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)

We are seeking a Data Engineer with a strong Python and SQL skillset to join our team and expand our capacity to meet the demands of our growing client base. In this role, you will develop key data transformations to make data available to our analyst team.

Open Architects (OA) is a Massachusetts-based organization that supports school districts, municipalities, and education non-profits by providing custom-built visualization dashboards to give leaders the information they need to make data-informed decisions. 

We believe that high-quality systems and effective use of data are critical foundations that enable excellent schools. OA’s dashboards seamlessly collect, combine, transform, analyze, and display data from disparate data sources to provide insights to school leaders. Staffed by former practitioners, OA creates the analytical tools and provides the insights that we wish we had when we worked in districts and municipalities. 

ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES

As part of a dynamic, growing startup, you will report to OA’s Director of Technology, work closely with the analyst team, and serve as the lead developer for OA’s data warehouse. We work remotely and maintain a strong team culture through daily meetings, quarterly step-backs, and an annual in-person retreat. 

Our ideal candidate is an experienced Python and SQL developer with a history of building data transformation processes that scale. The right individual should have a meticulous approach to writing quality code and following best practices; enjoy the challenge of manipulating and transforming data; understand the importance of reliability; and view security with utmost importance.

Our data warehouse will change how Open Architects operates and the products we offer our customers; this role provides the candidate with an opportunity to shape and impact the growth of an EdTech startup.

QUALIFICATIONS

Required Technical Skills and Experience 
●    3+ years of experience as a data engineer with Python and SQL as the primary toolset
●    2+ years of experience working with BigQuery (or another columnar database)
●    Strong understanding of Object-Oriented Programming and the ability to write, maintain, and extend an application
●    Proficiency with Pandas (current solution is built around Pandas)
●    Demonstrable experience working with, transforming, and loading large data sets (10’s of millions of records)
●    Strong understanding of error handling, logging, and alerting for reliability
●    Ability to write configurable and extendable ETLs so they are executable for multiple use cases
●    Practical experience writing and executing tests
●    Diligent with commenting, documentation, and version control
●    Bachelor’s degree required
●    Must be able to provide examples of work products

Required Personal Skills and Experience
●    Ability to work in a fully remote environment (Slack, Zoom)
●    Works well with internal stakeholders and can translate needs into technical solutions
●    Self-motivated and able to independently structure work time to achieve assigned objectives
●    Excited to work in a collaborative team environment with a flat and flexible organizational structure 
●    Adheres to the utmost ethical standards in preserving confidentiality with client data
●    Works effectively with diverse stakeholders including school and district leaders

Other Preferred Skills and Experience
●    Required: Willingness to work US standard business hours
●    EdTech and/or student data experience
●    Familiarity with Power BI (our analysts use this extensively)
●    Experience working in a Linux environment and with Docker images/containers

COMPENSATION

●    Salary: $90,00-110,000 
●    Generous benefits package (health, dental and 401(k)) and flexible paid time off policy 
●    100% remote work (most meetings occur during Eastern Standard hours) 
●    Chance to join a growing startup with the opportunity to shape the company and your role 

HIRING PROCESS

1.    Applications screened for qualified candidates
2.    First-round interview with company leadership
3.    Live hiring exercise
4.    Final interview
5.    Offer extended!

Salary and compensation

Benefits

💰 401(k)

🌎 Distributed team

⏰ Async

🤓 Vision insurance

🦷 Dental insurance

🚑 Medical insurance

🏖 Unlimited vacation

🏖 Paid time off

💰 401k matching

🏔 Company retreats

👀 No monitoring system

🚫 No politics at work

🎅 We hire old (and young)

Responsibilities

• Code, Test, Review, Deploy, and Document.
• Integrate our global Payment Platform with different payment gateways (e.g. Stripe) to address local market needs.
• Feature delivery - work with different technologies (in front and back-ends), languages, and frameworks in all layers of the web stack, from front-end to back-end and from SaaS (Software as a Service) to PaaS (Platform as a Service) and IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service).
• Develop effective ways to communicate through asynchronous communication being able to work in an agile development environment (iterative development, short release cycles managed through Asana).
• Share knowledge through detailed documentation.
• Continuously improve our build and deployment automation. Confidently ship moderately sized features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members.
• Architect systems that are reliable, scalable, and maintainable.
• Protect and secure the systems and data of our members and contributors.
• Offer IT support to our team members.
• Build new flows, optimize existing ones to increase the impact and quality of our outcomes.
• Coach, support, and share knowledge with other engineers inside our team.
• Ensure availability and reliability of our services in production.

