Position: Senior Back End Wizard โจ Company: joi.studio Location: Remote (Sydney EST and LA time) ๐ Working Hours: Flexible, with a preference for working between 1pm and 12am Sydney EST (8pm to 7am LA time) โฐ Role Type: Contractor, working ideally 40 hours per week
About Us: Hey there! ๐ We're a passionate team on a mission to revolutionize mental health and personal growth. Our platform blends the best features of Netflix and Udemy, providing a unique and joyful experience to over 350,000 students across five countries. We reached product market fit over three years ago without needing external capital and continue to scale and innovate every day. ๐
Role Overview: Are you a back-end wizard who loves autonomy and taking charge? ๐งโโ๏ธ We're on the lookout for an assertive Senior Back End Wizard who can set their own working hours while aligning with our fun and dynamic team. Your skills and opinions will be highly valued, and you'll play a crucial role in our development process. You'll be responsible for delivering stellar code and conducting your own QA to western standards. ๐
Key Responsibilities:
Autonomous Work: Set your own hours while aligning with team working hours (1pm - 12am Sydney EST / 8pm - 7am LA time). Expected that there would be at least 3 hours overlap each day with other team members. ๐
Backend Development: Design, develop, and maintain robust back-end systems using our awesome tech stack. ๐ฅ๏ธ
Assertive Leadership: Be bold and confident in team discussions and decision-making processes. ๐ช
Ownership and Reliability: Take 100% ownership of your work, including any mistakes, and be expected to own them. Be reliable and ensure you do what you say when you say it. ๐
Quality Assurance: Deliver top-notch code and perform thorough QA to meet western standards. โ๏ธ
Efficient DB Queries: Create lightning-fast database queries to ensure performance and scalability. โก
Re-Architecting Systems: Reimagine and re-architect back-end systems to adapt to new and growing application needs. ๐
Front End Understanding: Have a good grasp and some experience with front-end technologies. ๐
Stake Holder Management: Effectively communicate with key stakeholders, ensuring their needs and expectations are met and aligned with project goals. ๐
Tech Stack:
Node.js
React.js
Apollo
GraphQL
TypeScript
JavaScript
Python
MySQL (AWS RDS)
MongoDB
AWS Web Services (Route 53, CloudWatch, Terraform, S3, RDS, ECS, Lambda, API Gateway)
Cloudflare
Terraform
DataDog (or other similar logging platforms)
LangChain
Qualifications:
Proven experience as a Senior Back End Engineer. ๐
Strong proficiency in our tech stack. ๐ ๏ธ
Demonstrated ability to work autonomously and assertively. ๐
Experience in re-architecting back ends for scalability and performance. ๐
Strong QA skills with an eye for detail. ๐
Strong experience in MySQL and MongoDB. ๐พ
Passion for working with mental health and helping others. โค๏ธ
Excellent communication and collaboration skills. ๐ค
Reliable and trustworthy, with a commitment to owning your work. โ
Ideal candidate will have had 10 years of development experience. ๐
Beneficial, though not critical, to have a passion for AI, Python, and LangChain. ๐ค
Why Join Us:
Work on a unique and impactful platform that combines the best of Netflix and Udemy. ๐บ๐
Be part of a team that values your skills and listens to your opinions. ๐ฃ๏ธ
Contribute to a product that has achieved product market fit and continues to scale successfully. ๐
Make a difference in the mental health space, helping over 350,000 students improve their lives across five countries. ๐
Most of our team members stay with us for over 2.5 years. In fact, here's a heartfelt message from one of our wonderful team members about our leader (Robert) of the joi.studio on his birthday:
"Hi Robert, On this special day, I want to take a moment to wish you a very happy birthday! Your leadership, vision, and unwavering dedication have been a constant source of inspiration for all of us. Your ability to guide us through challenges with grace and wisdom is truly remarkable, and we are fortunate to have you as our leader. Beyond your professional excellence, your kindness, understanding, and genuine care for each team member make you an extraordinary person. You create an environment where we feel valued and motivated to give our best, and for that, we are deeply grateful. May this year bring you abundant joy, good health, and countless moments of happiness. Here's to celebrating you today and always. Happy birthday!"
If you are a highly skilled, autonomous, and assertive Senior Back End Wizard with a passion for mental health, giving back to those in need, and making the world a better place, we would love to hear from you. Join us in making a meaningful impact through innovative technology. โจ
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Salary and compensation
$20,000 — $80,000/year
Benefits
๐ Unlimited vacation
โฌ๏ธ No whiteboard interview
๐ No monitoring system
๐ซ No politics at work
๐ We hire old (and young)
How do you apply?
How to Apply: Please send your resume and a cover letter explaining why you are the perfect fit for this role.
