Remote Backend + DevOps + Lead + NoSQL + React Jobs

At Powerpal we’re building Australia’s largest residential energy engagement platform. Our customers love us – they’re saving money on their bills and helping out with the climate crisis at the same time!\n\nWe’re full-stack from the batteries up. We design and manufacture our own IoT hardware which connects through our cross-platform mobile apps to a cutting edge cloud platform allowing us to build amazing customer experiences on top of huge volumes of data.\n\nWe build and maintain a React Native iOS/Android mobile app, a range of Go and Ruby microservice APIs running on Kubernetes, and a Bigtable/Bigquery/Dataflow big data platform – all hosted on on Google Cloud Platform.\n\nWe love clean code, automated testing, CI/CD and believe in a true devops workflow where the same team designs, builds, tests, deploys and monitors end-to-end products.\n\nWe’re a fully remote team with huge amounts of flexibility and autonomy to set your own schedule and drive your own projects. Ideally you’ll be based close to Sydney, Melbourne or Wollongong so that we can get the team together for a couple of days per month to socialise and share ideas.\n\n**A Typical Day**\n\nThere are so many exciting projects to work on as the company accelerates that no two days are the same, but recently we have been mostly:\n\n* Planning new features for customers with rooftop solar across the Powerpal hardware, mobile app and data platform.\n* Building tools to support the rollout of tens of thousands of free Powerpals in Victoria with an amazing customer booking experience and geospatial logistics for our team of installers.\n* Moving our terabyte scale time-series database from Postgres to Bigtable with zero downtime.\n* Keeping in touch with the team over Slack and Friday afternoon Zoom beers.\n* Optimising our cross-platform app to provide the best possible Bluetooth connectivity and background power management across a variety of mobile hardware.\n* Ensuring that our cloud infrastructure autoscales and self-heals so that we can ignore it entirely when we’re on holiday.\n* Working with our energy industry partners to launch load shifting and demand response experiences to reward customers for balancing their power usage throughout the day.\n* Going to the beach on a sunny Wednesday without meetings and getting some quiet coding done on a rainy Sunday afternoon instead.\n\n\n**What You’ll Need**\n\n* Minimum of 3 years development experience across a range of projects, technologies and organisations across both iOS and Android.\n* Ideally, you’ll have experience using our core stack (Go, Ruby, JS, Kubernetes).\n* A previous lead role on a major end-to-end product delivering mobile, web and backend components.\n* Significant experience building web-based APIs and their associated data stores (both SQL and NOSQL).\n* Solid Javascript skills (bonus points for React and/or React Native) and exposure to rich web and/or mobile UIs.\n* At least one major project involving big data storage and asynchronous data processing.\n* A demonstrated ability to work autonomously and take ownership of teams delivering end-to-end products.\n* A background in deploying and owning cloud services (we use Google Cloud, but AWS or Azure will transfer perfectly).\n\n\n**What You’ll Get To Do**\n\n* Lead teams delivering user-facing projects with end-to-end features that touch the React Native mobile app, our backend APIs and our big data platform.\n* Build a beautiful mobile user experience to help our customers see their power and use it improve their lifestyle.\n* Build new tools to support manufacturing, rollout logistics and fleet management of tens of thousands of IoT devices.\n* Take a leading role in driving our future mobile direction. Should we be considering dedicated native apps? Should we be using Typescript? How can we make our user experience even better?\n* Integrate with our existing backend APIs and get involved in the design and development of new APIs to support the mobile app’s needs.\n* Rapidly prototype new features within the app by designing and building new Javascript content for our embedded web views.\n* Work on hard problems around scaling real-time data feeds with gigabytes of time-series data arriving every day.\n* Share ownership of the whole Powerpal system and take responsibility for ensuring that the projects you work on can be deployed, monitored, and maintained without friction.\n* Improve the quality of our existing codebases and expand our automated unit testing to include higher level end-to-end testing in multiple environments.\n* Help to set the direction for a great developer experience from the laptop to the cloud as we scale our build, test and deployment processes to support a larger team.\n\n\n**Compensation**\n\n* Up to $180k plus super (depending on your specific experience).\n* Negotiable equity (options) in a profitable and rapidly growing startup.\n* A new Macbook Pro or equivalent value in mobile devices and home office upgrades as necessary.\n* A free Powerpal for your home\n\n\nIt doesn’t get better than this! Work at the cutting edge of development as part of this hands-on role whilst helping to drive the development strategy roadmap for an ambitious, growth phase tech start up. An industry leading salary and benefits package is on offer to the successful candidate. Apply now \n\nPlease mention the words **SOURCE FLOCK ASK** 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 AUS 150000 — AUS 180000/year\n
