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At Silverfin, we're an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. Although we know we’re not perfect yet, we are working hard on it and always open for your feedback.

According to our vision to build a diverse, equitable and inclusive organisation, our policy is to only make a final hiring decision if minority groups are sufficiently represented in the list of candidates applying for the position. For this reason it’s possible interviews get slightly delayed until we’ve reached that goal.

We're committed to elevating talent by creating an environment where we can all thrive together. So if you think you have what it takes, but don't necessarily check every single box, please consider applying. We'd love to hear how you might contribute to our mission and our team.

What can we offer you?

• Actual, proper work-life balance

• A salary range of €93.000 - €123.000 a year

• Employee Stock Option Plan

• Choose your own working hours and work 100% remotely

• Personal growth training and opportunities

• Join a distributed remote-first engineering team with 35 colleagues in 14 different countries

• A refreshing work environment with professional, friendly and welcoming colleagues

• A €1000 yearly budget for conferences, courses, workshops or other expenses that will improve your skills

• This year we offer monthly fix company-wide Wellbeing Days for all employees (10 paid days off in 2023)

What will you work on?

• Figure out the best way to solve a customer or business problem in close collaboration with a product manager, a product designer and other engineers 

• Work on user facing functionalities 

• Help with discovery and delivery of a solution 

• Give the engineering perspective on potential ways of approaching a specific challenge 

• Help with maintenance and support of existing functionality

What are we looking for?

• You’re experienced in both Ruby and Rails, and also understand where the boundaries lie between them. You can code in Ruby without any of Rails’ training wheels if necessary.

• You have some experience using Javascript framework(s), understand the value of them, but also know when plain Javascript is enough.

• You're interested in getting to know our customers to find the best solution for a given challenge. 

• You’re up for mentoring coworkers and can give in-depth, productive feedback during code reviews. While you appreciate the small stuff, you recognise bike-shedding and can avoid its pitfalls.

• You code with reason and can justify the important decisions you made during development.

• You can communicate clearly in English, both in writing and verbally.

• You know and can apply best practices when relevant. That means the usual like version control, testing, and refactoring; but also higher level concepts such as good object oriented design.

• You're aware of the trade-offs involved in proper engineering and can make balanced business decisions, keeping in mind all the stakeholders of the project.

• You’ve got opinions on code design and you can discuss them, but you’re professional enough to not let those opinions get in the way of a consensus if necessary.

If you’re any good at Ruby, this is probably not the first job ad you’ve seen, so we’ve done our best to stand out while also accurately presenting what we’re all about. If it sounds like you would enjoy working with us, don’t hesitate to apply or drop us a line with questions on [email protected]

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What’s a Silverfin?

At Silverfin we’re trying to apply the promise of software to the age-old industry of accounting. With our SaaS we’re automating a large chunk of the busy-work that accountants are currently handling manually, and are building new tools so they can provide better services to their customers. We aim to optimise their workflow in such a way that accountants can spend more time on the much more impactful and rewarding work of advising their customers, the business owners.

The good news is we’re succeeding in doing exactly that. Every week more than 15.000 financial service professionals use Silverfin to help and advise more than 400.000 businesses. Our customers adore us! The even better news is there’s still plenty left to work on, and that’s where we hope you come in.

What’s the product team like?

The product team is a cross-functional team where engineers work together closely with product managers and product designers. The team's input is a user or business problem which it can solve with a high degree of autonomy. From day one all profiles are involved in understanding the problem, ideating solutions and doing quick experiments to prove that a certain solution might actually lead to the desired outcome. After the discovery phase the same team is tasked with the delivery of the chosen solution. The team will then track the adoption of the solution and will make sure that the problem is actually solved. The setup of the team is largely based on the book "Inspired" by Marty Cagan. 

What does working at Silverfin look like?

The product team will work together with the other Silverfin engineering teams. While the product team is set up as a stream-aligned team, most other teams are set up as platform teams around modules and topics of the Silverfin application. They are helping the stream-aligned team to develop solutions fast and without a lot of mental overhead. The platform teams' focus is the stability and long term architecture of the product as well as building frameworks and libraries that can be used by the stream aligned team. If those terms are not familiar to you, check out the "Team Topologies" book by Manuel Pais and Matthew Skelton which inspired this structure. 

