### A bit about Newfront\nFrom the Mayflower to the moon landing, every venture relies on insurance. The $1 trillion insurance industry is fundamental to our economy and society, but remains stuck in the stone age. Incumbents rely on antiquated pen-and-paper process and there's a huge opportunity to transform it through technology. At Newfront, we're building software to supercharge insurance brokers and help them deliver a delightful experience to clients.\n\nWhile we’re a technology-driven company, we believe that people and trusted relationships matter. Newfront believes in empowering people rather than "disrupting" them. Our singular mission is to create the future of work for this massive industry.\n\nWe believe breakout growth creates breakout opportunities and diversity drives innovation.\n\nAs an Engineering Lead at Newfront, you will work with a team building features across the platform to help clients manage their risk and supercharge our brokers. There are tons of challenging technical problems to solve that directly impact the lives of your teammates and Newfront clients.\n\nNewfront scales by hiring brokers who join with their book of business. Through automation and artificial intelligence, we eliminate paperwork and pay brokers a higher split of their commission revenue. We represent a paradigm shift in the industry and career path for tens of thousands of brokers.\n\nThis position is open to remote candidates with Pacific Time Zone preferred. ***#LI-Remote***\n\n\n* 🎥 To learn more about the technology we're building, watch our video [Engineering at Newfront](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6513862682058330112/)\n* 🚀 To learn more about our mission and values, check out our [Careers Page](https://www.newfront.com/careers) or [Key Values](https://www.keyvalues.com/newfront)\n* 💰 To learn more about our funding, check out this [Forbes article](https://www.forbes.com/sites/igorbosilkovski/2020/10/20/exclusive-meet-the-entrepreneurs-who-have-raised-over-100-million-to-digitize-insurance/?sh=727e74a03206)\n\n### What you'll work on\n\n* ***Lead the development of product features:*** You'll be involved during product discovery and you'll contribute to the technical design process. You are product-minded and able to collaborate with a Product Manager to define the product roadmap and vision. You'll be responsible for speccing and guiding your team in building out features and infrastructure.\n* ***Shape business processes:*** As Newfront is a technology-enabled brokerage, we are looking for new ways to improve business processes by using technology. You will become the expert on how an area of the business functions and work directly with stakeholders to build optimizations.\n* ***Define technical direction:*** You will help shape the technical vision and roadmap for a large area of the product. You will also influence best practices and introduce new technologies when appropriate. You'll need to clearly communicate your vision with the team to gain support and a shared understanding of the technologies.\n* ***Mentor other engineers:*** You will working with more junior engineers on your team to help them grow and develop their skills.\n\n### Requirements\n\n* ***5+ years of engineering experience.*** You have previous success developing and shipping a large-scale application with a user-empathetic mindset\n* ***2+ years of experience leading an engineering team.*** You have proven abilities in providing technical direction for a small to medium team of engineers.\n* ***You're product-minded.*** You take initiative to understand production intention, team goals, business context, and user problems to propose improvements, eliminate gaps, and reduce risk in the project. You contribute to and drive the teams roadmap with product and design. You meet with stakeholders across the company when needed to eliminate gaps in your knowledge. You work closely with design to make sure that a design is able to be built and that it has a logical system behind it.\n* ***Security-minded,*** You have a detailed understanding of security protocols like OAuth2/OIDC/JWT. You understand client-side cookie authentication and JWT. You should have an understanding of front-end security risks and how to mitigate them.\n* ***You're highly skilled with web technologies including JavaScript (React/Node), HTML, and CSS.*** These are important foundational skills for a front-end engineer and impact everything from performance, to maintainability, to accessibility. You understand which features can be used across the various browsers, you understand how to make a website accessible, and you know how to implement responsive design.\n* ***You have experience architecting complex front-end web applications. We use React/Next.js,*** but you might have experience with Ember or Angular. You understand the concepts of services, stores, state management, build tools, routing, testing, serverless functions, and API design. You might have experience working with micro front-end applications and you are able to discuss trade-offs when slicing up a front-end app. You have created frameworks and libraries to abstract away complexity in your application to amplify your impact across the team.\n* ***You have some experience with micro-service/cloud and enterprise architecture patterns.***  You have an understanding of cloud architecture patterns, like pub-sub and BFF APIs, and are able to work with other engineers to discuss the trade-offs and benefits. While you might not be setting up these systems, you understand how they work, why they're used, and how they can impact front-end app performance, product requirements, and front-end code architecture.