Remote Developer + Digital Nomad + Front End + Full Stack + PostgreSQL Jobs

Join us at Packagist Conductors, the company behind Composer, the package manager which revolutionized PHP development. Help us build high-quality software supply chain tools which PHP developers around the world count on every day. As a member of our small team you will significantly impact our products and customers. The scope of our work and our tech stack provide many challenges to advance your technical career in our experienced team.\n\nYou can either work from our office in Berlin or remotely in any timezone with up to 2 hours difference from Berlin. Unfortunately we cannot sponsor new visas. The current team works in three different countries and has many years of remote work experience. We welcome both part-time and full-time applications.\n\nWe have been operating the central open-source package registry Packagist.org since its creation in 2012, having served over 50 billion package installs. With over 800 contributors the success story of Composer is one written by the vital PHP community. We aim to further improve the PHP ecosystem with Private Packagist which provides businesses with functionality that is unique to their requirements. As the maintainers of Composer and Packagist.org, we encourage open-source contributions as part of your work.\n\n**You**\n\n* have significant experience as a Software Engineer\n* have experience with PHP and Composer\n* are motivated, independent, and self-organized\n* are able to learn about new technologies without close guidance\n* enjoy analyzing complex systems and debugging complex customer problems\n* are strong in written communication and speak and write English fluently\n* have patience with and empathy for customers\n* have worked with relational databases, e.g. PostgreSQL or MySQL\n* are used to working on a shell on Linux\n\n**We'll consider it a bonus if you**\n\n* have experience working remotely\n* have worked with queueing systems, e.g. RabbitMQ, SQS, Kafka\n* have worked with third-party APIs, e.g. REST, GraphQL, XMLrpc\n* have worked with Symfony\n* have JavaScript/TypeScript experience for frontend work\n* are familiar with Linux fundamentals (signals, filesystems, system calls, performance and basic system operation concepts)\n* have worked with Docker or Salt\n\n**The job will consist of**\n\n* tackling the problems other developers face on a daily basis and providing tools to make their jobs easier\n* maintaining, building features for, and improving functionality and performance of Private Packagist\n* supporting our customers through e-mail and Intercom chat, a requirement for every engineer at Packagist Conductors\n* getting outside your (technical) comfort zone: helping with frontend work, infrastructure projects or even with sales questions\n* contributing to open-source when useful or necessary for Private Packagist or when given tasks on the open-source projects we maintain\n* mentoring junior engineers as they join our team\n\n**We**\n\n* are a self-sustaining company with a team of four people without outside investment\n* work remotely most of the time using Slack, Trello, and GitHub to communicate\n* care about code review, testing, and CI, make use of PHPStan, and are implementing CD\n* have a DevOps culture, we all share responsibility for building, maintaining, and operating our product\n* use these tools in our stack: PHP, Symfony, PostgreSQL, Redis, Nginx, AWS, Salt, Terraform, Git, TypeScript, Sass, Foundation, and for on-premises products: Docker and Kubernetes\n* maintain key open source tools and services for the PHP community: Composer & Packagist.org\n* value respect, tolerance, openness, and aim to accommodate one another. Diversity, equitability, empathy, and inclusion for everyone is one of our top priorities. We never tolerate discrimination on national or social origin, the basis of race, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability.\nvalue reasonable work hours and sufficient time off to maintain a healthy life\n* prioritize our customer needs and communicate with them proactively\n* have high standards for quality and user experience. For example, we consider "Unexpected Error" to be an unacceptable way to communicate a problem to a customer.\n\n**We offer**\n\n* pay in the top 25% of salaries for your role and experience in other small businesses in Berlin, between €80,000 and €95,000\n* 30 days vacation\n* flexible working hours\n* optionally working remotely in any timezone within 2 hours difference from Berlin\n* working on challenging projects for a wide variety of customers\n* lots of influence and autonomy: We expect you to provide ideas, take ownership of projects and see them through in every aspect.\n* a personal development/education budget for conferences, books, workshops, video classes \n\nPlease mention the word **FERVIDLY** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xOTg=). 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 $90,000 — $110,000/year\n \n\n#Location\nWorldwide

