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We’re seeking a full-stack engineer who is ready to work with new technologies and architectures. Here, you will take complete, end-to-end ownership of projects across the entire stack. Our ideal candidate has experience building products across the stack and a firm understanding of web frameworks, APIs, databases, and multiple back-end languages.\n\n* Participate in all aspects of agile software development including design, implementation, and deployment\n* Architect and provide guidance on building end-to-end systems optimized for speed and scale on AWS\n* Work with and manage freelance contractors as needed to assist in getting projects done\n* Work primarily in Ruby, React, and JavaScript\n* Collaborate via Slack, GitHub comments, documents, and frequent video conferences\n\n**Skills & Responsibilities**\n\n* Minimum of 3 years of development experience working in a fast-paced environment \n* Knowledge of Ruby, RoR, React, and Javascript.\n* Solid understanding of object-oriented programming\n* Solid understanding of database systems such as MySQL and PostgreSQL\n* Follow best practices (test-driven development, continuous integration, SCRUM, refactoring, and code standards)\n* Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application\n* Experience with cloud hosting solutions such as Heroku and AWS\n\n \n\nPlease mention the word **GAILY** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMTguOTcuMTQuODc=). 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 $100,000 — $110,000/year\n \n\n#Location\nUS Only

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 (#RMTguOTcuMTQuODc=). 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 (#RMTguOTcuMTQuODc=). 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

## A little about us\n\nOyster’s mission: to unlock global talent by making cross border hiring easy. We want to spread great employment rights and benefits and help make them the norm for remote workers across the world.\n\n🗺 Remote working, flexible hours.\n⏱ Permanent, full time\n💵 Competitive salary\n🍰 Early stage equity\n\nWe are a new, 100% distributed, startup building out our product offering in 2020. We’re fully funded and we’re putting together a great team of industry veterans. We’re a global company with team members in the UK, India, Germany, the USA, Finland, Latvia, and Mexico.\n\nHiring people internationally is complicated – with interacting engineering, legal, financial, operations, and HR processes. We’d like to find people who think this is as interesting a challenge as we do.\n\n## The role\n\nWe value making this an inclusive and diverse workplace, and we welcome applicants from marginalized groups – the world over.\n\nWe’re looking for a senior backend engineer, that probably means at least five years experience working professionally in teams on web development projects.\n\nIf you join us now, you’ll be in on the ground floor building our technology stack and product, helping to embed a positive team culture and build a great working environment.\n\nYou'll be working on architecting and implementing product features, as we rapidly expand our product offering.\n\nOur technology is (currently) Ruby, Rails, a GraphQL API, and ES6 with React, running on Heroku. This role is primarily on the backend side, though you’ll be able to work elsewhere if you have skills in other areas (and we are also looking for a full-stack developer if that's more your style).\n\nYour job will be to collaborate with product to develop and clarify requirements, and then take charge of implementing significant portions of the product as we expand our offering. You’ll be pairing with other engineers regularly to jointly develop implementation plans and share knowledge.\n\nSkill sets that are important:\n\n- Confident with Ruby, and you’ve worked with JavaScript to an extent. You know HTML.\n- You’ve worked with relational databases like MySQL or PostgreSQL.\n- You can articulately discuss requirements and technical plans.\n- You have a good understanding of web standards and development best practices.\n- You’re able to write robust, comprehensible code.\n- You've worked in agile teams of one kind or another.\n\nSkills that are not required but any of which would be a bonus:\n\n- Professional experience with GraphQL APIs\n- Using Rails\n- Cloud infrastructure experience\n- Web security expertise\n\nAnd finally:\n\n- You need to have a good home internet connection, or are able to get one.\n- You are a fluent English speaker\n\n## Benefits\n\n$60k-$80k depending on experience.\n\nFully-flexible hours\n\n30 days plus public holidays, or legal minimum in your region if greater. \n\nPlease mention the words **CLEAN ANTENNA GRIEF** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMTguOTcuMTQuODc=). 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 $60,000 — $80,000/year\n \n\n#Location\nGMT +/- 4

\nLOCATION: Remote within the US or Oakland, CA\n\nDaily Kos is the nation’s largest liberal online political community, news organization, and activism hub. Powered by millions of dedicated activists, we’re transforming media and organizing by empowering regular Americans to reshape politics.\n\nWe are seeking an experienced and results driven QA lead to help shape the QA function at Daily Kos as we expand our development team and build out more capacity for automated testing. Applicants must be self-motivated, efficient, and capable of delivering results with limited guidance.\n\nDaily Kos is an exciting workplace! Our site is used by hundreds of thousands of people a day who care deeply about progressive politics and are working to affect real political change. We provide an extensive feature set that extends from blogging to activism and beyond, built on top of a modern tool chain that includes Rails, React, Varnish, Nginx, RDS/MySQL, Haskell, Nix, ElasticSearch, and AWS. We have an energized team of great people with diverse backgrounds and skill sets. If you’re interested in a position that offers more than just a technical challenge, we’d love to hear from you.\n\nRESPONSIBILITIES:\n\n\n* Serve as primary QA engineer for our services team, building a deep understanding of our backend systems through testing our infrastructure, cloud services, and dev ops automation tools\n\n* Clearly and precisely identify, track, and document issues\n\n* Reproduce bugs and perform meticulous regression testing\n\n* Write and follow detailed test plans for new features\n\n* Collaborate with the product team to document software and systems functionality\n\n* Identify QA bottlenecks and suggest strategies for clearing them\n\n* Partner with team members to create and implement an automated testing strategy\n\n* Advocate for our users both internally and externally to ensure they have the reliable tools that they need and do what they need and expect\n\n\n\n\nEXPERIENCE:\n\n\n* 5-10 years experience in software quality assurance with at least two to three of them as a lead\n\n* Working experience using the JavaScript console, debugger, and other browser developer tools\n\n\n\n\nQUALIFICATIONS:\n\n\n* Ability to write and run raw SQL queries in MySQL or PostgreSQL; knowledge of other data storage a plus\n\n* Capable of understanding Ruby and JavaScript code\n\n* Awareness of typical programming errors and the unexpected things users do whether accidentally or maliciously\n\n* Experience measuring performance (reading and interpreting metrics dashboard, using benchmarking tools, etc.) and security testing\n\n* Strong track record building front-end automated tests and experience with various automated testing tools\n\n* Working knowledge in systems or operations at OS and basic networking levels.\n\n* Maddeningly creative approach to breaking things and other chaos monkey skills\n\n* Excellent communication skills, primarily in a virtual work environment\n\n* Familiarity of the Daily Kos application and willingness to become a platform expert\n\n\n\n\nSALARY RANGE: $80,000 - $95,000\n\nThis position is a 40 hour/week, full-time exempt position and reports to the Senior QA 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, professional development stipend, a generous vacation package, 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 Daily Kos, we believe that the diversity of ideas, experiences, and cultures that our employees contribute to our organization help us be more effective activists, and we are proud to be an inclusive and equal opportunity workplace. We have a team of amazing people with different backgrounds and talents that are 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 LGBTQIA individuals strongly encouraged to apply. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Quality Assurance, Senior, Engineer, Developer, Digital Nomad, JavaScript, Cloud, Ruby and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $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