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Column is looking to hire a mission-oriented Head of Software Engineeringto spearhead the technical execution and roadmap of our core public notice platform. You will be responsible for recruiting, training and developing a team of 15+ Software Engineers and Engineering Managers into an engaged and results-oriented department. The role is responsible for Front End, Back End, and DevOps Engineers and will report directly to our CTO, Leo Hentshcker.
First Week: You will learn about Column's mission and vision, seek to understand our software development lifecycle, and get to know your direct reports and other leaders. We're a small company that's growing quickly, so interpersonal rapport is essential.
First Month: You will conduct a listening tour and present a series of recommended actions to our leadership. Develop a technical roadmap and execution plan in collaboration with product and other business leaders. Develop strong relationships and rapport with current engineering team members, including earning their trust and commitment to the future technical and team vision.
First Six Months: You will hire and shape a technical management team that inspires and empowers software engineers to do their best-work. This will include coaching, mentoring, and developing Columnists on a daily basis. Invest in the development and maintenance of clear responsibilities and standards to build a high-performance engineering team known for its quality, execution and speed.
First Year: You will design and enforce efficient and repeatable engineering processes and tests that incorporate best practices into the software development lifecycle. Own essential choices about the existing and future technology stack and architecture to improve system performance and scaleability. Be an impactful leader at a rapidly growing tech start-up that believes we have the potential to be a once in a generation company.
Our Ideal Candidate
You're looking for a remote-first role working with wildly talented people who care about their impact on local communities
You have experience as a Director or VP Engineering and/or Chief Technology Officer of a fintech, marketplace/ecommerce, or SaaS business that experienced substantial growth, managing at least 20 engineers with engineering managers
You take pride in having strong people management skills and building diverse and inclusive team environments that support debate
You are comfortable making choices about system architecture and can explain how you've learned from previous design decisions over time
You are excited to work with product and other business leaders build out and execute on a technical roadmap for our core product
You have a strong desire to exemplify our operating principles — be worthy of trust, do work that matters, never stop learning, intentionally build community, and tell a better story
You have grit and really want to work with us — if you do not resemble our ideal candidate, tell us why you'd still be a great fit for this role in an optional cover letter
Compensation and Benefits Column is built on the belief that important information should be accessible to the public. As such, we work hard to model this behavior for potential Columnists by including our base compensation in all job descriptions and making our full benefits accessible online.
For US-based candidates, we offer a base salary of $180,000 – $300,000, plus a meaningful equity stake and 401k plan with a 5% match
For candidates outside of the US, we use a market multiplier and 12-month trailing conversion rate to convert base salary into local currency. We also offer a meaningful equity stake and retirement plans relevant to the country (e.g., pension plan in UK).
In addition, all Columnists receive healthcare, vision, & dental coverage for them and their dependents
Unlimited (and encouraged) paid time off with suggested 15-day minimum and 16-weeks paid parental leave
Multiple stipends for you to invest in a home office setup and pursue wellness activities that make you feel healthy and whole
About Column Column is the first collaborative public notice platform helping publishers, governments and legal services work together to inform their communities. We are a remote-first public benefit corporation with an in-person headquarters in Miami, FL.
To us, people are everything. Our current Columnists are wildly talented people from around the globe. We support and challenge each other. We address real problems that people face in their communities. We believe that we have the potential to be a generational company that will change the world as we know it. Will you join us?
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Salary and compensation
$180,000 — $300,000/year
Location
United States
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As Crunch employees are completely distributed, it’s crucial that you can work well independently, and keep yourself motivated and focused.\n\nOur Stack:\n\nWe currently run our in-house production Python code against Redis, MongoDB, and ElasticSearch services. We proxy API requests through NGINX, load balance with ELBs, and deploy our React web application to AWS CloudFront CDN. Our current CI/CD process is built around GitHub, Jenkins, BlueOcean including unit, integration, and end to end tests and automated system deployments. We deploy to auto-scaling Groups using Ansible and Cloud-Init.\n\nIn the future, all or part of our platform may be deployed via DroneCI, Kubernetes, nginx ingress, Helm, and Spinnaker.\n\nWhat you'll do:\n\nAs a Leader:\n\n\n* Manage and lead a team of Cloud Operations Engineers who are tasked with ensuring our uptime guarantees to our customer base.\n\n* Scale the worldwide Cloud Operations Engineering team with the strategic implementation of new processes and tools.\n\n* Hire and ramp exceptional Cloud Operations Engineers.\n\n* Assist in scoping, designing and deploying systems that reduce Mean Time to Resolve for customer incidents.\n\n* Inform executive leadership and escalation management personnel of major outages\n\n* Compile and report KPIs across the full company.\n\n* Work with Sales Engineers to complete pre-sales questionnaires, and to gather customer use metrics.\n\n* Prioritize projects competing for human and computational resources to achieve organizational goals.\n\n\n\n\nAs an Engineer:\n\n\n* Monitor and detect emerging customer-facing incidents on the Crunch platform; assist in their proactive resolution, and work to prevent them from occurring.\n\n* Coordinate and participate in a weekly on-call rotation, where you will handle short term customer incidents (from direct surveillance or through alerts via our Technical Services Engineers).\n\n* Diagnose live incidents, differentiate between platform issues versus usage issues across the entire stack; hardware, software, application and network within physical datacenter and cloud-based environments, and take the first steps towards resolution.\n\n* Automate routine monitoring and troubleshooting tasks.\n\n* Cooperate with our product management and engineering organizations by identifying areas for improvement in the management of applications powering the Crunch infrastructure.\n\n* Provide consistent, high-quality feedback and recommendations to our product managers and development teams regarding product defects or recurring performance issues.\n\n* Be the owner of our platform. 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No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to DevOps, Executive, React, English, Elasticsearch, Cloud, NoSQL, Python, API, Sales, SaaS, Engineer, Nginx and Linux jobs that are similar:\n\n
$70,000 — $120,000/year\n
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💰 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
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\nWe are looking to add an engineer to our small team working on a platform supporting the free exchange of academic research. We are looking for somebody who is experienced at web application development but who can also help keep our products scalable and reliable. This is the perfect job for a software engineer who started their career in systems. Or vice-versa. In this role you’ll work with both software engineers and systems administrators to:\n\n\n* Extend our platform’s capabilities to serve the evolving needs of researches are scholars. This means coding. We want a programmer who knows how to build applications.\n\n* Contribute to architectural level design decisions\n\n* Design the system infrastructure needed to maintain our success\n\n* Solve system issues around performance, scaling, and reliability.\n\n* Drive improvements in systems engineering and release/deployment technology\n\n* Mentor and collaborate with other team members\n\n\n\n\nBest candidates will have some hands-on experience with\n\n\n* Applications programming skills (Perl, Python)\n\n* Managing webservers (nginx, Apache, starman, lighttpd)\n\n* Industry standard protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP, LDAP, Kerberos, SNMP, etc)\n\n* Linux/Unix system administration skills (Debian)\n\n* Supporting/maintaining/designing back-end infrastructure for large scale SaaS applications\n\n* Configuration management (Puppet)\n\n* AWS deployment\n\n* Database administration (Postgres)\n\n* NoSQL data stores and caching (Redis,MongoDB, Memcached)\n\n* Performance monitoring and tuning\n\n* Systems monitoring (Nagios, Cacti, Statsd, Pingdom)\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n
No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to DevOps, Perl, Python, Scala, Database Admin, Admin, Engineer, Sys Admin, Backend, iOS, Executive and SaaS 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
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