LOCATION: Remote within the U.S.\n\nCiviqs is the leading online scientific polling platform and a division of Kos Media LLC. Civiqs has been conducting surveys online since 2014. Every day, Civiqs surveys thousands of people across the United States on politics, culture, and current affairs. With years of daily responses on a huge array of questions, Civiqs maintains one of the largest databases of public opinion in the United States. The scale and quality of Civiqs’ public opinion data, and its online survey panel, is unmatched in the survey industry.\n\nWe are hiring an experienced and results-driven Senior Software Development Engineer to join our talented remote engineering team. As Senior Software Development Engineer, you will ensure that the research platform is operating smoothly and accurately, and that new features are delivered on time and to specification. You will work alongside researchers and data scientists to help shape the Civiqs survey application as we expand our development team and build new research products and features.\n\nWe have an energized team of survey researchers with diverse backgrounds and skill sets. If you’re interested in a position that offers more than just a technical challenge, we’d like to hear from you. The ideal candidate for this position will love data as much as we do! You are an innovator, collaborator and have an innate dedication to excellence. You are self-motivated, efficient, and capable of delivering results with limited guidance. Come join our team and guide the future of public opinion research using the Civiqs panel!\n\nResponsibilities\n\n- Design, architect, code, and maintain application solutions for Civiqs using industry best practices\n- Maintain and optimize Python / PyMC modelling application, and data science pipeline\n- Have a deep understanding of our frontend and backend systems, infrastructure, cloud services, and dev ops automation tools\n- Clearly and precisely communicate technical issues and establish day to day priorities with other developers and non-technical stakeholders\n- Mentor other developers on the team, through pairing and direct feedback\n- Kick off and lead technical team decision making in collaboration with research and engineering management\n- Quickly identify and address bugs, anticipate run time issues involving code changes that may affect extremely large data sets\n- Write detailed automated test cases for new features\n- Work collaboratively with the engineering team and lead complex releases often involving multiple systems and large data migrations\n- Partner with research team members to ensure that documented requirements meet the team’s needs, and ensure that development priorities are aligned\n- Remain current on test, development, and deployment best practices\n\nExperience\n\n- 8+ years experience in professional software development using Python and/or Ruby and Javascript\n- Experience with Python data science, PyMC, Pandas, Spark, etc. preferred\n- Production experience with ReactJS would be a bonus\n- 4+ years experience working on an Agile, Kanban, or similar collaborative environment\n- Experience working with fully remote teams preferred.\n\nQualifications\n\n- Experience maintaining and developing new features in large and complex codebases\n- Working knowledge in systems or operations at OS and basic networking levels\n- Ability to write, run, and optimize raw SQL queries in MySQL or PostgreSQL; knowledge of other data storage a plus\n- Experience with containerized application development using Docker is preferred\n- Experience measuring system performance and implementing security best practices\n- Strong track record developing software using automated testing tools\n- Awareness of typical programming errors and the unexpected things users do whether accidentally or maliciously\n- Ability to analyze and debug distributed data processing systems\n- Motivated, organized, and self-directed technical leader\n- Critical thinker with thirst for knowledge and continuous improvement\n- Ability to work autonomously, take ownership, and deliver a quality software experience\n- Excellent communication skills and comfortable talking with team members at all levels\n- Willingness to become a Civiqs platform expert\n\nSALARY RANGE: $130,000 - $165,000\n\nThis position is a 40 hour/week, full-time exempt position and reports to Civiqs’ Engineering Manager. Candidates must be legally eligible to work in the United States. The position offers a flexible work environment, the ability to work remotely or from home, competitive salary, excellent benefits including: full medical, dental and vision benefits, optional 401K with a company match, remote worker stipend, a generous vacation package, traumatic grief leave, a professional development stipend, as well as employer-paid maternity/family leave. Our organizational commitment to personal growth and work-life balance reduces churn and encourages a very rewarding long term position.\n\nAt Civiqs, we believe that the diversity of ideas, experiences and cultures that our employees contribute to our organization help us be more effective in our work, and we are proud to be an inclusive and equal-opportunity workplace. The atmosphere in our office is energized by the day’s news events, and people united by common cause. We’re a company that loves learning and supports growth and training for all our employees.\n\nWomen, people of color, and LGBTQ+ individuals are strongly encouraged to apply. \n\nPlease mention the word **HOT** 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 $130,000 — $160,000/year\n \n\n#Location\nUnited States

