Remote Backend + DevOps + Junior + Quality Assurance Jobs

\nEpignosis is a leading learning technology vendor with a portfolio of products including TalentLMS, eFront and TalentCards. With over 8,000 customers around the world, 11 million users, and 70,000 learning portals, were outpacing incumbents and quickly becoming a loved brand in the eLearning market.\n\nAs a member of our development team, youll work on an advanced PHP codebase, helping us further expand our industry-leading eLearning platforms and build new innovative online training solutions.\nWhat have we been working on recently?\n * The creation of a new, robust RESTful API, based on the latest technologies and best practices. GraphQL proponents lost the battle. For now.\n * A new application (client) responsible for the entire view layer (web pages), based on ReactJS and utilizing our custom Design System and components.\n * Improving our integration and deployment pipeline to automate all the things.\n * Integrating with various popular 3rd-party applications, such as Salesforce, Microsoft Teams, Zoom.us.\n * Protecting our services against DDoS attacks in an automated and controlled way, using a combination of AWS tools and in-house solutions developed by our DevOps team.\n * Becoming one of the first companies to join the EU Cloud Code of Conduct.\n \n\nWhats it like working for us?\n * We focus on great culture. We want to end our work happy and start the next day happier. Mind you, this is harder than it sounds, but we try our best to not create problems other than technical ones, listen to our peoples needs, and sometimes just take a break if we must. \n * Our technology stack is mostly based around PHP and MySQL and we make heavy use of AWS technologies. Some Javascript is also at play from time to time. \n * We have several teams working on different products or areas of focus, with a size of 3 to 10 people, utilizing a healthy mix of experienced and junior devs. \n * Our teams are mostly self-organizing, but most of them are using Scrum and are being led by a senior engineer. Our company is ISO 27001 & 9001 certified, so we have structure and processes, but without being bureaucratic. \n * Our developers contribute code on a daily basis, which undergoes code reviews by peer programmers and then tested by the QA team.\n * A typical day at work can involve many things: working on a new feature the Product Manager has specified, investigating a new technology that is of interest to our customers, or fixing a problem reported by our QA team or customers.\n \n\nResponsibilities\n * Software Engineering: You will be trusted to design, implement, and maintain projects and to collaborate with our designers, front-end devs, reclusive sysadmins, and friendly support staff at every step of the process.\n * Craftsmanship: You should be familiar with modern software development processes, best practices, and fads to avoid and be able to apply this knowledge to create efficient, robust, and maintainable applications and services.\n * Refactoring: You will use your programming savvy to help us transform legacy code and services into modern, best-practices-following, API-based applications, and help us apply modern architectures and processes.\n \n\n * Collaborate: You will take part in discussions about architecture, implementation, processes, and decisions. You will work closely with your colleagues to apply the results of these discussions.\n * Requirements Gathering: You will be expected to understand the business aspects of the applications you work on and help translate user requirements to technical specifications.\n \n\n\nBenefits\n\n * Highly Competitive salary\n * Private Health insurance plan\n * Meal allowance\n * igh-end equipment for each developer. Our typical setup is a MacBook Pro, with a Dell external monitor. We also offer PHPStorm licenses for our backend developers\n * Ongoing training for further professional development: Access to technical books and resources, paid participation in workshops and conferences, internal mentorship, and training programs\n * Courses for personal development: Language and group exercise classes\n * Ample Career opportunities: We grow fast and new opportunities come up all the time\n * Work in Athens, Crete, Cyprus, or remotely (if you can stand missing our awesome office space in central Athens)\n * Work/life balance we go big AND we go home.\n \n \nMake an impact in the way thousands of people are trained worldwide - apply now \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Engineer, Backend, DevOps, JavaScript, Cloud, PHP, Microsoft, Senior and Junior 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

\nWhy should you be excited about working for Benefex?\n\n\n* Leading the backend for their latest product (v1 stage)\n\n* Opportunity to learn Go!\n\n* Forward thinking product culture where you can have an immediate and visible impact on the product\n\n* Working on a product that has 100,000’s of users and is used by global companies\n\n* Working with the latest tech and solving tough problems (Go, Istio, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes)\n\n* Fully remote working setup (after Covid too)\n\n* Working on products that could not be more relevant in today’s world (Covid-19 / employee wellbeing.\n\n\n\n\n\nWho are Benefex\n\nBenefex are leading the way for Employee Wellbeing. They believe no one comes to work to do a bad job or be actively disengaged, and that technology is instrumental in providing an excellent employee experience. They’ve built an all-in-one platform called OneHub that brings together employee benefits software, reward and recognition tech, and workplace communications, so your employees have everything they need for work in one place.\n\nBenefex believe that everyone deserves an exceptional experience at work, every day. Their workplace technology makes this happen.\n\n\nTech Stack:\n\n\n* Backend: REST API’s, Go, Java 8, Spring Boot, Tomcat, MongoAtlas.\n\n* Platform: Google Cloud, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Circle CI, Istio\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Role:\n\nYou'll be the Senior Backend Engineer within the Home squad. Home is the latest product with v1 being launched March 2021. There are still a number of core functionalities that need to be added to the product as well as enhancements to the existing services.\n\nAll new backend services will be built in Go, a small percentage of the work (under 20%) will be enhancing some of the older Java services. You'll work within a close knit squad (PM, 2x BE, 2x FE, QA and Platform) to ensure the backend is fit for purpose. \n\nAs a Senior you will mentor the mid Backend Engineer in the squad, as well as take a lead role within the Backend chapter discussing the backend strategy across the entire product suite.\n\n\nWhat experience/skills Benefex would like to see:\n\n\n* Either having experience in:\n\n\n* Building backend services in Java 8 and Spring Boot and interested in working with Go; or,\n\n* Having experience in building backend services in Go and happy to work on the existing Java services when needed\n\n\n\n\n\n* Knowledge of distributed system architecture\n\n* Creating REST API’s that the frontend team can build on top of\n\n* Building services for cloud infrastructure (AWS or GCP) and DevOps tooling (Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, MongoDB)\n\n\n\n\nWith extra points for:\n\n\n* Mentoring junior team members\n\n* Google Cloud Platform\n\n* Kubernetes\n\n* Docker\n\n* Event-driven architecture (CQRS / ES)\n\n\n\n\n\nCareer Progression: \n\nThe next promotion would be Lead Backend Engineer with opportunity to take on more leadership responsibilities within the Backend Chapter and/or more responsibility across the products/squads. After that it would be working towards Engineering Manager or Principal Engineer. \n\n\nBenefits:\n\n\n* Salary: £65,000-75,000\n\n* Fully remote working **NEED TO BE UK RESIDENT**\n\n* Benefits including 25 days holiday (plus your birthday off!)\n\n* £800 annual learning budget for training. Benefex will pay for exams, travel and accommodation for events separately.\n\n* If you ever want to work in the office it’s in the centre of Southampton, a 5 minute walk from the train station and a car park just opposite\n\n* Casual dress code\n\n* Pension, up to 3% contribution match\n\n* Healthcare, income protection, life assurance and access to our own award-winning online benefits scheme\n\n\n\n\n\nInterview Process:\n\n4 stages, completed within 2 weeks. Maximum of 3 candidates in process at one time. \n\n* Phone Interview with VP of Eng (45 min)\n\n* Tech Task (2.5 hours)\n\n* Technical Interview (1 hour)\n\n* Interview with CTO (30 min)\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Senior, Engineer, Backend, DevOps, Java, Cloud, Travel and Junior 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