\nWe are hiring a PHP Staff Engineer to focus on backend application work and technical leadership while contributing to DevOps, data, and frontend work as necessary. We’re a small team, so the blend will depend on the individual and the project.\n\n\nIdeal candidates will have an incredibly strong Web SaaS background, a decade or two of Web-based professional history, and a deep comfort with PHP. You are consistently assessing whether technical choices are adding or removing system complexity. You enjoy enabling your teammates to do their best work with clear & appropriate feedback, tailored guidance, and thoughtful workload sharing. You are deeply critical of which technical choices and work will have the most meaningful impact on our goals.\n\n\nThis role offers 160K/yr and participation in our ESOP (Employee Stock Option Program) with a 4-year vesting schedule. If you start by 1 April, you’ll be eligible for the company-wide annual 1 July pay raise. If you’re interested in the role but have questions or feedback, please email the hiring manager. No one’s resume will get buried for being critical, it’s kinda the point of the job.\n\n\nWe will accept applications through Friday, 21 February and begin the email screening process as soon as possible. Initial interviews will ideally be scheduled for 24-27 February, and second interviews the week of 10 March. There are two 90-minute interviews (hiring manager + panel) and we request 3 professional references (but let's talk anyway if you have circumstances that make that impossible). We are filling this role ASAP, preferably no later than 1 April. Please note availability concerns in your application! We can be flexible and are happy to accommodate whenever we can. \n\n\nAbout uConnect \n\n\nuConnect is on a mission to help more people realize their potential by improving access to career services for all people - early in their lives and throughout their careers. Focused on the traditional higher education market, uConnect's All-In-One Virtual Career Center is used by a wide range of institutions including UCLA, MIT, and Baton Rouge Community College to radically improve utilization of career services, career readiness and student outcomes.  We're a mission-driven team working in a fun and collaborative culture which puts people first. uConnect is backed by leading technology investors including Growth Street Partners, Strada Education and LearnLaunch.\n\n\n\nCore responsibilities\n* Collaboratively plan, document, and execute complex web application programming tasks. This is foremost an individual contributor role responsible for shipping.\n* Adhere to team coding standards and architectural principles.\n* Demonstrate advanced knowledge of one or more relevant programming languages in day-to-day use.\n* Demonstrate best practices in submitted code.\n* Make informed decisions about what qualifies as in- and out-of-scope for current tasks and communicate those decisions succinctly and thoroughly.\n* Raise concerns, questions, and ambiguities for team discussion; lead consensus-building.\n* Identify risks in current code, environment, and/or process; recommend alternatives.\n* Add automated low-level tests to code as appropriate.\n* Troubleshoot existing code for defects, performance issues, or other unwanted behavior.\n* Take ownership of overall application code base and be accountable for its long-term health, performance, and alignment with team goals.\n* Take on independent investigations or maintenance projects to enable the rest of the team.\n* Take a leadership role in overall technical decisions and direction.\n* Work cross-functionally with Product, Customer Success, and other stakeholders to identify the best outcomes possible given our goals and constraints.\n\n\n\nSecondary responsibilities\n* Assist with support and bug triage.\n* Assist with CI/CD pipeline as necessary.\n* Assist with E2E tests as necessary.\n* Improve application observability with logging and automated alerting.\n* Explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.\n* Guide and mentor other engineers of all levels with their professional growth and learning.\n* Assist with hiring engineers as requested.\n* Investigate new technologies for applicability to current and future engineering challenges.\n* Monitor the broader technology ecosystem for significant changes and brief team.\n* Respond to priority support incidents during off-hours in rare business-critical situations.\n\n\n\nWhat will a typical day look like?\n* Attend daily engineering standup (Mon-Thu). What’s blocking you, and how can you help your teammates? Sometimes we also do work refinement during this time.\n* Meet with stakeholders and peers to understand and prioritize needs.\n* Programming new product features, upgrading existing functionality, and updating dependencies and pipelines.