As the Software Engineering Manager, you will report to the Director of Engineering, as well as continuously collaborate with key stakeholders across the business to drive innovation and solve critical technical problems.\n\nYou Will\n\n\nManage, lead, and mentor a team of Backend and Frontend Engineers to deliver high-quality code that is secure, reusable, and scalable.\n\nElevate software quality across the organization by leading design sessions, improving the development process, and conducting code reviews.\n\nConceptualize and execute technical approaches for emerging systems and architecture.\n\nBuild the Data Labs engineering brand through blog posts, culture, conferences, open-source projects, and meet-ups.\n\nCollaborate with the Director of Engineering to help grow the engineering team and foster a culture that embodies our core values (see below).\n\n\n\n\nRequired Experience & Technical Skills\n\n* \n\n8+ years of hands-on development experience using web and cloud technologies to deliver high-performance production features.\n\n\n\n\n\n* \n\n3+ years of people management experience\n\n\n\n\n\n* \n\nBuilt and scaled APIs with GraphQL (Apollo) and REST (EKS/Serverless).\n\n\n* \n\nProficient with SQL and NoSQL flavors like PostgreSQL, MySQL, and DynamoDB.\n\n\n* \n\nExperience with Big data tools and processes using modern data architecture,\n\n\n* \n\nBuilding cloud-native architectures in AWS. You understand when to use Serverless/Lambda, but you also know where servers and Kubernetes can have their place.\n\n\n* \n\nYou understand infrastructure as code using Terraform, Consul, CI/CD, and automation tools.\n\n\n* \n\nYou've set up successful test suites to cover unit, integration, e2e, load, and security tests.\n\n\n* \n\nYou've worked in cross-functional Agile Scrum teams and are familiar with proven management methodologies.\n\n\n* \n\nExcellent communication, presentation, and white-boarding skills.\n\n\n* \n\nBS or MS in Computer Science or related field; or comparable experience.\n\n\n\n\n\n \nOur Core Values\n\n\n* Be Humble: You’re smart yet always interested in learning from others.\n\n* Work Transparently: You always deal in an honest, direct and transparent way.\n\n* Take Ownership: You embrace responsibility and find joy in having the answers.\n\n* Learn More: Through blog posts, newsletters, podcasts, video tutorials and meetups you regularly self-educate and improve your skill set.\n\n* Show Gratitude: You show appreciation and return kindness to those you work with.\n\n\n\n\n \nPerks\n\n\n* Competitive salary.\n\n* Competitive annual bonus targets.\n\n* 401k with dollar for dollar match, up to 6% of eligible earnings (base, bonus).  Plus additional company contribution.\n\n* RSU grants (Long Term Incentives) for approved roles.\n\n* Comprehensive medical, dental, vision and life insurance.\n\n* 17 paid holidays per year, including 3 floating holidays.\n\n* Annual Paid Time Off (PTO), with separate sick days\n\n* 12 weeks paid Parental Leave\n\n* Caregiver Leave\n\n* Adoption and Surrogacy Assistance Plan\n\n* Flexible workplace accommodations.\n\n* We celebrate our wins with opportunities to attend Lakers, Knicks, Anaheim Ducks, Anaheim Angels and NY Rangers games.\n\n* Opportunities to attend concerts, festivals and other live entertainment events in recognition of delivering great work.\n\n* Tuition reimbursement.\n\n* Attend a tech or marketing conference of your choice each year.\n\n* A MacBook Pro and accompanying hardware to do great work.\n\n* A modern productivity toolset to get work done: Slack, Miro, Loom, Lucid, Google Docs, Atlassian and more.\n\n* Generous discounts on SkinMedica skin care products.\n\n* Discounted aesthetic treatment days multiple times a year.\n\n* $600 worth of Alle benefits each year to use towards aesthetic treatments and products.\n\n* Eligible for donation matching to over 1.5 million nonprofit organizations.\n\n* Attend AWS Re:Invent in person (Las Vegas) or virtually each year (for certain roles)\n\n\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, GraphQL, Cloud, NoSQL, Marketing and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $105,000/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\nIrvine, California, United States

### 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 (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xODA=). 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

We're looking for talented senior engineers who are passionate about changing the way people learn languages. As a Cambly engineer, you'll be part of a small and fast-moving engineering team (~10 engineers and growing) where you'll have a large impact on all parts of our platform. We've been growing rapidly among language learners around the world, so you'll get to learn what it's like to join a fast growing startup that's creating opportunities for our students and tutors alike.\n\n\nAs a backend-focused Software Engineer, you'll be responsible for building and scaling a global on-demand video chat marketplace. Our app is simple, but there's a complex system behind the scenes making sure our rapidly growing community of students and tutors are being matched quickly for 1-on-1 tutoring sessions 24/7. You'll also be responsible for making sure we scale up best practices for backend development to maximize our uptime as we grow.\n\n\nOur backend is Flask + Gunicorn running on MongoDB. Redis is our PubSub backbone for powering our realtime features. Opentok & Agora power our video chat, while Algolia powers our tutor search. We use Elasticsearch, Kibana, Bigquery, Metabase, New Relic, Sentry, monitoring and metrics.