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\nConcrete Platform – Back-End Node.js Engineer \n\nLocation Farringdon London\n\nSalary £65k-£70k\n\nBenefits - We have a healthcare scheme, 25 days’ holiday and a flexible 2-day/week work-from-home policy.\n\nThe Role Concrete are looking to accelerate the delivery of our product feature roadmap for our new SaaS-based platform. To make these goals a reality we are expanding our engineering team, providing greater resources to reduce development times and enabling more projects to be worked on simultaneously.\n\nThe scrum team are responsible for building, testing and deploying all new back-end features to a Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery pipeline, working predominantly in Node.js and ES6+ whilst utilising a range of modern tools including Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon Web Services and MongoDB. As work begins to ramp up, we are looking for an experienced Back-End Engineer to join our team and work closely with the Senior Engineers to ensure new features are completed at a consistent pace.\n\nBy providing an Agile induction we’ll get you up to speed very quickly and you’ll be actively involved in projects in no time, participating in team Scrum meetings and following a two-week release cycle within a Kanban work-management system.\n\nWorking as a Back-End Engineer you will be actively building APIs using Node.js with Express.js as a framework. Day-to-day, Node, Express and ES6+ (JavaScript) will be your bread and butter letting you take full advantage of the latest features and industry practices to create new Greenfield services, ensuring that our platform remains both scalable and future-proof.\n\nSupporting your daily work, you will utilise a diverse range of tools and services from the cutting edge of industry adoption. Using non-relational databases such as MongoDB, you will build queries and create tables, whilst using Kubernetes and Docker when deploying your code to Amazon Web Services (AWS).\n\nQuality is important to us, so you will take responsibility for the tech debt that you create: testing your own code and taking part in code reviews form a core part of the role. We currently use Jest for testing purpose and have a rigorous peer review process, helping to ensure that the code you create is always the highest quality possible. Once your code is signed off, you will merge it into the master branch, triggering, testing and orchestrating deployment into the Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery pipeline.\n\nAs a company, we believe in fostering a supportive environment when you need it, but otherwise take a hands-off approach, giving you autonomy over your work. There’s already a great senior team in place, that is always happy to lend a hand. There may be times when you will work in a paired-programming environment alongside another engineer, but for the most part you will work independently from the user stories and materials provided.\n\n\nWhat we need from you You will, first and foremost, have a proven track-record in a Back-End Engineering role, working in an Agile product environment. We don’t mind whether you’ve worked as a web developer using open source tech or as a Java/C# engineer, so long as you’re excited by the prospect of moving to a JavaScript focused role moving forward.\n\nThe ability to write native JavaScript is crucial to the role, including a solid technical understanding of asynchronous programming in ES6+, enabling you to discuss how promises function and, ideally, how to use them in relation to the ‘async’ and ‘await’ functions.\n\nYou will have experience working independently, building APIs and features from scratch and generally working on the API-layer, including integrating APIs into pre-existing systems. Your level of knowledge should be sufficient to walk us through the lifecycle of a RESTful request, drawing on your own experiences and starting from the HTTP request all the way to testing end-points.\n\nWe work with MongoDB, but you don’t need direct experience. You should be able to explain why NoSQL databases would be used instead of relational databases (e.g. MongoDB/Couchbase instead of MySQL/PostgreSQL/SQL Server) We want someone who understands the fundamentals and is interested in learning more.\n\nThe ability to self-test your code will be critical to the role, so you should have a firm understanding of the benefits that this strategy brings. Your experience with testing tools (e.g. Jest, Jasmine, Mocha, JUnit, or even PHPUnit) will have left you with a strong understanding of why unit testing is important.\n\nOn top of that, you’ll also relish code reviews and recognise them as a feedback mechanism that helps both you and your team to improve.\n\nWe’ll expect you to have some knowledge of a Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) setup, including awareness of Docker and a basic understanding of DevOps skills.\n\nWe work in a collaborative environment and you will “Be Part of a Great Team”, so you should enjoy working closely with other team members. In particular, you must be happy to work paired with another engineer and should be able to discuss how this strategy can benefit your productivity, skills development and the integrity of the wider project itself.\n\nFinally, at Concrete we love what we do and expect you to be fascinated by every element of your job. You will be passionate about the front-end sector, getting stuck in to technical conversations whenever possible and will always be eager to provide your opinion, viewing challenges as a learning opportunity rather than a roadblock.\n\n\nWhat you’ll get from us A supportive and flexible learning environment, including great opportunities to gain new skills – or hone existing ones – with technologies that are rapidly becoming industry standards, particularly Node.js and the latest features of ES6 (JavaScript). You will be up-skilled as a priority with the aim to make you a truly full-stack engineer, including learning React and Redux on the front-end. We’re happy to adjust to your interests and strengths, so if you want to learn more about the front-end, Minimum Viable Products, Node.js or anything else, we’ll support you to develop those abilities, leaving you with a truly desirable skillset – after all, we believe you should always “Stay Hungry”!