\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

At Powerpal we’re building Australia’s largest residential energy engagement platform. Our customers love us – they’re saving money on their bills and helping out with the climate crisis at the same time!\n\nWe’re full-stack from the batteries up. We design and manufacture our own IoT hardware which connects through our cross-platform mobile apps to a cutting edge cloud platform allowing us to build amazing customer experiences on top of huge volumes of data.\n\nWe build and maintain a React Native iOS/Android mobile app, a range of Go and Ruby microservice APIs running on Kubernetes, and a Bigtable/Bigquery/Dataflow big data platform – all hosted on on Google Cloud Platform.\n\nWe love clean code, automated testing, CI/CD and believe in a true devops workflow where the same team designs, builds, tests, deploys and monitors end-to-end products.\n\nWe’re a fully remote team with huge amounts of flexibility and autonomy to set your own schedule and drive your own projects. Ideally you’ll be based close to Sydney, Melbourne or Wollongong so that we can get the team together for a couple of days per month to socialise and share ideas.\n\n**A Typical Day**\n\nThere are so many exciting projects to work on as the company accelerates that no two days are the same, but recently we have been mostly:\n\n* Planning new features for customers with rooftop solar across the Powerpal hardware, mobile app and data platform.\n* Building tools to support the rollout of tens of thousands of free Powerpals in Victoria with an amazing customer booking experience and geospatial logistics for our team of installers.\n* Moving our terabyte scale time-series database from Postgres to Bigtable with zero downtime.\n* Keeping in touch with the team over Slack and Friday afternoon Zoom beers.\n* Optimising our cross-platform app to provide the best possible Bluetooth connectivity and background power management across a variety of mobile hardware.\n* Ensuring that our cloud infrastructure autoscales and self-heals so that we can ignore it entirely when we’re on holiday.\n* Working with our energy industry partners to launch load shifting and demand response experiences to reward customers for balancing their power usage throughout the day.\n* Going to the beach on a sunny Wednesday without meetings and getting some quiet coding done on a rainy Sunday afternoon instead.\n\n\n**What You’ll Need**\n\n* Minimum of 3 years development experience across a range of projects, technologies and organisations across both iOS and Android.\n* Ideally, you’ll have experience using our core stack (Go, Ruby, JS, Kubernetes).\n* A previous lead role on a major end-to-end product delivering mobile, web and backend components.\n* Significant experience building web-based APIs and their associated data stores (both SQL and NOSQL).\n* Solid Javascript skills (bonus points for React and/or React Native) and exposure to rich web and/or mobile UIs.\n* At least one major project involving big data storage and asynchronous data processing.\n* A demonstrated ability to work autonomously and take ownership of teams delivering end-to-end products.\n* A background in deploying and owning cloud services (we use Google Cloud, but AWS or Azure will transfer perfectly).\n\n\n**What You’ll Get To Do**\n\n* Lead teams delivering user-facing projects with end-to-end features that touch the React Native mobile app, our backend APIs and our big data platform.\n* Build a beautiful mobile user experience to help our customers see their power and use it improve their lifestyle.\n* Build new tools to support manufacturing, rollout logistics and fleet management of tens of thousands of IoT devices.\n* Take a leading role in driving our future mobile direction. Should we be considering dedicated native apps? Should we be using Typescript? How can we make our user experience even better?\n* Integrate with our existing backend APIs and get involved in the design and development of new APIs to support the mobile app’s needs.\n* Rapidly prototype new features within the app by designing and building new Javascript content for our embedded web views.\n* Work on hard problems around scaling real-time data feeds with gigabytes of time-series data arriving every day.\n* Share ownership of the whole Powerpal system and take responsibility for ensuring that the projects you work on can be deployed, monitored, and maintained without friction.\n* Improve the quality of our existing codebases and expand our automated unit testing to include higher level end-to-end testing in multiple environments.\n* Help to set the direction for a great developer experience from the laptop to the cloud as we scale our build, test and deployment processes to support a larger team.\n\n\n**Compensation**\n\n* Up to $180k plus super (depending on your specific experience).\n* Negotiable equity (options) in a profitable and rapidly growing startup.\n* A new Macbook Pro or equivalent value in mobile devices and home office upgrades as necessary.\n* A free Powerpal for your home\n\n\nIt doesn’t get better than this! Work at the cutting edge of development as part of this hands-on role whilst helping to drive the development strategy roadmap for an ambitious, growth phase tech start up. An industry leading salary and benefits package is on offer to the successful candidate. Apply now \n\nPlease mention the words **SOURCE FLOCK ASK** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xMjQ=). 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 AUS 150000 — AUS 180000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n ⏰ Async\n\n
