be a future billion dollar company anchored in Canada.\n* Culture, team, and the work environment.\n* High degree of autonomy and accountability.\n* High degrees of transparency and high quality communication.\n\n\n\nQ: What are the people at Klue like?\n* Builders\n* Intellectually Curious\n* Ambitious\n* Objective Oriented\n* Check us out!\n\n\n\nQ: What about total compensation & benefits?\n* Benefits. We currently have extended health benefits starting on your 1st day.\n* Time off. Take what you need. We want the team to prioritize wellness and avoid burnout. Vacation usually falls into 3 categories: recharging, life-event, & keeping a work-life balance. Just ensure the required work gets done and clear it with your team in advance. You need to take at least two weeks off every year. The average Klue team member takes 2-4 weeks of PTO per year.\n\n\n\n\n$150,000 - $180,000 a yearWe gather compensation benchmarking data across the BC & Canadian Tech Industry and use that data to build a range for our current team and future talent.  Your exact salary is determined by experience level, skill, capabilities, whether or not you select options, and internal pay parity.\nIf you feel like this role is a great fit and have questions about comp, get in touch and we’re happy to discuss further. There is always an ongoing conversation around compensation.\n\n\n⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLastly, we take potential into consideration. An equivalent combination of education and experience may be accepted in lieu of the specifics listed above. If you know you have what it takes, even if that’s different from what we’ve described, be sure to explain why in your application. Reach out and let’s see if there is a home here for you now or in the future.\n\n\nWe’ve made a commitment to support and contribute to a diverse environment; on our teams and in our community. We’re early in our journey; we've started employee led resource groups, committed to Pay Up For Progress, and use success profiles for roles instead of 'years of experience'. We continue to scale our efforts as Klue grows. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and have dedicated that commitment to our current and future #kluecrew. During the interview process, please let us know if there is anything we need to make more accessible or accommodate to support you to be successful.\n\n\nAll interviews will be conducted via video calls. We work in a hybrid model of WFH (remote) and in-office. We’re excited to meet you and in the meantime, get to know us:\n\n\n 🌈 Pay Up For Progress & 50 - 30 Challenge & Klue Blog\n✅✅ Win-Loss Acquisition (2023)\n🅰️ Series A (2020)\n🐅 Series B (2021)\n🏆 Culture, culture, culture! \n🎧 Winning as Women & Competitive Enablement Show\n🔍 Glassdoor\n🐝 About Us\n🐥 Twitter\n📸 Instagram\n☕️ LinkedIn\n🦄 Wellfound (AngelList)  \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Python, Video, Cloud, NoSQL, Ruby, API, Senior, Marketing, Sales, Engineer and Backend 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

\nWe’re a highly skilled team of software engineers who are building an awesome product and moving fast. We value people who take initiatives, and empower everyone at Klue to make a real change in the product or processes. \n\n\nWe are looking for Backend Engineers to work with our team to deliver high quality products in the most efficient way.\n\n\n💡FAQ \n\n\nQ: Klue who?\nA: We’re Klue and from a technical perspective, Klue’s mission is to descale huge amounts of data to the human level, so people can process it and make use of it. Klue is that trusted intermediary, right now it’s proven for sales enablement, but tomorrow it’s all teams enablement.\n\n\nQ: What level of experience are we looking for?\nA: Right now we are looking for senior level experienced Back-End Engineers. \n\n\nQ: What is our development team working on?\nA: As part of our backend team, we are concerned with data storage and retrieval and the infrastructure to enable that. Here’s what our development team is working on and the opportunity for motivated Software Engineers to dig into, alongside us:\n- Big Data - lots of data \n- Ingesting thousands of news articles, web pages, marketing and sales data points per day. The challenge is indexing them for a long period of time and making them searchable and ready for different analysis.\n- Expanding our Rails REST API and offering public APIs to enable integrations.\n- Architect infrastructure for a scalable, resilient and robust service. We are migrating from a monolith architecture to K8S-hosted microservices. \n\n\nQ: What is our current tech stack?\nA: Python (Flask), Ruby (Rails), PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Redis, GCP, AWS, Tensorflow, Keras, Docker, Kubernetes.