\nA Bit about Us\n\nErgeon aims to become the #1 trusted provider of tech-enabled home services. We provide an amazingly better experience using software and data that enable our service personnel to be more effective and efficient. We are pioneering the tech-enabled home services space with a full-stack approach.\nOverview of the Role\nWe seek a smart and enthusiastic Senior Fullstack Engineer to join our development team. Your primary focus will be the development of robust, high-performance, customer-facing applications and features. This role encompasses both frontend and backend development, requiring a strong technical foundation in various technologies and the ability to mentor junior team members. You will be responsible for developing friendly and responsive UI components, working with our backend APIs, and optimizing apps for speed and responsiveness across multiple platforms.\nJoin us if you're a quick learner looking to grow your skills, collaborate with colleagues worldwide, and build a career developing innovative tech solutions that drive our company's success.\nResponsibilities\n\n\n* Lead the development and implementation of complex server-side logic and user-facing features, ensuring optimal performance and responsiveness across our platforms.\n\n* Architect scalable and robust backend solutions, including APIs, and collaborate on developing intuitive, responsive UIs.\n\n* Mentor junior engineers and frontend developers, guiding them in best practices, code quality, and technical decision-making.\n\n* Take ownership of the full product lifecycle, from initial concept through deployment and optimization, based on close collaboration with the Product and cross-functional teams.\n\n* Drive continuous improvement in our technology stack and development processes, advocating for best practices in software engineering.\n\n* Utilize AI tools such as ChatGPT to bring innovation to development processes and product features. Keep abreast of new AI technologies and suggest ways to integrate them into projects.\n\n\n\nDesired Skills and Experience\n\nMust have: \n\n\n* Extensive experience with Python, Django, and Django REST Framework.\n\n* Proficiency in full-stack development, including advanced skills in JavaScript, React, HTML, and CSS, along with a solid understanding of SQL.\n\n* Demonstrated ability to lead projects and mentor junior team members, with a successful team collaboration track record.\n\n* A strong commitment to user experience, with examples that showcase complex web-based applications delivered to end-users.\n\n* Excellent problem-solving skills and a deep understanding of computer science fundamentals.\n\n* Ability to work effectively in a remote, distributed team environment, with excellent communication skills and a willingness to engage in synchronous meetings during core hours.\n\n* Experience with or a strong interest in using AI platforms like ChatGPT for various development tasks.\n\n* Ability to leverage AI-assisted coding and development tools effectively while maintaining a critical understanding of their limitations and potential biases.\n\n* Willingness to explore and incorporate innovative applications of AI technologies in the development process.\n\n\n\n\n \n\nNice to have\n\n\n* Experience with React, Webpack, Jest, NodeJS, ThreeJS, and other modern frontend/backend technologies\n\n* Experience integrating AI models and APIs into applications for tasks like content generation, sentiment analysis, or data processing.\n\n* Familiarity with cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure)\n\n* Experience with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)\n\n* Knowledge of DevOps practices and tools (e.g., CI/CD, monitoring, logging)\n\n* Experience with 3D modeling, computer vision, or other advanced technologies\n\n* Experience with Scrum or other agile development process\n\n\n\n\n \nTechnical Requirements \n\n \n\nGood Laptop setup with Chrome browser\n\n\n* Minimum of 16GB RAM\n\n* Minimum processor:\n\n\n\n* Core i7+ for PC\n\n* AMD Ryzen 7\n\n* M1+ for Mac\n\n\n\n* Minimum of 4GB GPU memory\n\n\n\n\n \n\n Stable high-speed internet connection\n\n\n* At least 10mbps upload and 20 Mbps download\n\n\n\n\nHeadset\n\n\n* With a noise-canceling microphone\n\n\n\n\n Power backup\n\n\n* 250-300W UPS\n\n\n\n\n Data availability\n\n\n* Ability to access up to 1.5GB of data per day during storm outages\n\n\n\nCompensation\n\nAnnual salary between $67K- $83KUSD, depending on experience and location. \n\n\n* Your final compensation will depend on your placement on our Career Ladder and will be calculated hourly.\n\n* You'll be paid weekly through Upwork (www.upwork.com), the platform we choose to hire and pay our Ergeoneers worldwide.\n\n* Other payment methods are possible where Upwork is not available.\n\n\n\n\n\nAdditional Important Information\n\n\n\nLanguage\n\n\n* English: Yes - B1\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation\n\n\n* This is a 100% remote position, for people located in the following countries listed here.\n\n\n\n\n\nAvailability\n\n\n* This position is full-time, with expectations of at least 40 hours per week.\n\n* Availability Monday through Friday between 8:00 am - 5:00 pm US Central.\n\n\n\n\n \nErgeon’s benefits and perks for full staff members\n\n Competitive compensation: We invest in people! We are constantly doing worldwide market research to offer globally competitive salaries. And we are well-funded by VCs.\n\n  All-Remote since the beginning: We have a diverse team spread across 40+ countries. We stay connected through the best remote work practices such as flexible work hours, team events, remote happy hours, and by sharing our love of food!\n\n    Tech, Wellness & Learning fund: You can have a $400USD bonus per year for software and hardware tools, workplace improvements, fitness-related spending (includes things like yoga classes, Fitbit tracker, new running shoes, gym membership. . .), and books, courses, training, or even attending conferences.