Remote Backend + Engineer + Engineering + Heroku + Node Jobs

Checkly is looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer. This is a great opportunity to join an early stage\ncompany, influence the product roadmap and help us do what we love most: building the best monitoring platform for developers.\n\n### Make our reliability product more reliable\nCheckly is — in essence — a reliability company. People trust our software to alert them when their software goes "poof".\nWe use AWS Lambda/SQS/SNS/S3, Heroku, Postgres, Redis and soon ClickHouse to make this happen, from 20+ locations around the world.\n\n### Build & shape our SRE practices\nYou will play a key role in defining how "do reliability". Together with your coworkers in the product engineering teams,\nyou will be responsible for:\n\n- Observability of our backend platform: define bottlenecks, track them and fix them.\n- Optimize our performance and reduce error rates: from wild queries, to slow queues to Heisenbugs.\n- Streamline our on-call process and optimize our runbooks.\n- Work with the product folks to have reliability baked in to everything we do: define SLO's and SLA's and enforce them.\n\n\n## Your skills\n\n- You have deep experience in operating and troubleshooting mission critical SaaS environments as an SRE.\n- You have deep working experience with AWS, SQL & OLAP databases and Node.js.\n- You like to work in a growing company with experienced founders.\n- You know how to communicate with coworkers and customers in English.\n- You are quick to pick up on new stuff and enjoy the process of learning new things.\n- You love making software!\n\n*Bonus points*\n\n- Experience with building SaaS tools for developers.\n- Obsessed with browser automation.\n\n## What we offer\n\n- Competitive salary.\n- Working hours are flexible and we support families: you can pick up your kids without worrying about work.\n- Work with the latest technologies.\n- Contribute to open source.\n- Modern laptop and equipment provided.\n\n## Salary range\n$60,000 — $100,000/year \n\nPlease mention the word **PRODIGIOUSLY** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xMDA=). 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 $60,000 — $100,000/year\n \n\n#Location\nRemote (GMT +3/-3)

Have you ever been part of a hyper-growth startup?\n\nWe're an e-commerce startup with a successful Shopify application, looking for a full-stack developer with solid knowledge of Vue.js. The position is aimed at experienced software engineers who're interested in joining a vibrant startup in the long term.\n\nOur product is live and growing fast. We're actively developing the core platform, adding new features, and updating our cloud infrastructure. If you join us, expect to make software design decisions, craft new components from scratch, and refactor existing code to perfection.\n\nWe're building a fully remote team that follows the example of companies such as Basecamp, Buffer, and Automattic. We are a global team that speaks English, Russian, and Hebrew. To ensure sufficient time overlap with the engineering team, the position is open to EU time zones only.\n\n**Requirements**\n\n* 4 years or more employed as a full-stack developer\n* 2 years or more building web applications in Vue.js\n* 1 year or more employed fully remotely by international companies\n* Experience in developing apps for Shopify, familiar with the platform concepts and API\n* Interested in joining a company as a fully-remote team member in the long term\n\nBonus points - if you have experience with:\n\n* Deploying microservices with Kubernetes on Amazon EKS or Google GKE\n* Nest.js or other web frameworks in the Node.js ecosystem\n* Typescript\n* Django web framework and Python\n\n**What you get**\n\n* Experience working in a global, fully-remote startup in its most exciting early stages.\n* Contribute to a fast-growing product with millions of users.\n* Gain critical knowledge about the Shopify eco-system and the e-commerce world in general.\n* Practice continuous delivery to a live production environment.\n* Employee stock options plan (starting from 2022)\n\n**The stack**\n\nOur frontend stack contains Vue.js, ElementUI, Webpack, Cypress, and Jest.\nOur backend is built with Django and AWS cloud functions, using MySQL and PostgreSQL.\nOur servers run on Heroku, but we're transitioning to Kubernetes on Amazon EKS.\nWe use GitHub, Sentry.io, SemaphoreCI. Our lightweight agile process and technical knowledge are managed in Notion.