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Steadily is a Series A insurtech startup for landlords.  We've grown from 5 to 30 people over the last year to match demand, and the technical/product challenges have gotten really interesting. We're hiring a senior engineer with experience building web apps and service oriented architecture to help us build the core of our stack.  \n\nAt Steadily, our purpose is to give landlords fast, affordable insurance and amazing customer service so they’re confident they’ll have the coverage they need on a rainy day. Because of our technology and service, our customers love being insured by us, even when they have a claim. \n\n**Why join us**\n\n* You'll be in good company. Not to toot our own horn too much, but the founders are solid engineers. Our VP of Engineering helped grow a company from 15 people to more than 2,000 software engineers. The President has gone through YC twice and has two previous exits.\n* We pay top of market with competitive base salaries and equity\n* You’ll be hands-on with everything, from coding in python to influencing product roadmaps\n* We're growing fast and are well-funded (Series A, $30M)\n\n**What you'll build**\n\n* Rating engines for calculating how much an insurance policy should cost\n* Combine property intelligence for external sources to estimate how likely a property is to flood, catch on fire, or get vandalized\n* A mobile experience for people to buy insurance that is so simple/intuitive that your least-tech savvy relative with a flip-phone could use it without help e.g. pass the Mom Test\n* Claim app that uses phone camera and sensors to document the damage smartly\n\n**Ideal background**\n\n* Experienced: This isn't your first rodeo. There's no specific minimum number of years requirement, but we expect you to be able to dive into a complex codebase without too much spin-up. Past experience as a team lead is definitely a plus.\n* Builder: You like the product-side of engineering and have thoughtful opinions on what the user experience should be. You're not the type of engineer who wants a fully-fleshed out spec thrown over the wall for you to code.\n* Pragmatic: Let's say you have a tradeoff to make: Option A is to ship something fast using an off-the-shelf API on AWS; you won't learn that much and it only solves 80% of the problem, but it'll only take a few days. Option B is to invest about two weeks building a new library and internally-hosted service that perfectly solves the problem; as a bonus you can share it on Github and give a presentation about it at PyCon. If you choose Option A 10/10 then you'll be at home here.\n* Specific languages: We don't really care if you've worked in our stack before as long as you're happy to learn it. If you're sharp enough to be on this team, you're sharp enough to learn any language or framework quickly.\n\n**Our stack**\n\n* Python 3\n* Django\n* Postgres\n* Heroku (with full CI pipeline)\n* Redis / Celery\n* Kafka\n\n**Compensation**\n\n* At least $150,000/year\n* We believe in paying top-of-market to attract the best person for each role.\n* However, the compensation package is usually the second reason people choose to join a startup. The primary reason is they want to experience the growth that comes from pouring your heart and soul into building something that people love. That’s what we do.\n\n**Things to consider**\n\nThis won't be easy. We work extremely hard to sustain our execution velocity and have sky-high expectations of each other. This fact is itself a huge reward: getting to work with other individuals as stellar as you.\n\n**Benefits**\n\n* Paid Time Off\n* Health Insurance\n* 401k / HSA / FSA\n\n**We’re excited to meet you!** \n\nPlease mention the words **CLARIFY MUTUAL SKATE** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xMDc=). 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 $150,000 — $250,000/year\n \n\n#Location\nWorldwide

**Company Description**\n\nShopify’s mission is to make commerce better for everyone. From building a new product feature for our commerce platform, to helping a merchant troubleshoot an issue over the phone, we want to empower our ecosystem through our work.\n\nHaving a unified vision, a north star, is vitally important to ensure that we are all headed in the same direction. No matter the size or experience, we want to power every merchant’s experience. This is why we're all here.\n\nShopify is now permanently remote and we're working towards a future that is digital by default. That location you see above? Consider it merely an example of hundreds of potential locations across North America where Shopify is hiring. Learn more here: https://www.shopify.com/careers/work-anywhere\n\n**Job Description**\n\nAt Shopify, **Senior Lead Engineers** (also referred to as Senior Staff Engineers) use their expertise and passion to multiply the overall output of their development team. As a senior technical leader, you’ll help drive the product vision to its implementation. You and the team will design and build technically innovative solutions that empower all teams at Shopify to build powerful and resilient distributed cloud software. Merchants that depend on Shopify for a highly scalable, performant, and reliable platform benefit directly from the work you do. You will maintain a high bar for quality and lead and mentor other engineers. And of course, you’ll be hands-on in the code and contribute technically. Here are just some of the stories from the teams who build and scale Shopify.\n\nIntrigued? We’re recruiting Senior Lead Software Engineers to join teams in any one of these disciplines. Based on your experience and interests, let us know which one you identify with most in your application!

