The Opportunity\n===============\nShorthand is a growing company that provides a digital publishing platform to many of the world's best known publishers, brands, not-for-profits, and universities. With customers on every continent (except Antarctica!), there's never been a more exciting time to join Shorthand. Our company has the rare distinction in this era of money-burning startups of being both investor-backed and comfortably profitable. We're a small team of geeks with art and heart, and a high bar for quality.\nTo deliver our magic to customers and their audiences, we build software that is scalable, flexible and most importantly reliable.  We engineer and build software not only to support our own architecture, but to host and maintain content for our customers. We have engineered a scalable platform, and are now looking to push it to the next level.\nThe Role\n========\nWe tend to do things a little differently at Shorthand. For one thing, we're a small team distributed around the world. For this role we'll happily take applications from anywhere in the Asia-Pacific region, but applicants must be fluent in English.\nThis role will own DevOps at Shorthand and share responsibility for designing, engineering and scaling our backend systems and services.\nWe are looking for someone who:\n- Is whip smart, as demonstrated by career achievements and/or school/university results\n- Has good knowledge of cloud-based web architectures.\n- Experienced in system design and distributed computing.\n- Is excellent at backend development using technologies such as NodeJS, Typescript, and PostgreSQL\n- Knows how to build reliable cloud infrastructure.\n- Has a good working knowledge of AWS and Unix CLI.\n- Has experience with Cloudfront, S3, Lambda, RDS and ec2.\n- Has a working knowledge of scripting.\n- Has worked with CI/CD processes before (CircleCI/Jenkins preferably).\n- Has an extremely high bar for quality.\n- Is thorough and detail-oriented.\n- Can learn fast.\n- Has great communication skills, particularly with respect to writing.\n- Gains deep satisfaction from helping to make products better.\n- Has experience of working in a small business or startup environment.\n- Preferably has experience collaborating with diverse, geographically-dispersed teams.\nCore Responsibilities:\n======================\n- Own DevOps at Shorthand as our single dedicated DevOps engineer. \n- Develop and maintain server infrastructure across AWS services.\n- Learn, evolve and improve an existing application/system architecture.\n- Help secure the environment.\n- Develop Shorthand app server-side and API functionality to help improve the customer experience. \n- Contribute to the technical direction of the Shorthand tool.\n- Report bugs.\n- Communicate with the customer support team and customers to suggest solutions to issues.\n- Assist in the creation of product documentation when required.\nQualifications:\n===============\n- A minimum 3 years of experience in a Backend Developer or Devops role.\n- Thorough knowledge of NodeJS and the web.\n- Experience with AWS.\n- A university qualification in computer science or closely related field, or equivalent career experience required.\nPersonality Attributes: \n========================\n- You are a proactive self-starter, who does not need to be told what to do and will be resourceful in order to find solutions to any challenge.\n- You thrive in a fast-paced and demanding environment, and possess a high level of intellectual curiosity.\n- You are collaborative.\n- You derive happiness from a job well done. \n\nPlease mention the words **FAN WOMAN DERIVE** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xMDc=). 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 $10,000 — $100,000/year\n \n\n#Location\nAsia Pacific

## About us\n\nWe're a Swedish digital agency, specialized in building digital products and services for businesses of all sizes within both the private and public sectors. With our experienced, multidisciplinary team, we help our clients realize their projects from the early stages of ideation to prototypes, implementation, and post-production. Our ambition is to build a team with substantial experience and passion within their respective fields.\n\nWe’ve been a remote-first company for over eight years. Our team is currently all based in Europe, but we've had colleagues from all parts of the world, over the years: from the Dominican Republic all the way to South Korea and Bali.