Remote Engineering + Jira + Web Developer Jobs

\nWe inspire people to keep learning.\n\nThrough audio and text explainers called Blinks, original podcasts, and author-driven content, Blinkist is on a mission to help people turn ordinary moments into extraordinary learning opportunities—anytime, anywhere.\n\nMain Location: Berlin or Remote\n\nRemote Policy: Permanently from Germany, Spain, UK, or Finland. Temporarily from anywhere.\n\nTeam: Engineering & Data – Web\n\nContract: Full-Time\n\nHours: Flexible working hours\n\nReporting to: Ferhat Beyaz, Engineering Manager\n\nContact Person: Mertcan Uzun, Talent Acquisition\n\nNote from the Hiring Manager\n\n\n"This ad goes out to those who want to do meaningful work, take ownership, and never stop learning. As Senior Frontend Engineer – Web, you join one of two cross-functional Growth Missions – small groups of Engineers working hand in hand with Product Managers, Designers and QA. We have ambitious plans for 2021, including doubling our web revenue share and our venture into B2B. Thus, web is key for us to grow our customer base through great product explanation and onboarding. This is where you come in."\n\nOur tech stack is based on Ruby on Rails, vue.js & AWS with our development tools including GitHub, CircleCI, DataDog, JIRA & Airbrake.\n\nWhat You'll do\n\n\n* Join a growth focused web team directly driving business impact and revenue.\n\n* Take ownership of managing and extending our web platform, with a focus on the frontend.\n\n* Elevate your peers by giving and receiving feedback and working collaboratively.\n\n* Own the development cycle front to end – produce high-quality maintainable code, contribute to requirements and planning, test changes and collaboratively review as well as ship it.\n\n\n\n\nWhy you?\n\n\n\n* 5+ years experience developing web applications\n\n* Deep technical knowledge on the frontend, including Vue.js or similar\n\n* In-depth experience with one or more full stack web frameworks – Rails, Spring, Django, or Laravel\n\n* Proficient in English and able to effectively communicate complex technical information.\n\n\n\n\nGreat to Haves\n\n\n* Experience with mentoring others\n\n* Worked with AWS\n\n* You love contributing ideas to improve the codebase, system's architecture, and overall development process.\n\n* You advocate for the user with an eye for great design and empathy for their needs.\n\n* You’re used to balancing multiple concerns, including customer demands, performance, A/B tests, UX research, accessibility, code quality and a rapidly changing ecosystem.\n\n\n\n\nWhy Blinkist?\n\n\nAt Blinkist, we don’t just accept our differences — we celebrate and support our diversity. We are committed to fair and inclusive hiring practices and want to provide equal opportunity.\n\nWe created our own Blinkist Operating System that fosters a unique company culture. Our core values, empowerment, accountability, personal development, direct communication, and transparency guide our day-to-day work. You have the opportunity to accelerate your career and create a true impact within your field. Work how you work best and never stop learning. You benefit from perks like the yearly learning budget, remote support, up-to-date hardware, public transport ticket, or access to partner apps. Our cook Ed prepares free and healthy lunch for us at the office. And, you can take time to recharge – with flexible work policies and 30 annual vacation days.\n\nAt Blinkist, we embrace a hybrid way of work where you can choose to work remotely, from home, or the Blinkist office. We are happy to support your relocation and via application for Germany.\n\nApply Now\n\nIf we’ve captured your interest and you want to take part in building the leading destination for the modern lifelong learner, apply online now. We can't wait to hear from you! \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Senior, Engineer, Front End, Web Developer, Jira, English and Ruby 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

