Remote CSS + Digital Nomad + Git + Python + React Jobs

**Description**\nDo you want to use your skills to fight climate change and positively impact the communities we live in? OhmConnect, the leader in consumer energy services, is seeking a motivated and passionate Senior Software Engineer to apply software development principles to create a world class solution that reimagines how people use energy.\n\n**Role summary**\nAs a member of our engineering team, you will work closely with product management, business stakeholders, customer support, and engineering colleagues to develop critical product features and integrate with third-party services in the IoT and energy market spaces.\n\nOhmConnect is expanding nationally, bringing our service to new markets in the United States. Your work will directly support this expansion by building features that meet the needs of a growing and geographically diverse user base, supporting integration with new energy markets, and onboarding new marketing partners. You can expect your work to touch the lives and homes of hundreds of thousands of people in the US, Canada, and Australia.\n\n**Who we are**\nOhmConnect was founded to improve the lives of people and the health of the planet by reimagining the way we use energy. We are solving massive inefficiencies in energy markets, changing how people use and view energy, and connecting smart homes with the smart grid. We build products that connect deeply with consumers and invite them to take action to positively impact the planet, their communities, and their wallets.\n\nWe are an Equal Opportunity employer striving to create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive work environment where everyone feels that they have a voice that is heard.\n\n\n**What we do**\n\nOur products encompass:\n- Consumer facing applications that use home automation control and user behavior modeling to shape consumer energy consumption.\n- Integrations with a growing set of devices and appliances - smart plugs, thermostats, chargers, water heaters, etc.\n- Smart Meter data ingestion and analysis for consumer consumption forecast.\n- Bidding, monitoring and settlement processes for energy markets.\n\n**What you will do**\n- Design, develop, test and deploy new code and maintain existing code.\n- Monitor application performance: raise, prioritize, and manage issue resolution activities.\n- Work on all aspects of our stack: Python (Flask), MySQL, HTML, CSS, Javascript (JQuery, React, Angular, Vue, TypeScript), Celery, AWS (EC2, ELB, RDS, Redshift, S3, SQS, SES, etc), Ubuntu, Apache, Redis, Git (GitHub), Jira.\n- Perform peer code review and support our Customer Experience team on technical issues, mentor junior developers.\n- Participate in our agile development process - regular team updates, standup meetings, 1-on-1’s.\n\n**Requirements**\n- Strong knowledge of server-side languages, especially Python or Ruby.\n- Solid understanding of SQL databases.\n- Experience with front-end web development -- HTML, CSS and Javascript / JQuery. Knowledge of React is a plus.\n- Dedication to writing clean, robust code, with good unit test coverage.\n- Self-driven, curious, results-oriented; able to thrive in a remote environment.\n- Enjoy a fun, fast-paced, dynamic environment.\n- Desire for a career that makes an impact through our mission to rally people to change how and when they use electricity — unlocking clean, affordable and reliable energy.\n- Excellent 1-on-1 and team communication skills.\n- 4+ years software development experience preferred.\n\n**What you'll get**\n- A competitive salary based on experience.\n- Fully remote work environment with home office set-up allowance.\n- Real and lived work-life balance - Company perks include unlimited vacation (which our C-level team actively encourages everyone to take!), parental leave, and a corporate value of putting families first.\n- Competitive benefits package that includes full suite of wellness benefits and stock options.\n- Opportunity to work with amazing people who are passionate about reversing climate change, thriving in a fully-remote work environment, and learning and growing every day.\n\n**EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER**\nIndividuals seeking employment at OhmConnect are considered without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, national origin, citizenship status, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, marital, parental, veteran or military status, unfavorable military discharge, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state or local law. \n\nPlease mention the word **FAIRNESS** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xNDY=). 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 $120,000 — $200,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n
\n\n#Location\nWorldwide

