\nSenior Backend Engineers at Raya love backend engineering and have been recognized as leaders in past roles! You are excited to work in a Node.js codebase. The ideal candidate will have had 6+ years of experience and grown within their organization, demonstrating both results and leadership. You will join the backend team at an impactful time of high growth.\n\n\nWe prioritize learning and teamwork and love giving people the opportunity to champion solutions to big challenges and grow into better versions of themselves. A great candidate is excited to support the backend team's initiatives in messaging, connecting, and location based map initiatives. They are diligent and they design software architecture in a scalable manner. Finally, they believe in Raya’s vision, which is to enrich lives by fostering relationships through quality, in person interactions.\n\n\nWe offer comprehensive medical and dental coverage, $50 a day food delivery budget, equity based employment, a great culture, learning opportunities, unlimited vacation, 12 weeks paid parental leave, and we pay all employees $1,000 a year to go somewhere in the world that they’ve never been because of our values of human connection, empathy, and curiosity. \n\n\n\nResponsibilities \n* Product Ownership: Lead key components of our Core Services, including People Recommendations Engines\n* Data Engineering: Apply your in-depth knowledge with databases such as Postgres SQL, MongoDB, and ElasticSearch to supercharge our application's performance and reliability\n* Collaboration: Work hand-in-hand with cross-functional teams, ranging from UX designers to data scientists, ensuring our solutions are comprehensive and user focused\n* Continuous Learning: Stay updated with the latest in Raya's tech ecosystem, ensuring our solutions are scalable, maintainable, and innovative\n* User-Centric Development: Prioritize and advocate for top-tier user experiences, utilizing feedback loops and data-driven methodologies to define and refine product features\n* Operational Excellence: Navigate the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), ensuring agile methodologies, CI/CD practices, and Raya's best practices are integrated into all development phases\n\n\n\nQualifications\n* A BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Software Engineering or a related technical field (Professional Experience can be substituted for candidates with non-engineering educational backgrounds or experience with software-specific training courses/programs)\n* 6+ years of hands-on experience in modern software development environments, with a track record of delivering scalable and maintainable systems\n* Demonstrated expertise in system design, architecture, and mastery in at least one software programming language, ex. Node.js, Javascript, Golang, or Typescipt\n* Strong collaborative instincts, emphasizing open communication, transparency, and cross-team interaction\n* Production experience with Search applications (ex. OpenSearch, Vector database, Elasticsearch)\n\n\n\nWhat Sets You Apart\n* Visionary: You think beyond the present, anticipating future technological trends and their implications on the Raya Community.\n* Empathetic Leader: You naturally resonate with colleagues, users, and collaborative teams, fostering a culture of understanding and innovation\n* Growth-oriented: You possess a perpetual learner's mindset, open to challenges, and always seeking opportunities to expand your technical horizons\n* Impact-driven: With a knack for identifying the 'big picture', you prioritize tasks that maximize impact, aligning with Raya’s overarching goals\n\n\n\n\n\n\n#BI-remote \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Senior, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $130,000/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\nRemote

\nThe Role\n\nAs a Software Engineer, you will focus on developing strategies and building feasible solutions aimed at increasing job bookings at various locations. You will also support key results by identifying and implementing effective practices and innovations to enhance overall performance. This work involves close collaboration with teams across the organization to ensure alignment with broader business objectives.\n\nZenjob is on the mission to become the digital staffing platform delivering companies best staffing experience with the highest flexibility and reliability, and workers the best choice and fair pay for side jobs. Our service is available in over 39 cities in Germany. Our growth financing round of $50 million (€45 million) from February 2022 is helping us to scale our platform and add new data-based automation features for our rapidly growing customer base.