\nAbout BLEN\nBLENers are passionate about using technology to solve real-world problems. For over 20 years, we've been helping government agencies and businesses transform their digital experience. We bring fresh perspectives to every project, from modernizing legacy systems to building cloud-native applications to experimenting with technology that’s just around the corner. We value building long and enduring partnerships to solve complex challenges by putting humans at the center of all the experiences. Our team thrives on turning tricky problems into solutions that are practical, accessible and performant.\n\n\nAbout this position\nAs a Senior Software Developer II - Full Stack at BLEN, you will take on a highly strategic role in designing, architecting, and developing scalable, robust digital solutions. This role demands a combination of deep technical expertise in both front-end and back-end technologies and the ability to collaborate closely with tech leads and sometimes take on tech lead responsibilities. You will be expected to think strategically, mentor team members, and deliver high-impact solutions while embracing ownership and accountability. In addition, this position requires a strong background in cloud services, system architecture, AI toolings, and an eagerness to innovate by building prototypes and transforming proof of concepts into production-ready features\n\n\n\nWhat we would like from you\n* Technical Leadership and Strategy\n* Collaborate closely with the tech lead, taking responsibility for the system's architecture and development strategy\n* Step in as the acting Tech Lead when required, making key technical decisions that ensure alignment with overall product and business goals\n* Design and implement scalable, efficient, and maintainable systems and architectures\n* Work on building prototypes and proof of concepts that later become major production features\n\n\n\n* Software Development and Problem-Solving\n* Leverage extensive full-stack development experience to lead high-complexity, outcome-driven projects\n* Proactively diagnose and solve architectural and technical issues, driving quality improvements in existing systems\n* Work hands-on with modern tech stacks, including advanced usage of cloud platforms, ensuring scalable system designs\n* Actively contribute to the development and deployment of AI-driven solutions and applications\n\n\n\n* Mentorship and Team Development\n* Mentor and support junior engineers, focusing on transferring skills in system design, cloud services, and AI technologies\n* Provide technical guidance across teams, fostering a culture of continuous learning and innovation\n* Engage in technical interviews, assessing candidates' skills and cultural fit\n\n\n\n* Communication and Stakeholder Engagement\n* Present design documents, architecture diagrams, and technical solutions to clients, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams\n* Communicate technical strategies and developments effectively across the team and external partners\n\n\n\n* Process Improvement and Innovation\n* Drive improvements in software development processes and practices, with a focus on high performance and scalability\n* Champion best practices in system design, architecture, cloud services, and AI development\n* Stay up to date with emerging technologies and trends in AI and cloud computing, applying this knowledge to drive innovation in the organization\n\n\n\nBasic qualifications\n* Essential Requirements\n* 10+ years of engineering experience, with a proven track record of designing and developing scalable, reliable, and maintainable systems and architectures\n* Extensive experience with full stack development using Python, React, Next.js, Node.js, Java or Ruby on Rails\n* Hands-on experience with Python and AI toolings, including familiarity with large language models (LLMs) and other modern AI frameworks\n* Strong expertise in containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes, ensuring systems are scalable and maintainable in a cloud-native environment\n* Experience working with both relational databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, and NoSQL databases like Firestore, MongoDB, ensuring effective database design, optimization, and scalability\n* Hands-on experience integrating external APIs and third-party services into applications\n* Strong cloud services management and configuration skills with AWS, Azure, or GCP, leveraging these platforms for high availability, scalability, and security\n* Proficiency in version control systems (e.g., Git), and experience managing large, complex codebases\n* Robust problem-solving skills, particularly in diagnosing and resolving complex system issues related to distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and application performance\n* \n\n* Preferred Skills and Experience\n* Prior experience leading engineering teams or acting as a Tech Lead\n* Experience building AI applications and their underlying infrastructure\n* Familiarity with DevOps tools and best practices\n* Ability to obtain a Public Trust Clearance\n\n\n\nRequirement\n* Must be a US Citizen or legal resident and able to work domestically\n* Must be located in the United States\n* Must be able to attain low-level security clearance\n\n\n\nPerks\n* Work from anywhere.