\n* Performing code review async via pull request or synchronously via Zoom.\n* Validating application functionality through the use of both automated and manual testing.\n* Pairing with another engineer to trade experience or collaborate on a particular challenge. (We encourage pairing as needed and it shouldn’t be “never” but there’s no mandate.)\n* Researching tools, patterns and practices relevant to current or future work.\n* Writing internal documentation about technical choices, runbooks, or team practices.\n* Working with your manager to discuss and implement guidance or technical coaching plans for other engineers.\n* On Fridays (or an equivalent amount of time elsewhere in the week at your discretion), you’re encouraged to pursue team-agreed work that isn’t explicitly toward the product roadmap, like tool upgrades or technical research. We are purposefully targeting 20% of capacity toward maintenance work.\n\n\n\nCore skills & experiences (You check most of these boxes)\n* Building and maintaining Web SaaS products for at least 5 years (12+ is ideal).\n* Advanced programming experience in a Web server context, PHP strongly preferred.\n* Programming experience in JavaScript and HTML/CSS.\n* Advanced SQL query authoring and relational database design constraints.\n* Working remotely with a cross-functional team & collaborating with other engineers.\n* Task refinement & scoping, self-organization, and prioritization.\n* Team-based communication (asking for what they need and conveying challenges and timelines proactively), active listening, and consensus building.\n* Giving and receiving constructive and well-communicated code review feedback.\n* Experience with one or more web application frameworks, especially event-based (as in WordPress, not Kafka).\n* Troubleshooting DNS and web request / server response structures.\n* Validating code using test automation (unit or functional/integration).\n* Controlling major sources of application complexity and managing dependencies thoughtfully.\n\n\n\nAccretive skills (We hope you check a few of these boxes)\n* Using, designing, documenting, and building REST APIs.\n* Experience with WordPress (or similar).\n* Experience using caching layers to improve web application performance.\n* Building & improving CI pipelines (we use BitBucket).\n* Evaluating application-level security and remediation of flaws.\n* Evaluating & implementing accessibility requirements.\n* Experience with data pipelines, feed processing, and/or data migrations.\n* Working with Python (used in our data pipeline), data warehouses, and/or data visualization (We use GCP / BigQuery / Looker).\n* Iterative self-directed learning is second nature to you.\n* You’ve read resources or books like Will Larson’s Staff Engineer and are thoughtful about the strategic role of the Staff Engineer in an organization.\n\n\n\nWhy take this role?\n* High impact, high efficiency, sustainable efforts, & minimal politics. Our entire company culture is oriented to winning together, not individual interests.\n* Truly flexible work schedule with consistent effort to minimize meetings and prioritize individual needs. Unlimited PTO, 15 holidays, plus a mostly-shutdown entire final week of the year.\n* Commitment to a healthy engineering culture with a focus on great documentation, team-based work refinement, and clear acceptance criteria. We’re not done improving how we work.\n* We’re not just “committed to diversity”, we have a diverse & inclusive team and continue to iterate on policies that support it.\n* You're aligned with our mission of improving access to career services & employment outcomes for higher education students by supporting their individual needs.\n* Your 5-year plan could involve deepening your technical skills and focusing on impact as a special project “solver”, becoming the technical lead of a second product team as it forms, or transitioning into an engineering management role. (It likely does not involve becoming an overall project “architect” as that is our principal’s primary role.)\n\n\n\nCompensation package\n* $160,000 annual salary (with annual raise 1 July).\n* 4-year vesting stock options\n* Unlimited PTO (you must use at least 3 weeks; 4-6 is normal)\n* Health insurance (Gold PPO) premium 100% covered for employee & 60% for dependents (Dental 75% for employee & 50% for dependents; Vision 75% for employee)\n* 4% 401K contribution (3% full match + 2% half match)\n* $600 annual home office stipend\n* 12 weeks parental leave (after 1 year)\n* Guaranteed remote work policy (there’s no office)\n\n\n\nHiring process\n* Screening over email (call optional)\n* 90-minute alignment interview (Zoom video)\n* 90-minute functional area interview (Zoom video)\n* Pre-offer stage: (1) 60-minute Meet & Greet with CEO (Zoom video), (2) 3 references (preferably all who worked directly with you for 6 months or more; 1 senior to you in your team or reporting chain)\n* Background check (we do not automatically disqualify applicants for non-violent criminal convictions)\n\n\n\nAbout the team\n* We are fully remote, but require employees reside in the continental US or Canada due to time zones & compliance overhead.