\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

**Company Description**\n\nShopify’s mission is to make commerce better for everyone. From building a new product feature for our commerce platform, to helping a merchant troubleshoot an issue over the phone, we want to empower our ecosystem through our work.\n\nHaving a unified vision, a north star, is vitally important to ensure that we are all headed in the same direction. No matter the size or experience, we want to power every merchant’s experience. This is why we're all here.\n\nShopify is now permanently remote and we're working towards a future that is digital by default. That location you see above? Consider it merely an example of hundreds of potential locations across North America where Shopify is hiring. Learn more here: https://www.shopify.com/careers/work-anywhere\n\n**Job Description**\n\nAt Shopify, **Senior Lead Engineers** (also referred to as Senior Staff Engineers) use their expertise and passion to multiply the overall output of their development team. As a senior technical leader, you’ll help drive the product vision to its implementation. You and the team will design and build technically innovative solutions that empower all teams at Shopify to build powerful and resilient distributed cloud software. Merchants that depend on Shopify for a highly scalable, performant, and reliable platform benefit directly from the work you do. You will maintain a high bar for quality and lead and mentor other engineers. And of course, you’ll be hands-on in the code and contribute technically. Here are just some of the stories from the teams who build and scale Shopify.\n\nIntrigued? We’re recruiting Senior Lead Software Engineers to join teams in any one of these disciplines. Based on your experience and interests, let us know which one you identify with most in your application!

\n\n**Back End Development**\n\nBack End Engineers with a passion for solving tough problems with performant code work on teams that ship on quality instead of on time. Our teams deploy new code many times a day, and our production scale is massive. We’re talking over 1 million online stores, and hundreds of millions of requests a day. Thousands of entrepreneurs will see your work within seconds – a difficult but incredibly rewarding responsibility. Shopify is the largest Ruby on Rails application in the world and we're a big part of the Rails community. We’re constantly improving our codebase to make it even better.\n\n**Mobile Development (React Native, Android & iOS)**\n\nOur Mobile Engineers work along with designers and product managers to build and launch new features for our apps. You’ll work on large-scale apps that are ever-changing, enabling entrepreneurship for hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs. Our Android engineers use Kotlin and our iOS engineers use Swift. Our teams are increasingly working with React Native so openness to cross-platform mobile development is a plus! \n\n**Front End Development**\n\nOur Front End Engineers collaborate closely with software engineering teams, designers, product managers, and marketers to not only build incredible merchant-facing products and marketing campaigns, but also engineer-facing tools. You’ll use the latest web standards in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and modern technologies and frameworks like Typescript, React, GraphQL, Apollo and Ruby on Rails, to develop large front-end web applications and websites that scale and perform well on all devices. You’ll work across disciplines and are excited about building human-centered experiences. Front End Development exists across all of Shopify, from Product to Marketing, working closely with the teams that create performant experiences and communicate Shopify’s impact on commerce to a global audience. You may also collaborate with our Data and SEO teams, helping us make data informed decisions and driving additional new merchant acquisition. You might focus on creating thoughtful interfaces for our users, shaping our design language, and contributing to our shared component libraries in a maintainable and scalable way.\n\n**Qualifications\nWhat you’ll do as a Senior Lead Engineer at Shopify:**\n\n* Learn and grow constantly to feed your passion for self-improvement and make those around you better\n* Design and build highly available, resilient and scalable platform primitives & API\n* Work through problems with your team, roll up your sleeves, form an opinion and advocate for engineering-specific roadmap items\n* Collaborate with other Shopify leaders, executives and external partners to provide the best commerce experience for our merchants\n \n\n**Experience and skills that are important for success in this role:**\n\n* A proven track record of strong technical mentorship\n* Experience building large scale, high throughput distributed systems and scaling web services, particularly those using and analyzing large amounts of data\n* High level of fluency with and experience using technologies and frameworks like (but not limited to) some of our most-used languages - Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, Java/JEE, Node.js, PHP, Python, React or React Native, Golang, Kubernetes - or deep experience with any object-oriented language and relevant transferrable technologies\n* A passion for efficiency and collaboration, with a history of establishing great relationships with UX and Product Management teams across time zones\n* A commitment and drive for quality, technical excellence and results\n* Curiosity and passion to constantly learn new things; Shopify changes fast, and we need the people who work here to be able to change and learn fast too\n* Proficiency in systems thinking and systems design concepts like transactions, atomicity, idempotency, etc.\n* Raise the quality and speed (team efficiency) bar and move the platform into a position of maximum leverage\n* Use the right tool for the job, fix problems are the right level of abstraction and optimize to meet both functional and non-functional goals\n\n**Additional information**\n\nWe know that looking for a new role can be both exciting and time-consuming, and we truly appreciate your effort. Jane is an actual real live person (👋🏻) and is looking forward to learning more about you through your application. And remember, we want to know what you're really interested in building and why you want to build it at Shopify, so please give us as much detail on this as you'd like in the answers on the next page. 👍 📖\n\nAt Shopify, we are committed to building and fostering an environment where our employees feel included, valued, and heard. Our belief is that a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion enables us to truly make commerce better for everyone. We strongly encourage applications from Indigenous peoples, racialized people, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities and/or people with intersectional identities. Please take a look at our 2019 Sustainability Report to learn more about Shopify's commitments.\n\n#LI-KO3 #LI-REMOTE #LI-AH1\n \n\nInterested, but not ready to apply? \n\nJoin the Shopify Talent Community to learn more about us, while you polish up your resume: https://www.shopify.com/careers/2021 \n\nPlease mention the words **SCENE MAID NOODLE** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xMDc=). 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#Location\nunited states, canada

