Position: Senior Back End Wizard ✨
Company: joi.studio
Location: Remote (Sydney EST and LA time) 🌍
Working Hours: Flexible, with a preference for working between 1pm and 12am Sydney EST (8pm to 7am LA time) ⏰
Role Type: Contractor, working ideally 40 hours per week

About Us: Hey there! 🌟 We're a passionate team on a mission to revolutionize mental health and personal growth. Our platform blends the best features of Netflix and Udemy, providing a unique and joyful experience to over 350,000 students across five countries. We reached product market fit over three years ago without needing external capital and continue to scale and innovate every day. 🚀

Role Overview: Are you a back-end wizard who loves autonomy and taking charge? 🧙‍♀️ We're on the lookout for an assertive Senior Back End Wizard who can set their own working hours while aligning with our fun and dynamic team. Your skills and opinions will be highly valued, and you'll play a crucial role in our development process. You'll be responsible for delivering stellar code and conducting your own QA to western standards. 🌟

Key Responsibilities:

• Autonomous Work: Set your own hours while aligning with team working hours (1pm - 12am Sydney EST / 8pm - 7am LA time). Expected that there would be at least 3 hours overlap each day with other team members. 🕒
• Backend Development: Design, develop, and maintain robust back-end systems using our awesome tech stack. 🖥️
• Assertive Leadership: Be bold and confident in team discussions and decision-making processes. 💪
• Ownership and Reliability: Take 100% ownership of your work, including any mistakes, and be expected to own them. Be reliable and ensure you do what you say when you say it. 👍
• Quality Assurance: Deliver top-notch code and perform thorough QA to meet western standards. ✔️
• Efficient DB Queries: Create lightning-fast database queries to ensure performance and scalability. ⚡
• Re-Architecting Systems: Reimagine and re-architect back-end systems to adapt to new and growing application needs. 🔄
• Front End Understanding: Have a good grasp and some experience with front-end technologies. 🌐
• Stake Holder Management: Effectively communicate with key stakeholders, ensuring their needs and expectations are met and aligned with project goals. 😊
  

Tech Stack:

• Node.js
• React.js
• Apollo
• GraphQL
• TypeScript
• JavaScript
• Python
• MySQL (AWS RDS)
• MongoDB
• AWS Web Services (Route 53, CloudWatch, Terraform, S3, RDS, ECS, Lambda, API Gateway)
• Cloudflare
• Terraform
• DataDog (or other similar logging platforms)
• LangChain

Qualifications:

• Proven experience as a Senior Back End Engineer. 🏆
• Strong proficiency in our tech stack. 🛠️
• Demonstrated ability to work autonomously and assertively. 🚀
• Experience in re-architecting back ends for scalability and performance. 📈
• Strong QA skills with an eye for detail. 👀
• Strong experience in MySQL and MongoDB. 💾
• Passion for working with mental health and helping others. ❤️
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills. 🤝
• Reliable and trustworthy, with a commitment to owning your work. ✅
• Ideal candidate will have had 10 years of development experience. 🌟
• Beneficial, though not critical, to have a passion for AI, Python, and LangChain. 🤖

Why Join Us:

• Work on a unique and impactful platform that combines the best of Netflix and Udemy. 📺📚

• Be part of a team that values your skills and listens to your opinions. 🗣️

• Contribute to a product that has achieved product market fit and continues to scale successfully. 🌍

• Make a difference in the mental health space, helping over 350,000 students improve their lives across five countries. 🌟

• Most of our team members stay with us for over 2.5 years. In fact, here's a heartfelt message from one of our wonderful team members about our leader (Robert) of the joi.studio on his birthday:

  "Hi Robert, On this special day, I want to take a moment to wish you a very happy birthday! Your leadership, vision, and unwavering dedication have been a constant source of inspiration for all of us. Your ability to guide us through challenges with grace and wisdom is truly remarkable, and we are fortunate to have you as our leader. Beyond your professional excellence, your kindness, understanding, and genuine care for each team member make you an extraordinary person. You create an environment where we feel valued and motivated to give our best, and for that, we are deeply grateful. May this year bring you abundant joy, good health, and countless moments of happiness. Here's to celebrating you today and always. Happy birthday!"

