Remote Content + Developer + Digital Nomad + Python + Reliability Jobs

\nWhat you’ll do\n\nWe are looking for Software Engineers that want to build technology to transform how millions of people find jobs.\n\nYour daily work may include some of the following tasks:\n\n\n* Design and implement software solutions following enterprise grade security standards\n\n* Design and implement software and infrastructure solutions capable of handling millions of transactions per day\n\n* Propose and implement logging and monitoring solutions for reliability purposes\n\n* Provide technical guidance for multiple projects to teams or individuals\n\n* Back to basics with simple endpoints or alike from time to time\n\n\n\n\nSome examples of projects that you might work on:\n\n\n* Event system responsible for handling millions of lambda invocations per day\n\n* Authentication and authorization layer for all our services\n\n* Internationalization (i18n) and localization (i10n) engine\n\n* Interlocking components designed to be client-agnostic, so each client can design hiring process as they please for each job position\n\n* Data collection and processing pipeline for employee documentation required to get an offer from an employer\n\n* Real time messaging app\n\n\n\n\nWhat you’ll use \n\n\n\n* Go; no framework\n\n* Python; Django and Serverless\n\n* Postgres, MongoDB, Redis, Elastic Search\n\n* AWS Cloud; Compute, Store, Content Distribution and Security services\n\n* GitHub\n\n* G Suite, Notion, Jira, Slack\n\n\n\n\nPerks and Compensation\n\nWe’ve designed a Career Ladder, which is constantly improved as we grow, to make sure economic compensation is fair and based solely on experience and skills. Thus gender, race, religion, social class or anything besides individual performance is not taken into account for compensation packages.\n\nFor this role you can expect a yearly salary ranging from 30k to 50k (USD, gross).\n\nAdditionally, we offer the following perks\n\n\n* “On-demand” policy for PTO \n\n* Flexible vacations policy\n\n* Budget for courses and books either for personal or professional growth\n\n* Yearly bonus equivalent to 50% of one month\n\n* Paid paternity leave\n\n\n\n\nFor people legally authorized to work in Mexico, we also offer:\n\n\n* Legally-mandatory benefits\n\n* Worker health insurance \n\n\n\n\nIt’s important to mention that if you’re legally authorized to work in Mexico, your salary will be in Mexican Pesos based on exchange rate at contract signing time.\n\nAbout Apli\n\nWe’re a recruiting automation platform.\n\nWe provide recruiting chatbots, applicant tracking software and workflow automation tools to  some of the largest companies in Latin America. With technology and data science, we connect people to jobs that they will love.\n\nOur investors include leading Mexican, American and European venture capital funds.\n\nWe hold recurrent organization wide meetings and have an underlying culture of full transparency across teams.\n\nOur team\n\nAs an enterprise SaaS company, our top priorities are reliability and security along with maintainable code, and we’re pushing to improve our documentation as we understand how important it is for systems’ reliability and team member experience.\n\nAll teams are diverse and full of talented individuals who seek professional development.\n\nOur engineering team is one of the most dynamic teams within the organization, always trying new tools and pushing the boundaries towards innovative solutions while preserving security and reliability of our systems.\n\nWe perform code reviews on a daily basis and give individual contributors the power to deploy to production. We also have an RFC process in place for software and infrastructure design proposals and decisions. Furthermore, we encourage pair programming, although it is individuals’ decision to do so.\n\nTeam members are expected to have ownership and accountability for their work as we allow ourselves to fail and fail fast; the faster we learn from our mistakes the better.\n\nWho you are\n\nWe expect all our team members to be passionate about their job, so we can keep creativity and innovation at the forefront.\n\n\n* You love designing and shipping new products as much as iterating on existing ones\n\n* You value team outcome over individual contributions\n\n* You’re focused and like to get challenging projects across the finish line\n\n* You have experience working with a remote team\n\n* You’ve strong organizational skills\n\n* You’ve strong written communication skills\n\n* You’re humble and curious\n\n* You like to give and receive constructive feedback regularly\n\n* You like to help your teammates with their career development\n\n* You enjoy going back to basics if needed with one-off tasks\n\n* You like to share what you learn\n\n* You’d like to contribute to company’s culture\n\n\n\n\nRequired Skills\n\nAlthough we value experience over specific language/technology domain, the following are the minimum hard-skills required\n\n\n* 4+ years working with a modern programming language . Go and Python are preferred but not mandatory.