\nContently is seeking a Senior Back-end Engineer to play an integral role in the planning and growth of our platform and engineering team. You’ll be working with a high IQ / high EQ, lean-but-mighty and growing Engineering team and brilliant Product team to understand, and solve the biggest challenges that world-class journalists and brands face to genuinely engage their audiences.\n\nAs the team grows, this person will act as the backend lead for our business. They have strategic vision and can take a high-level 1-3 year plan for growth at a business level and translate that into a technology roadmap. The ability to manage and simplify complexity is the hallmark of this role; working with this person should leave team members feeling like they are going to leave with something significantly better than they came into.\n\nUpcoming initiatives include: intelligent/automated content ideation, content recommendation engines, and a new suite of content editing tools. This is in addition to supporting the broad Contently ecosystem of technology that powers our popular and existing workflow and analytics tools.\n\nBeyond the obvious technical engagement and feature development, Contently offers something more rare for engineers. Our engineering department is dedicated to maintaining an environment in which learning, growth, exploration, and self-determination are not only accepted, but encouraged and enthusiastically pursued.\n\nContently was founded to create a better life for freelance content creators and we are focused on bringing the best possible content into the world. We are looking for dedicated and thoughtful individuals who want to have a real impact on the organization, the creators and the brands we work with, and their own technical aspirations.\n\nWhat you'll do\n\n\n* Guide the architecture of our Rails based back-end applications\n\n* Migrate existing monolithic Rails server-side-rendered applications to APIs that power our front-end applications\n\n* Maintain and improve the stability and performance of Ruby, Javascript, and Python back-end systems which power the overall tech stack\n\n* Creatively solve problems\n\n* Work collaboratively with other developers, product managers and UX\n\n* Produce solid, thoroughly tested features (including automated tests)\n\n* Lead and help set the standards of best practices for productive software development\n\n* Participate in code reviews\n\n* Work closely with and mentor other engineers\n\n\n\n\nWho you are\n\n\n* 6+ years of professional software development experience\n\n* You want to be part of a growing and entrepreneurial company with proven users and business model\n\n* You want to learn more, build your experience, and contribute within a fast-paced agile environment\n\n\n\n\n\nRequired technical skills\n\n\n\n* Ruby (v2.4+)\n\n* Ruby on Rails (v5 and v6)\n\n* SQL / Postgresql\n\n* Docker\n\n* Distributed systems design\n\n* Service Oriented Architecture\n\n* Test-driven development\n\n* Object-oriented programming\n\n* Refactoring\n\n* Working with legacy code-bases\n\n\n\n\n\nBonus technical skills\n\n\n\n* Nodejs / Javascript\n\n* Graphql\n\n* Apollo Graphql framework\n\n* Typescript\n\n* React\n\n* Python\n\n* AWS cloud services\n\n* Google cloud services\n\n* Kubernetes\n\n* Terraform\n\n* TCP/IP Networking\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 Ruby, Senior, Engineer, Cloud, Python and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $125,000/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