\n* ***You have a strong understanding of design:*** You understand that as a front-end engineer it is your job to help uphold the quality of the product. You're aware that loss of quality is often death by a thousand cuts and you care when elements are a few pixels off. You're able to understand why particular interactions should be used and when and you're able to recommend particular UI patterns to solve user problems. You'll have contributed to or have built design systems in the past.\n\n### Some of the technologies we use\n* Node\n* Typescript/JavaScript\n* React/Nextjs\n* styled-components\n* Vercel\n* Docker\n* NestJS\n* Redis\n\n### Nice To Haves\n* Proficiency with Typescript, React, Jest, and Next.js.\n* Experience with styled-components or similar CSS-in-JS libraries.\n* Understanding of containerization technologies such as Docker.\n* Experience using Vercel to deploy applications.\n* Experience with Node.js and/or serverless functions.\n\n### Compensation + Benefits\n* $50k-$100k USD (based on experience)\n* All employees receive equity (based on experience)\n* $500 work from home stipend\n* Unlimited vacation\n\n---\n\nNewfront is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. [Learn more about our commitment to diversity and inclusion.](https://www.newfront.com/diversity-and-inclusion)\n\nNewfront provides reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at [email protected]. \n\nPlease mention the word **SUCCESSFULLY** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xMjU=). 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 $50,000 — $100,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n
\n\n#Location\nLatin America

**Company Description**\n\nShopify is now permanently remote and working towards a future that is digital by default. Learn more about what this can mean for you.\n\nOver 1.7 million businesses have bet their success on the stability and performance of the Shopify platform. In order to support these growing businesses—as well as the next million—our systems need to be fast, reliable, scalable and secure. Accomplishing that will require people like you: talented, curious, growth-minded and empathetic engineering managers that are excited to build, support and lead our infrastructure teams.\n\n**Job Description**\n\nProduction Engineering, which is part of our core engineering organization, builds, operates and improves the heart of Shopify’s technical platform. We are a fast-growing team focused on building and maintaining tools and services to unlock the power of planet scale infrastructure for all of Shopify’s merchants, buyers and developers. \n\nShopify has grown rapidly over the last number of years. As an experienced infrastructure engineering manager, we need your help to both start new teams and expand and grow the missions of our existing teams. There are multiple positions available on a variety of teams and we will work with you as part of the interview process to identify which team best fits your interests, needs and experience.\n\n**Here is a sampling of some of the teams, systems and projects to which you could contribute:**\n\n* Expand the reach of our search systems to standardize the way we index documents in different languages and in various locations around the world\n* Scale a team looking at solving issues with shopping cart access, configuration plane information and package tracking data using a globally accessible, high write key/value store\n* Grow the capacity of our worldwide distributed site reliability engineering teams, consulting with other engineering groups on how to build low latency, highly resilient systems\n* Take our observability systems to the next level, expanding and evangelizing the usage of tracing, metrics and structured logging across the company \n* Work on expanding our highly scalable and configurable job system to support all of the applications on the platform\n* Keep our databases operating optimally using proxies, load shedding, custom routing layers and application transparent sharding\n* Build manipulation primitives such as combination and filtering into our streaming infrastructure to allow teams to translate existing data streams into specific business problems\n\n**Qualifications**\n\nWhile we don’t need you to have specific experience with our technology stack, these are leadership positions that do require that you have: \n\n* Proven management and leadership skills, allowing you to develop and mentor others as well as build credibility with your team while executing broader engineering strategies\n* Demonstrated proficiency designing and improving the development, delivery and automation of software infrastructure within a cloud environment\n* Experience developing and designing solutions in a modern, high-level/systems programming language (Go, Ruby, Python, Java, C++, C, etc…)\n* Familiarity working with senior stakeholders across the organization, both technical and non technical, to develop roadmaps, integrate with larger company initiatives and deliver business and engineering value.\n\n**If you have experience in any of the following areas, that will certainly be put to good use. But if you don’t, that’s ok -- the faster you apply, the quicker we can get to teaching you about:**\n\n* Building services and deploying them on top of Kubernetes and/or Google Cloud Platform\n* Familiarity with how to design, build, understand and maintain distributed systems \n* Working with Terraform and/or other infrastructure orchestration tooling\n* Participating in an on call rotation and/or site reliability engineering (SRE) experience\n* Automating infrastructure operations\n\n**Additional information**\n\nWe know that applying to a new role takes a lot of work and we truly value your time. We’re looking forward to reading your application.