LOCATION: Remote within the U.S.\n\nCiviqs is the leading online scientific polling platform and a division of Kos Media LLC. Civiqs has been conducting surveys online since 2014. Every day, Civiqs surveys thousands of people across the United States on politics, culture, and current affairs. With years of daily responses on a huge array of questions, Civiqs maintains one of the largest databases of public opinion in the United States. The scale and quality of Civiqs’ public opinion data, and its online survey panel, is unmatched in the survey industry.\n\nWe are hiring an experienced and results-driven Software Development Engineer to join our talented remote engineering team. As Software Development Engineer, you will ensure that the research platform is operating smoothly and accurately, and that new features are delivered on time and to specification. You will work alongside researchers and data scientists to help shape the Civiqs survey application as we expand our development team and build new research products and features.\n\nWe have an energized team of survey researchers with diverse backgrounds and skill sets. If you’re interested in a position that offers more than just a technical challenge, we’d like to hear from you. The ideal candidate for this position will love data as much as we do! You are an innovator, collaborator and have an innate dedication to excellence. You are self-motivated, efficient, and capable of delivering results with limited guidance. Come join our team and guide the future of public opinion research using the Civiqs panel!\n\nResponsibilities\n\n- Design, and code application solutions for Civiqs using industry best practices\n- Building a deep understanding of our frontend and backend systems, infrastructure, cloud services, and dev ops automation tools\n- Clearly and precisely communicate technical issues with other developers and non-technical stakeholders\n- Quickly identify and address bugs, anticipate run time issues involving code changes that may affect extremely large data sets\n- Write detailed automated test cases for new features\n- Work collaboratively with engineering team to coordinate complex releases often involving multiple systems and large data migrations\n- Partner with research team members to ensure that documented requirements meet the team’s needs\n- Remain current on test, development, and deployment best practices\n- Be a team player, share knowledge, and collaborate through pairing, feedback, and discussions, etc.\n\nExperience\n\n- 5+ years experience in professional software development using Python and/or Ruby and Javascript\n- Production experience with ReactJS preferred\n- 3+ years experience working on an Agile, Kanban, or similar collaborative environment\n- Experience working with fully remote teams preferred\n\nQualifications\n\n- Extensive development experience in large and complex codebases\n- Working knowledge in systems or operations at OS and basic networking levels\n- Ability to write, run, and optimize raw SQL queries in MySQL or PostgreSQL; knowledge of other data storage a plus\n- Experience with containerized application development using Docker is preferred\n- Experience measuring system performance and implementing security best practices\n- Strong track record developing software using automated testing tools\n- Awareness of typical programming errors and the unexpected things users do whether accidentally or maliciously\n- Ability to analyze and debug distributed data processing systems\n- Motivated, organized, and self-directed technical leader\n- Critical thinker with thirst for knowledge and continuous improvement\n- Ability to work autonomously, take ownership, and deliver a quality software experience\n- Excellent communication skills and comfortable talking with team members at all levels\n- Willingness to become a Civiqs platform expert\n\nSALARY RANGE: $115,000 - $130,000\n\nThis position is a 40 hour/week, full-time exempt position and reports to Civiqs’ Engineering Manager. Candidates must be legally eligible to work in the United States. The position offers a flexible work environment, the ability to work remotely or from home, competitive salary, excellent benefits including: full medical, dental and vision benefits, optional 401K with a company match, remote worker stipend, a generous vacation package, traumatic grief leave, a professional development stipend, as well as employer-paid maternity/family leave. Our organizational commitment to personal growth and work-life balance reduces churn and encourages a very rewarding long term position.\n\nAt Civiqs, we believe that the diversity of ideas, experiences and cultures that our employees contribute to our organization help us be more effective in our work, and we are proud to be an inclusive and equal-opportunity workplace. The atmosphere in our office is energized by the day’s news events, and people united by common cause. We’re a company that loves learning and supports growth and training for all our employees.\n\nWomen, people of color, and LGBTQ+ individuals are strongly encouraged to apply. \n\nPlease mention the word **GRANDEUR** 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 $110,000 — $130,000/year\n \n\n#Location\nUnitied States