\n\n[Read more on www.oddcamp.com](https://www.oddcamp.com)\n\n## JOB TYPE\n\nFull time\n40 hours/week\n\n## LOCATION\nRemote\n\n## ABOUT YOU\n\n- You're a true professional who loves what you're doing;\n- You have a chronic thirst for knowledge and want to be a leading force in your field;\n- You have 3+ years of work experience in a similar role;\n- You are fluent in English and have excellent verbal and written communication skills;\n- You play well with others but are just as comfortable working on your own if needed;\n- You understand the choices you make in your work can help shape the world around you.\n\n## YOUR ROLE\n\nAs a Back End Ruby developer, you will be working in a team alongside, project leads, developers, and designers building and maintaining a diverse set of technical projects for our clients. As a tight knit team, you will be involved in all steps of the process, from early ideation, to architecting technical solutions, implementation, and beyond.\n\n## REQUIRED SKILLS\n\n- Significant experience with Ruby, working in a Ruby on Rails environment\n- Understanding of relational database and SQL (PostgreSQL)\n- Experience in creating and consuming web APIs\n- Deep understanding of object-orientated programming\n- Desire to work with Domain Driven Design\n- Experience with cloud services and tools (Heroku, AWS)\n- Git\n\n## IMPORTANT SKILLS\n\nYou don’t have to be a full-fledged expert within all of these from day one. However, you’ll likely work with all of these technologies regularly, so if you don’t already master them, then you’ll have to level them up.\n\n- DevOps and scaling Rails applications\n- Elasticsearch\n- Redis\n- Webpack\n- Modern JavaScript\n- React\n- Docker\n\n## BONUS SKILLS\n\nFamiliarity and experience with any of these fields is a major bonus:\n\n- GraphQL\n- Serverless architecture\n- Node & NPM\n- Elixir/Phoenix\n- MongoDB\n- Linux\n- Help and teach others: You know how to pass on your knowledge to other members of the team or to clients.\n- PHP\n- WordPress Headless (We only use WordPress as a headless CMS)\n\n## TELL US MORE\n\nWe’d be happy to hear about your…\n\n- Open source projects and contributions\n- Personal projects\n- Experience from business and management tools such as Trello, Basecamp, Harvest\n- Hobbies & Interests\n\n## WHAT IT’S LIKE TO WORK HERE\n\nTLDR; We have nice perks, exciting projects for interesting clients, and won’t work you to death.\n\n- You have big opportunities to influence your job and how we work.\n- You’ll enjoy a creative and smooth work environment.\n- We’re the best colleagues.\n- Remote work = OK. We have our HQ in Stockholm but you’re free to work from wherever you want within the Milky Way.\n- Because we’re an international team, English is the lingua franca internally. We also speak Swedish, Portuguese, Korean, Slovak, Bulgarian, - Spanish, and Lithuanian…\n- We’re a team - leave no colleague behind! We try to avoid projects where you’d end up on a long-term contract on your own.\n- 25 days of paid vacation every year.\n- Personal Development Days – Every other Friday, we step away from client work and choose something else that will boost our skills and expertise.\n- Company Development Days – When we feel it’s necessary to learn new things that require more time than one day every other week, we take time off to do that. How often and how long varies.\n- Overtime is our enemy and should not exist. You work 9-5, 8–4, 10–6, or whatever suits you. If you can’t stop building stuff, then go do good deeds in open source!\n- Workload: Every year has 224–229 workdays, depending on what days the Swedish national holidays occur. Out of these, approx 170 will be spent on client work since the following days are excluded: 25 vacation days, 22 personal development days, and 5–10 days conference/training days.\n- Health/fitness benefits (300 EUR/year), insurance, doctors’ appointments during work. Staying healthy is vital to do a good day’s work.\n- Pension savings following Swedish standards ITP1/ITP2. This amounts to 4,5% of your monthly salary.\n- Company trips. We love traveling the world and make sure to go somewhere on at least two company-wide trips per year.\n- Education budget. 400 EUR/year to spend on stuff that makes you a better designer or developer. Upgrade your GitHub account? Play around with a VPS on DigitalOcean? Pro account on CodePen? Fill your ebook reader with an unhealthy amount of ebooks? It’s your choice.\n- Your own stapler. To avoid fires.\n- You’ll get a Macbook Pro or whatever computer you prefer that runs OS X or Linux. \n\nPlease mention the words **DOG USELESS ABLE** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xMDc=). 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#Location\nWorldwide

\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to JavaScript, Serverless, Cloud, Backend, Web Developer, Developer and Digital Nomad 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
\n\n#Location\nWhere ever you want to work