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Merchstack is looking for an experienced backend engineer to help architect, build, and evolve our SaaS product on the backend. We’re seeking engineers who think about the backend in terms of systems, reuse, flexibility, and performance.
To succeed in this role, you will need a breadth of experience working in modelling data structures for data-rich applications, a passion for object-oriented design patterns and an unparalleled ability to think about individual work items, holistically across the design of the entire application.
What you’ll do
Design and implement new GraphQL queries and mutations to either meet customer demand or UI/UX requirements.
Contribute to the overall stability and performance of our application.
Optimize our application for maximum speed and scalability.
Build new data providers for Merchstack in the form of composable plugins.
Take ownership of dependencies in our code base i.e. ensuring that we are reasonably patched.
Work with the VP of Engineering to plan out new prospective pieces of work ahead of time, such as architectural design and infrastructure requirements.
Work with DevOps / DBA functions to ensure that new and existing features are being backed and observed by appropriate hardware/infrastructure.
The Stack
Typescript, NestJS
SQL / TypeORM
Apollo GraphQL
ElasticSearch
Redis
AWS / Elastic Kubernetes Service
What we look for
4+ years building object-oriented data-driven applications at scale.
Confident in leveraging relational data sources at scale, this includes but is not limited to a deep understanding of data cardinality, data structures and efficient client-side memory management for large datasets and fast-moving dimensions.
Experience leveraging IoC containers for dependency injection, with a full understanding of the 3 main dependency injection lifecycles.
Advanced Typescript knowledge and desire to use more advanced Typescript concepts to reduce boiler-plate.
Will not write O(n!) code.
Good understanding of Internet protocols: TCP/IP, HTTP, WebSocket and demonstratable web performance tuning skills
Knowledge of the software development lifecycle (version control, tooling, testing, etc.)
An active Github account, showcasing your own projects
Deep experience leveraging ORMs for data modelling and data access concerns. Should understand both the pros and cons of using an ORM vs. raw queries.
Has worked with one or all of the following: NestJS, TypeORM, Apollo GraphQL
Bonus points
Any experience in another exclusively OOP C-like language, for instance: C# or Java.
Elasticsearch
Functional understanding of service-based architecture.
Packaging container-based applications with an emphasis on small footprints.
About you
You are detail-oriented and focus on delivering seamless, reliable experiences.
You care about code quality and are committed to writing strongly typed, well-tested code.
You are intrinsically motivated, able to manage your time, and enjoy working with a distributed team across the globe.
You believe in asking for help and helping others when they ask, never throwing a problem over the wall
You approach problems with curiosity, creativity, and flexibility.
You strive to foster relationships in order ensure healthy debate.
You show gratitude and give back.
About Merchstack
Merchstack partners with companies on their journey to build, launch, and scale modern eCommerce stores. We work with market-leading technologies and our own internal products to help our customers achieve ambitious digital experiences and unlock new growth opportunities. We are a remote-only company with employees all over the world, including the Philippines, the United States, Canada, Spain, and the United Kingdom. We are a small team with big ambitions and value people who are driven towards delivery and thrive on autonomy and trust.
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Salary and compensation
$50,000 — $90,000/year
Benefits
🌎 Distributed team
Location
Worldwide
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\nLeadfeeder is a fast-growing international SaaS startup, headquartered in Helsinki, Finland. We are an international remote team of 80+ members from around the world.\nWe've developed an online service which automates sales lead generation for B2B companies. Leadfeeder helps over 3000 paying customers to identify who visits their website, qualify the leads based on their behaviour, and convert the most promising visitors into sales leads.\nOur 30+ strong in-house, all-remote engineering team is responsible for developing new features, and otherwise improving and maintaining the Leadfeeder product.\nWe are organised in feature-oriented, cross-functional squads. Each squad is responsible for specific features of the product, and works tightly together with high autonomy. Depending on the product area, squads are comprised of Backend and Frontend Engineers, Designers, and are always paired with a Product Manager. We believe in listening to everyone's ideas and feedback no matter what your role is, you get to have a say in the product and technical decisions of your squad.\nRuby on Rails developers at Leadfeeder work mainly on our backends: building APIs, background data processing flows, and integrations. Being a very data-intensive application, much of the work on the Leadfeeder backend involves optimising and effectively using various databases Cassandra, AWS RDS & Aurora, Elasticsearch and Redis, to name a few.\nOur backend, we run multiple small-to-medium-sized Ruby on Rails apps and use serverless components (AWS Lambda, API Gateway, Kinesis) on the side. We pride ourselves on keeping apps working smoothly, and the codebase tidy and well-tested. We dedicate time for upgrades, refactoring and improvements in the developer experience.