\n\n* 2+ years of experience designing software and infrastructure\n\n* 3+ years working with one or more of the following Cloud providers: AWS, GCP or Azure.\n\n* Proven experience guiding teams and individuals to take good technical decisions\n\n* Proven understanding (any) of Linux systems as well as network concepts\n\n* Relevant experience working with enterprise grade security standards\n\n* Proven experience building and designing enterprise grade software solutions; including security best practices.\n\n\n\n\nInterested? Our typical hiring process looks like\n\n* Automated screening through our Bot\n\n* Take home challenge\n\n* 30 minute call with our CTO\n\n* 90 minute technical interview \n\n\n* 60 minute code challenge\n\n* 30 minute chat to deep dive in your professional experience\n\n\n* 60 minute design, architecture and infrastructure interview. No code\n\n* 60 minute cultural fit interview. Get to know your teammates.\n\n* Offer letter\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, Cloud, Python, SaaS and Linux jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $125,000/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

The role: The successful candidate will need the ability to contribute and take ownership on a variety of challenges associated with the backend development. They will be working closely with our small and passionate in-house product development team who focus in different areas including: product design, data science, bio-sensing, IoT and audio systems. The Backend Developer role involves taking features from conceptualisation and prototyping through to production and maintenance, it will ideally suit someone with broad production experience using Ruby on Rails/ Dockers/ PostgreSQL and Python. Ruby/Rails will be the most important area of experience for this role. We expect the candidate to be able to bring their expertise for designing for maintainability, reliability and scalability to the fore. The role suits a candidate who has excellent existing backend technology knowledge but also maintains a thirst for expanding their expertise, can concisely communicate their ideas to cross-functional team members and can balance their workload to effectively meet the needs of the business. We are considering remote workers for the role, so ability to do this effectively is important.\n\nA bit about the backend: The backend manages all audio, bio-sensor and usage data, sensor data processing and (ML based) algorithms, personalised audio recommendation system and is used for ongoing data science and research purposes. Ruby on Rails is used for the main backend app.\n\nAbout the Company:\n\nKokoon Tech is an award winning, venture capital backed, health and wellness start-up based in London with a mission to help the world relax and sleep better. Kokoon Tech are doing this by gaining a uniquely deep understanding of the link between relaxation/sleep and audio content. Their apps, associated backend systems and sensor-enabled products provide adaptive audio content and coaching clinically shown to induce and protect relaxation. After shipping their first headphone product in 2018 they have shipped over 27,000 units to over 50 countries. \n\nBenefits\n• Competitive salary\n• Generous share option \n• Pension scheme\n• Friendly/dynamic team\n \n\n# Requirements\nRole experience requirements:\n• 5+ years professional Backend Development experience with Ruby on Rails.\n• Active Admin\n• PostgreSQL\n• Containerisation (Docker)\n• Data migration and analysis\n• Sidekiq job scheduling (or equivalent)\n• Python \n• RSpec and preparing Integration and end-to-end tests (or equivalent)\n• System monitoring tools (such as New Relic/Airbrake)\n• Degree in Software/Computer Science (or similar technical/engineering degree) or proven experience in development and design of backend applications.\n• Full software development lifecycle experience from design phase through to production and maintenance.\n• Good understanding of design patterns\n• Excellent professional skills.\n• Experience with Github SCM\n\nDesirable skills/experience include\n• DevOps\n• Machine Learning\n• Data Science \n\nPlease mention the words **INPUT HAIR OUTER** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xMzc=). 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 No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Python, Ruby, Data Science, Backend, Executive, Developer and Digital Nomad jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $130,000/year\n \n\n#Location\nEurope