\n\nYour role in our team\n\n\n* Develop secure, cutting-edge software solutions while enhancing engineering practices\n\n* Take ownership of end-to-end feature development and monitor release impact and SLOs by ensuring that your solutions are aligned with our engineering principles (Simplicity, Speed, Stability, Scalability, Security)\n\n* Collaborate effectively with engineers, product managers, designers, and data analysts, actively contributing to the processes in your team and the department\n\n* Contributing to the tech roadmap, the tech radar and our collectives\n\n\n\n\nWhat you’ll bring\n\n\n* Hands-on experience with Java, familiarity with other languages such as Javascript, Python, Node & React is an added advantage.\n\n* A strong background in developing and scaling web applications using frameworks and technologies like Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, event-driven architecture, Kafka, etc.\n\n* A proactive, solutions-driven attitude, coupled with an innovative spirit and the practicality to identify the most efficient solutions.\n\n* Self-driven qualities, capable of independent management and organization of tasks and responsibilities. \n\n* You are enthusiastic about collaborating with a diverse team, embracing individuals from various backgrounds, cultures, and experience levels, and contributing meaningfully to collective goals.\n\n\n\n\nEngineering at Zenjob\n\nTechnology is core to Zenjob's vision. Our engineers from all over the world are building the services that power our platform – our mobile and web apps, our matching core, and the digital document management system. Engineering works alongside Product to support every department to create value for our users and customers.\n\nBring Your Whole Self to Zenjob\n\nWe know that diverse teams build better products, and we care to create a welcoming environment for everyone. With this in mind, we want to build our teams, cultivate leaders and create an innovative and successful company. This is a special shoutout to people from underrepresented groups to come shaping the future of work with us!\n\nOur Tech Stack\n\nOur platform is powered by AWS, Kubernetes, Istio, Terraform and Docker. These tools form the foundation that allow us to deploy and scale fast and easily. Everything is monitored and logged by Prometheus and Grafana, including request tracing for better observability.\n\nOur microservices and backends are running mostly on Java + Spring Boot and Groovy, which include easy-to-use templates for new microservices.\n\nOn the client-side we use Swift and Kotlin for our iOS and Android apps, as well as React micro-frontends for our B2B and operational apps.\n\nWe test our software by using Playwright, JUnit, Spock and React Testing Library.\n\nWe store data in various persistence technologies like Kafka streams, Postgres and Redis, while also using SQS and REST for both asynchronous and immediate service communication. We make use of technologies like ElasticSearch to perfectly match talents to the right job\n\nWe empower our teams to experiment with new technologies through our Request For Comments (RFC) process, in conjunction with collectives and knowledge-sharing sessions to gather input and maximize the quality of our deliverables. The insights we gain from our users flow back into our product development through A/B testing and constant feedback.\n\nWhat we offer\n\n\n* A supportive, open, and fun team that will have your back from day 1.\n\n* Twenty-eight days of vacation (increases based on tenure to up to 30 days), 1-day special leave paid for charity work, five days of paid educational leave, and the option of unpaid leave.\n\n* Hybrid work setup combining office & remote work (3 days from office, 2 days home), flexible working hours, bring your dog policy.\n\n* Ongoing focus on your personal development (annual development budget of EUR 750, mentoring opportunities, continuous career conversations)\n\n* Monthly 30 EUR subsidy on Urban Sports Club, 25% discount on FitX gym membership\n\n* Monthly 40 EUR credit for NAVIT- a sustainable mobility solution spanning public transport bike-sharing.\n\n* Tax-free meal allowance (saving EUR ~50 net per month!)\n\n* Quarterly team get togethers, budget for employees birthdays, winter & summer parties plus regular cultural talks & events. \n\n\n\n\nIf this sounds good, then we'd love to find out more about you! Apply and send in your application.\n\n🎥 Take a look at our office tour video.\n\nIf you want to learn more about how our Tech team works, check out our official Zenjob Technology Blog: https://medium.com/zenjob-tech-blog\n\nWe invite you to explore our Career Page, follow our LinkedIn page, and connect with us on Instagram.\n\nWe are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to assessing every qualified person according to their skills, regardless of age, gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability status or religion. It is not necessary to include your photo and age with your application. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to React, Swift, Testing, Java, Node, Mobile, Android and Engineer jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $102,500/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\nBerlin, Berlin, Germany