If you are a highly skilled, autonomous, and assertive Senior Back End Wizard with a passion for mental health, giving back to those in need, and making the world a better place, we would love to hear from you. Join us in making a meaningful impact through innovative technology. ✨

Salary and compensation

Benefits

🏖 Unlimited vacation

⬜️ No whiteboard interview

👀 No monitoring system

🚫 No politics at work

🎅 We hire old (and young)

Wander is a growing, fast-paced startup hiring a full-time Data Engineer to help build our data infrastructure. Data is quickly becoming a core part of Wander’s business and will be key in unlocking massive growth and discovering new opportunities. We are looking for someone who is an experienced data pipeline builder and data wrangler who enjoys optimizing data systems and building them from the ground up. As the founding member of this team, you will get to work on every side of the data stack and lay the foundation for the rest of our business to build upon.

If you are passionate about software design, development, travel, smart home tech, and have 3+ years of development experience, please apply today!

Requirements

• 3+ years of professional development experience

• Advanced SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases (Postgres, MySQL)

• Experience building and optimizing data pipelines, architectures, and data sets

• Build processes supporting data transformation, data structures, and workload management

• Working knowledge of message queuing, stream processing, and highly scalable data stores

• Strong analytic skills

• Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes

• Experience with data pipeline & workflow management tools (e.g., Airflow, Fivetran, Census, Hightouch, etc.)

• Experience building BI dashboards (Superset, Cube.js, Tableau, Looker, etc.)

• Experience with data modeling tools like DBT

• Experience with data warehouses (Snowflake, Big Query, Redshift)

• Experience with object-oriented/object function scripting languages (Python and Typescript preferred)

• Strong work ethic, self-directed

• Passion for building

• Eye for detail

You will need to be able to build

• Data pipelines for marketing, finance, operations, and other parts of the business

• Business dashboards

• Clean datasets for easy analysis

• Create data tools to help build our product into an industry leader

• Work with tools like Segment to implement event tracking

Tech Stack

Our data stack is in its infancy, so you will play a critical role in helping build out our infrastructure (and team) and deciding what technologies we should use. Currently, we use Segment, Big Query, and Airbyte.

Our app and backend are end-to-end Typescript. With NextJS for our web app and React Native for our mobile apps. Our API is provided by a GraphQL interface and interfaces with a PostgreSQL database via Prisma.

About Wander

Wander is verticalizing the 100b+ short-term rental industry. We own the demand, booking, smart home technology, home management, and the homes themselves, creating an unmatched guest experience.

Our mission is to help people find their happy place. Our vision is to create the infrastructure for people to experience the world.

We are backed by legendary investors and have a team of experienced startup operators. We are a tight-knit team with a strong work ethic with a common goal of building a lasting company.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits covered 100% by Wander

• 401k

• Equity in Wander

We are an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without discrimination because of sex, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, race, color, age, national origin, military status, religion, disability or any other legally protected status.

Salary and compensation

Location

LIMESURVEY

At LimeSurvey we are on a mission of building the world’s #1 survey platform emphasized on ease of use, stability, and extensibility. We do this together with our fast-growing community and an international team of survey fanatics in Hamburg.

You can find LimeSurvey in over 140 countries and 80+ languages: from local governments, NGO’s and universities to students, small business owners and public traded companies.

We could use some help. If you’re looking for the next challenge as Senior Software Engineer, you might have just found it.

This will be your arena:

Our survey platform is providing capabilities to create and collect online surveys and analyse and share survey data. The survey platform can be used to conduct simple questionnaires with just a couple of questions or advanced assessments with conditionals and quota management.

We work closely with our community and partner network to co-create, fix bugs, translate, and share knowledge. You will join our creative team and get involved in building the world’s #1 open-source survey platform.

As the Senior Engineer, you will have a key position in our Survey Platform Development team.  You will help build a versatile, open-source survey tool for newcomers and professionals. So, they can get the freshest insights - as easy as squeezing a lime. Well, for the latter ‘easy’ part we could really use your help.

