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LOCATION: Remote within the U.S.\n\nCiviqs is the leading online scientific polling platform and a division of Kos Media LLC. Civiqs has been conducting surveys online since 2014. Every day, Civiqs surveys thousands of people across the United States on politics, culture, and current affairs. With years of daily responses on a huge array of questions, Civiqs maintains one of the largest databases of public opinion in the United States. The scale and quality of Civiqs’ public opinion data, and its online survey panel, is unmatched in the survey industry.\n\nWe are hiring an experienced and results-driven Senior Software Development Engineer to join our talented remote engineering team. As Senior Software Development Engineer, you will ensure that the research platform is operating smoothly and accurately, and that new features are delivered on time and to specification. You will work alongside researchers and data scientists to help shape the Civiqs survey application as we expand our development team and build new research products and features.\n\nWe have an energized team of survey researchers with diverse backgrounds and skill sets. If you’re interested in a position that offers more than just a technical challenge, we’d like to hear from you. The ideal candidate for this position will love data as much as we do! You are an innovator, collaborator and have an innate dedication to excellence. You are self-motivated, efficient, and capable of delivering results with limited guidance. Come join our team and guide the future of public opinion research using the Civiqs panel!\n\nResponsibilities\n\n- Design, architect, code, and maintain application solutions for Civiqs using industry best practices\n- Maintain and optimize Python / PyMC modelling application, and data science pipeline\n- Have a deep understanding of our frontend and backend systems, infrastructure, cloud services, and dev ops automation tools\n- Clearly and precisely communicate technical issues and establish day to day priorities with other developers and non-technical stakeholders\n- Mentor other developers on the team, through pairing and direct feedback\n- Kick off and lead technical team decision making in collaboration with research and engineering management\n- Quickly identify and address bugs, anticipate run time issues involving code changes that may affect extremely large data sets\n- Write detailed automated test cases for new features\n- Work collaboratively with the engineering team and lead complex releases often involving multiple systems and large data migrations\n- Partner with research team members to ensure that documented requirements meet the team’s needs, and ensure that development priorities are aligned\n- Remain current on test, development, and deployment best practices\n\nExperience\n\n- 8+ years experience in professional software development using Python and/or Ruby and Javascript\n- Experience with Python data science, PyMC, Pandas, Spark, etc. preferred\n- Production experience with ReactJS would be a bonus\n- 4+ years experience working on an Agile, Kanban, or similar collaborative environment\n- Experience working with fully remote teams preferred.\n\nQualifications\n\n- Experience maintaining and developing new features in large and complex codebases\n- Working knowledge in systems or operations at OS and basic networking levels\n- Ability to write, run, and optimize raw SQL queries in MySQL or PostgreSQL; knowledge of other data storage a plus\n- Experience with containerized application development using Docker is preferred\n- Experience measuring system performance and implementing security best practices\n- Strong track record developing software using automated testing tools\n- Awareness of typical programming errors and the unexpected things users do whether accidentally or maliciously\n- Ability to analyze and debug distributed data processing systems\n- Motivated, organized, and self-directed technical leader\n- Critical thinker with thirst for knowledge and continuous improvement\n- Ability to work autonomously, take ownership, and deliver a quality software experience\n- Excellent communication skills and comfortable talking with team members at all levels\n- Willingness to become a Civiqs platform expert\n\nSALARY RANGE: $130,000 - $165,000\n\nThis position is a 40 hour/week, full-time exempt position and reports to Civiqs’ Engineering Manager. Candidates must be legally eligible to work in the United States. The position offers a flexible work environment, the ability to work remotely or from home, competitive salary, excellent benefits including: full medical, dental and vision benefits, optional 401K with a company match, remote worker stipend, a generous vacation package, traumatic grief leave, a professional development stipend, as well as employer-paid maternity/family leave. Our organizational commitment to personal growth and work-life balance reduces churn and encourages a very rewarding long term position.\n\nAt Civiqs, we believe that the diversity of ideas, experiences and cultures that our employees contribute to our organization help us be more effective in our work, and we are proud to be an inclusive and equal-opportunity workplace. The atmosphere in our office is energized by the day’s news events, and people united by common cause. We’re a company that loves learning and supports growth and training for all our employees.\n\nWomen, people of color, and LGBTQ+ individuals are strongly encouraged to apply. \n\nPlease mention the word **HOT** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xMA==). This is a feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n $130,000 — $160,000/year\n \n\n#Location\nUnited States