\n\n**Back End Development**\n\nBack End Engineers with a passion for solving tough problems with performant code work on teams that ship on quality instead of on time. Our teams deploy new code many times a day, and our production scale is massive. We’re talking over 1 million online stores, and hundreds of millions of requests a day. Thousands of entrepreneurs will see your work within seconds – a difficult but incredibly rewarding responsibility. Shopify is the largest Ruby on Rails application in the world and we're a big part of the Rails community. We’re constantly improving our codebase to make it even better.\n\n**Mobile Development (React Native, Android & iOS)**\n\nOur Mobile Engineers work along with designers and product managers to build and launch new features for our apps. You’ll work on large-scale apps that are ever-changing, enabling entrepreneurship for hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs. Our Android engineers use Kotlin and our iOS engineers use Swift. Our teams are increasingly working with React Native so openness to cross-platform mobile development is a plus! \n\n**Front End Development**\n\nOur Front End Engineers collaborate closely with software engineering teams, designers, product managers, and marketers to not only build incredible merchant-facing products and marketing campaigns, but also engineer-facing tools. You’ll use the latest web standards in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and modern technologies and frameworks like Typescript, React, GraphQL, Apollo and Ruby on Rails, to develop large front-end web applications and websites that scale and perform well on all devices. You’ll work across disciplines and are excited about building human-centered experiences. Front End Development exists across all of Shopify, from Product to Marketing, working closely with the teams that create performant experiences and communicate Shopify’s impact on commerce to a global audience. You may also collaborate with our Data and SEO teams, helping us make data informed decisions and driving additional new merchant acquisition. You might focus on creating thoughtful interfaces for our users, shaping our design language, and contributing to our shared component libraries in a maintainable and scalable way.\n\n**Qualifications\nWhat you’ll do as a Senior Lead Engineer at Shopify:**\n\n* Learn and grow constantly to feed your passion for self-improvement and make those around you better\n* Design and build highly available, resilient and scalable platform primitives & API\n* Work through problems with your team, roll up your sleeves, form an opinion and advocate for engineering-specific roadmap items\n* Collaborate with other Shopify leaders, executives and external partners to provide the best commerce experience for our merchants\n \n\n**Experience and skills that are important for success in this role:**\n\n* A proven track record of strong technical mentorship\n* Experience building large scale, high throughput distributed systems and scaling web services, particularly those using and analyzing large amounts of data\n* High level of fluency with and experience using technologies and frameworks like (but not limited to) some of our most-used languages - Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, Java/JEE, Node.js, PHP, Python, React or React Native, Golang, Kubernetes - or deep experience with any object-oriented language and relevant transferrable technologies\n* A passion for efficiency and collaboration, with a history of establishing great relationships with UX and Product Management teams across time zones\n* A commitment and drive for quality, technical excellence and results\n* Curiosity and passion to constantly learn new things; Shopify changes fast, and we need the people who work here to be able to change and learn fast too\n* Proficiency in systems thinking and systems design concepts like transactions, atomicity, idempotency, etc.\n* Raise the quality and speed (team efficiency) bar and move the platform into a position of maximum leverage\n* Use the right tool for the job, fix problems are the right level of abstraction and optimize to meet both functional and non-functional goals\n\n**Additional information**\n\nWe know that looking for a new role can be both exciting and time-consuming, and we truly appreciate your effort. Jane is an actual real live person (👋🏻) and is looking forward to learning more about you through your application. And remember, we want to know what you're really interested in building and why you want to build it at Shopify, so please give us as much detail on this as you'd like in the answers on the next page. 👍 📖\n\nAt Shopify, we are committed to building and fostering an environment where our employees feel included, valued, and heard. Our belief is that a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion enables us to truly make commerce better for everyone. We strongly encourage applications from Indigenous peoples, racialized people, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities and/or people with intersectional identities. Please take a look at our 2019 Sustainability Report to learn more about Shopify's commitments.\n\n#LI-KO3 #LI-REMOTE #LI-AH1\n \n\nInterested, but not ready to apply? \n\nJoin the Shopify Talent Community to learn more about us, while you polish up your resume: https://www.shopify.com/careers/2021 \n\nPlease mention the words **SCENE MAID NOODLE** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xMDc=). 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#Location\nunited states, canada