\n\n  Stock options: All staff is eligible after 6 months of full-time work.\n\n  Birthday Paid day off: You can take the exact day, or the Friday before if it is on a weekend!\n\n  Flexible Paid time off: You can take 12 days after working 6 months, PLUS 2 extra days per year for a maximum of 20 days.\n\n  Free Headset Benefit: You can get a noise-canceling headset from your first day working full-time.\n\n  Equipment: Laptop replacement after 1 year of full-time work. And every 3 years after that.\n\n   Co-Working Fund: Meet in groups of 3+ Ergeon friends and get reimbursed up to USD $20 for coffee, co-working, etc (once per quarter).\n\n  Language Classes: here at Ergeon you will have the opportunity to learn or improve a language!\n\n  Remote Health: Health insurance is essential for ensuring that our staff has peace of mind and access to help where and when they need it. Subsidized Health Insurance is available to all of our staff, no matter where they’re located.\n\n\n \n\nWe believe everyone has a right to professional growth and respect, no matter their location.\n\nErgeon’s workforce is given meaningful opportunities and is supported by a kind and diverse community.\n\nOur global staff (Ergeoneers) have access to career growth, amazing work culture, and great benefits.\nCome join us to transform the construction industry!\n\n  \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Django, DevOps, Cloud, Senior, Junior, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $110,000/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
\n\n#Location\nLagos, Lagos, Nigeria

\nWhy should you be excited about working for Benefex?\n\n\n* Leading the backend for their latest product (v1 stage)\n\n* Opportunity to learn Go!\n\n* Forward thinking product culture where you can have an immediate and visible impact on the product\n\n* Working on a product that has 100,000’s of users and is used by global companies\n\n* Working with the latest tech and solving tough problems (Go, Istio, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes)\n\n* Fully remote working setup (after Covid too)\n\n* Working on products that could not be more relevant in today’s world (Covid-19 / employee wellbeing.\n\n\n\n\n\nWho are Benefex\n\nBenefex are leading the way for Employee Wellbeing. They believe no one comes to work to do a bad job or be actively disengaged, and that technology is instrumental in providing an excellent employee experience. They’ve built an all-in-one platform called OneHub that brings together employee benefits software, reward and recognition tech, and workplace communications, so your employees have everything they need for work in one place.\n\nBenefex believe that everyone deserves an exceptional experience at work, every day. Their workplace technology makes this happen.\n\n\nTech Stack:\n\n\n* Backend: REST API’s, Go, Java 8, Spring Boot, Tomcat, MongoAtlas.\n\n* Platform: Google Cloud, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Circle CI, Istio\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Role:\n\nYou'll be the Senior Backend Engineer within the Home squad. Home is the latest product with v1 being launched March 2021. There are still a number of core functionalities that need to be added to the product as well as enhancements to the existing services.\n\nAll new backend services will be built in Go, a small percentage of the work (under 20%) will be enhancing some of the older Java services. You'll work within a close knit squad (PM, 2x BE, 2x FE, QA and Platform) to ensure the backend is fit for purpose. \n\nAs a Senior you will mentor the mid Backend Engineer in the squad, as well as take a lead role within the Backend chapter discussing the backend strategy across the entire product suite.\n\n\nWhat experience/skills Benefex would like to see:\n\n\n* Either having experience in:\n\n\n* Building backend services in Java 8 and Spring Boot and interested in working with Go; or,\n\n* Having experience in building backend services in Go and happy to work on the existing Java services when needed\n\n\n\n\n\n* Knowledge of distributed system architecture\n\n* Creating REST API’s that the frontend team can build on top of\n\n* Building services for cloud infrastructure (AWS or GCP) and DevOps tooling (Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, MongoDB)\n\n\n\n\nWith extra points for:\n\n\n* Mentoring junior team members\n\n* Google Cloud Platform\n\n* Kubernetes\n\n* Docker\n\n* Event-driven architecture (CQRS / ES)\n\n\n\n\n\nCareer Progression: \n\nThe next promotion would be Lead Backend Engineer with opportunity to take on more leadership responsibilities within the Backend Chapter and/or more responsibility across the products/squads. After that it would be working towards Engineering Manager or Principal Engineer. \n\n\nBenefits:\n\n\n* Salary: £65,000-75,000\n\n* Fully remote working **NEED TO BE UK RESIDENT**\n\n* Benefits including 25 days holiday (plus your birthday off!)\n\n* £800 annual learning budget for training. Benefex will pay for exams, travel and accommodation for events separately.\n\n* If you ever want to work in the office it’s in the centre of Southampton, a 5 minute walk from the train station and a car park just opposite\n\n* Casual dress code\n\n* Pension, up to 3% contribution match\n\n* Healthcare, income protection, life assurance and access to our own award-winning online benefits scheme\n\n\n\n\n\nInterview Process:\n\n4 stages, completed within 2 weeks. Maximum of 3 candidates in process at one time. \n\n* Phone Interview with VP of Eng (45 min)\n\n* Tech Task (2.5 hours)\n\n* Technical Interview (1 hour)\n\n* Interview with CTO (30 min)\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, Backend, DevOps, Java, Cloud, Travel and Junior 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