\n\n#Location\nAustralia

\nClarity Services, a part of Experian, is a credit bureau that provides reporting on near-prime, non-prime and subprime consumers. We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join the software engineering team. This is a position that can be done virtually from a home office. We are building out development infrastructure, automation, and AWS integration. This is the first dedicated position for this work and the person will be critical in steering the direction of these projects.\n\nWe have about two terabytes of data in MySQL and MongoDB. We use Rails on JRuby to run over a million transactions for our customers every day. Our typical response times are 1-2 seconds for a basket of products and we maintain uptimes north of 99.99%.\n\nOur environment:\n * Ruby on Rails currently at 4.2, moving to 5.1\n * Git/GitHub repository, Jira for ticket tracking/scrum sprints and GitHub for code reviews.\n * 1:1 test coverage for most of the codebase and 2:1 for prime areas. Work closely with QA team.\n * Mac laptops provided for development\n * Jenkins for continuous integration, deploy to dual hot data centers\n\nSkills & Requirements\n\n\n* Experience maintaining 99.99% availability with large production environments\n\n* Working knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases like MySQL and MongoDB\n\n* Chef, Puppet, Ansible, or similar infrastructure automation tool\n\n* Experience with Docker\n\n* Experience with Amazon Web Services\n\n* Able to lead on some difficult projects and work as a team partner on others\n\n* Available for escalated outage response 24x7 because you are responsible for your code\n\n* Empathy for consumers, teammates, business owners, and other stakeholders\n\n* Love working as part of a team and continuously strive for self-improvement\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, Engineer, Jira, Amazon, NoSQL, Ruby and Senior 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

\nThe Opportunity\n\nYou will be the lead over our infrastructure team running large scale threat detection, monitoring, and training products, as well as systems used by the PhishLabs Security Operations Center and RAID teams as they mitigate existing threats. Using your technical skills as a Cloud Systems Engineer, and can-do attitude, you will work as a member of an agile Kanban team to deliver highly secure, fault-tolerant, scalable cloud-based network, computer, database, and storage solutions while fighting back against cybercrime.\n\nHow you will impact PhishLabs and our clients:\n\n\n* Design highly available, scalable, and maintainable infrastructure that supports business objectives\n\n* Implement software and systems for the diverse and constantly evolving landscape of detecting, analyzing, and monitoring cyber security threats\n\n* Work on problems of diverse scope requiring analysis of sometimes complex contributing factors to quickly diagnose root causes and solve them\n\n* Periodically provide on-call technical support for unexpected issues affecting customers\n\n* Network with internal individuals with varying degrees of technical skills on your area of expertise\n\n\n\n\n What you NEED to succeed\n\n\n* 5+ years of cloud infrastructure administration/support experience with a progression of increasing scope and complexity of work\n\n* Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field preferred\n\n* Skilled with virtualized environments, containerization, and auto-scaling (e.g. Vagrant, Docker, Kubernetes, CloudFormation)\n\n* Advanced knowledge of configuration management tooling (e.g. Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Salt)\n\n* Thorough understanding of TCP/IP networking and application protocols (e.g. DNS, FTP, HTTP, LDAP, SMTP, etc.)\n\n* Experience managing SQL and NoSQL databases including MySQL, Amazon Aurora, Postgres, MongoDb\n\n* Experienced with infrastructure/application monitoring and alerting utilizing tools like Nagios, CloudWatch, Sentry\n\n* Proven experience effectively managing shared secrets, credentials, and sensitive data (PII, PCI, HIPPA, FERPA, passwords, certificates)\n\n* Experienced with access control management using 2FA, SSO, LDAP, OAUTH2, SAML\n\n* Proficiency writing Bash, Python, or Ruby scripts and managing code using Git/Bitbucket\n\n* Mastery of Linux with a Red Hat distribution (RedHat, Amazon, Linux, CentOS, Fedora)\n\n* Experience managing application servers such as Apache, Tomcat, Nginx, Elasticsearch/Kibana, Apache Solr\n\n* Experience with email administration using Postfix, Sendmail, Amazon SES\n\n\n\n\nWhat helps you stand out:\n\n\n* Experience with DevOps CI/CD delivery pipelines utilizing Jenkins\n\n* Certified as an AWS Solutions Architect\n\n* Red Hat Certification\n\n* An information security certification (SANS GIAC ISC2, OCSP, CEH, CompTIA)\n\n* Automation Certification (i.e. Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Salt)\n\n* Experience with Office365 administration\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 Senior, Engineer, DevOps, Amazon, Cloud, NoSQL, Ruby, Apache and Linux 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

