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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 (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xMjU=). 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 (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xMjU=). 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

\nAbout Us\n\nOur mission is to help people become happier, healthier, and more resilient in the face of life's challenges. The science suggests these are skills - ones that meditation makes us better at.\n\nAt its core, meditation is a simple, secular, scientifically validated exercise for your mind. Like running in the 70's, or yoga in the 90's, meditation is now poised to become the next big public health revolution. Join the team that's accelerating this revolution. Ten Percent Happier touches millions of lives with award winning apps, books and a podcast, is backed by extraordinary investors, co-founded by #1 New York Times Bestselling author Dan Harris of ABC News, and guided by the world's most respected meditation teachers & scientists.\n\nYour Role\n\nThis role offers all of the excitement and freedom that comes with being the senior member of a growing backend engineering team, with none of the risk of a small startup. You'll help establish best practices and scale the backend systems that support our award-winning mobile apps, web apps, content management system, and data infrastructure. You'll work directly with our mobile engineering team, product, design, content, marketing, and operations to support initiatives across the organization.\n\nWhat you will do\n\n\n* Write and review code written primarily in Ruby and Rails, but also Javascript and React.\n\n* Monitor and maintain the core Rails app, as well as other services across a variety of platforms.\n\n* Drive helpful conversations around technical issues and engineering practices, suggesting improvements and ideas as you see them.\n\n* Develop new products and features. This will happen in 2 different ways:\n\n\n* As a tech lead, working with product and design.\n\n* Designing, reviewing, and coding as an individual contributor.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat you will bring to the team\n\n\n* Owning the development and maintenance of backend systems.\n\n* Supporting backend systems in production, ensuring high reliability.\n\n* Designing and developing client-server applications.\n\n* Working with a relational database, ideally PostgreSQL.\n\n* Developing and maintaining an API, ideally using Rails.\n\n* Developing and maintaining web apps, ideally using React.\n\n* Providing mentorship and encouraging the growth of others.\n\n* Bonus: Supporting data analysis initiatives.\n\n* Bonus: Maintaining a high level of privacy and security in regards to user data.\n\n* Bonus: Working with various subscription service providers (ie. Apple, Google, Stripe)\n\n\n\n\nWho you will work with\n\n\n* You will report directly to Brent Raines, Manager of Backend Engineering (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rainesbt/)\n\n* We also have an open position for a Rails Developer, that you'd be working alongside\n\n\n\n\nWhy we think you'll like working here\n\n\n* Until we can all go back to work at our downtown Boston, dog-friendly office we’ll support your work from home set-up with a $1,000 stipend.\n\n* You’ll become a part of a growing company that is changing people's lives for the better.\n\n* We foster a culture that values clear and kind communication. We're passionate about reasonable work hours, flexibility in getting work done, and respecting and valuing the whole life you live.\n\n* You will be welcomed into a diverse and inclusive workplace where we learn from each other's experiences, abilities and perspectives.\n\n* We’ll provide you with a competitive compensation package with equity.\n\n* You’ll be eligible for our full benefits package including traditional benefits like health and dental insurance as well as non-traditional benefits like meditation enrichment and DEI stipends.\n\n\n\n\nOur investment in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion\n\nTen Percent Happier seeks to help people become happier, more connected, and more resilient in the face of life’s challenges. We aim to cultivate a culture that is steeped in the values and practices that we promote through our products and media channels. We welcome the cultural enrichment that comes from diverse experiences in education, class background, age, culture, ethnicity, race, color, sex, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, nation of origin, languages spoken, able-bodiedness, religion and beliefs. We are invested in creating a work environment that supports each of us in feeling valued and recognized for our unique contributions to what we collectively produce, and where we each feel a sense of belonging. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Ruby, Senior, Full Stack, Developer, Digital Nomad, JavaScript, Mobile and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $62,500 — $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

\nLOCATION: Remote within the US or Oakland, CA\n\nDaily Kos is the nation’s largest liberal online political community, news organization, and activism hub. Powered by millions of dedicated activists, we’re transforming media and organizing by empowering regular Americans to reshape politics.\n\nWe are seeking an experienced and results driven QA lead to help shape the QA function at Daily Kos as we expand our development team and build out more capacity for automated testing. Applicants must be self-motivated, efficient, and capable of delivering results with limited guidance.\n\nDaily Kos is an exciting workplace! Our site is used by hundreds of thousands of people a day who care deeply about progressive politics and are working to affect real political change. We provide an extensive feature set that extends from blogging to activism and beyond, built on top of a modern tool chain that includes Rails, React, Varnish, Nginx, RDS/MySQL, Haskell, Nix, ElasticSearch, and AWS. We have an energized team of great people with diverse backgrounds and skill sets. If you’re interested in a position that offers more than just a technical challenge, we’d love to hear from you.\n\nRESPONSIBILITIES:\n\n\n* Serve as primary QA engineer for our services team, building a deep understanding of our backend systems through testing our infrastructure, cloud services, and dev ops automation tools\n\n* Clearly and precisely identify, track, and document issues\n\n* Reproduce bugs and perform meticulous regression testing\n\n* Write and follow detailed test plans for new features\n\n* Collaborate with the product team to document software and systems functionality\n\n* Identify QA bottlenecks and suggest strategies for clearing them\n\n* Partner with team members to create and implement an automated testing strategy\n\n* Advocate for our users both internally and externally to ensure they have the reliable tools that they need and do what they need and expect\n\n\n\n\nEXPERIENCE:\n\n\n* 5-10 years experience in software quality assurance with at least two to three of them as a lead\n\n* Working experience using the JavaScript console, debugger, and other browser developer tools\n\n\n\n\nQUALIFICATIONS:\n\n\n* Ability to write and run raw SQL queries in MySQL or PostgreSQL; knowledge of other data storage a plus\n\n* Capable of understanding Ruby and JavaScript code\n\n* Awareness of typical programming errors and the unexpected things users do whether accidentally or maliciously\n\n* Experience measuring performance (reading and interpreting metrics dashboard, using benchmarking tools, etc.) and security testing\n\n* Strong track record building front-end automated tests and experience with various automated testing tools\n\n* Working knowledge in systems or operations at OS and basic networking levels.\n\n* Maddeningly creative approach to breaking things and other chaos monkey skills\n\n* Excellent communication skills, primarily in a virtual work environment\n\n* Familiarity of the Daily Kos application and willingness to become a platform expert\n\n\n\n\nSALARY RANGE: $80,000 - $95,000\n\nThis position is a 40 hour/week, full-time exempt position and reports to the Senior QA 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, professional development stipend, a generous vacation package, 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 Daily Kos, we believe that the diversity of ideas, experiences, and cultures that our employees contribute to our organization help us be more effective activists, and we are proud to be an inclusive and equal opportunity workplace. We have a team of amazing people with different backgrounds and talents that are 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 LGBTQIA individuals strongly encouraged to apply. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Quality Assurance, Senior, Engineer, Developer, Digital Nomad, JavaScript, Cloud, Ruby and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $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