\n\nBy working closely with our DevOps teams, you will gain a strong understanding of the DevOps mindset, alongside hands-on experience using Amazon Web Services (AWS), Kubernetes and Docker. These skills will give you a great overview of the processes and methods required to work in a Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery pipeline, with the potential to transition into a DevOps focused role if that is desirable.\n\nAs the team scales to support further platforms, services and projects coming from our pipeline, there will be a real opportunity for driven individuals to take on more senior positions within the department, including transitioning into Technical Lead or Lead Engineer roles.\n\nThere will be regular opportunities to work on large Greenfield projects with a genuinely global reach. We have a busy project pipeline so there will be plenty of possibilities for you to really make a mark on the direction of our platforms and services, whilst gaining exposure to a wide variety of areas of the business.\n\nWe’ll trust and support you to truly take ownership of your work, providing real autonomy on the projects you work on. We’ve got your back if necessary, but you’ll be entrusted to get stuck in and put your skills, and vision, to work. We truly believe that brilliant products are built by teams that work brilliantly together; but brilliant teams can only be built with brilliant people!\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to JavaScript, Node, Engineer, Backend, React, DevOps, Amazon, NoSQL and Senior 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

\nJob description\n\nIn the last years, we successfully built up an R&D company that develops great products using latest technologies. We do this with an unique approach: combining a fixed core team and a huge and strong community of developers, engineers, makers, hackers, and designers. In the community, there are freelancers, academic researchers, and senior elite students that then work on projects on a flexible basis.\n\nYou could join our community as a ReactJS & React Native Engineer in a student job position (in Gemany called "Werkstudent"). \n\nThis is not a 100% remote position. You'll have the option to work remotely, but it is not a fully remote position. Please don't apply if you can't guarantee to come to our office in Munich or Stuttgart once in a while (especially in the first few months).\n\nYour profile\n\n\n* Currently pursuing studies in Computer Science, Information Systems, Informatics, or similar\n\n* Optimally located in southern German area (e.g. Stuttgart, Munich, Augsburg, Nuremberg, Karlsruhe, etc.), as Werkstudenten should be able to come our offices every now and then\n\n* Hand-on experience in web application technologies such as Javascript, maybe Angular, Vue, React or similar\n\n* Good software engineering basics (e.g. patterns, architectural questions)\n\n* Experience with SQL or NoSQL databases (e.g. MongoDB, PostgreSQL)\n\n* Having worked in agile environments, being able to follow the SCRUM process\n\n* Good communication skills in English in writing and speaking\n\n* Having worked with Docker, GitLab CI, or comparable tools\n\n* Any Backend (e.g. NodeJS) or Python, Flask, or Django experience would be awesome\n\n\n\n\nYour Role\n\n\n* Taking over a central role in web development projects at Motius\n\n* Joining various teams, topics, and customers (e.g. Microsoft, Innogy, BMW, Siemens) for building strong and beautiful web & app projects, e.g. for Smart City usecases, Blockchain applications, or IoT products\n\n* Perspective: after graduating becoming a fullstack engineer and leading the scrum process with teams of 2-5 other developers and 1-2 DevOps engineers\n\n* Discussing the technical realisation of feature requests with Product & Project Owners\n\n* Organizing code reviews, pair programming sessions for improving the quality of the team\n\n\n\n\nWhat we offer\n\n\n* Being part of our huge and interdisciplinary tech community of 600-800 developers, engineers, makers, hackers, etc.\n\n* Flexibility (remote work 30-70% possible)\n\n* Above average salary (for Munich tech startups)\n\n* Getting great and unique insights into different industries by joining different projects from time to time, e.g. building a solution with BMW in the IoT area for 4 months, and then joining a Microsoft Xbox project afterwards\n\n\n\n\nSome of the values we share here are\n\n\n* open communication and a constant feedback culture (flat hierarchies help here)\n\n* diverse teams (not really a value, but diverse teams lead to great results in our opinion)\n\n* comitted to personal growth (as a young company, we all grow day by day)\n\n* eagerness, curiosity, and desire to build new products, learn new things, try things out, fail fast, etc.\n\n\n\n\nWhat you can expect here\n\n\n* a young team that wants to grow with you\n\n* a steep learning curve and definitely a place to take over ownership and responsibility for something\n\n* a diverse team with over 10 nationalities and tech backgrounds as software engineers, designers, electrical engineers, mechanical engineers, etc.\n\n* a self-funded healthy startup that grows constantly and is profitable from year one\n\n* of course coffee and team building events and all these hippie startup things\n\n\n\n\n\nAPPLICATION PROCESS:\n\nPlease apply either via Stackoverflow or via our Motius Platform (www.motius.de/talents) directly in our community\n\n* Step: Review of your profile and background\n\n* Step: First interview via Skype/Hangout or in person in Munich\n\n* Step: Technical Test (e.g. via Hackerrank)\n\n* Step: If successful, becoming part of our Tech community at Motius\n\n* Step: For a concrete project, a concrete technical interview with a Technical Project Manager at Motius\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to JavaScript, React, Engineer, React Native, DevOps, English, NoSQL, Microsoft, Senior 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