Join the team at Teaching.com to create, develop, and deliver fun and engaging software for educators and students!\n\nWho We Are & What We Do\n\nWe’re working to change the future of online education by building exciting products that equip students and teachers with the tools to succeed in the classroom and beyond. Our team is hungry to learn and improve—both when it comes to our products and ourselves. We’re a small, hard-working group of self-starters who are passionate about what we do and constantly seeking new ways we can be better, together.\n\nAs a team member at Teaching.com, you’ll get to work on popular products like Typing.com, the world’s largest typing software, and Nitro Type, the #1 educational game in the world. Everyone at Teaching.com is empowered to move quickly, make decisions, and get things done so we can continue to make learning accessible to our growing community of more than 40 million students and teachers around the world.\n\nWho You Are & What You’ll Do\n\nWe’re looking for a team-oriented DevOps engineer with strong strategy, planning, and leadership skills who’s passionate about systems architecture and operations. As the bridge between development and operations, you will work across teams to lead the creation of DevOps solutions that will scale to keep up with our rapid growth.\n\nThis is a remote-based position.\n\nResponsibilities\n\n- Work alongside engineering teams to design and implement AWS solutions for infrastructure for deployment, monitoring, alerting, data storage, and security\n- Evaluate new tools and technologies based on current and future feature requirements, performance, cost effectiveness, and reliability\n- Review existing infrastructure with a fresh perspective to suggest improvements and optimizations\n- Contribute to best practices, create diagrams and documentation where appropriate, and participate in standups with the engineering team\n- Collaborate with the engineering team to define strategy and technical infrastructure roadmap, and drive the rapid implementation of appropriate technologies\n- Define and report on performance KPI\n\nSkills & Background\n\n- Extensive AWS cloud experience (EC2, ELB, ECS, VPC, IAM, RDS, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, etc.)\nAWS Certification preferred but not essential: SysOps and/or Solutions Architect ideal\n- Demonstrable expertise in managing AWS-based infrastructure\n- Experience with DevOps and automation: Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Configuration Management, CloudFormation, Salt, Ansible, Jenkins, Chef, Puppet, CircleCI, etc.\n- Experience with Docker tooling and ecosystem\n- Experience with Git version control system\n- Experience using Packer to create identical machine images across multiple platforms\n- Operating systems: experience supporting mission-critical platforms, both physical and virtualized environments, using Vagrant as well as CentOS and AWS Linux distributions\n- Experience using Terraform to build, change, and version infrastructure\n- Experience managing serverless infrastructures using AWS CloudFront, API Gateway, Lambda, S3, etc.\n- Solid working knowledge of cloud computing architectures, networking topologies, and clustering techniques\n- Web servers: advanced experience with Nginx\n- Data platforms: MySQL/RDS and NoSQL databases\n- Strong scripting and automation skills (e.g., Bash, Python, Ruby)\n- Expertise with application performance monitoring tools such as AppDynamics, NewRelic, and open source alternatives\n- Organization/ticketing systems: JIRA, Redmine, or similar tool\n- Self-starter with excellent interpersonal and communication skills, written and spoken\n\nCompensation, Benefits & Perks\n\nCompetitive salary\nMedical, dental, and vision healthcare benefits\nUnlimited paid time off\nRemote office stipend and hardware assistance\nFlexible office hours\nAnnual conference allowance\nAnnual company retreat\n\nHow to Apply\n\nPlease apply here: http://jobs.teaching.com/apply/aLQx1wHcyc/Senior-DevOps-Engineer\n\nPosition Type\n\nFull-Time/Regular Remote\n\nNO RECRUITERS.\n\nSorry, we will not transfer or sponsor visas. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. \n\nPlease mention the words **PROOF KISS EXIT** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xMjQ=). 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 DevOps, Git, Python, Ruby, Senior, Engineer, Nginx, Education, Serverless, Cloud, NoSQL, API and Linux jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $120,000/year\n