\nOur Frontend is React + Redux.\n\n\n\n\nCome help us:\n\n\n\n\n* Conceive, design, build, and launch new user-facing features\n\n* Develop, release, and scale backend services and/or infrastructure\n\n* Think critically about the next shaping our software\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWork on projects like:\n\n\n\n\n* Scaling our Production Infrastructure, including, sharding and scaling a large-scale MongoDB; Scaling our pubsub infrastructure that powers our real-time features.\n\n* Building a framework for security & auditing of all actions that guarantees customer data is protected.\n\n* Improving our marketplace ecosystem: continuing to ensure students always find a great tutor for their needs, and tutors are able to fill their schedule with students.\n\n* Improve reliability in markets with less reliable internet infrastructure.\n\n* Expanding our data-access layer to support GraphQL access.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout you:\n\n\n\n\n* You have 5 years or more experience building and shipping python backend features quickly as part of a team.\n\n* You have 3 years or more building and maintaining high availability production infrastructure.\n\n* Experience working with MongoDB in production.\n\n* A passion for learning. You fearlessly dive into new and unfamiliar technologies.\n\n* A product-minded approach to engineering. You should be excited about working directly with our students, tutors, and our international team to make sure students have an amazing experience.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOn a small and nimble team, every engineer should be able to learn new technologies quickly and jump in anywhere in our stack. While this position is specifically for backend, you should have experience using or be excited about learning all the parts of Cambly including iOS, Android, and React.js.\n\nInterested in joining the team, but don’t think this role is the best fit for you? View our other positions.\n\nWe are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We believe in order to thrive, businesses need a diverse team and leadership. We welcome every background, identity, abilities, and mindset to join us on our mission to make high quality English education for all.  Everyone is welcome here.  \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Senior, Engineer, Backend, Developer, Digital Nomad, React, English, Video, Education and Python jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $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

\nON BEING A INTERNAL TOOLING FRONTEND ENGINEER AT BALENA\n\nBalena is developing Jellyfish, an ambitious social knowledge database that the team uses to collaborate, without being blocked by departmental or hierarchal divisions. Jellyfish gathers all information company wide and makes it a platform to implement processes that enhance the team's productivity and understanding. Think of it as a cross between Slack and Excel!\n\nThe improved problem space visibility and communication flow that the platform provides to the team is then leveraged to help build and improve both internal and customer facing products. Multiple teams across the company are already relying on the Jellyfish platform for their daily tasks.\n\nJellyfish adopts a revolutionary and cutting edge architecture:\n\n\n* The external interface is based on JSON Schema and JSON Patch\n\n* Actions on the system are asynchronous by default\n\n* The UI is auto-generated based on the data\n\n* It can seamlessly integrate with external services such as GitHub and Discourse\n\n\n\n\nThe Jellyfish team consists of a small group of tight-knit engineers who take pride on moving hyper fast without sacrificing quality by investing on automation, testing, and great engineering practices.\n\nIn this role, you will be using React to automatically generate user interfaces that can be used to view (and work together on) the compiled knowledge from many different perspectives.\n\nRESPONSIBILITIES\n\n\n* Actively invest back in our own technology, libraries, and frameworks\n\n* Be highly motivated to produce great code\n\n* Understand security best practices and strive to apply them in your work\n\n* Evaluate user requirements and other inputs to determine the scope and timing of new functionality\n\n* Push for delivering delightful user experiences\n\n* Closely collaborate with our UX/UI designers\n\n* Move between all major operating systems to ensure we provide consistent experiences\n\n* Unify how balena builds user interfaces, and actively contribute to Rendition, our shared GUI/CLI components toolkit\n\n* Use automation to reduce the amount of UI code that needs to be written\n\n\n\n\nREQUIREMENTS\n\nNeed to have:\n\n\n* Desire to make yourself and others more effective. You'd be bothered by an inefficient process\n\n* Good understanding of software engineering practices and how to apply them\n\n* Excellent written communication skills, and fluency in English\n\n* Self-discipline to take on a project and push it to completion without too much management. You also know when to ask for help\n\n* Highly organized, able to handle many threads at once, and keep things moving\n\n* Experience with Node.js\n\n* Experience building single-page applications with React, or any similar modern framework\n\n* Strong testing skills\n\n* Understanding of the command-line interface\n\n* Understanding of backend systems and how they interact with front-end applications\n\n\n\n\nNice to have:\n\n\n* A sample of your work (URL or attached sample)\n\n* Contributions to OSS projects (please include a URL)\n\n* Having worked remotely before\n\n* Experience with balena as a user\n\n* Experience with embedded GNU/Linux, anything ranging from personal projects with a Raspberry Pi to commercial or industrial scenarios with custom devices\n\n* Experience building automation tools\n\n* Experience building productivity software\n\n\n\n\nMake sure to let us know if any of these items apply to you!