Our ops team ensures things run smoothly, deploys happen correctly, and will work with you when issues should arise. We’re enthusiastic followers of the devops mindset, which means ops and developers work together to solve problems, and empower each-other to be self-sufficient, instead of throwing problems over the wall to the “other side”.

We run an up-to-date Rails monolith on the backend, with PostgreSQL and Redis for persistence and caching, and everything is running on a Kubernetes cluster in Google Cloud. Our daily tools include GitLab, Quip and Slack, with Zoom as our remote conferencing tool of choice. 

No code gets deployed without a code-review by a peer and testing is a must. Our pipeline automates deployment when the suite is green, and deploys happen dozens of times a day. Each team is currently doing Kanban, but they’re free to follow whatever process suits them best. There are regular retros held to work towards continuous improvement.

Software for accountants is not considered to be very exciting, but we have our fair share of technical challenges. To give you a sense of scale: our database exceeds 10TB*, and our largest table has crossed the 10 billion row mark a long while back. We interface with more than 30 different external APIs, and provide third parties an API of our own.

*: Our ops team noted that this actually isn’t that hard to achieve if you’re just indexing everything, but it still sounds impressive, right?

What makes the engineering team at Silverfin special?

We’re a remote-first engineering team of 35 people distributed in 14 different countries over two continents. A priority for us is maintaining proper work-life balance. We avoid meetings as much as possible, accept deadlines only when absolutely necessary, and never expect anyone to work longer hours than they’ve signed up for. A day in our working lives is pretty boring, and we feel that’s exactly how it should be.

Working with us means you can be flexible with your schedule. It’s OK to disappear for a few hours in the middle of the day to run some errands, get a haircut, pick up the kids - whatever reason, you don’t need to explain yourself. You also fully decide when you take time off: our team is sufficiently varied and well organised that there are always enough people around to handle the load, and in the rare cases it’s not, we will decrease the load instead of asking people to move their holiday.

Being remote-first means we favour asynchronous communication. We don’t shy away from chatting in Slack, but the important decisions or discussions are done in Gitlab issues, over email, or in Quip, so there’s a written, persisted record. We’re mindful of maintaining long chunks of focussed time, which means we avoid @-mentions or PMs on Slack, and other triggers and interrupts. We encourage using Slack’s DnD function, especially when you’re not working!

We’d be really happy to welcome you in our #engineering channel, but it’s not just virtual: we make sure we regularly get to see each other in real life too. Twice a year we fly the whole engineering team together to a different location in Europe, and at least once a year we join up with the rest of the company so we can spend some time together with the other departments.

What does your future look like?

Personal growth is key to staying motivated. At Silverfin you don’t need to move to management in order to advance. We see the individual contributor track and the management track as two different growth paths which every engineer can follow and switch between. You can be promoted, including pay raises, as a contributor just like as a manager.

Everyone has a €1000 yearly budget to spend on conferences, courses, workshops or other training to improve their skills and level up. This also includes accommodation, travel costs. If the conference is on a workday you’ll get paid like any normal day.

Requirements

• You have at least 4 years of experience working with Ruby, or 2 years of experience with Ruby and 4 years in one or more other programming languages

• You get Rails

• Your work hours have some overlap with EU business hours (we require your local timezone to be within CET +/- 3h)

• You can communicate clearly in English, both written and verbally

Nice to haves

These would be nice but are definitely not necessary. Don’t worry if none of the following applies to you.

• Experience as a remote worker in a fully remote team

• Experience working with large datasets and the problems they bring

• You have some experience using Javascript framework(s), understand the value of them, but also know when plain Javascript is enough

• Experience in Fintech

• Accounting knowledge

Interested?

You can apply today and we’ll start having interviews from 27/03. There’s no benefit to applying early, so you can take your time answering the application questions.

• Read about what our interviewing process looks like

• Apply for the job right here

• Or email us with any questions on [email protected]

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Salary and compensation

$90,000 — $130,000/year

Salary Range

Tokyo 15,030,000 - 21,790,000 JPY per year

Your Job

The Search Machine Learning Platform team builds the end-to-end machine learning platform that supports Indeed’s most mission and performance critical products. The team’s mission is to provide the machine learning platform that leverages Indeed’s massive volume of data and incorporates the latest machine learning trends and technologies to power critical products like job search and recommendation teams. We strive to enable teams across Indeed to match every job seeker with the most relevant jobs. The team also ‘dogfoods’ the platform to serve and iteratively improve machine learning models used in all aspects of the job search experience.