\nOverview: \n\nSalsa Labs is seeking a Senior Front-End Web Developer to focus on user interfaces and client-side interactions to support an evolving product line. This individual will work in-house in our Bethesda, MD office with a local and distributed team of Product Managers, Senior Engineers and QA Engineers to design and develop functionality for our online SaaS offering that provides online engagement services to nonprofits that include supporter management, fundraising, email and social publishing, and advocacy.\n\nWe’re not your typical SaaS company. At Salsa we represent a community of more than 2,000 nonprofit and political organizations, and we support our clients in their efforts to do everything from ending hunger to eliminating nuclear weapons to providing playgrounds for children. At Salsa Labs our developers play a vital role in bringing exceptional SaaS and mobile products to market and take pride in building top-notch user interfaces and client-side interactions for the next generation of software.\n\nOur Engineers work directly with our Product Management team to refine requirements, design user experiences via prototyping and plan releases.  Our Engineers are expected to have exceptional problem solving skills, the ability to prioritize competing demands independently, and to produce quality products with minimal formal specifications and oversight.\n\nJob Responsibilities: \n\n\n* Participate in the full software development life cycle (SDLC) including gathering specs, analysis, design, development, quality assurance and testing, and debugging.\n\n* Develop, design, implement and integrate new applications while providing support and continual development and maintenance of existing applications\n\n* Work collaboratively as a member of the Development Team to ensure product integrity and that product specs and quality expectations are achieved.\n\n* Identify software performance issues and creatively work to problem solve\n\n* Implement coding best practices and maintain good code organization\n\n\n\n\nYour Experience Consists of:\n\n\n* 2+ years experience engineering object-oriented, Javascript-based behavioral layers for web applications that work on a variety of browsers and devices.\n\n* Consuming APIs in a REST architecture\n\n* Working on responsive web development projects leveraging frameworks like Zurb, Foundation and AngularJS\n\n* Understanding the setup of client-side development environments with tools like Grunt, Bower, Yeoman, RequireJS\n\n* Understanding browsers and their differences as it pertains to UX and responsiveness for both web pages and emails\n\n* Working with tools such as Jira for SDLC planning and management and GIT for version control\n\n* Exposure to JS application frameworks like Knockout, Angular, Backbone, etc.\n\n* Working with HTML5, CSS3 implemented with the SASS precompiler and object-oriented Javascript\n\n* Experience integrating with back-end technologies such as Java and PHP\n\n* Familiarity with version-control systems like GIT\n\n* Good working knowledge of SQL databases, and maybe even some NoSQL\n\n\n\n\nSome Must Have’s:\n\n\n* You don't consider something finished until it not only works, but is lightning fast\n\n* You have the desire to not only make the UI function well, you make it look good\n\n* You're no shrinking violet - you like to be an energetic and vocal member of the team\n\n* You wouldn't dream of checking in broken code\n\n* You're detail-oriented, and strive for more than 'good enough'\n\n* You're extremely self-motivated and enjoy working autonomously, and the mere notion that someone would need or want to babysit you at work is pretty insulting\n\n* You're a social animal, and enjoy interacting with different kinds of people\n\n* You're not territorial about your code, and unafraid of a little debugging\n\n* You have an uncanny ability to analyze requirements and produce code following established patterns\n\n* You enjoy diving into esoteric tech problems to produce a robust solution\n\n* You can keep the big picture in mind and provide an expandable and maintainable architecture\n\n\n\n\nBenefits of Working at Salsa Labs:\n\nAside from working with smart, passionate Salsa employees, having uncapped growth potential and a work/life balance, this position includes a competitive suite of benefits. Benefits include health, dental and vision insurance, 401K with 4% company contribution, vested immediately and you can enroll right away, life insurance, short and long-term disability insurance, paid holidays and generous paid time-off. We also offer additional paid time-off for volunteer opportunities!\n\nLocation & Work Environment:\n\nJust two blocks from the Bethesda Metro on the Red Line, our office is located at 7200 Wisconsin Ave, Bethesda, MD 20814. Our culture is energized and creative with a casual work environment.\n\nNote: All applicants must be U.S. Citizens, or possess permanent U.S. work authorization. Applicants without permanent work authorization will not be accepted. \n\nEEO Statement: Salsa Labs, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. We seek to build a diverse staff representative of the communities we serve. Women, minorities, and members of the LGBT community are strongly encouraged to apply. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Senior, Design, Front End, Web Developer, Developer, Digital Nomad, Jira, Java, Git, Mobile and SaaS 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

\nLyst are looking to engage multiple full stack developers on 8 week remote contracts to join our remote team. You’ll work on our web scraping architecture building spiders\n\nIf you haven’t yet heard about Lyst, we are a fast growing technology platform that is revolutionizing the way people shop for fashion. We connect millions of consumers globally with the world’s leading fashion designers and stores - from Valentino, Balenciaga, Alexander Wang and Burberry to Saks, Selfridges, Lane Crawford and Barney's - giving them a simpler, more engaging and personalized shopping experience.\n\nSince 2010 when the company was founded we have raised $60 million in investment, last year we sold $100 million worth of clothes and we have grown to a team that is nearly 100 people based in London, New York and a remote team based all over the world.\n\nOur remote web crawling is one of Lyst’s best kept secrets, this remote team supports and assists the onboarding of our new partners across the globe. Working closely with our commercial partnerships team and large engineering team here in London, you will be building the scrapers (spiders) that push new products, stock availability and price changes automatically on to the platform.\nOur spiders are written in Python using the Scrapy framework, with Django on the front-end. We are working on projects that improve infrastructure, automate common tasks, improve our understanding of the data, system vital signs and the fashion world. The team communicates on Slack and we use Jira to help us manage the tasks and deliver work on time. You can find out a lot more about how we work and more of the projects we work on here: developers.lyst.com \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Engineer, Web Developer, Jira and Python 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