\n(Toronto area candidates preferred or remote in GMT-4, GMT-5, GMT-6, GMT-7, and GMT-8 timezones. All candidates should have eligibility to work in Canada. We are not offering working visa sponsorship at this time so please apply only if you are eligible to work in Canada)\n\nCrowdlinker is an end-to-end digital product studio based in Toronto and Barcelona with a relentless focus on our customers. We connect people through technology by being the strongest link between companies, their ideas, and their clients. We do so by excelling at digital strategy, creative design, full-stack development of websites & web/mobile apps, and digital marketing (SEO, SEM, PPC, Marketing Automation). Our clients include large startups like Freshbooks, TopHat, League, and Second Closet, as well as enterprises like Unilever, Nestlé and NBC Universal. We create cutting-edge applications using the latest technologies and design them with an exceptional user experience.\n\nAs a Full-Stack Developer, you will be responsible for ensuring that user stories and features of projects are executed using sound development practices and the most up-to-date and reliable tools. You will collaborate with product managers and designers to ensure that the problem is being solved in the correct manner. Every team member at Crowdlinker is equally responsible for the success of the project as a whole and so you will bring a strong level of organization, communication and accountability to the work that you do.\n\nWe are looking for someone to be a Full-Stack Ninja, and so your ability to code the front-end is critical and a strong understanding of the back-end is needed. We are looking for developers with an obsession for clean, well-structured coding practices who think about the sustainability of the products they build.\n\nWe are growing quickly, which means there are always new and exciting challenges at Crowdlinker. We are looking for someone who is comfortable taking risks and solve burning problems. We embrace change, see challenges as opportunities and focus on solutions. We do offer great pay and benefits. We hope you can join us to push the boundaries of what’s possible.\n\nRequirements\n\nMust Haves:\n\n\n* 2-3+ years of web / mobile development experience.\n\n* Proficient knowledge of at least one backend programming language like Node.js / Python / PHP\n\n* Excellent understanding at least one backend framework like Express, NestJS, Laravel or Django etc\n\n* Experience working with SQL databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL) OR NoSQL databases (MongoDB, DynamoDB, Redis, etc.)\n\n* Experience working with REST APIs\n\n* Proficient in using front-end frameworks such as React.js, React Native or Vue.js\n\n* Proficient with TypeScript, ES5/ES6, state management libraries like Redux / Context API, React Hooks, JSX and CSS-in-JS\n\n* Experience designing application architectures and concepts like unit testing, TDD, and continuous integration.\n\n* Impeccable written and verbal communication skills as you will be working closely with designers, product managers and sometimes clients.\n\n* A sound understanding of design concepts and best practices required to build systems with considerations for scalability, performance, maintainability, testability, and extensibility\n\n* Strong understanding of project management tools in the Atlassian Suite (Jira, Bitbucket, Confluence etc.)\n\n* Experience working with Agile principles.\n\n* Experience with Git for version control\n\n* Proficient in writing maintainable CSS / SCSS with a strong understanding of Flexbox & experience working with responsive web design frameworks, such as Bootstrap / Zurb Foundation.\n\n* Have excellent communication, collaboration skills and comfortable communicating via email, Slack or on video calls.\n\n\n\n\nNice to Haves:\n\n\n* Experience with GraphQL\n\n* Experience with testing libraries like Jest, Cypress, etc.\n\n* Experience with Docker\n\n* An overall understanding of popular frontend and backend languages, their associated frameworks and their upsides/downsides. \n\n* Can mentor and coach other developers to skill up in their craft. \n\n* Familiarity with cloud providers, such as AWS, Google Cloud Platform and Digital Ocean.\n\n* An impressive portfolio / Github handle to demonstrate skillsets.\n\n\n\n\nResponsibilities\n\n\n* Participate in technical design and planning discussions\n\n* Work closely with our designers on implementing designs into code.\n\n* Work closely with our product managers to ensure projects are delivered in a timely fashion.\n\n* Provide timely and accurate estimates for project deliverables.\n\n* Hands-on troubleshooting, debugging and fixing of issues during development and post-release.\n\n* Participate in and contribute to client meetings and proposals.\n\n* Lead, mentor and coach our developers to level them up in their craft\n\nWe don't expect you to know all of the above! We're always constantly working with new technologies and learning is a part of the job!\n\n\n\n\nWhat’s in it for you?\n\n\n* Gain experience working with team of experienced developers.\n\n* Learn and implement the latest and greatest in new frameworks and technologies. (Receive up to $10k to take relevant courses.)\n\n* Learn faster by working on a variety of client projects throughout the year.\n\n* A ground-level opportunity to join a growing company early and accelerate your career.