Rainforest QA is an on-demand QA solution. It’s our mission to enable development teams to deliver bug-free software while moving at the speed of continuous delivery. We are truly a global team, allowing us to bring together the best and most diverse talent. Our commitment to the distributed team model and to our company values has earned us [multiple culture and workplace awards](https://www.rainforestqa.com/about) and helped us build a diverse team of individuals working toward the same goal: change the way QA is done. \n\nLearn more about Rainforest QA by visiting our [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/rainforestqa/), [Glassdoor](https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Rainforest-QA-EI_IE825703.11,24.htm), [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/rainforestqa/), [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/RainforestQA/), and [Twitter](https://twitter.com/rainforestqa) pages.\n\n\n**Senior Engineer (Backend)**\n\nAs a Senior Engineer at Rainforest QA you'll be part of an experienced and diverse team with members all over the world.\n\nWe were built as a distributed team from the beginning and we've committed to implementing tools and processes that allow for and support continuous and effective communication across the world.\n\nWhat you'll do\n* Work on our main app, which contains the majority of our business logic and is written in Ruby-on-Rails and backed by PostgreSQL and Redis\n* Work on numerous support services (including our work scheduler and VM management system - both of which manage hundreds of thousands of requests a day) written in a variety of languages (Elixir, Golang, Crystal, Node, Python) chosen because of their suitability to the problem the service is solving\n* Work on internal tooling to improve the development experience of other engineers and ship faster and safer\n* Collaborate with product managers and our customer facing teams to analyze customer problems and design high impact features\n* Lead projects to implement those features\n* Help other team members to achieve their goals\n* Continuously learn about new technologies and ways to solve problems\n* Work with our customer facing teams to triage, troubleshoot, and fix bugs\n* Write unit and integration tests (using our own product!) to ship high quality software\n\nWhat we’re looking for\n* Extensive experience in Ruby (or equivalent dynamic language) and be extremely knowledgeable of the language and associated ecosystem\n* Extensive experience in Ruby on Rails (or equivalent framework) and be extremely knowledgeable of the framework and associated ecosystem\n* Experience in writing and debugging SQL\n* Enthusiasm for building applications using tools like Ruby on Rails, Golang, Elixir, React, PostgreSQL, Redis, BigQuery, and Kubernetes - amongst others\n* Practical experience of working on a React codebase\n* Even though this position is mainly backend focused, we expect you to have some grasp of the whole stack to be able to effectively communicate with engineers across the team, and can make frontend or infrastructure changes when the situation calls for it\n* Professional experience in engineering SaaS products\n* Experience leading projects with teams\n* An ownership mindset: you should look not only at what you’re asked to do, but ask why you’re doing it and how it impacts on the rest of the product, our customers, and whether it makes sense. We expect you to be responsible for your work and to resolve any bugs you might ship\n* Excitement to learn\n* Excellent communication skills and able to give and receive constructive feedback\n* Happy to review code and have your code reviewed\n* Can work effectively remotely with remote team members (we are a fully distributed company)\n* Comfortable working in a large codebase with many stakeholders\n\nIdentify with our company values\n* No BS, No Ego: We are radically candid with each other in every interaction. This means a lack of politics, a lack of showboating, a lack of BS. This also means brevity, clarity of thought, and clarity of communication. We give and take feedback without ego, with the knowledge that we all are operating with good intent. No ego is the check system to balance no BS and keep it kind. No ad-hominem attacks.\n* 1% better every day: Continuous improvement is what motivates us. We design our product, our organization and our careers to be continually improving. Mistakes are only bad if they are repeated. Experiments are only wasted if they are not learned from.\n* Own the journey: We are all owners. We demand that of each other. The journey we own is threefold: our customers’ journey, our company’s journey and our personal journey. Our reason for existence is to nail our customer journey, so that we can scale our company’s success.\n\nHow we'll reward you\n* Flexible, remote work options \n* Competitive salary with equity.\n* A locally-adjusted weekly allowance for lunches.\n* A locally-adjusted monthly allowance for remote office supplies or personal development.\n* Unlimited paid-time off.\n* 3 offsites per year: every ~4 months we arrange an offsite for the whole company to get together so we can get to know our colleagues better and understand what we need to do. The location is ever changing, so you will get to see some new places!*\n* currently on-hold due to COVID-19 \n\n**United States Residents Only:**\n* 100% medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage. 75% for dependents.\n* Voluntary 401k program.\n\nOUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION\n\nAt Rainforest QA we believe that diverse teams improve our business. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. \n\nPlease mention the words **FOSSIL SITUATE BIOLOGY** 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 $50,000 — $170,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n
\n\n#Location\nWorldwide