\n\nOur main focus is on Vue.js but our roadmap spans a wide range of technologies:\n\n* Aggressive development of the core product in Vue.js\n* Heavy investment in advanced features and integration with Shopify\n* Transition from Heroku to Kubernetes on EKS, microservices with the gateway pattern\n* Adding new microservices in Nest.js, possibly with Apollo GraphQL\n* Cloud architecture revamp to improve widget loading time and performance\n* Transition to Vue.js 3 and 100% Typescript\n* IaC and GitOps with env0\n* Increase automation coverage to support fully automated continuous delivery\n* Refactor the application core to integrate with additional e-commerce CMS\n\n**About PickyStory**\n\nPickyStory is an e-commerce startup with a successful Shopify application. We enable merchants to offer product bundles to their customers and increase revenue from every store visit. Our product is live and growing fast. The team is global and fully remote. \n\nPlease mention the words **BLAME ALCOHOL CLAP** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xMDA=). 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 $50,000 — $60,000/year\n \n\n#Location\n🇪🇺 EU

\nRuntime Sr., Lead, or Principal Level Platform Engineer, Heroku\nHeroku operates the world’s largest PaaS cloud, continuously delivering millions of apps with 6+ million container deployments, 16+ billion routing requests, and 10+ terabytes of application logs per day. Our vision is for developers to focus on their applications and leave operations to us.\nWe work in small groups who are heartfelt about our users’ problems. We plan weekly, chat daily and work closely together. Our team is a remote community with members excited to work together on challenging distributed systems problems. Equality is a core value for Salesforce; it's at the heart of everything we do and strive to be. That means Equal Opportunity, Equal Advancement and Equal Pay for all. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.\nWe hope you are passionate about joining our community of engineers who love to learn, work, and operate a gigantic distributed system, build and sustain a remote culture and help grow and mentor other engineers.\nExamples of recent work Runtime engineers have done at Heroku\nCore infrastructure scaling and growth: broke up a critical, monolithic Ruby application that performs many container scheduling tasks and refactored it as a set of well scoped gRPC Go services.\nSupporting critical customer applications: diagnosed and fixed a very elusive bug in how signals are forwarded between our platform logging process and customer containers that was causing customer apps to crash unexpectedly.\nDelivering features to customers: built an automated cert management capability using the Let's Encrypt API to provision free customer SSL certs for domains added to apps and automatically renew expiring certs.\nResearching and learning: prototyped a Kubernetes orchestration backend for our internal Runtime API as part of a larger effort to learn about and adopt new technologies in our runtime.\nInfrastructure improvements: transitioned our use of K8s from self-managed to managed by integrating EKS and implemented a new authentication scheme to integrate our container registry with EKS.\nIncident response: conducted emergency response when a remote operation timed out during routine API maintenance in our EU runtime, corrupting routing state data for a single node. Incident responders followed documented procedure in our ops playbooks to identify the corrupted node and flush its cache. Remediation work included refining our metrics to reduce our time to diagnose and improving our automated tooling used for system maintenance.\n\nProfiles relevant specifically to the Senior Engineer role would feature:\n3+ years in a full-time, professional software engineering role\nExperience developing production software in Go or Ruby\nExperience developing on IaaS (AWS, GCP, Azure, OpenStack, etc)\nDemonstration of strong software development best practices, such as documentation driven design, code review, test coverage, continuous integration, continuous delivery, phased rollouts\nEnthusiasm for learning new languages, frameworks, and skills\nExcellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to work effectively with geographically distributed teams and people of various backgrounds\nExperience participating in an on-call rotation\n\nProfiles relevant specifically to Lead and Principal roles would additionally feature:\n5+ years in a full-time, professional software engineering role\nExperience in a technical leadership role in a collaborative team environment\nExperience deploying, operating and supporting critical production systems\nExperience deploying services on