\nOUR MISSION\n\n\nAt Torch, we believe in the power of people. People are the heart of every success story. They collaborate to achieve ambitious things together. And they inspire others to build a better future. \n\n\nThat’s why our mission at Torch is to unlock the potential of people, teams, and organizations. We believe that trusted relationships are the key to helping people realize their full potential. When people experience transformational growth in the context of a trusted relationship, they achieve more, their teams excel, and their organizations thrive.\n\n\nBy combining a community of expert coaches, scalable technology, and the latest behavioral science, Torch helps our customers develop their people, create stronger leaders and managers, and drive business performance. \n\n\nBacked by top-tier investors, Torch is a fast-growing, mission-driven SaaS startup comprised of people who are passionate about helping leaders, their teams, and their organizations achieve more. If that sounds worthwhile to you, join us. Torch is a remote and distributed team with an office in San Francisco. The rest of the team is scattered around the U.S.\n\n\nOUR VALUES\n\n\nAll Torch employees are expected to reflect and enhance our company values, GROWS:\n\n\nGo Deep\nWe study the science, learn from the best practitioners, and dig in with customers to solve their unique needs.\n\n\nRelationships Matter\nWe lean into relationships with empathy to create more meaningful connections and more meaningful impact.\n\n\nOwn It\nWe take responsibility for our commitments, our contributions, our results and for the success of those around us.\n\n\nWin Together\nWe believe that happiness and fulfillment at work comes from shared success and value.\n\n\nSprint Forward\nWe prioritize, sprint, learn, adjust, and then sprint again.\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE\nAt Torch, we are looking for a talented Engineering Manager who has experience developing web systems from the ground up and is passionate about doing work that matters. \n\n\nThe Engineering Manager works alongside technology and product leadership to ship a high quality, engaging digital coaching platform using  technologies and engineering processes.  This role is crucial in continuing to build and sustain a world class engineering culture - one which provides team members open and supportive leadership and a clear path for growth both personally and as a group.\n\n\nThis role requires a leader who can inspire and mentor a team of talented engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, precision, and collaboration. The ideal candidate will bring both technical expertise and strategic insight, driving the team to deliver results that align with Torch's overarching goals of growth and customer satisfaction. \n\n\nPlease note we are only accepting US based applicants at this time.\n\n\n\nYOUR POSITION\n* Collaborate with product teams to design and build creative solutions, enabling personal growth for our clients while empowering our coaches.\n* Guide discussions of architecture, technical debt, and long-term technical strategy.\n* Lead and mentor a team of onsite and offshore engineers, by establishing and maintaining high technical and professional standards.\n* Help to create scalable, high-performance web applications consumable on various device form factors.\n* Develop and implement strategic plans for frontend technology, in alignment with the company's overall goals.\n* Establish and maintain design systems and component libraries to promote consistency and efficiency across applications.\n* Collaborate with UX/UI designers to implement responsive and intuitive interfaces that meet user needs and business objectives.\n* Uphold high standards in code quality and system reliability through peer code reviews and advocating for best practices in software development.\n* Provide focus and direction by driving execution on some of our highest priority projects.\n* Willingness to be hands on and support your team whenever necessary whether coding, debugging, or testing new product features.\n\n\n\nYOUR EXPERIENCE - Basic Requirements\n* 10+ years of software engineering experience, plus a degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or other STEM area.\n* 3+ years leading an agile software development team.\n* 5+ years experience developing complex front-end applications using modern frameworks such as React, Angular, or Vue.js.\n* Experience integrating and leveraging LLMs to enhance product functionality and user experiences, including natural language processing, recommendation systems, or other AI-driven functionalities.\n* Experience in responsive design and cross-browser compatibility issues, ensuring consistent user experiences across different devices and browsers.\n* Experience with component-driven development and proficiency in tools like Storybook for building and maintaining design systems.\n* Skilled in building and utilizing RESTful and GraphQL web services.\n* Proficiency with Git and cloud technologies in AWS.\n* Comprehensive understanding of various testing methodologies, ensuring thorough coverage and high-quality user experiences.