\n\nABOUT WORKING AT BALENA\n\nWe come from 15+ countries, and we embrace a remote culture with flexible hours. To us, this means being highly productive while still maintaining a healthy work-life balance. You need to be able to work remotely, and have a dependable internet access available so you can join video calls.\n\nWe are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We value knowledge and initiative more than educational and personal backgrounds, age, or location. We maintain a work environment in which team members are treated with respect at all times and in which thoughts and ideas can be shared openly.\n\nWe communicate proposals, discuss with others in the team and accept feedback if it makes the result better. We value the ability to learn, which is more important to us than knowledge of specific technologies. We know that learning fast means being outside our comfort zone, which is OK -- we'd rather learn than let our assumptions get in our way.\n\nBENEFITS\n\n\n* Work with an extremely talented, diverse team\n\n* Equipment of your choice\n\n* Remote-friendly\n\n* Flexible working hours\n\n* Generous vacation policy\n\n* Annual company gathering in an international location - this year, Barcelona in October\n\n* We send you hardware for side projects!\n\n\n\n\nTO APPLY\n\nWe're delighted to hear about you! Send us your CV, with a focus on what you can bring to the team. Please include in your cover letter a paragraph about something you worked on that you found technically appealing or exciting. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Engineer, Front End, React, Video and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $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

\nOn being a Frontend Engineer at balena\n\nBalena maintains plenty of front-end applications, ranging from our complex user-facing web dashboard, to Node.js command-line tools. In this role, you will be working on JavaScript-based user interfaces that target both a web browser, as well as a terminal emulator. You will find yourself writing non-trivial JavaScript, TypeScript, and CoffeeScript code.\n\nResponsibilities\n\n\n* Actively invest back in our own technology, libraries, and frameworks\n\n* Understand security best practices and strive to apply them in your work\n\n* Be highly motivated to produce great code\n\n* Evaluate customer requirements and other inputs to determine the scope and timing of new functionality\n\n* Push for delivering delightful user experiences\n\n* Closely collaborate with our UX/UI designers\n\n* Move between all major operating systems to ensure we provide consistent experiences\n\n* Unify how balena builds user interfaces, and actively contribute to Rendition, our shared GUI/CLI components toolkit\n\n\n\n\n\n\nREQUIREMENTS\n\nNeed to have:\n\n\n* Desire to make yourself and others more effective. You'd be bothered by an inefficient process\n\n* Good understanding of software engineering practices and how to apply them\n\n* Excellent written communication skills, and fluency in English\n\n* Self-discipline to take on a project and push it to completion without too much management. You also know when to ask for help\n\n* Experience with Node.js\n\n* Experience building single-page applications with React, or any similar modern framework\n\n* Understanding of the command-line interface\n\n* Understanding of backend systems and how they interact with front-end applications\n\n\n\n\nNice to have:\n\n\n* A sample of your work (URL or attached sample)\n\n* Contributions to OSS projects (please include a URL)\n\n* Having worked remotely before\n\n* Experience with balena as a user\n\n* Experience with embedded GNU/Linux, anything ranging from personal projects with a Raspberry Pi to commercial or industrial scenarios with custom devices\n\n* Experience with Angular.js v1\n\n* Experience with Docker\n\n\n\n\nAbout working at balena\n\nWe come from 15+ countries, and we embrace a remote culture with flexible hours. To us, this means being highly productive while still maintaining a healthy work-life balance. You need to be able to work remotely, and have a dependable internet access available so you can join video calls.\n\nWe are an equal opportunity employer and value diverse backgrounds. We maintain a work environment in which team members are treated with respect at all times and in which thoughts and ideas can be shared openly.\n\nWe communicate proposals, discuss with others in the team and accept feedback if it makes the result better. We value the ability to learn, which is more important to us than knowledge of specific technologies. We know that learning fast means being outside our comfort zone, which is OK -- we'd rather grow than let our assumptions get in our way.\n\n\n\nBENEFITS\n\n\n* Work with an extremely talented, diverse team\n\n* Equipment of your choice\n\n* Remote-friendly\n\n* Flexible working hours\n\n* Flexible vacation policy\n\n* Annual company gathering in an international location\n\n* We send you hardware for side projects!\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 Engineer, Front End, Video and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $62,500 — $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