\n* We employ 7 full-time engineers (Manager, 4 Application, 1 Data, 1 QA Automation) that lean senior (2 staff-level, 3 senior-level, 2 mid-level, 0 entry — yes, that’s the scale). There is 1 product manager (with plans to grow).\n* No engineers have left the company in 3 years. Our principal engineer has been with the company 12 years. \n* We use a Kanban workflow in Jira (“kanban-like” if we’re being pedantic) with clear acceptance criteria and Gherkin for testing criteria.\n* In 2024, half our tickets were in support of our strategic roadmap, 20% were maintenance work, and the rest were requests (support escalations and other non-roadmap work).\n* We primarily build in a WordPress-based monolith with a few ancillary AWS services.\n* We have managed hosting, so there is no on-call rotation, but as a staff engineer you will be on the short-list of emergency technical contacts. (We had zero emergencies in 2024.)\n* Two years ago, we had zero automated tests. Today, we have more than 500 (300 of which are E2E) and will aggressively increase that number this year, focusing on PHP integration tests in a specific section of the product.\n* We’re publishing our interview plan, onboarding impact plan, and performance review criteria for this role. Our small team works best by being engaged, taking ownership, and exercising critical thinking every day. This role is critical to continuing and expanding that strategy, so consider coming to your interviews with good questions.\n* West coasters beware: Standup is 10:30am ET (Mon-Thu; we don’t have standing meetings on Fridays). It is our team’s only standing meeting (besides 1:1s with your manager and monthly All Hands).\n\n\n\nWhat will your 90-day onboard look like?\n* Weeks 1: Meet people, read docs, complete training, set up your localhost, ask questions. We’re not a “commit code on day 1” shop; relax & adapt. Check in with your manager daily.\n* Weeks 2-4: Dig into team’s current problem set and how you can start contributing now, while also learning medium- and long-term goals to start aligning decisions with them. Join the team’s workflow and complete prioritized work. Check in with your manager a few times a week.\n* Months 2-3: Take work that aligns with your learning goals to quickly expand your exposure to various parts of the product and stack. Make strong contributions, but more biased toward learning than highest priority, tapering back toward priority-based work toward the end of 90-days at the pace that makes sense. Choose a longer-term 1:1 pace.\n\n\n\n\n\n$160,000 - $160,000 a year\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, SaaS, Wordpress, Python, Testing, JavaScript, Education, PHP, Senior, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $50,000 — $100,000/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
\n\n#Location\nCambridge, MA or Remote

\nHi there! Thanks for stopping by 👋\n\nLightspeed is looking for a Senior Python Developer to join our team. As a Backend developer, you will support Lightspeed's Hospitality product group on the mission to expand our reach into new markets and countries while enhancing our advanced hospitality commerce platform. \n\nFor this role specifically, you will join our Fiscalization Squad. This team helps ensure our product's compliance with legal standards. Your expertise will be essential in bolstering our customers' confidence in meeting legal requisites through our product, thereby paving the way for market expansion. Your adeptness in data structures and correctness will be crucial as we navigate compliance and open new market territories.\n\nAbove all, your work will change the way the world experiences hospitality!\n\nWhat you’ll be responsible for:\n\n\n* Developing and optimizing applications focusing on testing, correctness, and performance analysis.\n\n* Crafting and evolving system designs in alignment with legal requirements, ensuring our product remains a trustworthy and compliant tool for our customers.\n\n* Writing clean, maintainable, and well-documented code.\n\n* Collaborating with cross-functional teams to achieve project objectives and enhance development practices.\n\n* Analyzing system performance and implementing monitoring solutions.\n\n* Extending your very own skills by learning from and growing with the team.\n\n\n\n\nWhat you’ll be bringing to the team:\n\n\n* Excellent communication skills in English.