\n* Understanding of distributed application design patterns and asynchronous programming models.\n* Familiar with both relational and non-relational databases.\n* Knowledge of security best practices and adherence to data protection regulations.\n\n\n\nINTERVIEW PROCESS - consists of the following\n* Technical Interview with the CTO (45 minutes) and a Principal Engineer (45 minutes).\n* Interview with an Engineering Team member (45 minutes) focusing on experience working with cross-functional teams, integration of product development processes, and managing engineering teams.\n* Design/Coding Session (60 minutes) to assess problem-solving skills and technical proficiency.\n\n\n* Leadership/Cultural Fit Interview with the CEO (45 minutes).\n\n\n\nBENEFITS\n* Health Insurance (medical, dental, and vision)\n* Unlimited PTO\n* 401k Retirement Plan\n* Life & Disability Insurance\n* Paid Parental Leave\n* Torch Coaching\n* UP Days\n* Remote Workstation Stipend\n\n\n\n\n\n$160,000 - $200,000 a year\n\nTorch ensures equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, national origin, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, genetic information, citizenship status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, SaaS, GraphQL, Cloud, Git and Engineer jobs that are similar:\n\n $45,000 — $87,500/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
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\nWhat you’ll be doing\n\nAs a Senior DevOps Engineer you will be on a team responsible for the platform that runs all Arachnys services. Our job is to ensure it’s secure, scalable, maintainable and cost-efficient. In addition to this core responsibility the team also provide consultancy to product-aligned development teams to assist with pipelines/infrastructure-as-code, performance troubleshooting as well as centrally defining best practices to ensure consistency and standards between projects. \n\nIn this role you’ll be expected to contribute to design/architecture decisions and defining best practices - being mindful of and able to carefully articulate the trade-offs and understand implications of decisions and how these map to current priorities. You’ll be able to draw on previous hard won experience to help deliver change safely as well as work on initiatives to simplify and manage complexity.\n\nRequired\n\n\n* We’re a multi-disciplined team and are looking for candidates that can demonstrate a strong background in cloud administration (ideally AWS) and IaC (ideally terraform) and one or more of the following -\n\n\n\n\n\n* Kubernetes - running production workloads on hosted clusters (e.g. EKS)\n\n\n\n* CI/CD - Experience of pipeline administration and best practices for deploying to production.\n\n\n\n* SRE - Experience of reliability engineering for cloud based workloads. You’ll have worked on observability tooling and have solid fundamentals with regards to systems and database performance, troubleshooting, TCP/IP, DNS + TLS.\n\n\n\n* Security - Experience of working in alignment with common security frameworks/standards e.g. CIS20, PCI-DSS, ISO27001. This might include vulnerability management , continuous compliance monitoring, rbac/iam, secrets management, secure build baselines etc..\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOur Stack\n\nThe Arachnys Platform is a set of multitenant SaaS applications deployed on AWS.\n\nOur backend is based on Python web services, backed by PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, and a number of AWS-specific services.\n\nOur frontend stack is based around React, TypeScript and Jest; in addition to the web client, we also have a Chrome extension.\n\nOperationally, we deploy Docker containers to Kubernetes, running on AWS infrastructure managed by Terraform.\n\nWe embrace new technologies and ways of doing things, but we do so deliberately, as a team, and weigh the real problems they solve against the complexity they introduce.\n\nBenefits\n\n\n* £500 budget for home-office equipment (we have an excellent remote-first working setup).\n\n\n\n* Bonus.ly - Our in-house micro-rewards scheme redeemable for haircuts, spotify memberships, games consoles and much more.\n\n\n\n* Generous parental leave.\n\n\n\n* A diverse and growing remote social culture that already includes gaming (board and video) and book club, as well as daily social calls and weekly coffee buddies.\n\n\n\n* A fitness programme that includes optional yoga, pilates, and HIIT classes (even under lockdown) as well as subsidised gym membership and a cycle to work scheme.\n\n\n\n* Career progression - Arachnys is a growth-stage company and there are plenty of opportunities to work across different parts of the stack and progress in your career.\n\n\n\n* Amazing colleagues - everyone at Arachnys cares passionately about what they do and our teams are filled with friendly, smart and highly collaborative individuals.\n\n\n\n\nDiversity\n\nWe are firmly committed to creating and maintaining a diverse and inclusive workplace in which all employees are valued, respected, safe, supported, and listened to without judgement or prejudice. These principles apply to all, regardless of race or ethnicity, age, gender, gender identity or expression, national origin, sexual orientation, mental or physical ability, religion, appearance, political beliefs, educational background, class, and position or tenure within the company. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are central to the direction we want our organisation to take, and are considered across all aspects of our business. \n\nLocation (COVID-19 statement)\n\nArachnys is a remote-first organisation, meaning that we work remotely but come together for collaborative on-sites and socials a handful of times a year (once it's safe to do so). We have found that candidates within 1-2 time zones of the UK work best with our current working practices. We provide all the technology and equipment our team needs to work productively remotely as well as all travel costs if we do ask them to come to a London onsite. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to DevOps, Senior, Engineer, Cloud, Scheme, Python, Travel, SaaS and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n

\nWe're looking for a talented software developer to work on the server-side of our music delivery service: music ingestion and delivery, analytics collection and reporting, and web services used by our clients and curation team. Your goal will be to help us power sound everywhere. \n\nYou will need to form a full understanding of our data model, how we map our music providers’ schemas to it, and how we expose it to our clients. You will be working with our primary data stores: MySQL, ElasticSearch and Google BigTable. You will work on all our backend services, written primarily in Node.js, along with PHP and Bash scripts.\n\nYou will work hand-in-hand with our current engineering team, music curators, customer support, and product team to define and develop whatever is needed to advance our business. You will work with and develop our tools and services that:\n\n\n* Ingest files and metadata from our music providers\n\n* Analyze and extract metadata from our music collection\n\n* Deliver music to applications using our client SDKs\n\n* Track music playback and generate reports for our music providers and licensors\n\n* Generate analytics and reporting from playback and client data\n\n* Power our customer and client portals\n\n\n\n\nYou are, at heart, a problem solver, and eager to collaborate with others to deploy working solutions to advance our business. You are eager to understand how the tasks you are working on fit into the bigger picture and you proactively engage with others to clarify and refine what you are working on.\n\nWe manage our infrastructure with Chef and Terraform, and use Jenkins and Git for deployment. We strive for reliability and simplicity, and look to outside SaaS providers when the price is right. You will take part in managing and supporting our staging and production environments.\n\nAt Feed.fm, we believe the best candidates are excellent communicators, learn quickly, are compassionate, collaborate well with others, and have a strong desire to see their work in action. We are flexible with working hours and maintain a healthy balance between work and personal lives.\n\nRequirements\n\n\n* Outstanding communication skills and an eagerness to collaborate with others\n\n* Experience building and maintaining production web services\n\n* Strong Node.js development experience\n\n* Strong SQL experience, particularly MySQL\n\n* Familiarity with server side languages such as Go, Java, PHP.\n\n* Strong operational experience with Linux and cloud computing providers (AWS, Digital Ocean, Google Cloud, or others)\n\n* Experience with cloud provisioning and infrastructure management tools such as Terraform and Chef.\n\n* Experience with test driven development\n\n* Strong desire to ship, receive feedback, and improve\n\n* Ready to take responsibility for production systems\n\n\n\n\nBonus:\n\n\n* Experience with storing and processing event streams\n\n* Experience with generating reporting and analytics\n\n* Terraform, GraphQL, Kinesis, ElasticSearch experience\n\n* Past experience with server or client side audio processing\n\n* Past experience implementing or working with music-related applications\n\n* Contributions to open-source projects\n\n* Familiarity with frontend web development: Javascript (and popular frameworks, like React, jQuery, and others), HTML, CSS.\n\n\n\n\n Benefits:\n\n\n* Competitive salary\n\n* Equity\n\n* Comprehensive health, dental, vision and disability insurance along with a 401k matching plan.\n\n* Working with a talented team and having a huge impact!\n\n\n\n\nWhy Feed.fm?\n\nWe're providing music for companies you know and love: FitBit, Nautilus, Tonal, Mirror, American Eagle Outfitters, Bose, Life Fitness, and others\n\n\n* We're building a real company that generates value and pays artists\n\n* You will have a hand in all aspects of a growing platform\n\n* Experienced, down-to-earth coworkers and investors\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 Senior, Engineer, Developer, Digital Nomad, JavaScript, Music, Elasticsearch, Cloud, PHP, Git, SaaS, Linux and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $65,000 — $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