## About the Role\n\n---\n\nWe're hiring our 6th team member to join us on our mission to reinvent the future of work. As an early member of our team, you'll have a huge impact on our technology stack and product\n\nYou will work with our engineering and product team in an environment with low technical debt and high velocity. You will collaborate on and contribute to software that connects employers and remote jobseekers\n\nYour work will have a significant impact on millions of workers across the globe who are looking for work\n\n## Our Engineering Stack & Culture\n\n---\n\n🔧 **Frontend facing applications:** We use modern HTML/CSS, React + Typescript and GraphQL APIs\n\n**🔧 Distributed backend system:** Implemented with Serverless framework and hosted on AWS (Lambda, Typescript, SQS, SNS, S3)\n\n🔧 We use PostgreSQL to persist application data\n\n🔧 We dislike doing repetitive tasks, so we implemented CI/CD practices from day one\n\n🔧 We have a culture of **empowered engineering teams.** This means you don't just execute a roadmap but you are also involved pre-implementation in designing solutions to problems. We value and reward the **outcomes** instead of *just the output* of each team member\n\n## Preferred Qualifications and Inclinations\n\n---\n\n🧠 3+ years of relevant software engineering experience\n\n🧠 We don’t expect you to have experience in every technology of our stack, but you should be fluent in either the frontend or backend vertical of our stack\n\n🧠 Some experience in architecture design\n\n🧠 Experience working in engineering teams with good CI/CD and TDD practices\n\n❤️ You are self-motivated, ambitious about your personal and professional growth and want to work on hard problems\n\n❤️ You’re looking to join an early-stage company that’s on a fast growth-curve\n\n❤️ You are comfortable communicating, especially asynchronously in a remote team\n\n❤️ You enjoy collaborating with cross-functional team members in engineering, product and marketing\n\n## About Frontier\n\n---\n\n🚀At Frontier, we are building the operating system for distributed teams to hire globally \n\n🚀We are working on an important mission that will get millions of citizens around the world back to work. The work you do at Frontier really matters and our users will rely on it to find employment\n\n🚀We're a small team of high-wattage individuals from Europe, Africa and the U.S. We hail from diverse backgrounds in engineering, product, finance and education. We've worked at some of the world's leading technology companies and venture capital firms. [Check-out our team page](https://www.notion.so/befrontier/7a450ee0d6ec4b36be32a7ee0b1fbd52?v=863e7969a29d42a7ab48638b8bb39b89)\n\n🚀We are in a privileged position as a company. We are well funded, backed by top venture capital funds in San Francisco, New York and London, and have no technical or product debt \n\nPlease mention the words **CROP MATTER MASK** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xOTg=). 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#Benefits\n ⏰ Async\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n
\n\n#Location\nCEST Timezone +/- 3hrs Preferred

\nWe are looking for a creative, motivated developer who is comfortable working in a modern, full web application stack and has particularly strong React skills.  On our team, you’ll own features throughout the software development lifecycle - from planning and implementing server-hosted APIs to designing and building front-end interfaces. You’ll need to be able to think independently and operate with a high degree of autonomy, while also participating in a welcoming community of passionate developers. We have challenges ranging from creating new ways to visualize medical information to implementing data pipelines to improving application performance. You’ll need to have a love for problem-solving, a passion for collaboration, and a can-do attitude.\n\nSemanticBits is a leading company specializing in the design and development of digital health services, and the work we do is just as unique as the culture we’ve created. We develop cutting-edge solutions to complex problems for commercial, academic, and government organizations. The systems we develop are used in finding cures for deadly diseases, improving the quality of healthcare delivered to millions of people, and revolutionizing the healthcare industry on a nationwide scale. There is a meaningful connection between our work and the real people who benefit from it; and, as such, we create an environment in which new ideas and innovative strategies are encouraged. We are an established company with the mindset of a startup. We feel confident that we offer an employment experience unlike any other and that we set our employees up for professional success every day.\n\n\nResponsibilities\n\n\n* Coding database-driven web applications and other web-related development work. You will work primarily with RESTful APIs implemented in Node.js and Python based web applications frameworks that interact heavily with databases (e.g. PostGreSQL or MySQL). In the course of that work, you will have to interact with related technologies like React, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS/SASS.\n\n* In-depth programming and database work including the ability to design efficient and reusable systems.\n\n* Ability to take ownership for a project, engineer a sound technical solution, and “drive” a project to completion — from architecture design to implementation and testing and maintenance of our products\n\n* Being comfortable with quick development cycles that include frequent testing and quality assurance checks before going into production. \n\n* Willingness to work at all levels of the stack — CI/CD (Docker, Jenkins), database (PostgreSQL, Redis), services (Node, Python, Celery), and frontend (React, Redux)\n\n* Actively participate with engineering, design, operations, product-management, and other teams to create new and compelling user-facing features that provide the best experience for our customers\n\n* Meet business needs while maintaining scalable architecture and keeping dependable consistency of business objects\n\n\n\n\n\n* Collaborate with other technology and business teams to ensure that our solutions are well integrated in the larger context of the company.\n\n\n\n\nRequirements\n\n\n* B.S. in Computer Science or a related field, or four years of professional experience\n\n* Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, and software design\n\n* 4+ years of experience in dedicated frontend projects with modern frameworks, including React, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS/SASS, Bable, Webpack\n\n* 4+ years of experience in Python or Node.js based web application frameworks\n\n* Experience with JavaScript testing facilities such as Jest, Karma, Mocha, Protractor, and other testing technologies. Having experience with PyTest or Nose within Python a plus.\n\n* Ability to write well-formatted, structured, and clean code and comfortably work with backend and DevOps technologies such as NodeJS 8+, Docker, Kubernetes\n\n* Enthusiasm for direct and frequent interaction with the users and interest in discovering opportunities collaborating closely with UX, Product, and other colleagues\n\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n\n* Generous base salary\n\n* Three weeks of PTO\n\n* Excellent health benefits program (Medical, dental and vision)\n\n* Education and conference reimbursement\n\n* 401k retirement plan. We contribute 3% of base salary irrespective of employee's contribution\n\n* 100% paid short-term and long-term disability\n\n* 100% paid life insurance\n\n* FSA\n\n* Casual working environment\n\n* Flexible office hours\n\n* New laptop (Mac or PC - your choice)\n\n\n\n\nSemanticBits, LLC is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law. We are also a veteran-friendly employer. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to JavaScript, React, Full Stack, Developer, Digital Nomad, DevOps, Python, Medical, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $67,500 — $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