Remote Engineer + Java + Lead + React + Sales Jobs

IMPORTANT:\n \n1. This job is to work for a US company. An advanced level of English is a non-negotiable requirement. Please refrain from applying if this is not your case.\n \n2. This job is remote but if you’re not located in the region mentioned in the post’s title, do not continue. Your application won’t be reviewed. Please apply to the job posting for your country/region of residence.\nIf you’re in Brazil, Bahamas, Barbados, Bolivia, Cuba, El Salvador, Haiti, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Panama, Suriname, Trinidad, and Tobago, or Venezuela, we’re sorry but we can’t consider your application at this moment. #LI-Remote\n \n3. To be considered for this position, resumes must be sent in English\n\nInterviewing for a new company is a serious time commitment for all parties involved. Please take the time to read this and thoughtfully consider if we would be a good fit for one another.  No contractors or agencies. Seriously.\n\nAbout Very\n\nVery has been a remote-first company since 2011 which has allowed us to develop an amazing remote working experience and to have a remote office culture that exceeds that of any traditional on-site office.\n\nWe’ve built a collaborative, tight-knit team that thrives, whether we’re hanging out in person at our annual retreat or coordinating work across time zones. The results show that we’re doing something right. In 2020, we were named one of Inc’s Best Workplaces, Parity.org's Best Companies for Women to Advance List, and Fatherly’s Best Places to Work for Dads.\n\nAt Very we are focused on delivering world-class IoT hardware, software, and smart product engineering services to our clients. We have a wide array of clients from enterprise-level clients such as Vizio, Clear and iHeart Radio to small greenfield start-ups. Whatever size company our goal remains the same - Deliver world-class IoT services and solutions and truly partner with our clients to ensure overall product success.\n\n\nAbout this Role\n\nVery is looking to hire an experienced software engineer specializing in native mobile development to work across a wide variety of projects and technology stacks.\n\nAs a Lead Software Engineer, you will be responsible for delivering high-quality, scalable and well tested code. At Very, teaching and learning is at the core of what we do. Whether through pair programming, workshops, conferences or other cross project collaboration we expect every engineer to continue advancing and developing their skills.\n\nResponsibilities:\n- Execute end-to-end software development and deployment in an agile environment\n- Provide technical guidance to other team members\n- Influence work of multiple teams relating to overall engineering group objectives \n- Drive continuous process and technology improvements\n- Lead production monitoring and resolution impacts\n- Own and operate large sections of software and systems\n- Partner with Product to spec out the technical aspects of a feature from inception through delivery\n- Guide software design and delivery through influence and education\n- Write acceptance, integration and unit tests\n- Coach and mentor other engineers\n- Conduct architecture discussions when necessary\n- Participate in recruiting of candidates and improvement of the overall interview process\n- Support sales and pre-sales engineering work to ensure Very Client fit\n\nAt Very we do not have just one technology stack as we work on interesting problems, not specific technologies. However, we do have some preferred stacks and proficiency in two of them is required:\n\nBackend Web / Embedded Technologies\nElixir: Phoenix / Nerves\nPython: Django / Flask / Serverless / Scientific Python\nRuby: Rails\nJavaScript: NodeJS Backends\nKotlin/Java: Web Backends\nC/C++: Zephyr RTOS / BareMetal\n\nFrontend Web / Mobile Technologies\nTypeScript: React / React Native\nSwift/Objective C: iOS Native\nKotlin/Java: Android Native\n\nWe value well-tested, reusable code and expect our engineers to be as good of practitioners as they are leaders and teachers.\n\n\nWhat You’ll Be Working On\n\nWe take customer success extremely seriously here at Very. As a senior engineer, you will be partnering with our clients to bring their products to market. You will be utilizing one or more of the above mentioned technology stacks coupled with a cloud provider to deliver an end-to-end solution for our customers. \n\nEach project is slightly different and can contain any combination of hardware, firmware, web / mobile frontend as well as an API backend/cloud architecture. We follow best practices such as Infrastructure as Code, well thought out and designed CI/CD pipelines, TDD, and other testing best practices, and always keep an eye on scalability. \n\nWe remain as agile as possible working on delivering a vertical slice of all involved layers as early as possible so we can iterate and demonstrate progress. Your role on a project will be focused on your area of expertise coupled with your learning goals.\n\n\nQualifications\n\nRequired\nUnfortunately, applicants who do not meet these criteria will not be considered.\n\n* Lead-level Software Engineering experience: Can guide a team to successful outcomes by architecting overall solutions, ensuring that work across the team meets a high standard, and helping the team focus on efficient solutions to business problems.  