As the Staff Data Scientist for this team, you will partner with your team and lead the machine-learning platform evolution that will serve Indeed for years to come. You will lean on the team’s and your technical expertise to serve Indeed’s unique machine learning challenges. You will partner with both engineers and data scientists on your team, and across Indeed products to this end.

You're someone who wants to see the impact of your work making a difference every day. You understand how to use data to make decisions and how to train others to do so. You find passion in the craft and are constantly seeking improvement and better ways to solve tough problems. You produce the highest quality machine learning solutions and lead others to do the same. You have delivered challenging technical solutions at scale. You are equally happy talking about deep learning and statistical inference, as you are brainstorming about practical experimental design and technology career development. You love being in the mix technically while providing leadership to your teams.

As a Staff Data Scientist on the team, you will:

• Build a highly performant machine learning framework that works in latency critical use cases like search and ranking.
• Incorporate latest data science techniques into our platform to assist better model evaluation and understandability, and serve it to all users
• Partner with jobsearch and recommendations teams to build POC ML models that scale to production, and iterate through offline and online experiments
• Iterate on model architecture and features via A/B testing to improve models used for our jobsearch globally
• Mentor and grow other software engineers, data scientists, and ML engineers across teams
• Break down larger ML initiatives into pieces that deliver incremental business value and lead the team to execute on them
• Represent Indeed at major ML conferences like NeurIPS, ICML, and ICLR 

Who You Are

We are looking for someone who is passionate about designing and building machine learning systems, loves intellectual challenges, is eager to learn, and wants to work with a variety of technologies to “help people get jobs.”

Requirements

• 5+ years of industry experience as a Software Engineer, Data Scientist, or Machine Learning Engineer
• Prior success deploying (impactful) ML solutions to large-scale production systems, while collaborating across teams
• Solid knowledge of data structures and algorithms
• Strong sense of ownership as a technical and product leader
• Excellent communication skills in English, both written and verbal with both technical and business audiences

 We get excited about candidates who

• Have an advanced degree (PhD or MS) or prior research experience in the fields of machine learning, statistics, or computer science
• Have the desire to solve difficult problems at the intersection of machine learning, data engineering, and software engineering
• Have extensive experience and knowledge with cloud technologies (AWS preferred)
• Have search technology experience such as Lucene, Solr and/or Elasticsearch
• Have prior success deploying Recommender Systems / Search Ranking / etc. to large-scale production systems
• Have designed and analyzed A/B tests

Who We Are

We are a rapidly growing and highly-capable Engineering organization building the most popular job site on the planet. With engineering hubs in Seattle, San Francisco, Austin, Tokyo, Singapore, Hyderabad, Dublin, Aberdeen and Vancouver, we are improving people's lives all around the world, one job search at a time.

Our Mission

As the world’s number 1 job site*, our mission is to help people get jobs. We strive to cultivate an inclusive and accessible workplace where all people feel comfortable being themselves. We're looking to grow our teams with more people who share our enthusiasm for innovation and creating the best experience for job seekers.

(*comScore Total Visits, September 2021)

Salary Range Disclaimer

The base salary range represents the low and high end of the Indeed salary range for this position. Actual salaries will vary depending on factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of Indeed's total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include quarterly bonuses, Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), an open Paid Time Off policy, and many region-specific benefits.

Equal Opportunities and Accommodations Statement

Indeed is deeply committed to creating a workplace and global community where inclusion is not only valued, but prioritized. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer, seeking to create a welcoming and diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, family status, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, neurodiversity, disability, age, or any other non-merit based or legally protected grounds.
 
Indeed is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in the employment application process. To request an accommodation, please contact Talent Attraction Help at +81 3 4563 2563, or by email at [email protected] at least one week in advance of your interview.

Our Policies and Benefits

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Learn about our global employee perks, programs and benefits - https://benefits.indeed.jobs/ 

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Salary and compensation

$100,000 — $140,000/year

Benefits

🚑 Medical insurance

🏖 Unlimited vacation

🏖 Paid time off

Salary Range

Tokyo 21,739,000 - 31,521,000 JPY per year

Your Job

We are looking for strong Technical Fellows to help shape the future of our engineering organization. You will be able to work from anywhere in Japan.