\nThe Role:  \n\nAs Lead Software Engineer, you have deep and diverse technical knowledge with hands on programming skills. You’re able to establish vision and technical direction in teams for the business as well as our clients’ businesses, products and systems. With your entrepreneurial spirit, you keep your mind on the big picture but you’re pragmatic, questioning assumptions, while remaining inclusive. You’re not attached to tools and technologies but rather, you focus on solving problems neutrally, building high quality, user-friendly, technical solutions. \n\nIn this new role, you will lead a team of developers on complex software engineering projects from building digital products to serverless data platforms, working closely with the lead tech consultant and delivery lead. You'll also be involved in building strong technical teams for our clients in a range of industries. \n\nThe role includes producing and implementing a roadmap that instils best practice software design principles across our work ensuring attention to best practice software design, engineering, testing and CI/CD.\n\nIn return, we promise to choose projects that deepen our knowledge and keep us on the steep learning curve, while having fun. As a technical leader, your decisions will be substantial in the whole team’s growth.\n\nResponsibilities:\n\nYou will be responsible for:\n\n\n* Leading teams to build complex, robust & highly scalable technical solutions, including:\n\n\n* Architecture of frontend web applications and/or React Native mobile applications\n\n* Development of responsive user interfaces using modern frontend frameworks including ReactJS and React Native\n\n* Backend systems and infrastructure\n\n* Integration of frontend systems with client platforms and 3rd party APIs\n\n* Serverless data platforms and pipelines\n\n\n\n\n\n* Hiring, developing and scaling the engineering team (mostly remote), including QAs and designers\n\n* Working collectively to identify the best tech stack for products and systems\n\n* Leading on the design, development and shipping of MVPs and software updates\n\n* Writing well-structured and maintainable code with a focus on codebase quality\n\n* Working within a dynamic & international environment with an agile working culture using methodologies such as SCRUM or Kanban\n\n\n\n\nRequired experience:\n\n\n* At least 7 -10 years of software engineering experience, with team management desirable\n\n* Strong engineering instinct and a deep understanding of computer science fundamentals combined with flawless coding skills in a variety of languages including Javascript, Python and C#.\n\n* Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL)\n\n* Exposure to a diverse range of engineering languages, tools and technologies including:\n\n\n* ReactJS\n\n* React Native\n\n* Node.js\n\n* TypeScript\n\n* Python\n\n* Frontend and data testing frameworks (e.g. jest, enzyme, unittest, PyTest)\n\n* Frontend UI testing tools (e.g. Selenium, Cypress, Appium, Detox) \n\n* CI / CD tools including CircleCI / Bitrise\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n* Experience developing complex web applications;\n\n\n* Working with a wide variety of web technologies and frameworks; and\n\n* Implementing resilient integration of frontend and backend systems.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n* Development best practice CI/CD pipelines\n\n* Experience with the following would be highly beneficial:\n\n\n* Cloud computing (AWS and/or GCP)\n\n* Serverless frameworks including Cloud Formation, Terraform\n\n* Designing and architecture of microservices and distributed systems\n\n* Experience with test driven development and BDD is a plus\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOther skills & competencies:\n\n\n* Deep understanding of software architecture and infrastructure setups in the cloud\n\n* Comfortable managing a technical team in a fast-paced environment\n\n* Great interpersonal skills and ability to clearly express analytical thoughts\n\n* Readiness to set technical direction and promote engineering principles\n\n\n\n\n Desirable experience:\n\n\n* Experience designing, building and optimising big data data architectures and pipelines\n\n* A demonstrated record of achievement as key member in large technical projects\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, Executive, Developer, Digital Nomad, React, Serverless, Cloud, Python, Mobile 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