\n\n* Expertise in Python and the Python ecosystem, including tools like poetry and pytest.\n\n* Experience with the FastAPI framework.\n\n* Experience with databases such as MySQL or DynamoDB.\n\n* Knowledge of monitoring applications for performance and reliability\n\n* Hands-on experience with Kafka.\n\n* Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals.\n\n* Commitment to clean code, maintainability, and systematic correctness.\n\n\n\n\nEven better if you have, but not necessary:\n\n\n* Experience in Agile development environments.\n\n* Understanding of networking fundamentals (HTTP, TCP, TLS, etc.).\n\n* Proficiency with CI/CD systems, Docker, and Kubernetes.\n\n* Experience with cloud environments like AWS or GCP.\n\n* Computer Science degree or equivalent.\n\n\n\n\n \n\nWho you are\n\n\n* You are a team player who likes to contribute to discussions and share your experience.\n\n* You are self-motivated and can function effectively in a team environment with minimum supervision.\n\n* You are always seeking improvement and progress.\n\n* You are eager to make decisions and not afraid of making mistakes.\n\n\n\n\n \n\nWhat’s in it for you\n\nCome live the Lightspeed experience...\n\n\n* Lots of autonomy, flexible work culture, and the possibility of remote work;\n\n* Development of very high-traffic products used at a global scale;\n\n* Exposure to modern and proven technology;\n\n* Opportunity to learn and expand your skill set;\n\n* Tons of growth opportunities in technical or people management roles;\n\n* Excellent benefits & perks, including equity for all Lightspeeders;\n\n* Opportunity to join a fast-paced, high-growth company;\n\n* Become a valued part of the diverse and inclusive Lightspeed culture. \n\n\n\n\n \n\n… and enjoy a range of benefits that’ll keep you happy and healthy:\n\n\n* Lightspeed share scheme (we are all owners);\n\n* Flexible working policy;\n\n* Mental health online platform and counseling & coaching services;\n\n* ​​Health and wellness benefits;\n\n* LinkedIn Learning license (learning is always ongoing);\n\n* Volunteer day to be able to give back to society!\n\n\n\n\n \n\nTo all recruitment agencies: Lightspeed does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. If we have not directly engaged your company in writing to supply candidates for a specific vacancy, Lightspeed will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.\n\nWhere to from here?\n\nObviously, this has to be mutually beneficial: we want you to step into a role you love, and we want to offer you a place you’re proud to come to every day. For a glimpse into our world check out our career page here.\n\nLightspeed is building communities through commerce, and we need people from all backgrounds and lived experiences to do that. We were founded in 2005, in Montreal’s gay village and our original members were all part of the LGBTQ+ community. The ethos of our business has been about inclusion from the very beginning, and we strive to provide a workplace where everyone belongs. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Python, Cloud, Senior and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $62,500 — $112,500/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
\n\n#Location\nAmsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

\nAbout Baubap\nWe are a fast-growing, Mexican fintech startup with the mission to become the bridge to people’s financial freedom through technology.\nWe are providing microloans to people in financial need through a fast and efficient process, always treating them with the respect and dignity they deserve.\nOur long-term vision is be the most inclusive digital bank in LATAM with more than 2.5 million clients.\n\n\n*We require that the candidate is fluent in Spanish and currently resides in the LATAM region, as it's important be willing to work under the Mexican Central Time Zone.\n\n About you\n\n🚀 \n\nAre you ready to shape the future of personal micro loans? As a Backend Engineer focused on Financial Core Systems, you'll be at the heart of ensuring our backend's performance, stability, and reliability. Your work will directly streamline our operations and accelerate product development.\n\nYou’ll collaborate with a dynamic and passionate team dedicated to problem-solving and continuous improvement. Your contributions will be instrumental in achieving our product goals, to ensure our customers experience the best feeling by using our products.\n\nYou’ll take charge of important projects focused on improving functionality, helping us achieve our key objectives and results (OKRs). Your work will enhance user experiences and streamline processes through clear communication and quick updates. Join us and make a real impact in the micro-loan industry!