Their quality of work and overall approach to problem-solving means that review of their work is mostly for the sake of discussion/clarity, rather than to ensure quality. \n* Lead-level native mobile engineering experience: Has developed from ent-to-end and published multiple Android and/or iOS apps\n* Strong communication skills with the ability to understand and explain technical issues to a non-technical audience\n* Strong experience with Android App and SDK development experience with Java and Kotlin\n* Experience delivering and supporting  Android applications\n* Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle required\n* Good understanding of cross-platform app development\n* Experience with using RESTful Web Services with applications\n* Experience building web and API services, using remote data via REST and JSON\n* Experience in object orientated design and programming, design patterns, and related frameworks\n* Demonstrated expertise in continuous integration/delivery/deployment\n\nNice-to-haves\n* Experience with Docker and Kubernetes\n* Cloud development experience with AWS\n\nContract\n\nYour contract with Very will be as an independent contractor for an indefinite period.\nThis type of contract carries some additional responsibilities for you - you'll have to save some money to take care of taxes and you'll have to pay for public social security (Health and Pension) out of pocket.\n \nThat being said, we're confident that our competitive compensation and benefits package (see below) will still mean that you are happy with your take-home amount at the end of each month. For more information about Very and the contract type, see here.\n\nHow You’ll Be Compensated\n\nBase compensation\nDepending on your skill and experience, you can expect a monthly salary between USD $7,900 and $11,100 upon joining the company.  We also offer performance bonuses, a generous maternity/paternity leave policy, and numerous other employee benefits (including eliminating the stress and cost of commuting each day)\n\nWe also offer world-class perks:\n-$1,000 annual Healthcare Stipend (to be used towards Health insurance premium)\n-Paid Parental Leave\n-Continuing Education Stipend - After 1 year of Employment  ($3000/ year for learning and 100% of the costs if you’re speaking at an event)\n- Home Office Stipend ($1000 per year for your workstation / office)\n- $125/mo Monthly Communications Stipend (Can be used towards Cell Phone Data Plan, WiFi Plan, VOIP, VPN)\n- PTO / Sick Time\n- Variable Compensation based upon performance\n- MacBook Pro (Provided)\n- Personalized ESL coaching and access to an AI-powered adaptive platform to take your English to the next level\n\nAdditional Perks (could vary)\n- Paid trip to somewhere in the World for the annual global company retreat.\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Ads, Mobile, Excel, Non Tech, Salesforce, API, Senior, Sales, SaaS, Engineer, Analyst, Microsoft, Marketing, Travel, Director, Cloud, Software, Ecommerce, Teaching, Video, Education, Python, Legal, JavaScript, Amazon, Junior, Stats, HR, Finance, React, Java, Serverless and Android jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $110,000/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\nLatin America

We are a remote startup (headquartered in Canada) building a smart, curious, and driven team that’s making software to help sales reps sell better.\n\nProspect is a lead generation app that helps you find contact data right inside your browser in real-time. The best sales teams from the top tech companies in the world use Prospect to crush their sales targets.\n\n**MORE ABOUT US**\n\nWe are currently a team of 11 people -- you will be #12 🙂\n\nWe are self-funded and profitable (no VCs or investors). We did this because we want to do what’s best for our team and customers.\n\nAuthoritative leadership style is practiced here, where the overall goal is given and you have the freedom to choose your own way of achieving it.\n\nWe have balanced working hours (~8 hours/day), don’t work weekends, and take ample time off. We don’t have any “managers” and we rarely do any internal meetings.\n\nWe understand the importance of work/life balance which is why we are one of few that offer Fridays off in the summer ☀️\n\n**ABOUT YOU**\n\nYou enjoy writing beautiful code. You care not just about whether the code works, but you think deeply about how well it performs, and how it will be understood by future developers.\n\nYou like shipping things. You realize that building excellent products is a marathon, not a sprint, and regularly make improvements in iterations.\n\nYou are an excellent communicator. You realize that working remotely requires thoughtful communication and you do so through great written communication.\n\nYou self-manage and are open to feedback. You enjoy taking a goal and figuring out how to ship it without heavy direction and regular check-ins.\n\nYou are product and customer-centric. Whether it is a bug fix, perf improvement, or a new feature, you realize that every line of code is an opportunity to make a user’s experience better.\n\n**OUR ENGINEERING TEAM RIGHT NOW**\n\nWe are currently a team of 7 engineers. Our roles are divided based on the projects we work on.\n\nWe work in 4-week long development cycles in which we focus on adding new features, fixing bugs, or making improvements. After each cycle, we have a 2-week cool-off which we use to work on anything we would like to as well as plan for the next cycle.\n\nOur frontend stack is currently:\n\n- Languages: Mostly TypeScript, with some ES6\n- Frameworks: React, Redux, Redux Sagas\n- Tooling: ESLint, Jest, Prettier, Storybook\n\nAnd the rest of our stack is currently:\n\n- Backend: Java 8 with modern practices\n- Cloud: A mix of AWS and Google Cloud\n- Database: PostgreSQL\n- Internal: GitLab for CI/CD and issue tracking\n\n**PROJECTS YOU WILL WORK ON**\n\nYou will be working on our core application’s frontend. The application is a React/Redux application written in TypeScript with modern best practices.