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Full Stack Engineer (React+Python)\n\nThereโs a big shift in the way people work towards self-employment and entrepreneurship in the UK and around the world. \n\nCoconut is a current account that takes care of accounting and tax. Itโs designed specifically for freelancers, self-employed people and small business owners.\n\nWe launched our first product in January 2018. Weโre at an exciting point in our journey and we now have 31,000 customers. Our mission is to free millions of people around the world from business admin by combining banking and accounting into one simple product.\n\nIn order to achieve this, we need more incredible people in our team. We are now looking for an experienced Full Stack Engineer with strong React/Python (Django) experience to join our engineering team to help us deliver our ambitious roadmap.\n\nWeโre a friendly, welcoming and diverse team and look forward to speaking to you if this role sounds of interest.\n\nOur primary technology stack has:\n\n- React for web application experiences\n- Python 3 for server side application code\n- Django for web applications and APIs\n- Celery for async task management\n- Redis for caching and async task brokering\n- Lambda for serverless parts of our application like transaction processing\n- AWS for infrastructure and other services supporting the platform\n\nA bit about the role:\n\nEvery day is different at Coconut so we are looking for somebody that takes change into their stride. A typical week might include:\n\n- Understanding requirements from across the business and translating them into technical solutions for external and internal customers \n- Creating exceptional front end web experiences from high fidelity digital designs for customers using modern React and associated technologies (Redux, Webpack etc.)\n- Creating features/APIs supporting either web applications and/or mobile applications\n- Helping the Growth Team run web-based experiments\n- Working on the Coconut website\n- Working closely with design to review UI and UX\n- Improving performance of our web products\n- Improving our front end tool chains\n- Bug fixing or enhancement work\n- Demoing your work to the business for feedback\n\nSkills you need:\n\n- 3+ years of strong Javascript and React web applications (including Single Page Applications) development experience including networking with APIs to deliver functionality\n- Exceptional front end web development skills and proven experience in construction of high quality component-driven user interfaces\n- API development, most ideally in python/Django/DRF or similar framework programming experience working on various systems and problems including exposure to Cloud computing and databases\n- PHP and Wordpress experience a bonus\n- Good understanding of and experience implementing web security\n- Strong design sensibility, product intuition and a creative mind and enjoy brainstorming and solving problems\n- Writing unit and functional tests of your work\n- Understanding of performance and scaling issues and how to affect these\n- Understanding of the importance of best practices vs pragmatism\n- Strong drive to own your work and ensure its delivered from start to finish\n- Able to work independently and seek help where needed\n- Deep care for quality in your work\n- Passionate about delivering value to customers\n- Experience of working within a product team and understand agile methodology\n- are highly collaborative and helpful\n- Communication to a high standard to both technical and non-technical people\n- Knowing when to ask for help and being open in times of difficulty\n- Desire to work in a fast-paced, demanding but rewarding and fun environment\n\nInterested in learning more?\n\nIf youโre interested we would love to hear from you. You can apply below or you can contact harriet@getcoconut to learn more. We have a 4 stage virtual interview process as follows:\n\n- Initial call with Head of Talent\n- 45 minute chat with CTO\n- 45 minute chat with Design, Product Management and Growth\n- 1.5 hour technical interview including discussion around a technical exercise that you prepare before the interview\n\nWorking at Coconut\n\nBenefits:\n\n- Be a member of a small growing team that is building something exceptional\n- Competitive salary + options available\n- Company pension with matched contributions\n- 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays)\n- Remote working indefinitely\n- London office available if preferred\n- Work environment that values creativity, personal growth and collaboration\n- Continuous learning and development: you will be challenged with lots of responsibility and exciting projects\n\n\n \n\nPlease mention the words **NEXT LOBSTER EVIL** 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
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/Data is the leading research company in the developer economy: We help the world understand developers and developers understand the world. We survey 40,000+ developers annually - across mobile, IoT, desktop, cloud AR/VR and machine learning - to help clients such as Microsoft, Facebook, Google and Amazon understand who developers are, what tools they love or hate and where they are going next.\n\nWeโre now looking for a full-time Software Engineer to help drive data and visual insights out of millions of developer data points. The position is full time, either remote or based in our Athens office (if you happen to live near), we will also consider locations within 2-3 hours of Central European Time.\n\n# Responsibilities\n
What skills we are looking for\n\n3+ years of experience developing web applications with modern JavaScript (ES6+) frameworks\nProven experience with React, Redux and related technologies\nFamiliarity with testing tools such as Enzyme, Mocha, Chai, Jest\nAppreciation for good UX & UI design, ability to contribute to a design discussion\nBackend web API development experience (Node.js)\nExperience with AWS and other cloud providers\nExperience with a language other than JavaScript, preferably one with static types\nExperience working with relational and NoSQL databases (MongoDB)\nBonus points for\n\nExperience with AWS Lambda or other โserverlessโ backend architecture\nExperience with Python\nExperience with data visualisation (e.g. using D3.js)\nAn appreciation for data and understanding of statistics\nWhat youโll be responsible for\n\nIterating on our in-house survey tool (built on AWS Lambda, React and Redux) to reach developers everywhere in the world and provide a delightful UX.\nWorking on our custom dashboard tool (backend in Node.JS / Python and frontend in React) for displaying data to clients and developers.\nMaintaining and enhancing our developer and client-facing websites. Weโve deployed โstatic-CMSโ sites using Gatsby, Contentful, Prismic and Netlify. Much of our stack is using Node.js.\n\n\nIf youโre that person, weโd love to talk. \n\n# Requirements\nKey success metrics\n\nYou will be successful in the role if in the first 6 months you have:\n\nProvided optimisations both in data and memory usage of our survey tool.\nImproved the UI and UX of our survey tool across devices.\nYour code is of great quality and delivered on time.\nBuilt successful working relationships across the company when providing technical assistance.\n\nWhat we offer\n\nOpportunity to make a difference as part of the research company that works with the biggest tech brands to help the world understand developers.\nCompetitive salary\nPerformance-based bonus every 6 months\nCompany share option plan\nYour laptop of choice + large monitor\nNo dress code formalities. Come to work with your flip-flops or your holiday sombrero\nAnnual training budget to develop your skills and career\nMonthly book allowance from Amazon, on any book you like\nSpotify Premium or Netflix subscription\nPart of an entrepreneurial, fast moving company that's raising the bar, and calling the trends of the software economy\n \n\nPlease mention the words **WONDER BUDGET COMPANY** 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
No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to JavaScript, React, Serverless, Python, Engineer, Full Stack, Front End, Developer, Digital Nomad, Amazon and Cloud jobs that are similar:\n\n
$70,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Location\nEurope
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