Requirements

HARD SKILLS

• • Experience with Django, in particular:
    • Django is a Python-based framework, so a solid understanding of Python is crucial. This includes understanding Python's data structures, control flow, and coding conventions.
    • You'll need to be comfortable with the Django framework itself. This includes understanding Django's Object-Relational Mapping (ORM), Models, Views, Templates, Middleware, and RESTful architecture.
    • When you are creating APIs, knowledge of the Django REST Framework (DRF) will be necessary.
    • Django works with various databases (like MySQL). You should understand how to design databases, create efficient queries, and use Django's database API. Accordingly, the knowledge of the SQL language is required.
    • Understanding the basics of HTTP, client-server, MVC and MVT architectures, and web technologies like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript is essential.
  • Experience in React, in particular:
    • React is a JavaScript library, so strong JavaScript skills are a must. You should be familiar with ES6 or later features like classes, arrow functions, promises, async/await, destructuring, and import/export modules.
    • You'll need to master the fundamentals of React, including routings, components, props, state, hooks, and the component lifecycle.
    • JSX is a syntax extension for JavaScript that is used in React to write the UI. It's a mix of JavaScript and HTML and is a fundamental part of writing React components. Accordingly, you must be comfortable with it.
    • Understanding of REST APIs.
    • Understanding an managing CSS Preprocessors (like for example SASS or LESS).
    • Knowing how to manage versions of your code with Git and comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process (testing process included).
    • Understanding of network and application security with a deep understanding of all layers involved in web communications.
    • Understanding of how to manage the testing process, like example Jest for unit testing.

SOFT SKILLS

• Experience working in Google Cloud environments, particularly with Google Cloud Compute Engine and BigQuery, is much useful.
• Knowledge of PHP is useful.
• Good knowledge of Linux (Redhat/CentOS). The ability to manage Linux VMs (Virtual Machines) in the cloud environment is also useful.
• Basic Bash scripting skills are useful.
• Experience in working with CRM (Customer Relationship Management) platforms. Experience with Marketo and/or Salesforce is a big plus.
• Experience working at large-scale web applications is a plus.
• Experience at startups or web-based companies is a plus.

OTHER SKILLS

• Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions.
• Good strategic, creative, and innovative thinking.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Passion and commitment to human dignity, life, family, liberty, citizen empowerment, and social change.
• High professionalism, self-motivation, efficiency, and results-oriented delivery on short timelines.
• Strong teamwork skills, comfortable in a highly collaborative team culture and a hierarchical team structure.
• Strong project management skills.
• Ability to adjust quickly to changing conditions and requirements.
• Fluency in English is a requirement. Duolingo English Test is required for all non-natives with a minimum 100 (B2 equivalent) score. Spanish and other additional languages are an asset. 
• We are actively seeking candidates based in Europe or The Americas for this position.
  

Top 10 reasons to work for CitizenGO:

1. We’re winning. Our campaigning works and we’re changing politics and policies across the world. Check out some of our recent victories here. 
2. Our tactics are bold and effective. We do what’s needed to win campaigns, whether it’s launching petitions, partnering with like-minded organizations, helping our members call the decision maker or rallying on the streets.
3. Large funders don’t control our strategy. We work with members to do what’s best for the world each and every time.
4. We thrive in risky situations. We don’t let powerful forces like the Spanish Socialist Government or Soros’s empire bully us with legal, brand or financial threats. We’re experts at navigating risk and meeting threats head on, in the media, the courts or on the streets.
5. Work with helpful, kind, motivated, and talented people.
6. Work remote so you have no commute and are free to travel and move.
7. Have flexible work hours so you are there for other people and free to plan the day how you like.
8. Everyone works remote, but you don't feel remote. We don't have a head office, so you're not in a satellite office.
9. Work on campaigns that make an impact so you can enjoy defending life, family and freedom and changing the world.
10. Focused on results, not on long hours, so that you can have a life and don't burn out.

See our culture page for more!

Work remotely from anywhere in the world. Curious to see what that looks like? Check out our remote manifesto.

Benefits

Vacation & Holidays: Join CitizenGO and enjoy 24 vacation days per year and local public holidays. We also provide various types of leave, such as parental, sick, medical, and bereavement. Attractive Benefits: Embrace the freedom of working remotely at CitizenGO, with flexible hours and a consistent 40-hour work week. Benefit from our tuition reimbursement program (up to €500 per year), English/Spanish language courses (USD120 per month on iTalki), and an annual Christmas gift. Each team member may receive one free book per month (up to €30). Practical Assistance for Your Success: We equip you with the necessary tools to excel in your role, including Chromebooks, mobile phone lines, and smartphones for select positions. Work comfortably with our home office setup allowance (up to €500 every two years) and coworking memberships (up to €200 per month). Innovative Technology: CitizenGO grants access to Copy.ai, an AI-powered copywriting platform, and Grammarly, designed to enhance the quality of your English writing. Engaging Meetups: Connect and collaborate with your colleagues during our annual retreats, evaluation meetings, mini-retreats, conferences, summits, and monthly meetups in Madrid. 

Salary and compensation

Benefits

⏰ Async

🏖 Paid time off

🏔 Company retreats

🏬 Coworking budget

📚 Learning budget

🖥 Home office budget

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.

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