LOCATION: Remote within the U.S.\n\nCiviqs is the leading online scientific polling platform and a division of Kos Media LLC. Civiqs has been conducting surveys online since 2014. Every day, Civiqs surveys thousands of people across the United States on politics, culture, and current affairs. With years of daily responses on a huge array of questions, Civiqs maintains one of the largest databases of public opinion in the United States. The scale and quality of Civiqs’ public opinion data, and its online survey panel, is unmatched in the survey industry.\n\nWe are hiring an experienced and results-driven Software Development Engineer to join our talented remote engineering team. As Software Development Engineer, you will ensure that the research platform is operating smoothly and accurately, and that new features are delivered on time and to specification. You will work alongside researchers and data scientists to help shape the Civiqs survey application as we expand our development team and build new research products and features.\n\nWe have an energized team of survey researchers with diverse backgrounds and skill sets. If you’re interested in a position that offers more than just a technical challenge, we’d like to hear from you. The ideal candidate for this position will love data as much as we do! You are an innovator, collaborator and have an innate dedication to excellence. You are self-motivated, efficient, and capable of delivering results with limited guidance. Come join our team and guide the future of public opinion research using the Civiqs panel!\n\nResponsibilities\n\n- Design, and code application solutions for Civiqs using industry best practices\n- Building a deep understanding of our frontend and backend systems, infrastructure, cloud services, and dev ops automation tools\n- Clearly and precisely communicate technical issues with other developers and non-technical stakeholders\n- Quickly identify and address bugs, anticipate run time issues involving code changes that may affect extremely large data sets\n- Write detailed automated test cases for new features\n- Work collaboratively with engineering team to coordinate complex releases often involving multiple systems and large data migrations\n- Partner with research team members to ensure that documented requirements meet the team’s needs\n- Remain current on test, development, and deployment best practices\n- Be a team player, share knowledge, and collaborate through pairing, feedback, and discussions, etc.\n\nExperience\n\n- 5+ years experience in professional software development using Python and/or Ruby and Javascript\n- Production experience with ReactJS preferred\n- 3+ years experience working on an Agile, Kanban, or similar collaborative environment\n- Experience working with fully remote teams preferred\n\nQualifications\n\n- Extensive development experience in large and complex codebases\n- Working knowledge in systems or operations at OS and basic networking levels\n- Ability to write, run, and optimize raw SQL queries in MySQL or PostgreSQL; knowledge of other data storage a plus\n- Experience with containerized application development using Docker is preferred\n- Experience measuring system performance and implementing security best practices\n- Strong track record developing software using automated testing tools\n- Awareness of typical programming errors and the unexpected things users do whether accidentally or maliciously\n- Ability to analyze and debug distributed data processing systems\n- Motivated, organized, and self-directed technical leader\n- Critical thinker with thirst for knowledge and continuous improvement\n- Ability to work autonomously, take ownership, and deliver a quality software experience\n- Excellent communication skills and comfortable talking with team members at all levels\n- Willingness to become a Civiqs platform expert\n\nSALARY RANGE: $115,000 - $130,000\n\nThis position is a 40 hour/week, full-time exempt position and reports to Civiqs’ Engineering Manager. Candidates must be legally eligible to work in the United States. The position offers a flexible work environment, the ability to work remotely or from home, competitive salary, excellent benefits including: full medical, dental and vision benefits, optional 401K with a company match, remote worker stipend, a generous vacation package, traumatic grief leave, a professional development stipend, as well as employer-paid maternity/family leave. Our organizational commitment to personal growth and work-life balance reduces churn and encourages a very rewarding long term position.\n\nAt Civiqs, we believe that the diversity of ideas, experiences and cultures that our employees contribute to our organization help us be more effective in our work, and we are proud to be an inclusive and equal-opportunity workplace. The atmosphere in our office is energized by the day’s news events, and people united by common cause. We’re a company that loves learning and supports growth and training for all our employees.\n\nWomen, people of color, and LGBTQ+ individuals are strongly encouraged to apply. \n\nPlease mention the word **GRANDEUR** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xMA==). 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 $110,000 — $130,000/year\n \n\n#Location\nUnitied States