\n* Competitive pay.\n* A contribution to your health benefit.\n* The chance to work on high-visibility projects and make a significant impact.\n\n\n\nGet to know us\n* We are a small, creative and highly technical team.\n* Our heroes are the scrappy folks that dare to dream and do great things. We love people that care more about doing the right thing than taking a shortcut.\n* We believe in finishing projects and floor our clients by how much we cared about their project.\n* We believe in integrity and because we're small, we are very selective of our partners and clients.\n* We do not use phrases like 'human resource' because you are NOT a resource. You are a team member and we will treat you like one.\n\n\n\nWhat you should expect from us\n* We will treat you fairly.\n* We give you space to grow both personally and professionally.\n* We will hear your ideas even when we disagree -- especially when we disagree.\n* We will be equitable with our success and be honest with our challenges.\n* We will always tell you the truth. Even when the truth is difficult.\n\n\n\nBLEN's hiring process\n* Resume Review: Our team evaluates your resume and online profiles (LinkedIn, GitHub, etc.) to assess qualification fit.\n* Role-Specific Assessment (depending on role, due in 24 - 48 hours): Complete a take-home assignment or live coding session to demonstrate technical skills. For this role, this will be the assessment: https://github.com/blencorp/blen-fullstack-engineer-take-home\n* Hiring Manager Screen (30 mins): Dive deeper into your experience and the role with the hiring manager.\n* Virtual Interviews (2 rounds, 30-45 min each): Technical and competency-based interviews aligned with Blen's values, conducted via Google Meet.\n* Decision & Offer: Post-interview, the hiring team decides. If selected, your recruiter will extend an offer and assist with logistics.\n\n\n\n\n\n$135,000 - $170,000 a yearThe salary range represents the compensation we expect to offer candidates who can perform the core responsibilities with minimal additional training. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as skill set, level of experience, and scope of responsibility. Our recruitment team is available to discuss your specific salary requirements and to provide more information about how we determine compensation. We are committed to fair and transparent pay practices and encourage open dialogue about our compensation structure throughout the application process. We look forward to learning more about your qualifications and how they align with our framework.\nEqual Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities\nThe contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c).\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Python, Docker, DevOps, Java, Cloud, Ruby and Senior jobs that are similar:\n\n $52,500 — $95,000/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\nWashington, DC

\nThis is a remote position.\n\nAd Hoc is a digital services company that helps the federal government better serve people. Our team of experts from across the commercial industry and government brings the modern skills necessary to help agencies transform public services into digital services. Our work enables agencies to meet the needs of their users while closing the gap between consumer expectations and government\n\nAs part of our team you will work with a small team of designers and engineers to design, develop, and deliver web-based applications and services. You'll work in collaboration with our government partners to better understand and translate policy and business requirements into features, user stories, automated tests, and working code. Your work will impact the lives of millions of Americans.\n\nStaff Software Engineers generally lead cross-functional, technical teams of 3 to 6 engineers and are the individuals primarily responsible for ensuring successful delivery for their team. They generally establish high levels of trust and operate with significant autonomy. This position is reserved for individuals with significant development and leadership experience. Staff Software Engineers are accountable for the code and systems they own, lead the resolution of major issues effectively and direct the evaluation of tradeoffs between implementation complexity and other costs. They have expert-level capabilities in at least one major technology stack.\n\nRequirements\n\n\nOur Federal contracts require that you be a U.S. Citizen to be eligible for employment.\n\nAll work must be conducted within the U.S.