\nWe code review all changes, continuously integrate, pay down technical debt, and aim for high automated test coverage. We love microservices and, while we mostly use Python, Ruby, Google Cloud Platform, Linux, JavaScript, and React, new services can be built using whatever tools make sense to get the job done and support our game-changing innovation.\n\n\nQ: Are you HYBRID FRIENDLY 🤩 ?\nA: YES! Our hub is in Vancouver, BC, and most of our engineering is located in PST. Ideally, this role would be located in a Canadian timezone. We currently have team members in a couple of other hubs across Canada (Toronto & Winnipeg) and other countries.\n\n\n\nQ: What skills do you bring? \n* Expertise in at least one of the general programming languages like Python, Ruby, Go, Rust, Javascript, or similar.\n* Expertise in relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL\n* Experience in designing REST APIs\n* Experience using NoSQL databases such as Elasticsearch or MongoDB is a plus\n* Experience using Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP is a plus\n* Bonus if you have Data Engineering interest and experience; ETL Pipelines, Snowplow, Snowflake, Big Query Redshift, Airflow, or equivalent.\n\n\n\nQ: What motivates our current team right now?\n* The type of work. Challenging, stimulating and meaningful work. New and relevant tech stack. We know engineers/developers especially want to work on hard technical and innovative problems.\n* The inspiration from skilled and proven leaders.\n* Entrepreneurial fingerprints on what will be a future billion dollar company anchored in Canada.\n* Culture, team, and the work environment.\n* High degree of autonomy and accountability.\n* High degrees of transparency and high quality communication.\n\n\n\nQ: What are the people at Klue like?\n* Builders\n* Intellectually Curious\n* Ambitious\n* Objective Oriented\n* Check us out!\n\n\n\nQ: What about total compensation & benefits?\n* Benefits. We currently have extended health benefits starting on your 1st day.\n* Time off. Take what you need. We want the team to prioritize wellness and avoid burnout. Vacation usually falls into 3 categories: recharging, life-event, & keeping a work-life balance. Just ensure the required work gets done and clear it with your team in advance. You need to take at least two weeks off every year. The average Klue team member takes 2-4 weeks of PTO per year.\n\n\n\n\n$140,000 - $175,000 a yearWe gather compensation benchmarking data across the BC & Canadian Tech Industry and use that data to build a range for our current team and future talent. Your exact salary is determined by experience level, skill, capabilities, and internal pay parity.\nIf you feel like this role is a great fit and have questions about comp, get in touch and we’re happy to discuss further. There is always an ongoing conversation around compensation.\n\n\n⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLastly, we take potential into consideration. An equivalent combination of education and experience may be accepted in lieu of the specifics listed above. If you know you have what it takes, even if that’s different from what we’ve described, be sure to explain why in your application. Reach out and let’s see if there is a home here for you now or in the future.\n\n\nWe’ve made a commitment to support and contribute to a diverse environment; on our teams and in our community. We’re early in our journey; we've started employee led resource groups, committed to Pay Up For Progress, and use success profiles for roles instead of 'years of experience'. We continue to scale our efforts as Klue grows. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and have dedicated that commitment to our current and future #kluecrew. During the interview process, please let us know if there is anything we need to make more accessible or accommodate to support you to be successful.\n\n\nAll interviews will be conducted via video calls. We work in a hybrid model of WFH (remote) and in-office. We’re excited to meet you and in the meantime, get to know us:\n\n\n 🌈 Pay Up For Progress & 50 - 30 Challenge & Klue Blog\n✅✅ Win-Loss Acquisition (2023)\n🅰️ Series A (2020)\n🐅 Series B (2021)\n🏆 Culture, culture, culture! \n🎧 Winning as Women & Competitive Enablement Show\n🔍 Glassdoor\n🐝 About Us\n🐥 Twitter\n📸 Instagram\n☕️ LinkedIn\n🦄 Wellfound (AngelList)  \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Video, Education, Cloud, NoSQL, Ruby, API, Senior, Marketing, Sales, Engineer and Backend 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\nToronto, Canada