This will be your challenge:

• You will help set the standard for LimeSurvey Dev team and guide and motivate others
• You will discuss and implement new features with business side, manage their expectations, and refine, estimate work with the team in line with our product roadmap
• You will help identify and manage technical dept
• You will help onboard new team members while mentoring and guiding others in their career path
• You will closely work together with our product owner and architect
•  You are responsible for the code you write
• You take ownership of your code in line with our LimeSurvey coding guidelines
• You help consult with specific expertise you have on e.g., architecture, design or performance
• Your code will be showcased to the rest of the world, since we’re opensource

This is you:

• You have worked on B2B, SaaS or Dev Tools
• You have solid programming skills and master PHP frameworks, Yii would be great but is always learnable
• You foster relationships with your team and have great communication skills + a getting things done mentality
• You understand testing frameworks and methodologies.
• You understand technologies supporting the LimeSurvey ecosystem
• You are a motivator and get the best out of yourself and automatically people around you
• You are an active contributor to opensource projects (or will be in the future ;-))
• You have a good sense of humour, and you stay calm in stressful situations
• You want to be part of a distributed down to earth team on a mission to create the world's #1 open survey platform

Tech we use:

• Yii-3, Yii-1, PHP Framework
• React JS, JavaScript, jQuery
• Typescript
• Bootstrap 5
• Redis
• MySQL, MSSQL and Postgres
• Docker, CI, CD

LimeSurvey

Varied, interesting and challenging tasks, the chance to work with a growing dynamic distributed international team, room for creativity and your own ideas. We offer a wide range of training courses including language classes.
We work flexible hours, distributed, from home or in the office. We offer a dynamic working environment with flexible hours remote, from home, or in the office if you’re nearby at headquarters in Hamburg. As well as an appropriate salary package based on cost of living including paid vacation, local public holidays, paid sick leave & parental leave, employment & contractor options.

Salary and compensation

Location

LIMESURVEY

At LimeSurvey we are dedicated building the world’s #1 open survey platform emphasized on ease of use, stability, and extensibility. We do this together with our fast-growing community and an international team of survey fanatics in Hamburg.

You can find LimeSurvey in over 140 countries and 80+ languages: from local governments, NGO’s and universities to students, small business owners and public traded companies.

We could use some help. If you’re looking for the next challenge as Software Engineer, you might have just found it.

This will be your arena:

Our LimeSurvey survey platform is providing capabilities to create and collect online surveys and analyse and share survey data. The survey platform can be used to conduct simple questionnaires with just a couple of questions or advanced assessments with conditionals and quota management.

We work closely with our community and partner network to co-create, fix bugs, translate, and share knowledge. You will join our creative team and get involved in building the world’s #1 open-source survey platform.

As the Software Engineer, you will have a key position in our Survey Platform Development team.  You will help build a versatile, open-source survey tool for newcomers and professionals. So, they can get the freshest insights - as easy as squeezing a lime. Well, for the latter ‘easy’ part we could really use your help.

This will be your challenge:

• You will be involved in the entire development cycle for frontend and backend topics
• You need to stay on top of new technologies and seek for possible improvements
• You will build new features and break them down from our product roadmap.
• You will align back and forwards with teams’ members and product owner
•  You will come up with technical solutions for implementation and implement accordingly
• You will write technical requirements and implement them together with our team.
• You are responsible for the code you write in line with our LimeSurvey coding guidelines
• Manage application maintenance and their environments
• Your code will be showcased to the rest of the world, since we’re open source

This is you:

• You have worked on B2B, SaaS or Dev Tools
• You have solid programming skills and master PHP frameworks, Yii would be great but is always learnable
• You foster relationships with your team and have great communication skills + a getting things done mentality
• You understand technologies supporting the LimeSurvey ecosystem
• You are an active contributor to opensource projects (or will be in the future ;-))
• You have a good sense of humour, and you stay calm in stressful situations
• You want to be part of a distributed down to earth team on a mission to create the world's #1 open survey platform

Tech we use:

• Yii-3 PHP Framework
• React JS
• Typescript
• Bootstrap 5
• Redis
• MySQL, MSSQL and Postgres

LimeSurvey

Varied, interesting and challenging tasks, the chance to work with a growing dynamic distributed international team, room for creativity and your own ideas. We offer a wide range of training courses including language classes.
We work flexible hours, distributed, from home or in the office. We offer a dynamic working environment with flexible hours remote, from home, or in the office if you’re nearby at headquarters in Hamburg. As well as an appropriate salary package based on cost of living including paid vacation, local public holidays, paid sick leave & parental leave, employment & contractor options.

Salary and compensation

Location