Remote Backend + Financial + JavaScript + Linux + PHP Jobs

We are easyMoney, part of the easy family of brands. Over 90 million people used easy goods and services in 2019.\n\nOur vision is to make better financial products available to everyone. We are looking for an ambitious developer to help usextend our existing platform, build microservices, work on the core API and introducing new features on the main platform.\n\nTop 8 reasons to work with us.\n\n1. You will also work on new and exciting projects in the fintech space competing with some of the biggest disrupters globally.\n\n2. You will learn new things, every day, alongside experienced developers.\n\n3. Some pretty cool benefits such as flexible remote working, equipment of your choice and if you are based in the UK then private medical insurance & employee discounts at thousands of retailers.\n\n4. Interesting problems to solve working with money, investment and finance.\n\n5. Work in a startup but for a major brand\n\n6. We will help with your career development and help you grow beyond just coding.\n\n7. Freedom to try new technologies and be part of the decision making process.\n\n8. Your code will get into the real world quickly and you will make a difference\n\n*What we need from you?*\n\n * ability to work independently on full feature sets bringing product specifications to life.\n * be able to take ownership of problems with a determination to solve them.\n * not be afraid to learn new things outside of your comfort zone.\n * contribute to company standards and best practice\n * identify risks and mitigate them\n\n*Skills required:*\n\n * PHP and/or NodeJS for backend development\n * ReactJS and/or VueJS for frontend development\n * MySQL and/or PostgreSQL\n * API driven development (REST or GraphQL)\n * Experience leading development projects\n * Strong problem solving ability and able to articulate solutions clearly\n * Good understanding of AWS with some devops experience\n * Understanding of agile development process and practice\n\n*It would be beneficial if you have:*\n\n * General interest in the fintech space\n * Experience or interest in React Native and/or Native Script\n * Experience in web development frameworks such as Laravel, Symfony and/or ExpressJS\n * Linux and cloud infrastructure administration with devops tools such as Terraform, Jenkins, CircleCI, Docker, Kubernetes\n * Test driven development advocate\n\n**About easyMoney**\n\neasyMoney is a financial products platform, with a vision to make better financial products available to everyone. We are part of the easy family of brands which has up to 99% market recognition across Europe.\n\n*Benefits:*\n\n * Flexible working – either work from home (country of your choice) or from amazing Chelsea, London office with Gym, Ping Pong, Pool, Table Football, Bar etc.\n * Friendly and supportive team\n * Free easyMoney Plus membership (discounts at 1,500+ retailers)\n * Welcome package including Apple laptop or equivalent of your choice with headphone, mouse etc.\n * Working on exciting initiatives at the forefront of fintech\n * Bonus scheme\n * Pension scheme\n * Flexible working hours\n \n\nPlease mention the words **PUSH BLEAK VICIOUS** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMTguMTg4LjEwMC4xNzk=). 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 $90,000 — $140,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 🚑 Medical insurance\n\n
\n\n#Location\nEurope

VA/2020/B5011/20210 - Javascript Developer, Multiple positions \n\n\nBackground Information - Job-specific\n\nThe UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is seeking talented and creative individuals to contribute to the development and maintenance of its online applications (HPC.tools). Within OCHA, the Assessment, Planning and Monitoring Branch (APMB) is responsible for helping OCHA’s network of country offices and humanitarian partners implement the humanitarian programme cycle (HPC). APMB, in partnership with OCHA’s Information Services Branch (ISB) is engaged in a multi-year transformation project to improve the suite of information management tools/systems that support the HPC. This includes data management applications for project submission and review, monitoring and evaluation of humanitarian response, and financial tracking, amongst others. These applications are developed on a Javascript stack using PostgreSQL, Node.js, TypeScript, AngularJS and Angular, React, and provide data to a public API and two Drupal websites: Financial Tracking Service (fts.unocha.org) and Humanitarian InSight (hum-insight.info). \n\nThe successful candidate will be working as a developer in a small team of both senior and junior backend and frontend developers, and will work either as a full stack developer or (depending on skillsets) with a particular emphasis on frontend or backend work. In addition to programming, the successful candidate may also be involved in the coordination and oversight of the development team or members thereof, as well as contribute to sprint and release planning. While the position is home-based, occasional travel to Geneva, Switzerland might be required. The successful candidate will report to the Information Systems Officer, Monitoring Platforms and Tools Section (MATS), in Geneva and work collaboratively with colleagues in OCHA Headquarters locations, as well as other developers working on this and other OCHA projects.\n\nFunctional Responsibilities\n\n\n* Design, implement and manage solutions for web applications including system architecture, database models and coding standards\n\n* Develop, iteratively improve and maintain existing and new HPC applications using AngularJS (1.5 and above), Angular (7 and above), React, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Docker,Solr and TypeScript\n\n* Discuss and improve specifications in conjunction with the project manager and business owners\n\n* Contribute to Agile sprint and release planning\n\n* Review code submitted by team members using the Git workflow model\n\n* Develop and review unit tests\n\n* Work closely with the OCHA-wide infrastructure team for code deployments, troubleshooting and other related issues.