Remote Engineering + Java + Serverless + Teaching 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

Thrive Global is changing the way people live through a suite of well-being and behavior change products used to impact individual and organizational well-being and productivity. The marriage of data and analytics, our best-in-class content and science-backed behavior change IP will help people go from knowing what to do to actually doing it, enabling millions of consumers to begin the Thrive behavior change journey. As a Senior Quality Engineer, you will play a significant role in building Thrive’s products and behavior change platform as a member of a small team who will drive the quality engineering and customer-centric engineering efforts of the organization.\n\nWho We Are Looking For\n\n\n* A self-starter who is able to confidently conduct an independent evaluation, selection, and adaptation of QA engineering techniques and apply them appropriately to projects.\n\n* An engineer who is excited about collaborating with others (engineering and non-engineering), and is ready for both learning & teaching while Thrive Global continues to grow.\n\n* A willingness to take on a broad set of responsibilities from helping to influence feature requirements as a member of the Product & Engineering team, to developing creative quality practices, building technical support practices, and supporting the leadership team in hiring and expanding the Thrive Global Team.\n\n* A team player that is comfortable in a high growth, start-up environment and is willing to wear many hats and come up with creative solutions in support of the Thrive Global mission.\n\n\n\n\n\nHow You’ll Contribute\n\n\n* Work with the broader Product & Engineering team to develop products that support the company mission through effective manual & automated QA best practices, risk & release management strategies, and product support efforts.\n\n* Work under general supervision from the Lead Quality Engineer and contribute to the development of a quality engineering infrastructure that supports all digital products created by Thrive Global.\n\n* Consistently seek out and learn new technologies and remain focused on becoming a “best in the industry” Engineer.\n\n* Maintain up to date knowledge of the current industry trends and the latest advancements in Software Development, Quality Engineering, and Product Support.\n\n\n\n\nMust Haves\n\n\n* 7+ years experience in the quality engineering field\n\n* Solid understanding of both mobile and web application infrastructure, including serverless systems. \n\n* Hands-on experience executing QA best practices against the following:\n\n* iOS and Android mobile applications, including the use of XCode and Android Studio. \n\n* Building mobile testing frameworks using tools such as Appium (with Java preferred), running on real devices and in a remote device farm environment\n\n* Building web application testing frameworks such as Selenium (with Java preferred), running in a CICD pipeline\n\n* Building RESTful API test cases using tools such as Postman\n\n* Serve as an advisor to the development organization on development testing approaches, specifically but not limited to unit test strategies \n\n* Analyze complex technical information and implement effective problem-solving techniques\n\n* Create comprehensive, concise, and effective test documentation strategically and when appropriate, understanding that we are working in a start-up & agile environment (test cases, defects, etc.).\n\n* Responsibly measure risk and impact of changes\n\n* Translate business needs into technical requirements and vice versa\n\n* Values effective cross-functional collaboration in an Agile Scrum environment\n\n* Work on multiple projects at once in a deadline-driven environment\n\n\n\n\nDesired Skills\n\n\n* QA and technical product support of enterprise systems \n\n* Ability to use SQL and scripting as part of a testing approach\n\n* BS in Computer Science, or equivalent experience\n\n\n\n\nOur Mission\nThrive Global’s mission is to end the stress and burnout epidemic by offering companies and individuals sustainable, science-based solutions to enhance well-being, performance, and purpose, and create a healthier relationship with technology. Recent science has shown that the pervasive belief that burnout is the price we must pay for success is a delusion. We know, instead, that when we prioritize our well-being, our decision-making, creativity, and productivity improve dramatically. Thrive Global is committed to accelerating the culture shift that allows people to reclaim their lives and move from merely surviving to thriving.\n\nWhat We Offer\n\n\n* A mission-driven company that’s truly making a difference in the lives of people around the world  \n\n* Ability to develop within the company and shape our growth strategy\n\n* Human-centric culture with a range of wellness perks and benefits\n\n* Competitive compensation package\n\n* Medical, vision and dental coverage + 401k program with company match\n\n* Generous paid time-off programs \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 Senior, Engineer, Teaching, Java, Serverless, API, Mobile and Android jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $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