\n\nAs a government contractor, all hires may be required to meet additional pre-employment contingencies to the extent required by applicable law, at the time of hire or any time thereafter\n\nSome Federal contracts require a degree in computer science or additional years of experience as a substitute\n\nOur technical screening involves completing our homework assignments exclusively - we do not do any form of whiteboarding in our process\n\n\n\n\nWhat You'll Do\n\n\nEnsuring effective engineering delivery on their program or team.\n\nContributing to and delivering performance reviews with direct reports.\n\nDeveloping and presenting monthly reports based on program reporting requirements.\n\nShaping the technical direction of their program. \n\nManaging the technical relationship with the client, and influencing their technical decision-making. \n\nDemonstrating a deep awareness of how changes they make interact with all components in a broader system. This includes technologies for frontend, backend, infrastructure, usability, and design, as well as varying development, testing, and release methodologies within an organization.\n\nPlanning and executing on roadmaps for new projects without explicit guidance and direction from technical supervisors. \n\nActively driving conversations and planning sessions with partners and key stakeholders, and representing the engineering practice while advocating for the best technical solutions and communicating tradeoffs. Ultimately providing significant positive impact to a program’s roadmap.\n\nInfluencing the customer toward successful outcomes by establishing trust through reliable and successful execution and demonstrated competency.\n\nProviding vision for other engineers within their area of influence, and advocating for that vision while taking into account client requirements. \n\nPrioritizing high-impact work and delivering on that work over non-critical tasks.  \n\nPeriodically traveling to the client site to work with and present to partners and stakeholders as necessary. \n\nElaborating and evolving on complex and ambiguous products to uncover new constraints and opportunities.\n\nAssigning tasks to and monitor the progress of task completion for team members.\n\nProviding mentorship and guidance to team members through practice, code review, presentations, and architecture. This may include, but isn’t limited to game day design and execution.\n\nProviding general career development advice to team members, and staying up to date on career options and new opportunities within the company that may be beneficial for the growth of those engineers.\n\nReducing ambiguity in the systems they work with, including additional documentation, refactoring, and testing. \n\nEffectively communicate on existing systems, design decisions, past performance, and a major history of the projects that they’ve been part of for bid-writing, tech demos, and other potentially client-facing communications. \n\nInforming program leadership of the health of your team and contributing to evaluation of team members, written or otherwise\n\nActively contributing code and performing code review on your applications as an engineer. \n\nParticipating in technical depth interviews with new candidates\n\nConducting regular 1:1 meetings and performance reviews with direct reports; providing general career development advice to team members based on their knowledge of company policy and process\n\nCreating opportunities for improving not just their immediate area, but similar areas in other programs across the company. \n\nEnsure that all systems operate smoothly and, in coordination with QA Manager, align with ISO and CMMI quality standards.\n\n\n\n\nWhat You'll Bring\n\n\n* Minimum 8 years of experience in software design and development, architecture, operations\n\nBachelor of Science in Technology or Engineering\n\n* 8+ years of experience utilizing DevOps tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation\n\n* 5+ years of experience building optimized docker containers\n\n* 5+ year of experience programming in a high level language, such as Ruby or Python\n\n* 5+ year of experience writing Groovy pipeline scripts for Jenkins\n\n* Experience collaborating with other teams, adopting their goals as your own\n\n* Programming in a major open source language or framework, such as Ruby, Python/Django, Go, JavaScript/React, or Java\n\n* Familiarity with static analysis tools and other CI tools used for security and compliance\n\n* Proficient spelling, grammar, and communication skills\n\n* Experience with Amazon Web Services, in particular ECS/Fargate, CloudWatch, IAM, EC2, and S3\n\n* Understanding of basic networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, UDP, routing, load balancing, SSH\n\n* Experience and understanding of one or more different agile methodologies, including Scrum, XP, or SAFe.