\n\n\nAs Backend Engineer, these are the challenges that you will help us for solving\n\n\n* Work with the team to design and implement backend system architecture, focusing on scalability, maintainability, and efficiency.\n\n* Improve backend performance through code optimization and architectural enhancements.\n\n* Integrate external Financial and Compliance systems and services, including third-party products in a variety of APIs implementations.\n\n* Develop and maintain reliable and efficient APIs for server-to-client, server-to-server and event-driven communication.\n\n* Implement security best practices to protect against vulnerabilities and cyber threats.\n\n* Diagnose and resolve complex issues related to high-volume transactions in the product's backend.\n\n\n\n\n Day to day\n\n\n* Collaborate to design and implement scalable, maintainable, and efficient backend system architectures using micro-services.\n\n* Develop and maintain robust and efficient APIs for server-to-client, server-to-server and event-driven communication, ensuring performance under high traffic.\n\n* Optimize backend components to ensure optimal performance, scalability, and reliability. Conduct regular performance tuning and bug fixing.\n\n* Implement security best practices to protect against vulnerabilities and cyber threats.\n\n* Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to maintain high code quality.\n\n* Ensure seamless communication and data exchange between different components.\n\n* Participate in regular team meetings, brainstorming sessions, and collaborative planning.\n\n* Stay updated with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices, to continuously improve development processes, tools, and methodologies to enhance productivity and product quality.\n\n\n\n\nRequirements \n\n\n* 5+ years of experience in backend development in a fast growing product.\n\n* Hands-on experience designing and building micro services architectures.\n\n* Proven ability to develop and maintain RESTful and/or GraphQL APIs.\n\n* Demonstrated skills in optimizing system performance, scalability, and reliability.\n\n* Excellent teamwork and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.\n\n* Commitment to writing clean, maintainable, and efficient code, following industry standards and best practices.\n\n* Experience with monitoring, maintaining, and supporting backend systems in a production environment.\n\n* Ability to create and maintain detailed technical documentation for system architecture, design, and processes.\n\n* Experience with writing and maintaining unit, integration, and end-to-end tests to ensure system reliability.\n\n* Experience with designing and maintaining scalable data models in relational databases such as PostgreSQL and MySQL which the capability to ensure data integrity and precision.\n\n*  \n\n\n\n\n🚀 Nice to have\n\n\n* Experience with tech leading small groups of at most 6 people, giving them technical direction and support.\n\n* Expertise in putting together well designed solutions to support constant-growing financial platforms by implementing cutting-edge technology and patterns.\n\n* In-depth knowledge and experience working in the fintech industry.\n\n* Familiarity with STP (Sistema de Transferencias y Pagos) and its operations.\n\n* Understanding and experience with SPEI (Sistema de Pagos Electrónicos Interbancarios) and its implementation.\n\n* Expertise in disbursement processes, payment gateways, and financial transaction handling.\n\n* Knowledge of various financial products, particularly personal micro loans and their lifecycle.\n\n* Understanding of regulatory compliance requirements in the Mexican fintech sector.\n\n* Knowledge of risk assessment and management in financial services.\n\n* Experience applying machine learning techniques to financial data for fraud detection, credit scoring, etc.\n\n* Proficiency with Docker and Kubernetes for managing containerized applications.\n\n* Skills in data analysis and using tools like SQL, Python (Pandas), or R to extract insights from financial data.\n\n*  \n\n\n\n\nWhat is our way of working?\n\n\n* We aim to be as product centric as possible, which means we always prioritise:\n\n* Listening to our customers (whether internal or external), mainly qualitatively and secondary quantitatively\n\n* Focusing on real problems our clients face\n\n* Strong focus on customer experience\n\n* Assuring that every product adds value to both, our business and our customers\n\n* Falling in love with the problem instead of the solution\n\n* Quick validation and learning\n\n* Strong collaboration within your team and other teams\n\n* Small, progressive, incremental delivery, innovation comes from iterations not from scratch.\n\n\n\n\n\n What we offer\n\n\n\n* Being part of a multinational, highly driven team of professionals\n\n* Flexible and remote working environment\n\n* High level of ownership and independence\n\n* 20 vacation days / year + 75% holiday bonus\n\n* 1 month (proportional) of Christmas bonus\n\n* Vales de despensa of 3,257 MXN / month\n\n* Health & Life insurance\n\n* Home office set-up budget\n\n* Unlimited budget for Kindle books\n\n* 2 psychological sessions/month with Terapify\n\n* Baubap Free Loan\n\n\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 Design, GraphQL, Python, Docker, Senior, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $80,000 — $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