\n\nThis is a high-impact role. We are looking for someone to take real ownership of one or two core features within the first year. You will own some extremely important parts of our application that serve thousands of customers. \n\nWe prioritize our projects based on what customers are requesting the most. Some things that you might work on include:\n\n- DevOps: Improve the CI pipeline by improving static analysis and adding tests\n- Improvements: Improve performance to render UI at 60fps\n- Integrations: Add features to and revamp our Salesforce integration\n- Platform: Make the main app, a Chrome Extension, work on other platforms\n- Upgrades: Migrate to the latest versions of core dependencies, such as React\n\n**MUST HAVES**\n\n- 3+ years of JavaScript programming experience\n- Experience with shipping React applications to production\n\n**BONUS NICE-TO-HAVES**\n\n- Past remote work experience \n- Experience at a startup or a small company\n- Experience working with TypeScript\n- Front-end design experience (Figma/Sketch, CSS, an eye for good user interfaces)\n\n**COMPENSATION AND PERKS**\n\n- Salary: $95,000 - $120,000 Canadian dollars per year\n- $1,500 annual continued learning budget (for books, courses, and self-improvement)\n- $1,000+ annual travel spending allowance (money to spend during your vacation)\n- Flexible working hours (4 hour overlap with EST and the remaining 4 flexible)\n- 4 weeks paid time off\n- Benefits (health, dental, etc) through our company HSA (for people living in Canada) \n\nPlease mention the words **HELLO TELL MANSION** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xMTQ=). 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 $90,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 📚 Learning budget\n\n
\n\n#Location\nWorldwide

We’re a startup based out of Kitchener-Waterloo, Canada building a smart, curious, and driven team that’s passionate about making software that helps sales reps sell better.\n\nProspect is a lead generation platform that intelligently sources contact data right inside of your web browser in real-time. The best sales teams from the top tech companies in the world use Prospect to crush their sales targets.\n\n\n**MORE ABOUT US**\n\nWe are currently a team of 10 people -- you will be #11 🙂. \n\nWe are profitable and self-funded (no VCs or investors). We did this because we want to do what’s best for our team and customers.\n\nWe have sane working hours (~8 hours/day), don’t work weekends, and take ample time off.\n\n\n**ABOUT YOU**\n\nYou enjoy writing beautiful code. You care not just about whether the code works, but you think deeply about how well it performs, and how it will be understood by future developers.\n\nYou like shipping things. Whether it is a bug fix or a feature, you realize that every line of code is an opportunity to make a user’s experience better.\n\nYou like getting feedback. Whether it is talking to real users or adding custom metrics, you believe that getting real user data is a smart way to make decisions.\n\nYou are organized and autonomous. You enjoy taking a goal, breaking it up into smaller tasks, and organizing them in the best sequence to get the job done.\n\nYou are an excellent communicator. You regularly commit small chunks of code and try to make the best use of the tools available.\n\n**OUR ENGINEERING TEAM RIGHT NOW**\n\nWe are currently a team of 5 developers. Our roles are divided based on the projects we work on. Our stack currently looks like:\n\nThe most used parts of our stack are:\n\n* Frontend: ES6, TypeScript, React, and Redux\n* Backend: Java 8 (REST API)\n* Cloud: A blend of AWS and Google Cloud\n* Database: PostgreSQL\n* Internal: GitLab for CI/CD and issue tracking\n\n\n**PROJECTS YOU WILL WORK ON**\n\nYou will initially be working on our core product. The core product is an application built using ES6, React, and Redux. You will be shipping code directly to all of our users and getting lots of feedback while you’re at it.\n\nEvery now and then, you may also jump into projects such as:\n\nAdding more features to our user-facing dashboard\nConverting our ES6 codebase into TypeScript\nImproving internal tooling (CI/CD, error monitoring, code quality)\n\nThe exact list and sequence of products we work on really changes based on customers’ feedback. However, as the year progresses, we would like you to take ownership of parts of our JavaScript codebases.\n\n\n**MUST HAVES**\n\n* 3+ years programming experience and 2+ years React experience\n* Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written\n* We don’t require a degree but you should have demonstrated the ability to learn new things quickly (either self-learned or from school) \n\n\n**BONUS NICE-TO-HAVES**\n\n* Past remote work experience \n* Worked at a startup or a small company before\n* Experience working with TypeScript and RxJS\n* Front-end design chops (Sketch, CSS, an eye for good user interfaces)\n\n\n**COMPENSATION AND PERKS**\n\n* Salary: $70,000 - $90,000/year Canadian Dollars\n* Work fully remotely, from our office in Kitchener-Waterloo, or a blend of both\n* Four weeks paid time off\n* Travel spending allowance (money to spend during your vacation)\n* Catered lunches every day and snacks at the office \n \n\nPlease mention the words **WRAP EASY VOLCANO** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xMTQ=). 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, Engineer, Developer, Digital Nomad, Java, Travel and Sales jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $120,000/year\n \n\n#Location\nWorldwide