We are a remote startup (headquartered in Canada) building a smart, curious, and driven team that’s making software to help sales reps sell better.\n\nProspect is a lead generation app that helps you find contact data right inside your browser in real-time. The best sales teams from the top tech companies in the world use Prospect to crush their sales targets.\n\n**MORE ABOUT US**\n\nWe are currently a team of 11 people -- you will be #12 🙂\n\nWe are self-funded and profitable (no VCs or investors). We did this because we want to do what’s best for our team and customers.\n\nAuthoritative leadership style is practiced here, where the overall goal is given and you have the freedom to choose your own way of achieving it.\n\nWe have balanced working hours (~8 hours/day), don’t work weekends, and take ample time off. We don’t have any “managers” and we rarely do any internal meetings.\n\nWe understand the importance of work/life balance which is why we are one of few that offer Fridays off in the summer ☀️\n\n**ABOUT YOU**\n\nYou enjoy writing beautiful code. You care not just about whether the code works, but you think deeply about how well it performs, and how it will be understood by future developers.\n\nYou like shipping things. You realize that building excellent products is a marathon, not a sprint, and regularly make improvements in iterations.\n\nYou are an excellent communicator. You realize that working remotely requires thoughtful communication and you do so through great written communication.\n\nYou self-manage and are open to feedback. You enjoy taking a goal and figuring out how to ship it without heavy direction and regular check-ins.\n\nYou are product and customer-centric. Whether it is a bug fix, perf improvement, or a new feature, you realize that every line of code is an opportunity to make a user’s experience better.\n\n**OUR ENGINEERING TEAM RIGHT NOW**\n\nWe are currently a team of 7 engineers. Our roles are divided based on the projects we work on.\n\nWe work in 4-week long development cycles in which we focus on adding new features, fixing bugs, or making improvements. After each cycle, we have a 2-week cool-off which we use to work on anything we would like to as well as plan for the next cycle.\n\nOur stack is currently:\n\n- Backend: Java 8 on Spring and Dropwizard\n- Cloud: A mix of AWS and Google Cloud\n- Database: PostgreSQL\n- Frontend: TypeScript, ES6, React, and Redux\n- Internal: GitLab for CI/CD and issue tracking\n\n**PROJECTS YOU WILL WORK ON**\n\nYou will be working on our backend which is a REST API written using modern Java practices.\n\nThis is a high-impact role. We are looking for someone to take real ownership of one or two core features within the first year. You will own some extremely important parts of our application that serve thousands of customers. \n\nWe prioritize our projects based on what customers are requesting the most. Some things that you might work on include:\n\n- Data: Scale our real-time data discovery engine to process 5x-10x more volume\n- DevOps: Improve our CI pipeline by adding static analysis and improving tests\n- Integrations: Add features to and revamp our Salesforce integration\n- Monitoring: Add metrics and real-time alerts for core application functionality\n- Upgrades: Migrate to the latest versions of core dependencies, such as PostgreSQL\n\n**MUST HAVES**\n\n- 3-5+ years of Java programming experience\n- Experience with PostgreSQL and handling large amounts of data\n\n**BONUS NICE-TO-HAVES**\n\n- Past remote work experience \n- Experience at a tech startup or a small company before\n- Experience with modern infrastructure tools such as using Terraform \n- Experience with modern Java frameworks without the enterprise bloat\n- A knack for taking a metrics-driven approach using Grafana or similar\n\n**COMPENSATION AND PERKS**\n\n- Salary: $95,000 - $120,000 Canadian dollars / year\n- $1,500 annual continued learning budget (for books, courses, and self-improvement)\n- $1,000+ annual travel spending allowance (money to spend during your vacation)\n- Flexible working hours (4 hour overlap with EST and the remaining 4 flexible)\n- 4 weeks paid time off\n- Benefits (health, dental, etc) through our company HSA (for people living in Canada) \n\nPlease mention the words **CATCH SCATTER LION** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xNDY=). 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#Benefits\n 📚 Learning budget\n\n
\n\n#Location\nWorldwide

We are a remote startup (headquartered in Canada) building a smart, curious, and driven team that’s making software to help sales reps sell better.\n\nProspect is a lead generation app that helps you find contact data right inside your browser in real-time. The best sales teams from the top tech companies in the world use Prospect to crush their sales targets.\n\n**MORE ABOUT US**\n\nWe are currently a team of 11 people -- you will be #12 🙂\n\nWe are self-funded and profitable (no VCs or investors). We did this because we want to do what’s best for our team and customers.\n\nWe have sane working hours (~8 hours/day), don’t work weekends, and take ample time off. We don’t have any “managers” and we rarely do any internal meetings.\n\n**ABOUT YOU**\n\nYou enjoy writing beautiful code. You care not just about whether the code works, but you think deeply about how well it performs, and how it will be understood by future developers.