\n\n#Location\nMexico City, Mexico City, Mexico

Our Mission: \nTo capture the hearts and minds of millions of players across the world by creating unforgettable games powered by the best technology.\n\nAbout Us:\n\nPlayQ is a rapidly growing global entertainment and technology company delivering high-quality mobile titles and innovative game development solutions to a worldwide audience. Our games have been downloaded more than 60 million times across the globe, with millions of users playing every day! \n\nOur dedicated teams, based in downtown Santa Monica, CA, work together to craft the clever, visually stunning, and unforgettable experiences that our players love. Our emphasis on individual leadership means each team member has the opportunity to make a big impact, while our commitment to creative freedom gives them the ability to create whatever they can imagine. \n\nIt’s this mindset that has led us to develop our own IP, infuse games with rich storytelling, build our own development tools, and solve the deepest technical challenges - all in the name of disrupting the mobile gaming landscape.\n\nWhy you'll want to come to work:\n\nAs a Lead DevOps Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in spearheading the design, implementation, and maintenance of robust and scalable infrastructure solutions. You will manage DevOps engineering projects on the team, collaborate closely with our global game and services development teams, and automate processes to enhance overall company efficiency. You will be at the forefront of overseeing the design, creation and management of CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and backend service deployments to ensure seamless and automated delivery of applications.\n\nIn this role, you will be instrumental in shaping the technological landscape, fostering innovation, and contributing to the success of PlayQ’s mission. You’d be an ideal fit for this role if you:\n\n\n* Possess a visionary mindset, shaping high-level architectures that power the future of gaming infrastructure.\n\n* Inspire and drive global teams of engineers, translating blueprints into resilient, scalable systems with a "can-do" attitude.\n\n* Roll up your sleeves and dive into technical challenges, leading by example and fostering a hands-on and solutions focused approach.\n\n* Display a proven track record of driving results, demonstrably reducing deployment time and optimizing performance\n\n* Communicate effectively across technical and non-technical audiences, collaborating seamlessly with global game and service development teams.\n\n* Possess a passion for learning and innovation, staying ahead of the curve in cloud technologies and DevOps best practices.\n\n* Embrace a fast-paced, collaborative environment, thriving in a culture where ideas are valued and teamwork is paramount.\n\n\n\n\nWhat you'll get to create:\n\n\n* Lead the design, implementation, and maintenance of highly scalable and secure infrastructure solutions, collaborating closely with development teams to automate manual processes and boost overall team efficiency.\n\n* Architect and oversee efficient CI/CD pipelines built with TeamCity and GitHub Actions, ensuring seamless and automated delivery of game and service updates.\n\n* Architect and lead the development of our Python-based interactive Slack bot, ensuring scalability, robustness, and seamless integration with our internal systems and workflows.\n\n* Leverage proficiency in Bash, Python, and Kotlin to build and maintain robust automation scripts, CI/CD pipelines, and IaC configurations.\n\n* Architect and implement a robust, scalable infrastructure for game deployment using Harness, Terraform, and AWS cloud platform tools (EKS, S3, CloudFront, etc.).\n\n* Partner with cross-functional teams and engineers to streamline build and deployment processes, aligning them with business objectives.\n\n* Drive effective communication with stakeholders, providing regular updates and actionable insights into DevOps initiatives.\n\n* Proactively identify and implement innovative CI/CD and IaC tools and processes to continuously optimize workflows and efficiency.\n\n* Manage and document deployment processes and automation, fostering transparency and maintainability.