\nAbout Knowde\n\nThe ingredient, polymer and chemical industries are going through a digital transformation. Suppliers and distributors that adopt modern, digital strategies will succeed. More than 8,000 of the world's largest suppliers and distributors use Knowde to accelerate their digital transformation and drive business growth.\n\nKnowde solves the root of the problem holding the industry back from successful digital transformation: organizing and digitizing product data. Knowde’s Proprietary Knowledge Engine extracts, cleanses and organizes unstructured product data in a matter of weeks, creating product master data in a PIM system that powers business tools, internal teams, and amazing online customer experiences.\n\nKnowde instantly transforms how customers discover, engage and transact with suppliers and distributors online — on your existing website, Knowde’s marketplace or both.\n\nTo realize our vision, we've raised over $110M from the world's leading investors, including Sequoia Capital and Coatue. They recognize that digitally transforming the chemical industry will increase the pace of innovation globally.\n\nCome Join Us!\n\nKnowde is looking to add an immensely talented Senior Front End Developer to join our Engineering team. As one of our engineers, you will help us invent, design, refine, and deliver the products that will enable this digital transformation. The products we will create together simply do not exist today. This is your chance to fundamentally affect how product innovation occurs globally across industries.\n\nWhat You’ll Be Doing\n\n\n* As a small, remote team you’ll be empowered to work directly with leadership and the product team to make decisions about your code and the future of the product.\n\n* Be a trailblazer by contributing to the build of a complex ecommerce marketplace, the first of its kind in the Chemicals space.\n\n* Have a strong emphasis on shipping features quickly without sacrificing code quality.\n\n* Own your projects from software design to implementation and deployment.\n\n* Take pride in your work by implementing cutting-edge technologies and writing state-of-the-art code.\n\n* Transform UI designs and mockups into pages and flows using CSS3 and JavaScript frameworks.\n\n* Build modular front-end code leveraging GraphQL and REST-based services.\n\n* Emphasize simplicity and pragmatism, which is reflected in your elegant code that other developers emulate.\n\n* Have an exceptional understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and service workers\n\n\n\n\nWhat You Should Have\n\n\n* 5+ years’ experience developing rich UI/Front-end for user-facing web applications.\n\n* Strong experience with React or Angular, TypeScript, SSR, SPA, PWA, OOP, Reactive programming, Flexbox, and Unit tests\n\n* Ability to function as a project leader as well as an individual contributor.\n\n* Ability to work and collaborate within distributed, multidisciplinary teams.\n\n* Excellent communication and facilitation skills.\n\n* Experience in developing secure web applications and knowledge of application vulnerabilities such as Cross Site Scripting (XSS), Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) etc.\n\n* High bar for quality and phenomenal attention to detail.\n\n* Experience writing clean, unobtrusive JavaScript and debugging tools.\n\n* Knowledge of browser quirks and their remedies. By the way, we do not support Internet Explorer (any version).\n\n* Knowledge of browser internals like JavaScript engines and ways to tune code for best performance.\n\n\n\n\nOur Stack\n\n\n* React 17 / Angular 13 / TypeScript\n\n* Jest / testing-library / Karma / Cypress\n\n* Nx.dev for monorepo tooling\n\n* Ruby on Rails on the backend\n\n* GraphQL / REST APIs\n\n* PostgreSQL / Elasticsearch / Redis / S3\n\n* Kubernete\n\n\n\n\nOur Perks & Benefits\n\n\n* We offer “Knerds” a variety of medical, dental, and vision plans, designed to fit you and your family’s needs\n\n* 401K program to help you invest in your future\n\n* Education & learning stipend for personal growth and development\n\n* Fully remote position\n\n* Flexible vacation time to promote a healthy work-life blend\n\n* Paid parental leave to support you and your family\n\n\n\n\nWe believe in supporting people to do their best work and thrive, and building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive company is core to our mission. Our goal is to ensure that Knowde upholds an inclusive environment where all people feel that they are equally respected and valued, whether they are applying for an open position or working at the company. We welcome applicants of any educational background, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, citizenship, socioeconomic status, disability, and veteran status. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, React, GraphQL, Redis, JavaScript, Angular, Senior, Engineer and Ecommerce jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $100,000/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