\n\n* Code with us the sensible way, using continuous integration, automated testing and deployment, proper testing/staging servers, Git repos with proper branching and all other DevOps practices that make developers’ lives easier overall.\n\n* A strong culture of excellence, mutual mentorship, and transparency.\n\n* The chance to work in fully operational, cross-functional product teams, giving you the opportunity to enhance your understanding of design, digital marketing and product management.\n\n\n\n\nPerks\n\n\n* Competitive compensation.\n\n* Potential for stock in the company.\n\n* 5 weeks paid vacation.\n\n* Comprehensive medical and dental plan, which includes $800 per practitioner (e.g. massage therapy, physiotherapy, orthotics, acupuncture, etc...)\n\n* Cool office in trendy Entertainment district at 119 Spadina Avenue.\n\n* Flexible hours with an option to work from home.\n\n* Optional computer hardware.\n\n* Optional company mobile hardware and phone plan.\n\n\n\n\nDuration of the role\n\nThis is a full-time, permanent role, not a contractor position. \n\nHow to apply\n\nIn your application, please include:\n\n\n* A link to your GitHub profile if you have one.\n\n* A link to your LinkedIn profile if you have one.\n\n* A link to your portfolio of work if you have one.\n\n* A summary of how you would be able to make a difference in our team.\n\n\n\n\nYou may include a traditional resume and cover letter as well, although it is not required. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Full Stack, Developer, Digital Nomad, React, DevOps, Video, Laravel, Cloud, CSS, NoSQL, Git, Python, Mobile, Marketing, Medical 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

Development specialized on the free software project Open edX, used by and in part developed by organizations like MIT, Harvard, McKinsey, and others, so you’ll have the opportunity to contribute to projects that are widely used and to be part of a thriving open source educational community. See [edX.org](https://www.edx.org/), the [MIT Open Learning Library](https://openlearning.mit.edu/courses-programs/open-learning-library) or the [French government online platform for public universities](https://www.fun-mooc.fr/) for examples of Open edX instances.\n\nThe Open edX platform is a large Python/Django codebase, with good code standards and architecture. You would work on different clients contracts using the platform. The clients list/references include Harvard, MIT, edX themselves, the French government, and various startups & universities currently running their own instances, or looking to create one. Tasks are very varied, from developing core platform features, custom exercises and tools for specific courses (XBlocks), customizing and deploying instances, working fullstack, operating our service infrastructure, improving our hosting platform, etc. You won't get bored here.\n\nMost of your work is published as free software (Open edX is released under the AGPL license, which requires clients to release modifications under the same license), and you would also contribute to the free software project, pushing most of your developments upstream through pull requests, contributing features, documentation or help on mailing-lists.\n\nWe welcome applicants of all genders and ethnicities.\n\n### Basic requirements\n\n- Senior developer with 3+ years working with Python\n- Experience with Python web frameworks, specifically Django \n- 3+ years of HTML, Javascript, and CSS (experience with React is a big plus!)\n- Experience with unit testing\n- You feel comfortable working in a Linux environment, specifically Debian or Ubuntu\n- Experience with databases: MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL\n- Experience with contributing to free software projects, and communicating within a free software community\n\n### Additional skills\n\nYou would have to work with tasks from the following categories, but you would be able to pick up the skills on the job if you don't master this yet:\n\n- DevOps experience, especially on Debian/Ubuntu servers, Terraform, Vault, Packer, Prometheus, ELK, Docker. We are building a modern infrastructure and having a strong DevOps presence on top of core software engineering skills is a big plus with us.\n- Cloud computing, like AWS or OpenStack\n- Configuration management tools such as Ansible\n- RabbitMQ, Redis & Elasticsearch\n- git source control\n- Mobile development (iOS and/or Android)\n- Managing clients & projects from beginning to completion (senior developer)\n- Public speaking at conferences (you would present a talk every year at the Open edX Con)\n\n### About OpenCraft\n\nWe are 35 senior developers, all working remotely from Europe, North & South America, Asia & Australia. The company is not affiliated with edX, but rather contributing and working with them on various projects. This is a full time position, were you would be able to work remotely from anywhere you want, as long as you have a good internet connection. : )\n \nYou can read more about how we work in our handbook, at [https://handbook.opencraft.com/](https://handbook.opencraft.com/) \n\nPlease mention the words **THUMB SISTER DOOR** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xNDY=). 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