\n\n* Proactively identify and implement innovative CI/CD tools and processes to continuously optimize workflows and efficiency.\n\n* Perform ongoing competitive research into industry best practices.\n\n* Mentor and guide junior team members, fostering a culture of growth and knowledge sharing.\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat you'll bring to the team: \n\n\n* Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.\n\n* 8+ years of Software Development or DevOps experience\n\n* 3+ years of experience as an engineering lead, delegating tasks to key contributors \n\n* 3+ years of experience developing and maintaining Python scripts for automation tasks, CI/CD pipelines, and API integrations\n\n* Proven success in leading multiple engineering projects from execution to completion on time and within budget\n\n* Proven expertise in predicting obstacles and creating project plans that mitigate against risk and disruption\n\n* Strong expertise in cloud platforms such as AWS.\n\n* Expert proficiency in infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.\n\n* Proven success in leveraging containerization and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes\n\n* In-depth knowledge of CI/CD and IaC orchestration tools (TeamCity, Harness), version control systems (GitHub), and automated testing\n\n* Solid understanding of security best practices and compliance standards\n\n* Ability to effectively communicate complex, technical information to non-technical teams\n\n* Ability to independently troubleshoot and solution for common engineering challenges\n\n\n\n\nIf you gotten this far, we hope you're feeling excited about this role. Even if you don't feel you meet every single requirement, we still encourage you to apply. We're eager to meet people who believe in PlayQ's mission and can contribute to our team in a variety of ways—not just candidates who check all the boxes.\n\nWhat we can offer you:\n\n\n* Competitive compensation and equity options\n\n* Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, long term disability & pet insurance\n\n* Flexible time off\n\n* Unmatched learning opportunities and mission driven team\n\n* Advancement and mentorship opportunities\n\n* 401K plan with company match\n\n* Flexible Workplace: PlayQ’s workplace includes a combination of both in-office, hybrid and remote roles. Our flexible approach to the workplace experience, internal comms, and tech stack promote collaboration, communication, and camaraderie!\n\n* Brand new creative office space equipped with tons of natural light, communal areas for collaboration and free parking\n\n* Walking distance to restaurants, coffee shops, and the metro\n\n* Stocked kitchen with snacks and beverages\n\n* Monthly team building events and cross departmental lunches\n\n* Help build and support awesome GAMES. For a living! Who doesn't love games?\n\n\n\nAt PlayQ, we leverage competitive benchmarking data when setting each role’s base pay range. Individual base salary will be determined based on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, scope of role, business need and geographic location.\nThe estimated base pay range for this role is listed below.\n$135,000-$180,000 USD\nAdditional information:\n\n* In-office location: Santa Monica, CA\n\n* This role is open to remote employees located in select US states including California, Washington, Nevada, Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, New York and Georgia.\n\n* This role is offered as a full time position.\n\n\n\nInterested? Please get in touch! \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Python, Docker, DevOps, Cloud, API, Mobile, Junior, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $110,000/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
\n\n#Location\nSanta Monica, California, United States

\nGreenM is a people-centric data analytics company!\nWe are a service company and strive to expand the business opportunities of clients and partners with the help of data analysis and individual software solutions.\n\n\nAt GreenM we have a deep focus on unleashing the full potential of each engineer and invest in strengthening team skills and building a company culture around continuous improvements.\n\n\nFor the development of a product from an environmental program that encourages and rewards people for participating in environmental activities, we are looking for a Python Engineer who will strengthen the team to achieve the project's goals (Ad-hoc scaling). \n\n\nBrief Responsibilities: \nDesigning and implementing internal development strategies to meet the client's business requirements, using Python and its frameworks to build scalable and maintainable applications.