\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

This role can be based in London or Liverpool (Hybrid) \nOverview:\n\nWe are seeking a highly skilled and experienced software engineer with a strong background in Python and Node.js to join our team. The ideal candidate will have experience working with video and audio. Experience in machine learning frameworks is desirable but not essential. Familiarity with containerization technology like Docker will significantly contribute to our projects. This role could be fully remote (with occasional in-person meet-ups) or based out of our London or Liverpool offices.\n\n \nAbout the Team:\n\nThe PlayStation Studios SHIP team develops, maintains and supports a web portal encompassing a variety of web applications and other tools to meet the needs of first-party game development studios and many other internal groups. These include custom deployments of standard applications such as git repos and Jira bug trackers as well as in-house technology to support tasks such as art reviews and user experience testing. The team is mostly based in the USA with a small UK presence.\n\n \nKey Responsibilities\n\n\n* Design, develop, and implement software solutions to analyse video, audio, and other input streams\n\n* Create efficient algorithms for processing and interpreting log data\n\n* Leverage machine learning technologies to interpret complex data from various sources.\n\n* Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements, design system architecture, and integrate new features.\n\n* Apply expertise in Python and Node.js to integrate with RESTful APIs.\n\n* Ensure the reliability and performance of all tools and applications by implementing best practices for testing, including unit, integration, and acceptance tests.\n\n* Use Docker and other containerisation technologies for consistent development, testing, and deployment environments.\n\n\n\nBasic Qualifications\n\n\n* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).\n\n* Minimum of 7 years of professional experience in software development with a focus on Python and Node.js.\n\n* Experience with Docker and a solid understanding of containerization principles.\n\n* Familiarity with Agile/Scrum processes and project management tools such as Jira.\n\n* Comfortable working with teams in other time zones.\n\n* Advanced proficiency with Linux\n\n\n\nPreferred Qualifications\n\n\n* Experience with multi-media processing and analysis.\n\n* Strong understanding and practical experience with machine learning frameworks (e.g. TensorFlow, PyTorch).\n\n* Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work on complex issues.\n\n* Ability to communicate effectively and collaborate with key stakeholders from different backgrounds and disciplines.\n\n* Leadership skills with a track record of leading projects to successful completion.\n\n* Experience in developing tools and workflows that enhance the productivity of technical teams.\n\n* Proficient with SQL database design, implementation and optimisation.\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 Design, Python, Docker, Git, Senior and Engineer jobs that are similar:\n\n $75,000 — $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\nLondon, England, United Kingdom

\nHonor exists to expand the world’s capacity to care.\n\nWe’re combining high tech with high-touch to deliver better home care for aging adults, better jobs for Care Professionals, and entirely new offerings to support the aging journey, at scale.\n\nFounded in 2014, and now a Series E funded “Unicorn” valued at over $1B, Honor leads the world’s largest home care network with the most advanced care platform. Our August 2021 acquisition of Home Instead has created a global company that’s revolutionizing how society cares for older adults, their families, and Care Professionals.\n\nThe Honor Care Platform combines local care and the most advanced technology to bring the highest quality care to more aging adults.\n\nGrow at Honor as part of a united team where everyone shows up authentically, shares ideas bravely, and solves complex problems!\n\n \n\nAbout the work:\n\nThis position is on our Staffing team that supports matching the right caregivers with clients as well as the system of record for our care services. We facilitate the creation and management of visits and streamline the association of key data with visits (such as the care needs of the client, billing and payment info, clock-in and clock-out times, and more). \n\nWe enable care operations by answering important questions like “which caregivers are available and qualified to work with this client?” and “what are the optimal caregiver assignments for a set of clients?”. Our team supports vertical user flows related to schedule and calendar management, as well as robust APIs to expose visit details, search visits and caregiver availability, and modify scheduled care.\n\nOur team partners closely with data science to enable system-optimized caregiver assignments at scale.\n\nWe have an exciting runway ahead of us. As Honor’s Care Platform grows quickly, building robust and scalable systems is critical. As we make strategic technical investments to modernize our system, we are looking for a senior staff engineer to help guide and execute our short- and long-term architecture goals.\n\n \n\nAbout you:\n\n\n* You thrive in a diverse, cross-functional team, collaborating with design, product management, data, and care operations\n\n* You enjoy building clean interfaces and connecting them to backend services\n\n* You’ve built and maintained production-grade features in Python, or have transferable experience in common languages like Node.js and are willing to learn Python\n\n* You know how to design relational database models, and have used a relational database at scale\n\n* You’ve been a key contributor to the design and implementation of large, complex projects\n\n* You are comfortable working in and refactoring legacy, monolithic code\n\n* You are a strong communicator, both verbally and in writing\n\n* You have experience building distributed systems and cloud services like AWS, GCP\n\n* You are willing to participate in an on-call rotation in collaboration with our tier 1 support team (about 7 days per quarter)\n\n\n\n\nSome, or all, of these are true:\n\n\n* You work at or have worked at a technology startup\n\n* You have experience working with an RPC architecture\n\n* You are knowledgeable about microservice architecture and best practices\n\n* You are comfortable with frontend development and have experience with JavaScript frameworks like React\n\n* You have experience leveraging observability and monitoring tools like DataDog\n\n* You enjoy mentoring and spreading knowledge to other engineers\n\n\n\n\nTech you will use:\n\n\n* Python\n\n* Thrift\n\n* MySQL\n\n* AWS\n\n* JavaScript\n\n* Looker\n\n* GitHub\n\n* DataDog\n\n\n\n\nPerks & benefits:\n\n\n* Remote-first work model lets you work from anywhere in the U.S. and occasionally pop into a satellite office\n\n* Competitive salary\n\n* Equity in the company\n\n* Comprehensive medical, mental health, dental, vision, and life insurance\n\n* Employer-matched 401(k)\n\n* Flexible PTO (manager approval)\n\n* Diverse environment, with women making up more than half of the company and half of the management team\n\n* Monthly stipend to offset home office expenses\n\n\n\n\nWe acknowledge that applying for a new job can be intimidating, and we want to encourage any applicant who may be qualified for the position to apply.  \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, JavaScript, Cloud, Senior, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $65,000 — $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