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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 (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xODg=). 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 (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xODg=). 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

\nThe Role:  \n\nAs Lead Software Engineer, you have deep and diverse technical knowledge with hands on programming skills. You’re able to establish vision and technical direction in teams for the business as well as our clients’ businesses, products and systems. With your entrepreneurial spirit, you keep your mind on the big picture but you’re pragmatic, questioning assumptions, while remaining inclusive. You’re not attached to tools and technologies but rather, you focus on solving problems neutrally, building high quality, user-friendly, technical solutions. \n\nIn this new role, you will lead a team of developers on complex software engineering projects from building digital products to serverless data platforms, working closely with the lead tech consultant and delivery lead. You'll also be involved in building strong technical teams for our clients in a range of industries. \n\nThe role includes producing and implementing a roadmap that instils best practice software design principles across our work ensuring attention to best practice software design, engineering, testing and CI/CD.\n\nIn return, we promise to choose projects that deepen our knowledge and keep us on the steep learning curve, while having fun. As a technical leader, your decisions will be substantial in the whole team’s growth.\n\nResponsibilities:\n\nYou will be responsible for:\n\n\n* Leading teams to build complex, robust & highly scalable technical solutions, including:\n\n\n* Architecture of frontend web applications and/or React Native mobile applications\n\n* Development of responsive user interfaces using modern frontend frameworks including ReactJS and React Native\n\n* Backend systems and infrastructure\n\n* Integration of frontend systems with client platforms and 3rd party APIs\n\n* Serverless data platforms and pipelines\n\n\n\n\n\n* Hiring, developing and scaling the engineering team (mostly remote), including QAs and designers\n\n* Working collectively to identify the best tech stack for products and systems\n\n* Leading on the design, development and shipping of MVPs and software updates\n\n* Writing well-structured and maintainable code with a focus on codebase quality\n\n* Working within a dynamic & international environment with an agile working culture using methodologies such as SCRUM or Kanban\n\n\n\n\nRequired experience:\n\n\n* At least 7 -10 years of software engineering experience, with team management desirable\n\n* Strong engineering instinct and a deep understanding of computer science fundamentals combined with flawless coding skills in a variety of languages including Javascript, Python and C#.\n\n* Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL)\n\n* Exposure to a diverse range of engineering languages, tools and technologies including:\n\n\n* ReactJS\n\n* React Native\n\n* Node.js\n\n* TypeScript\n\n* Python\n\n* Frontend and data testing frameworks (e.g. jest, enzyme, unittest, PyTest)\n\n* Frontend UI testing tools (e.g. Selenium, Cypress, Appium, Detox) \n\n* CI / CD tools including CircleCI / Bitrise\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n* Experience developing complex web applications;\n\n\n* Working with a wide variety of web technologies and frameworks; and\n\n* Implementing resilient integration of frontend and backend systems.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n* Development best practice CI/CD pipelines\n\n* Experience with the following would be highly beneficial:\n\n\n* Cloud computing (AWS and/or GCP)\n\n* Serverless frameworks including Cloud Formation, Terraform\n\n* Designing and architecture of microservices and distributed systems\n\n* Experience with test driven development and BDD is a plus\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOther skills & competencies:\n\n\n* Deep understanding of software architecture and infrastructure setups in the cloud\n\n* Comfortable managing a technical team in a fast-paced environment\n\n* Great interpersonal skills and ability to clearly express analytical thoughts\n\n* Readiness to set technical direction and promote engineering principles\n\n\n\n\n Desirable experience:\n\n\n* Experience designing, building and optimising big data data architectures and pipelines\n\n* A demonstrated record of achievement as key member in large technical projects\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 Engineer, Executive, Developer, Digital Nomad, React, Serverless, Cloud, Python, Mobile and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n