\nPosition Title: Back End Developer\n\nReports to: CEO\n\nOrganization: Politech\n\nPosition Location: Remote\n\nAbout Politech\n\nPolitech creates digital products and technology solutions for nonprofits, campaigns, and foundations. Our primary focus has been to assist progressive organizations, particularly those influencing the policy and political landscape, that advocate on behalf of underserved communities. Our software platforms have been a vital part of keeping such organizations successful and efficient.\n\nWho We Are\n\nWe are deeply committed to public service and progressive social change. We are 100% minority owned and operated with a diverse team, inclusive of gender, ethnicity, and race.\n\nPosition Summary\n\nThis role will focus on dev ops and back end/API development, but the ideal candidate will have a full stack skillset. Our stack is Postgres/Ruby/Rails/React. Right now we have a mix of HTML+jQuery and React but we are in the process of moving toward split app architecture. As part of that process we are building out a REST API and revamping our deployment environment. The latter would be the main focus of this position, but it would also involve pitching in on the React side of things when required.\n\nWe are seeking someone with excellent communication skills who will work as a team player and a self-starter. The ideal candidate should have mid-level experience, but they won’t be placed in some hierarchical structure. This position will work directly with the other developers, and will report directly to the CEO. The individual should be highly motivated to make a difference and to have an impact on moving progressive issues forward. Our employees’ opinions matter to us for the success of the company, and we want you to bring creative solutions to make our work better for our clients. Interest and understanding of politics and campaigns is a plus but not required.\n\nOur employees are from all over the country, and bring varying levels of experience to the company. First and foremost, we value honesty from all employees within our firm. We strongly encourage a work environment centered on open communication and conscientiousness. Working remotely gives our employees the ability to better maintain a work-life balance, but we expect that productivity and job performance will not be sacrificed.\n\nWe are a fully remote team so you will need to be flexible to work with staff in different time zones when necessary.\n\n\n\n\n\nResponsibilities\n\n\n* Improve and maintain deployment environment and tools\n\n* Design and build efficient, reusable, and reliable Ruby code\n\n* Integration of data storage solutions Postgresql and Redis\n\n* Expand and improve test coverage\n\n* Identify bottlenecks and bugs then devise solutions to these problems\n\n* Help maintain code quality, organization, and automation\n\n* Integrations with external APIs\n\n\n\n\nSkills\n\n\n* Experience setting up and maintaining deployment environments using Linux and Nginx\n\n* Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service\n\n* Experience with automation/configuration management using either Puppet, Chef, or an equivalent\n\n* Ability to use a wide variety of open source technologies and cloud services\n\n* Strong experience with SQL and PostgreSQL\n\n* Advanced understanding of object-oriented programming\n\n* Experience with Ruby on Rails, along with common libraries such as Sidekiq\n\n* Intermediate understanding of the syntax of Ruby and its nuances\n\n* Intermediate understanding of Javascript and Jquery\n\n* Familiarity with front end frameworks such as Vue, React or Angular\n\n* Familiarity with concepts of MVC, ORM, and RESTful design patterns\n\n* A knack for writing clean, readable Ruby code\n\n* Ability to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system\n\n* Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application\n\n* Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes\n\n* Able to implement automated testing platforms and unit tests\n\n* Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git\n\n* Familiarity with development aiding tools such as Bower, Bundler, Rake, etc.\n\n* Familiarity with continuous integration\n\n\n\n\nCompensation: Salary commensurate with knowledge, experience, and qualifications.\n\nPolitech is an Equal Opportunity Employer that greatly values diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.\n\nHow to apply\n\nApply with your GitHub account (or similar), resume, and cover letter. Introduce yourself to us as a colleague. Show us your future here! We value great writers, so be yourself, be creative. Stock cover letters won’t do. Tell us why you want this job. Let us know why you want to work at Politech and not somewhere else.\n\nYou should be able to show samples of your previous work upon request. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Backend, Developer, Digital Nomad, React, JavaScript, Cloud, Ruby, API and Linux 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