Kubernetes\nExperience participating in an on-call rotation\n\n\nSalesforce, the Customer Success Platform and world's #1 CRM, empowers companies to connect with their customers in a whole new way. The company was founded on three disruptive ideas: a new technology model in cloud computing, a pay-as-you-go business model, and a new integrated corporate philanthropy model. These founding principles have taken our company to great heights, including being named one of Forbes’s “World’s Most Innovative Company” six years in a row and one of Fortune’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” nine years in a row. We are the fastest growing of the top 10 enterprise software companies, and this level of growth equals incredible opportunities to grow a career at Salesforce. Together, with our whole Ohana (Hawaiian for "family") made up of our employees, customers, partners and communities, we are working to improve the state of the world. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Heroku, Engineer, Executive, Cloud, Scheme, Salesforce, Node, Ruby, API, Senior 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

\nWhat You’ll Do\n\nWould you like to see your work have physical impact on our planet?  Do you want to build cloud software that controls a fleet of hundreds, potentially thousands, of industrial-scale clean energy devices in the field?\n\nWe're looking for a software engineer who is ready to get his/her hands dirty to help us bring a new energy storage system to market.  You’ll be developing the cloud backend software running on our IoT platform that turns these installations into smart storage devices.  You’ll write applications that will bring our cutting-edge energy efficiency algorithms to life, having a real world effect on our customers’ energy savings.\n\nYour Responsibilities\n\nYou will work directly with the Chief Technical Officer and the Director of Controls Development on the following strategic initiatives:\n\n\n* Turn algorithm concepts from our Data Scientist into production software that operates industrial IoT systems in the field.\n\n* Apply optimization and machine learning concepts to build software services, from the IoT edge to the cloud, that improve energy savings.\n\n* Design a cloud service & APIs to connect energy management appliances to clients.\n\n* Implement data processing software for physical analysis.\n\n* Build a web-based analysis platform for generating actionable reports on our system’s performance.\n\n* Generate metrics to drive beautiful & intuitive display of energy savings data in our web apps.\n\n* Many other engineering / software projects not specifically outlined here.\n\n\n\n\nWho You Are\n\n(a general guide - we can bend these rules for an incredible candidate!) \n\n\n* B.S and/or M.S. in computer science, computer engineering, or similar.\n\n* 2+ years of industry experience in software development, testing, and analysis.\n\n* Excellent software design instinct; object orientation should be core to your thinking.  Skilled at algorithm design.\n\n* Solid programming experience:\n\n* \n\n\n* Python or Java required, experience with both a plus\n\n* Interest in learning other domain-specific languages\n\n* Experienced with common web backend frameworks (Python Flask, Java Spring, Node.js / MEAN stack)\n\n* Linux servers, AWS & EC2 instances, Heroku and other Paas platforms\n\n* Ability to develop rapid prototype web applications (Node.js, HTML5 / CSS3, JQuery) a plus\n\n\n\n\n\n* Interested in learning and contributing to a wide variety of software projects, including web backend, creative data analysis, and control using machine learning algorithms\n\n* An enthusiastic self-starter who can work with minimal supervision, generates novel and creative solutions to tough problems, and is willing to put in the effort it takes to get this energy storage startup off the ground.\n\n* Passionate about technology innovation, product development, energy engineering, and energy storage.\n\n\n\n\nOur Preferred Stack:\n\n\n* Data processing, modelling: Python\n\n* APIs, data pipeline: Node.js, Java / JAX-RS\n\n* General purpose web apps: Python Flask, MEAN stack\n\n* Embedded software: Java\n\n\n\n\nThe Fine Print\n\n\n* Looking for applicants for full-time employment.\n\n* Competitive compensation in cash and/or equity in the company; negotiable.\n\n* As startups go, the work is demanding and the hours are long, but we'll make every effort to find an arrangement that works!\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, Developer, Digital Nomad, Java, Cloud, Python, Heroku 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