\n\n* A desire to expand your skills and gain experience with new tooling as needed\n\n* Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S now and in the future without sponsorship\n\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n\nCompany-subsidized Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance\n\nVanguard 401K Plan\n\nUnlimited Vacation\n\nContinuing Education/Annual Conference Attendance Stipend\n\n\n\n\nAd Hoc LLC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, pregnancy, disability, work-related injury, covered veteran status, political ideology, marital status, or any other factor that the law protects from employment discrimination.\n\nIn support of the Colorado Equal Pay Transparency Act, and others like it across the country, Ad Hoc job descriptions feature the starting range we reasonably expect to pay to candidates who would join our team with little to no need for training on the responsibilities we've outlined above. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide range of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and responsibility . The range of starting pay for this role is $128,183 - $169,065 and information on benefits offered is here. Our recruiters will be happy to answer any questions you may have, and we look forward to learning more about your salary requirements. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to DevOps, Amazon, Groovy, Ruby and Engineer 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
\n\n#Location\nOklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States

### About Loomly\nLoomly is the Brand Success Platform that empowers marketing teams to streamline collaboration. Think GitHub, for marketing teams: Loomly help marketers produce, stage, review, approve and publish content — as well as engage with their audience and measure their success. We are very customer-driven and strive to bring simplicity, efficiency and stellar support to our clients.\n\nLoomly is trusted by 11K+ teams around the world and consistently growing revenue at a 100%+ yearly rate. We're looking for a Lead DevOps Engineer/SRE to join us on this journey.\n\n### How we work\nWe are a small, fully remote company. We value our efficiency and effectiveness, leveraging autonomy, paying close attention to details and avoiding unnecessary bureaucracy. Our domain requires us to be flexible and adaptable. We take ownership of our work and truly appreciate valuable feedback.\n\nWe're driven and self-motivated to succeed. We value rest and time-off — we're not into 50-hour workweek grinds. We're in it for the long-haul and we're building the sustainable company that we all want to work for.\n\n### About the role\nLoomly is looking for someone to take ownership of and lead our DevOps/SRE efforts. This role will have a significant impact on the way we work as a team as well as Loomly's current and future growth.\n\nAs the Lead DevOps Engineer you'll work on a variety of projects across the stack — planning, architecting and building. You'll help to define engineering priorities and have a significant role in analyzing and setting the technologies we use at Loomly.\n\n### What you'll work on\n* Architect, deploy and manage critical infrastructure\n* Architect and scale background job systems\n* Utilize ECS to host applications and manage container orchestration (EC2 + Fargate)\n* Collaborate with other team members (DevOps, Full-Stack, Customer Support, etc.) to plan and complete projects\n* Tune, maintain and scale databases\n* Create and manage CI/CD pipelines\n* Provide visibility, insights and metrics via log and monitoring systems\n* Improve and design data/ETL pipelines\n* Build and improve developer workflows and tools\n\n### Must-Haves\n* In-depth knowledge of AWS and best-practices\n* Ample experience planning, architecting and deploying infrastructure from initial requirements using a detailed, thorough and organized approach\n* History of very explicit, clear and detailed written communication\n* In-depth knowledge of Docker and container orchestration\n* Based in USA or Canada\n### Nice-to-Haves\n* Prior experience running and maintaining Ruby applications\n* Architecting and scaling queueing and background job systems\n* Experience running, scaling and managing Postgres and/or Redis\n* Experience building and maintaining ETL pipelines\n* Current Tech Stack Highlights\n* Infrastructure: AWS, Docker, Elastic Container Service (ECS), Elastic Beanstalk, RDS, Terraform\n* Backend: Ruby on Rails, Sidekiq, Node.js, Postgres, Redis\n* Frontend: Turbolinks, React\n### Benefits and Perks\n* Annual salary range: $150K - $180K\n* Equity: 0.1% - 0.5%\n* Paid time off: 20 days (160 hours) earned throughout the year in pay periods\n* Health, vision and dental: group plan covering 99% of health insurance premiums (Gold Tier PPO Plan), and 75% of your dental and vision insurance premiums\n* 401(k): 100% match up to 4% of salary with immediate vesting\n* Flexible work hours and remote friendly environment\n* Quarterly company get-togethers \n\nPlease mention the words **TOWARD COMMON TRUCK** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4yNTA=). 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 $150,000 — $180,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 🤓 Vision insurance\n\n
\n\n#Location\nNorth America