The Job Seeker organization within Indeed is responsible for one of Indeed’s core businesses. Our mission is to “Build engineering systems to understand all workers, understand all jobs, deliver the best jobs to job seekers, and help job seekers get closer to being hired.” 

As a thought leader at Indeed you will have numerous opportunities to shape how we evolve our products to better match job seekers with jobs. Your technical leadership will guide the future of job search and help millions of job seekers find better jobs. You will have the opportunity to influence engineering direction across a broad set of areas including search, ranking and relevance, data platform and profile, and job applications.

If you are an engineer who's passionate about building innovative products that scale to tens of millions of pageviews a day and to help people find jobs globally, we are looking for you.

Who You Are

You're someone who wants to see the impact of your work making a difference every day. You understand how to use data to make decisions. You are someone who finds passion in the craft, someone constantly seeking improvement and a better way to solve tough problems. You have a passion for producing the highest quality code as well as leading others to do the same.

You are someone who either has built or is passionate about building scalable, reliable systems that span multiple data centers as well as AWS and handle millions of requests every day.

Responsibilities

• Architect and plan solutions across the Indeed platform spanning multiple teams and organizations. 
• Partner with senior leadership to develop long term technical vision and strategy. 
• Design new software systems and enhancements to existing systems to support substantial new software features and products.
• Work with Product Managers, Designers, Data Scientists, Test & Software Engineers, and other stakeholders to clarify requirements and to decompose large requests into smaller ones that can be executed sequentially or in parallel.
• Provide sound technical guidance, ensure product quality, and help set the technical direction for the team.
• Research, experiment, and develop new innovations as well as product and platform improvements that improve jobseeker experiences.
• Contribute to the product roadmap, technology, and vision while creating a culture of quality and operational excellence on the team.
• Demonstrate strong technical leadership and leverage your years of hands-on technical engineering experience to hold the organization to a high standard of technical excellence.
• Share expertise on products and technologies by mentoring other engineers and by providing insightful feedback in code reviews for changes made by other engineers.
• Investigate and resolve difficult problems and fix complex bugs; accept escalations of complex issues.
• Assist other engineers in designing solutions, prioritizing work items, estimating urgency and business impact, and balancing short-term and long-term results.
• Solve deep as well as broad technical problems.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience with large-scale Internet software development
• 5+ years of experience working in an individual contributor leadership role 
• Experience influencing a geographically-distributed global software engineering organization comprising hundreds of teams
• Experience leading through influence and delivering predictable results in complex organizations
• Experience with cloud architectures, hybrid cloud-metal architectures, and AWS native services
• Experience with service-oriented, data-centric, event-driven, and high-performance distributed system architectures
• BS in computer science , other technical fields or equivalent. 

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with large-scale consumer Internet systems, including large-scale experimentation
• Experience with scaled machine learning, including data and feature engineering
• Familiarity with data-driven product development

Who We Are

We are a rapidly growing and highly-capable Engineering organization building the most popular job site on the planet. With engineering hubs in Seattle, San Francisco, Austin, Tokyo, Singapore, Hyderabad, Dublin, Aberdeen and Vancouver, we are improving people's lives all around the world, one job search at a time.

Our Mission

As the world’s number 1 job site*, our mission is to help people get jobs. We strive to cultivate an inclusive and accessible workplace where all people feel comfortable being themselves. We're looking to grow our teams with more people who share our enthusiasm for innovation and creating the best experience for job seekers.

(*comScore Total Visits, September 2021)

Salary Range Disclaimer

The base salary range represents the low and high end of the Indeed salary range for this position. Actual salaries will vary depending on factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of Indeed's total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include quarterly bonuses, Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), an open Paid Time Off policy, and many region-specific benefits.

Equal Opportunities and Accommodations Statement

Indeed is deeply committed to creating a workplace and global community where inclusion is not only valued, but prioritized. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer, seeking to create a welcoming and diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, family status, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, neurodiversity, disability, age, or any other non-merit based or legally protected grounds.
 
Indeed is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in the employment application process. To request an accommodation, please contact Talent Attraction Help at +81 3 4563 2563, or by email at [email protected] at least one week in advance of your interview.

Our Policies and Benefits

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Learn about our global employee perks, programs and benefits - https://benefits.indeed.jobs/ 

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Salary and compensation

$140,000 — $210,000/year

Benefits

🚑 Medical insurance

🏖 Unlimited vacation

🏖 Paid time off