\n\nYou like shipping things. You realize that building excellent products is a marathon, not a sprint, and regularly make improvements in iterations.\n\nYou are an excellent communicator. You realize that working remotely requires thoughtful communication and you do so through great written communication.\n\nYou self-manage. You enjoy taking a goal and figuring out how to ship it without heavy direction and regular check-ins.\n\nYou are product and customer-centric. Whether it is a bug fix, perf improvement, or a new feature, you realize that every line of code is an opportunity to make a user’s experience better.\n\n**OUR ENGINEERING TEAM RIGHT NOW**\n\nWe are currently a team of 7 engineers. Our roles are divided based on the projects we work on.\n\nWe work in 4-week long development cycles in which we focus on adding new features, fixing bugs, or making improvements. After each cycle, we have a 2-week cool-off which we use to work on anything we would like to as well as plan for the next cycle.\n\nOur stack is currently:\n\n- Backend: Java 8 on Spring and Dropwizard\n- Cloud: A mix of AWS and Google Cloud\n- Database: PostgreSQL\n- Frontend: ES6, TypeScript, React, and Redux\n- Internal: GitLab for CI/CD and issue tracking\n\n**PROJECTS YOU WILL WORK ON**\n\nYou will be working on our backend which is a REST API written using modern Java practices.\n\nThis is a high impact role. We are looking for someone to take real ownership of one or two core features within the first year. You will own some extremely important parts of our application that serve thousands of customers. \n\nWe prioritize our projects based on what customers are requesting the most. Some things that you might work on include:\n\n- Data: Scale our real-time data discovery engine to process 5x-10x more volume\n- DevOps: Improve our CI pipeline by adding static analysis and improving tests\n- Integrations: Add features to and revamp our Salesforce integration\n- Monitoring: Add metrics and real-time alerts for core application functionality\n- Upgrades: Migrate to the latest versions of core dependencies, such as PostgreSQL\n\n**MUST HAVES**\n\n- 3-5+ years of Java programming experience\n- Experience with PostgreSQL and handling large amounts of data\n- We don’t require a degree but you should have demonstrated the ability to learn new things quickly (either self-learned, freelance projects, or from school) \n\n**BONUS NICE-TO-HAVES**\n\n- Past remote work experience \n- Worked at a tech startup or a small company before\n- Experience with modern infrastructure tools such as using Terraform \n- Experience with modern Java frameworks without the enterprise bloat\n- A knack for taking a metrics-driven approach using Grafana or similar\n\n**COMPENSATION AND PERKS**\n\n- Salary: $90,000 - $120,000 Canadian dollars / year\n- $1,500 annual self-continued learning budget\n- $1,000+ annual travel spending allowance (money to spend during your vacation)\n- 4 weeks paid time off\n- Fridays off every July and August (enjoy the summer! ☀️)\n- Benefits (health, dental, etc) through our company HSA (for people living in Canada) \n\nPlease mention the words **SLIM DURING EGG** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xNDY=). 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#Benefits\n 📚 Learning budget\n\n
\n\n#Location\nWorldwide

\nThe role\n\nYou’ll join our small team as a senior back-end engineer, primarily working on the main product. This includes:\n\n\n* Our internal and public APIs (REST and WebSockets); \n\n* Integrations with external services (such as Salesforce); \n\n* Our predictive analytics + forecasting engine; \n\n* The user-facing application itself; \n\n* Core platform & services\n\n\n\n\nSome of the challenges we have:\n\n\n*  Importing/processing sales data in the background at scale; \n\n*  Keeping blazing fast API performance with frequently-changing data; \n\n*  Building upon our existing public APIs, integrations and infrastructure;\n\n\n\n\nOf course, you'll be working alongside the rest of team and you will be part of the decision-making process, help scoping out features and gathering requirements for new work.\n\nOur product is built using Elixir (1.7) and Phoenix (1.4), backed by PostgreSQL and running on Heroku. We stick to ExUnit for unit testing and Hound for our integration tests. All code lives on GitHub and we use Travis CI for continuous integration and delivery. We like experimenting with new interesting technologies and approaches, keep and open mind and focus on what works best for us. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Senior, Engineer, Backend, API and Sales jobs that are similar:\n\n $65,000 — $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

**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 (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xNDY=). 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