\nFor people with skills and interest, we offer possibilities to work on our Ember.js frontend too, enabling people to grow to a fullstack role. Equally, there are opportunities to learn and be involved in infrastructure, DevOps and serverless development.\n\n\nResponsibilities\n * Developing new features together with your squad \n * Build internal and public APIs\n * Build, benchmark and optimise our core backend components\n * Helping operate our production environments on AWS\n * Providing code reviews to your peers\n \n\n\nBenefits\n\n * Get to work in a talented, remote-first international team\n * Chance to make an impact on a global product\n * Actual work-life balance with healthy 40-hour work weeks\n * Flexible work time\n * Biannual company retreats\n * Competitive salary\n * Friendly and encouraging work environment\n \n\nOur hiring process:\nAfter we've received and reviewed your application, there are a number of stages in our process: * Initial video call. You'll get to learn more about the role and our company, and we'll learn how you communicate and what are you looking for in the job.\n * Technical interview. Qualified candidates proceed to our technical interview, where we ask more in-depth technical questions.\n * Home assignment. We'll test your coding skills in building a small application. You can do this at home on your own time. The assignments usually take about 4-6 hours to complete.\n * Assignment review and skills interview. After our team has reviewed your assignment, we invite you to the next interview. We'll provide feedback and ask questions about your code. This interview also includes some pair-programming, where we do some improvements or additional features to your project.\n * Culture interview. The final step before decisions. Great cultural fit is highly important in our remote team. We also want to give you as much as possible information on how it is to work at Leadfeeder and what our culture is like.\n \n\n\nAll interviews are done remotely over video calls, but of course if you happen to be in the same city with some of our team members we're happy to organize a meeting on site.\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, Developer, Digital Nomad, DevOps, Video, Elasticsearch, Serverless, API, Sales, SaaS and Backend 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
# How do you apply?\n\nThis job post has been closed by the poster, which means they probably have enough applicants now. Please do not apply.
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🤖 Closed by robot after apply link errored w/ code 404 3 years ago
\nLeadfeeder is a fast-growing international SaaS startup, headquartered in Helsinki, Finland. We are an international remote team of 80+ members from around the world.\nWe've developed an online service which automates sales lead generation for B2B companies. Leadfeeder helps over 3000 paying customers to identify who visits their website, qualify the leads based on their behaviour, and convert the most promising visitors into sales leads.\nOur 30+ strong in-house, all-remote engineering team is responsible for developing new features, and otherwise improving and maintaining the Leadfeeder product.\nWe are organised in feature-oriented, cross-functional squads. Each squad is responsible for specific features of the product, and works tightly together with high autonomy. Depending on the product area, squads are comprised of Backend and Frontend Engineers, Designers, and are always paired with a Product Manager. We believe in listening to everyone's ideas and feedback no matter what your role is, you get to have a say in the product and technical decisions of your squad.\nRuby on Rails developers at Leadfeeder work mainly on our backends: building APIs, background data processing flows, and integrations. Being a very data-intensive application, much of the work on the Leadfeeder backend involves optimising and effectively using various databases Cassandra, AWS RDS & Aurora, Elasticsearch and Redis, to name a few.\nOur backend, we run multiple small-to-medium-sized Ruby on Rails apps and use serverless components (AWS Lambda, API Gateway, Kinesis) on the side. We pride ourselves on keeping apps working smoothly, and the codebase tidy and well-tested. We dedicate time for upgrades, refactoring and improvements in the developer experience.\nFor people with skills and interest, we offer possibilities to work on our Ember.js frontend too, enabling people to grow to a fullstack role. Equally, there are opportunities to learn and be involved in infrastructure, DevOps and serverless development.\nResponsibilities\n * Developing new features together with your squad \n * Build internal and public APIs\n * Build, benchmark and optimise our core backend components\n * Helping operate our production environments on AWS\n * Providing code reviews to your peers\n \n\n\nBenefits\n\n * Get to work in a talented, remote-first international team\n * Chance to make an impact on a global product\n * Actual work-life balance with healthy 40-hour work weeks\n * Flexible work time\n * Biannual company retreats\n * Competitive salary\n * Friendly and encouraging work environment\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, Engineer, Developer, Digital Nomad, DevOps, Elasticsearch, Serverless, API, Sales, SaaS 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
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**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
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$70,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n
⏰ Async\n\n
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