\n\n* Develop and review technical documentation for developers and application administrators to support and maintain the system\n\n* Contribute to the wider OCHA software development effort, including participation in regular knowledge interchange, joint events etc.\n\n* Assist with data migrations as needed\n\n\n\n\nEducation/Experience/Language requirements\n\nAdvanced-level university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in computer science, software engineering, information systems, mathematics, statistics or related field.\n\nA first-level university degree in combination with additional two years, a technical/professional diploma with additional four years, or a secondary school diploma with additional six years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced-level university degree.\n\nRequired Experience\n\n\n* At least 2 years of relevant experience is required of online database application development and implementation.\n\n* Minimum of 2 years functional programming in JavaScript and libraries on dynamic interactive websites.\n\n* Minimum of 2 years’ experience of developing on a Linux environment.\n\n* Demonstrated experience in web development projects in a consulting or professional services environment, working with cross-functional teams.\n\n* Experience in development of web applications using RESTful API backends\n\n* Experience of code versioning using Git workflow and sprint/release planning\n\n* Experience working both independently and in collaboration with remote, geographically diverse teams - must be very comfortable working via e-mail, chat, IRC, audio/video conference etc.\n\n\n\n\nDesirable Experience\n\n\n* The successful candidate will also have experience in as many as possible of:\n\n* Developing with AngularJS (v1.5 and later) orAngular (v7 and later)\n\n* Developing with React\n\n* Developing with TypeScript\n\n* Developing web applications or APIs with Node.js and Express or Restify\n\n* Developing with monorepo managers such as Nx, Rush.js or yarn workspaces.\n\n* Publishing packages to NPM, adhering to Semantic Versioning\n\n* Creating and running Docker images and containers\n\n* Developing with SQL-based open-source databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL\n\n* Use of Sequelize or similar ORM\n\n* CSS and use of pre-processors such as SASS or LESS, or libraries like styled-components\n\n* Management of dependencies, code deployment to various environments and development workflow.\n\n* Working on projects using an agile workflow\n\n* Experience of developing web applications in other programming languages would be beneficial.\n\n* Some knowledge of Drupal-based websites, particularly regarding integration of database applications with Drupal front-ends, and website development in PHP would be an asset.\n\n* Some experience working with the public or not-for-profit sector would be an asset.\n\n\n\n\nLanguages\n\n\n* Intermediate or fluent knowledge of English is required.\n\n* Knowledge of another UN language (Spanish, Arabic, Russian, Chinese and French) is an asset.\n\n\n\n\nOther considerations\n\n\n* As this is a home-based role, the successful candidate will need to provide their own workspace, including high-speed internet connection and a local development environment running on Linux or MacOS.\n\n\n\n\nContract type, level and duration\n\n\n* Contract type: INternational Individual Contractor Agreement\n\n* Contract level: IICA-1/ICSC-9\n\n* Contract duration: full-time for an initial period of three months, to be extended depending on satisfactory performance evaluation.\n\n\n\n\nFull information at https://jobs.unops.org/pages/viewvacancy/VADetails.aspx?id=20210#4 \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to JavaScript, Developer, Digital Nomad, English, PHP, Git, Angular, Drupal, API, Travel, Senior, Junior, Linux and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $67,500 — $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

\nBackground Information- Job Specific\n\n\nBackground The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is seeking talented and creative individuals to contribute to the development and maintenance of its online applications (HPC.tools). Within OCHA, the Assessment, Planning and Monitoring Branch (APMB) is responsible for helping OCHA’s network of country offices and humanitarian partners to implement the humanitarian programme cycle (HPC). APMB, in partnership with OCHA’s Information Services Branch (ISB) is engaged in a multi-year transformation project to improve the suite of information management tools/systems and that support the HPC. This includes data management applications for project submission and review, monitoring and evaluation of humanitarian response, and financial tracking, amongst others. These applications are developed on a Javascript stack using PostgreSQL, Node.js, AngularJS and Angular, and provide data to a public API and two Drupal websites: Financial Tracking Service (fts.unocha.org) and Humanitarian InSight (hum-insight.info). \n\nThe successful candidate will be working as a developer in a small team of both senior and junior backend and frontend developers, and will work either as a full stack developer or (depending on skillsets) with a particular emphasis on frontend or backend work. In addition to programming, the successful candidate may also be involved in the coordination and oversight of the developer team or members thereof, as well as contribute to sprint and release planning. While the position is home-based, occasional travel to Geneva, Switzerland might be required. The successful candidate will report to the Information Systems Officer, Monitoring Platforms and Tools Section (MATS), in Geneva and work collaboratively with colleagues in OCHA Headquarters locations, as well as other developers working on this and other OCHA projects.