\n\n\n*Your background:\nHigher technical education;\n3-5 years of practical experience in the role of Python Software Engineer Python Developer, etc.;\nExperience in participating in the implementation of projects and products from scratch.\nSkills, competencies:\nProactive teamwork, ability to influence and support a team of engineers;\nAbility to translate high-level business and technical requirements into technical results;\nFlexible delivery thinking;\nWillingness to learn and adapt to new technologies and technical stacks;\nFluent or fluent spoken English;\nExperience working in an Agile team environment.\n\n\n*Technical knowledge:\nDeep understanding of technical architecture and design principles;\nProficiency in Python with a deep understanding of Python principles and best practices;\nExperience with Django for developing web applications and RESTful APIs, including familiarity with the Django REST framework for creating APIs;\nStrong design and development skills for RESTful services and understanding of REST principles, authentication and authorization mechanisms;\nSkills in using version control systems such as Git, including branches, merges, and pull requests, to collaborate effectively in a team environment;\nExperience with relational databases (eg PostgreSQL, MySQL) and/or NoSQL databases (eg MongoDB), including schema development, queries and migrations;\nUnderstanding OAuth 2.0 Flows. and implementation experience.\n\n\n**It will be a plus:\nAbility to work with code and expert evaluations;\nExperience with AWS;\nExperience using Docker for containerization and understanding how to create, manage, and deploy Docker containers to development, staging, and production environments;\nKnowledge of Send Grid integration and management for in-app email services, including configuring transactional emails and troubleshooting email deliverability;\nExperience integrating with identity providers and SSO.\nExperience with Google Firebase.\n\n\n*Details:\nProject and department (current project stage, what has already been done, development plan, etc.)\nAn initiative focused on promoting environmental sustainability while also offering financial benefits. At the core of the product is an environmental program that encourages and rewards people for participating in environmental activities such as beach cleanups, tree planting and wildlife conservation.\nThe team has already developed a POC version of the product and is currently looking for an intermediate/strong Python developer to focus on the MVP version.\nTeam: The new team member will work in a team of 4: 1 BE, 1 FE, 1 QA, and 1 PM (the client is in the US).\nEmpowerment: New team members will have the opportunity to make independent decisions regarding backend development within the project.\n\n\n*Tasks and responsibilities for the first time:\nBackend Development: Designing and executing backend development strategies to meet the client's business requirements, using Python and its frameworks to build scalable and maintainable applications;\nArchitectural decision-making: Active participation in the application architecture decision-making process and the development of solutions, ensuring that they are innovative and practical;\nIntegration with third-party software: implement, configure and maintain full integration with third-party software that ensures smooth operation and improves the functionality of our applications;\nWork closely with the Product Manager to understand project requirements, provide technical input and recommendations on the most effective technical approaches to achieve project objectives;\nTechnical leadership and proactivity: taking a proactive stance in all aspects of solution development, from proposing new technologies and frameworks to identifying opportunities for process improvement;\n*Prospects:\nTechnical Leadership and Proactivity: Taking a proactive stance in all aspects of solution development, from proposing new technologies and frameworks to identifying opportunities for process improvement, etc.\n\n\n*Interview steps:\nLead TA - 1 hour (introduction, discussion of your practical experience and coordination with the current project, team);\nTechnical interview - 1.5 hours/2 team members (free-style discussion of experience, understanding of general project development principles, design patterns, web-apps development. Architectural tasks, no real-time coding. DB related tasks online)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n$2,800 - $3,400 a month\n\nThe team is made up of colleagues and friends who share the same values and passion for what they are doing. We invite new teammates who have a similar mindset and professional views. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Python, Design, Django, Docker, NoSQL, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $110,000/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
\n\n#Location\nUkraine