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By giving our customers and partners, some of which are Fortune Global 500 companies across all industries, the most flexible commerce platform, which is based on a Microservices, API-first, true cloud, and headless architecture (we call it the MACH architecture*), we are not only helping them maintain their competitive advantage but we are also changing the e-commerce platform market. Founded in Germany in 2010, our international expansion has reached Europe, the US and Asia Pacific. In October 2019, with a $145M investment from global venture capital and private equity firm Insight Partners, commercetools is in full gear going forward. \n\nCheck out our Career Page and our Website for more information.\n\nBACKEND DEVELOPER \n\nWe are looking for support to improve our Merchant Center. The Hornet Team is building the most exciting, usable, and advanced UI for managing B2B eCommerce in the market.\n\nOur Backend Engineers are part of vertical teams working closely with Product Managers, UX/UI Designers and Frontend Engineers. You will not only work within the respective domain but also contribute to the core of our product while engaging with our Open Source libraries where needed.\n\nEven more important than your technical qualifications: You want to join and learn from a skilled, agile team that believes in having fun, giving back to the community, and collaborating in an open, supportive environment! Sounds good? Here's a snapshot of our tech stack!\n\nRESPONSIBILITIES\n\nJoin one of our cross-disciplinary teams to work on one of our product’s core domains. There is a lot of exciting work ahead such as improving our Merchant Center, adoption of our Design System, homogenising our testing strategy or extracting common components to be open sourced in our User Interface Kit, Application Kit or Community Kit.\nWork collaboratively with a high degree of autonomy in a group of international peers on a rapidly growing product using cutting edge technologies.\nBuild solutions using a modern tech stack with the main components being Express, React, Apollo GraphQL, Jest, Cypress, and serverless platforms like Kubernetes, Cloud Run, or Lambda.\nCollaborate and align efforts with UX/UI Designers, Product Managers, Backend engineers while engaging with customers.\nDevelop cloud-native applications using Kubernetes, or by directly consuming cloud services provided by Google Cloud Platform and AWS\nUtilize independent applications and feature toggles to deploy the applications of your team multiple times a day.\nOn top of working with a modern tech stack on interesting projects, commercetools offers a professional development budget and dedicated time to experiment with new technologies and ideas (known as Tech Time). \nWe also encourage our engineers to attend and speak at conferences, providing assistance and support to get started on this matter.\n\nQUALIFICATIONS \n\n3+ years of development experience in Node.js\nA strong knowledge of JavaScript (ES2015+) and modern web development tools, and ideally experience with TypeScript and React\nUnderstanding of asynchronous/non-blocking programming\nPractical experience in designing and using RESTful APIs (ideally in an eCommerce environment), and ideally GraphQL\nFamiliarity with object-oriented, stateless, serverless, and message-driven design and architecture patterns\nFamiliarity with infrastructure-as-code, and tools like Terraform\nThe ability to weigh trade-offs through discussions working within a cross-functional team\nBe able to speak English fluently to work in an international environment\nStrive for clean code and high standards for quality assurance such as code review, testing and code linting\nSee value in maintainable software through various methods such as type checking paired with End-to-End and integration tests\nBe an open-minded team player working in a humble cross-functional team while caring for our product and customers \nUser-centric thinking\nA mindset to continuously learn and actively improve our work environment and product\n\nWHAT WE OFFER\n\n100% coverage of the employees health care, vision, and dental insurance\nCompany contribution towards dependent coverage\n401k (retirement savings)\nMaternity/paternity leave\nPTO and Company Holidays\nSome pre-tax benefits through the PEO\nGreat team of highly qualified and motivated team members who work with a mutual respect and appreciation, take responsibility and evolve together\n\nAND THERE’S MORE\n\nYou will be involved in challenging and meaningful projects in a company with over 10 years of history\nYou will be working with one of the technology leaders in the growing e-commerce business\nWe are a growing, international company with offices in Berlin, Munich, London, Amsterdam, Singapore, and Durham\nModern workplaces and technology (e.g. MacBooks) in bright offices (open-plan spaces as well as conference rooms and smaller rooms for quiet times)\nFlexible, family-friendly working hours\nCollegial, open working atmosphere where your creativity and new ideas are encouraged\nHealthy feedback and error culture and a climate of mutual appreciation and respect\n\nWe are all different and that is what makes us stronger! We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it makes our company better.\n\nAt commercetools, we are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.\n\nAt commercetools, we hope to be the place where a diverse mix of talented people choose to come, stay and do their best work. We pride ourselves on bringing modern principles to ecommerce through both technology and company culture. We know success comes from the hard work and dedication of our passionate and creative employees.\n\nAre you ready? Come grow with us! \n\nPlease mention the words **ARTWORK GRANT ASTHMA** 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 $80,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n ⏰ Async\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n