\n\n\n\nFunctional Responsibilities:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n* \n\nDesign, implement and manage solutions for web applications including system architecture, database models and coding standards\n\n\n* \n\nDevelop, iteratively improve and maintain existing and new HPC applications using AngularJS (1.5 and above), Angular (7 and above), Node.js, PostgreSQL, Docker and Solr \n\n\n* \n\nDiscuss and improve specifications in conjunction with the project manager and business owners\n\n\n* \n\nContribute to Agile sprint and release planning \n\n\n* \n\nReview code submitted by team members using the Git workflow model \n\n\n* \n\nDevelop and review unit tests\n\n\n* \n\nWork closely with the OCHA-wide infrastructure team for code deployments, troubleshooting and other related issues.\n\n\n* \n\nDevelop and review technical documentation for developers and application administrators to support and maintain the system\n\n\n\n\n\n\n* \n\nContribute to the wider OCHA software development effort, including participation in regular knowledge interchange, joint events etc.\n\n\n* \n\nAssist with data migrations as needed\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEducation/Experience/Language Requirements:\n\n\nEducation\n\n\n* \n\nAdvanced-level university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in computer science, software engineering, information systems, mathematics, statistics or related field. \n\n\n* \n\nA first-level university degree in combination with additional two years, a technical/professional diploma with additional four years, or a secondary school diploma with additional six years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced-level university degree.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWork Experience \n\nRequired:\n\n\n* \n\nAt least 2 years of relevant experience is required of online database application development and implementation.\n\n\n* \n\nMinimum of 2 years functional programming in JavaScript and libraries on dynamic interactive websites.\n\n\n* \n\nMinimum of 2 years’ experience of developing on a Linux environment.\n\n\n* \n\nDemonstrated experience in web development projects in a consulting or professional services environment, working with cross-functional teams.\n\n\n* \n\nExperience in development of web applications using RESTful API backends\n\n\n* \n\nExperience of code versioning using Git workflow and sprint/release planning\n\n\n* \n\nExperience working both independently and in collaboration with remote, geographically diverse teams - must be very comfortable working via e-mail, chat, IRC, audio/video conference etc.\n\n\n\n\n\nDesirable:\n\nThe successful candidate will also have experience in as many as possible of:\n\n\n* \n\nDeveloping with AngularJS (v1.5 and later)\n\n\n* \n\nDeveloping with Angular (v7 and later)\n\n\n* \n\nDeveloping with Node.js\n\n\n* \n\nDeveloping with SQL-based open-source databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL\n\n\n* \n\nUse of Sequelize or similar ORM\n\n\n* \n\nCSS and use of pre-processors such as SASS or LESS\n\n\n* \n\nManagement of dependencies, code deployment to various environments and development workflow.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n* \n\nWorking on projects using an agile framework \n\n\n* \n\nExperience of developing web applications in other programming languages would be beneficial.\n\n\n* \n\nSome knowledge of Drupal-based websites, particularly regarding integration of database applications with Drupal front-ends, and website development in PHP would be an asset.\n\n\n* \n\nSome experience working with the public or not-for-profit sector would be an asset.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLanguages\n\n\n* Intermediate or fluent knowledge of English is required.\n\n* Knowledge of another UN language (Spanish, Arabic, Russian, Chinese and French) is an asset.\n\n\n\n\n\nOther considerations\n\nAs this is a home-based role, the successful candidate will need to provide their own workspace, including high-speed internet connection and a local development environment running on Linux or MacOS.\n\nContract type/level and duration\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n* Contract type: INternational Individual Contractor Agreement\n\n* Contract level: IICA-1/ICSC-9\n\n* Contract duration: full-time for an initial period of six months, to be extended depending on satisfactory performance evaluation.\n\n* Duty Station: home-based, occasional travel to Geneva, Switzerland might be required\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAdditional Considerations\n\n\n* Please note that the closing date is midnight Copenhagen time\n\n* Applications received after the closing date will not be considered.\n\n* Only those candidates that are short-listed for interviews will be notified.\n\n* Qualified female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.\n\n* The incumbent is responsible to abide by security policies, administrative instructions, plans and procedures of the UN Security Management System and that of UNOPS.  \n\n\n\n\nIt is the policy of UNOPS to conduct background checks on all potential recruits/interns. \nRecruitment/internship in UNOPS is contingent on the results of such checks. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to JavaScript, Developer, Digital Nomad, English, PHP, Git, Angular, Drupal, API, Travel, Senior, Junior, Linux and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $67,500 — $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