\n\nAt Shopify, we are committed to building and fostering an environment where our employees feel included, valued, and heard. Our belief is that a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion enables us to truly make commerce better for everyone. We strongly encourage applications from Indigenous peoples, racialized people, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities and/or people with intersectional identities. \n\nPlease mention the words **BOX CRAFT TRUE** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xMjU=). 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#Location\nUnited States, Canada

# Overview\n\nRetrium is a seed-funded startup that helps teams improve their Agile processes by facilitating effective and engaging retrospective meetings. With over 170,000 retrospectives run on our platform, we’re the trusted leader in our market, and we’ve been helping teams continuously improve since 2015.\n\nWe’re also a small, cross-functional team of passionate and fun people. We have an outstanding leadership team and a dedication to company culture, so you’ll always feel connected to our mission, even though you can work from anywhere in the US. We’re lucky enough to have an awesome product, great revenue growth, high customer satisfaction, low churn, and seed investment. Now, we need someone to help us deliver more value to customers!\n\nTo apply for the Senior JavaScript Engineer position at Retrium you should have five or more years of experience with some of the following technologies, and be eager to work with them:\n\n* JavaScript! (ES6, babel, Flow, webpack, npm)\n* React (hooks, functional components)\n* WebSockets\n* Node (express.js)\n* MongoDB\n* Redis\n* AWS\n* Docker (scripting, Linux)\n* CI/CD\n\n# Benefits\n\nWe provide amazing benefits, and if you ask the team, they’ll tell you that the greatest benefits we offer employees are the ability to make a meaningful contribution to the company and the opportunities to “Listen. Learn. Teach”, another core value.\n\nOur other benefits include:\n\n* Competitive salary and equity in a fast-growing, funded startup\n* Health, dental, and vision insurance coverage for you and your family\n* Twelve weeks of paid parental leave\n* Minimum vacation policy, twelve paid holidays, and “last Fridays” (we encourage you to ask us about this!)\n* Flexible, sustainable work hours\n* Work from home or a company-sponsored co-working office\n* All the equipment you need to do your job, plus a home office budget\n* Learning and development budget, lunch and learns, and book club\n* Annual company retreats\n\n# Additional Information\n\n*Retrium is committed to creating a diverse environment where you can “Be Your Amazing Self”, yet another core value. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.*\n\n# Responsibilities\n As the next member of our small but growing team at Retrium, you’ll collaborate closely with everyone at the company. We use lightweight processes and tools inspired by agile and kanban to design, develop, and deploy the right features to customers on a regular cadence.\n\nWe’re looking for someone who has experience in the trenches, writing solid code, and someone who understands how to balance the competing concerns of product development:\n\n* Responsibility to the customer: Delight our users and deliver the quality features they want\n* Responsibility to the business: Reduce cost and generate revenue by delivering value quickly and iteratively\n* Responsibility to the developer: Minimize technical debt by writing quality, maintainable code\n* Because our core values include “Default to Autonomy”, “Bias for Action”, and “Level Up”, you’ll need to be a self-starter who can think strategically, execute tasks, and participate in the continuous improvement of our product and processes.\n\nA typical week will include:\n\n* Defining and implementing features in the product pipeline\n* Moving seamlessly between front-end and back-end work\n* Discussing design and architecture issues together as a team\n* Facilitating feedback and demo sessions of your in-progress tasks\n* Communicating with team members through video conferencing and asynchronous communication\n* Deploying code to production as soon as it’s ready! \n\n# Requirements\nWe believe that the following collection of experiences and abilities would make someone successful in this position. However, we encourage anyone to apply if you believe you have what it takes to succeed in this role.\n\n* BA/BS degree (computer science preferred) or equivalent experience\n* A history of success as a Senior Developer working with a team of engineers to deliver customer-facing features\n* The passion and drive to learn about Retrium and take on new responsibilities and leadership opportunities as we grow\n* Ability to be a team player and collaborate with others\n* Experience with JavaScript\n* Experience in a SaaS company, distributed team, and/or startup\n* Experience with Agile software development processes is a big plus \n\nPlease mention the words **GOVERN SPLIT SYMPTOM** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xMjU=). 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 JavaScript, React, Node, Senior, Engineer, Redis, Docker and Executive jobs that are similar:\n\n $62,500 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 🏔 Company retreats\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n
\n\n#Location\nUnited States