\nMeroxa is looking for talented engineers that are obsessed with creating intuitive, data-centric developer experiences. Currently to build real time data infrastructure, it means choosing between taking 6+ months to integrate a commercial product, 6+ months and your most skilled engineers' time to cobble together open source projects, or hiring a specialized team of experts at $200k+ per person to build and maintain your systems. We believe everyone regardless of expertise, company size, or available resources should be able to leverage real-time data infrastructure in minutes not months.\n\n\nYou’ll play a critical role in enabling Meroxa’s growth by building highly performant distributed systems with an emphasis on resiliency, security, and scalability. You will also build the tooling and internal systems essential for other Meroxa engineers to monitor, debug, and safely deploy our software.\n\n\n\nIf you are interested in...\n* Addressing and solving complex problems at both an application and system level\n* Collaborating effectively with teammates, technical partners, and the open source community\n* Owning and managing all the phases of the software development lifecycle (planning, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and support) and guide critical decisions correctly that fully consider software best practices, Meroxa's architecture, and customer requirements\n* Designing, building, deploying, and maintaining microservices optimized for high-availability, throughput, fault tolerance, & performance.\n* Challenging architectural choices we make in building platforms or products/services at Meroxa. Ensure technical decision making aligns with our brand ethos of ease of use and high developer productivity.\n* Teaching and mentoring other engineers to level up our collective capabilities and knowledge\n* Working in a culture of feedback, inclusion and engineering excellence\n\n\n...Meroxa is the place for you, so fill out the application below :-)\n\nYou will be a fit for this role if...\n* You have a strong technical background with software engineering and designing large scale systems.\n* You have extensive experience with languages such as NodeJS, Ruby, or Java and the willingness to learn new technologies (although our main language is Go, there is no hard requirement that you be an expert in Go. We do expect that you are able to pick up Go fairly quickly).\n* You have solid OOP and software design knowledge – you should know how to create software that’s extensible, reusable and meets desired architectural objectives.\n* You prefer simple solutions and designs over complex ones, and have a good intuition for what will last and scale. You prioritize building the right thing that provides the most customer value.\n* You work autonomously, are excited by new technologies, and will never back down from the challenges of scale\n* You listen well and internalize the best ideas from all over the organization, while also setting a vision that others are excited to get behind.\n* You work well cross-functionally and your co-workers at all levels and across all teams trust you.\n\n\n\nProjects you may work on:\n* Developing a data orchestration platform using our open source Conduit data streaming tool.\n* Resource that allows customers to write serverless functions to consume events from a data source in any language\n* Ensuring our platform can run on Kubernetes deployments in any environment(cloud native, on-premise)\n\n\n\n\n\n$120,000 - $200,000 a year\n\nBenefits we offer:\n\n\nCompetitive salaries - We know you're in high demand, so we aim to be in the top 10% of salaries based on what you'd make as a Silicon Valley engineer.\n\n\nRemote work - Work from where you want. We've been a remote first company from day one. Also, we supply whatever hardware and software you need to do your job from home.\n\n\nHealth, dental, & vision - Meroxa offers PPO and HMO plans for you, your family, or domestic partner. We pay 75% and you pay 25%\n\n\nUnlimited vacation - We know you'll love working at Meroxa so much that you'll want to stay heads down every day and night but seriously we want you to take the time you need to bring your best self to work.\n\n\nPaid parental leave - When you welcome a new baby, Meroxa encourages you to take up to 16 weeks leave as primary caregiver and up to 6 weeks leave as secondary caregiver, at 100% paid salary.\n\n\nAnd more... We're constantly looking at ways we can improve our employee experience through service offerings(401k, student loan payback, discount programs, self service training, mental health, etc...)\n\n\nAbout Meroxa:\n\n\nMeroxa was founded by DeVaris Brown and Ali Hamidi. We've spent years working together building the world's best PaaS experience for web apps at Heroku and want to bring that same magical experience to the data ecosystem.\n\n\nWe've been building our platform since early 2020 and are backed by some amazing investors(Root Ventures, Amplify Partners, Village Global, Drive Capital, and Hustle Fund) and angels who've been in senior engineering and leadership roles at companies like GitHub, Looker, Heroku, Datadog, Autodesk, WePay, and TheRealReal.\n\n\nMeroxa is an equal opportunity employer and celebrates diversity. If you’re smart and good at what you do, come as you are. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, and disability status. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Java, Serverless, Senior, Heroku, Engineer and Backend 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
\n\n#Location\nRemote

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