\n\n#Location\nUnited States - East Coast

\nAbout vestr\nvestr is a Swiss FinTech startup founded in 2017. Our mission is to automate the entire value chain for Actively Managed Certificates (AMCs) - a family of financial products that is very similar in character to investment funds. We digitize the life-cycle management, trade execution and reporting for these products. Our product’s core engine relies on an event-driven, service-oriented Node.js framework written in TypeScript.\nEnd clients, which include one of Europe’s largest private banks, can choose between a managed service, entirely hosted in Switzerland, and an on-premises solution.\nWhile headquartered in Switzerland and with offices in Lviv, Ukraine, we are also accustomed to working in distributed teams. To expand the international scrum team, we are currently looking for an experienced Back-End TypeScript developer.\n \nJob Description\n\n\n* Become part of our experienced and highly skilled scrum team\n\n* Help develop and extend our CQRS-driven, service-oriented backend\n\n* Design decoupled, fail-safe workflows to carry out complex tasks such as portfolio rebalancing, corporate actions, and trade executions\n\n* Explore and implement quantitative tasks such as time series analysis\n\n* Extend our event sourcing framework to produce perfect audit trails for our customers\n\n* Offices are located in Lviv, but you can work from anywhere in the country. \n\n\n\n\n \nSkills and responsibilities\n\n\n* Advanced understanding of Javascript including ES6 and ES20xx, async/await, generators/iterators, advanced data structures, etc. Preferably, solid understanding of TypeScript.\n\n* Solid experience in Node.js development. Preferably, relevant experience with TypeScript in conjunction with Node.js, Express, and Apollo.\n\n* Extensive experience in design and implementation of distributed architectures, solid experience with RESTful APIs, RPCs, and message brokering\n\n* Working knowledge of building GraphQL service layers\n\n* Working knowledge of RabbitMQ, MongoDB, Docker, and Kubernetes\n\n* Conceptual knowledge of DDD, CQRS, Event Sourcing, Micro-Services Architectures, SOA, and more.\n\n* Conceptual knowledge of design patterns in OOP and functional programming paradigms\n\n* Experience with other back-end technologies like Java or .NET is a plus\n\n* Good English skills (oral and written)\n\n* Clear and reliable communication\n\n* Enjoys working in a team.\n\n\n\n\n \nWhat we offer\n\n\n* Medical insurance.\n\n* Flexible working hours.\n\n* Ability to work from home 20% of your time.\n\n* 25 business days of fully paid annual leave, 10 business days of fully paid sick leave (annual).\n\n* Courses of English and German.\n\n* Comfortable and friendly environment at the office.\n\n\n\n\n \nA Master’s degree in computer science, mathematics, physics, or engineering is a plus. Prior financial services experience is also an asset but not a requirement.  \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Backend, Developer, Digital Nomad, English, JavaScript and Java 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

\nWe need a strong backend web applications developer, full time.  LAMP stack; running proprietary Angular apps on CodeIngnitor, plus ExpressionEngine content management system with lots of customization, a few NodeJS apps for real-time data processing tasks, and a little bit of legacy PHP;  running on a multi-tier farm in front of high avail MySQL., hosted in AWS.\n\nLooking for a developer with strong web app architecture experience on the backend to help modernize the legacy code (a little), build and deploy new features and apps (a lot), and in general keep our menagerie of ecommerce sites and internal support applications working like a charm.\n\nThe current development team works 100% internally focused, on dedicated systems for our ecommerce sites, marketing, operations, and investment/financial tools for our analysts.  4 full-time devs, two part time, plus 3 designers, all working in a DevOps style.  Informal and flat organization, with lots of sharing and collaboration, but also complete ownership of your projects from concept to shipping. \n\nMust be a strong multi-tier web applications developer who can work on all aspects of the site from front-end (coding, not design) to application and data layers.  Good working knowledge of security and scalability best practices.  Experience in a fast release cycle environment – we put out new code multiple times per day.  Self-driven, with a focus on putting out clean and well documented code.  \n\nBonus points if you:\n\n\n* Know SQL like the back of your hand.  Lots of focus on reporting and data visualization for the marketing and sales team.\n\n* Have testing and analytics experience.  We make heavy use of Google Analytics, Optimizely, etc. to find out what works and doesn’t for our users. \n\n* Can pitch in on AWS systems management – anything from setting up an SSH relay box at the edge, to configuring opcode caching on PHP, to updating puppet to add additional dependencies.\n\n\n\n\nWork is 100% remote with no travel requirement (if you want to come visit our main office in the beautiful ski village of Stowe, VT, you’ll be welcome of course).  All existing developers and designers are remote too – no odd man out here. \n\nCompany has been around 10+ years, profitable since inception, and is a leader in the investment publishing industry.  Flexible schedule and shift timing.  Paid time off.  Etc. \n\nIndividuals and placement agents only, no vendors.  Must have at least 5 years web app dev experience.  Non-U.S. welcome to apply, but English skills must be 99th percentile, as this is a fast-moving U.S. based team.  \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to JavaScript, Node, Web Developer, Developer, Digital Nomad, DevOps, English, LAMP, Angular, Travel, Marketing, Sales, Backend and Ecommerce 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