\nOUR MISSION\n\n\nAt Torch, we believe in the power of people. People are the heart of every success story. They collaborate to achieve ambitious things together. And they inspire others to build a better future. \n\n\nThat’s why our mission at Torch is to unlock the potential of people, teams, and organizations. We believe that trusted relationships are the key to helping people realize their full potential. When people experience transformational growth in the context of a trusted relationship, they achieve more, their teams excel, and their organizations thrive.\n\n\nBy combining a community of expert coaches, scalable technology, and the latest behavioral science, Torch helps our customers develop their people, create stronger leaders and managers, and drive business performance. \n\n\nBacked by top-tier investors, Torch is a fast-growing, mission-driven SaaS startup comprised of people who are passionate about helping leaders, their teams, and their organizations achieve more. If that sounds worthwhile to you, join us. Torch is a remote and distributed team with an office in San Francisco. The rest of the team is scattered around the U.S.\n\n\nOUR VALUES\n\n\nAll Torch employees are expected to reflect and enhance our company values, GROWS:\n\n\nGo Deep\nWe study the science, learn from the best practitioners, and dig in with customers to solve their unique needs.\n\n\nRelationships Matter\nWe lean into relationships with empathy to create more meaningful connections and more meaningful impact.\n\n\nOwn It\nWe take responsibility for our commitments, our contributions, our results and for the success of those around us.\n\n\nWin Together\nWe believe that happiness and fulfillment at work comes from shared success and value.\n\n\nSprint Forward\nWe prioritize, sprint, learn, adjust, and then sprint again.\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE\nAt Torch, we are looking for a talented Engineering Manager who has experience developing web systems from the ground up and is passionate about doing work that matters. \n\n\nThe Engineering Manager works alongside technology and product leadership to ship a high quality, engaging digital coaching platform using  technologies and engineering processes.  This role is crucial in continuing to build and sustain a world class engineering culture - one which provides team members open and supportive leadership and a clear path for growth both personally and as a group.\n\n\nThis role requires a leader who can inspire and mentor a team of talented engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, precision, and collaboration. The ideal candidate will bring both technical expertise and strategic insight, driving the team to deliver results that align with Torch's overarching goals of growth and customer satisfaction. \n\n\nPlease note we are only accepting US based applicants at this time.\n\n\n\nYOUR POSITION\n* Collaborate with product teams to design and build creative solutions, enabling personal growth for our clients while empowering our coaches.\n* Guide discussions of architecture, technical debt, and long-term technical strategy.\n* Lead and mentor a team of onsite and offshore engineers, by establishing and maintaining high technical and professional standards.\n* Help to create scalable, high-performance web applications consumable on various device form factors.\n* Develop and implement strategic plans for frontend technology, in alignment with the company's overall goals.\n* Establish and maintain design systems and component libraries to promote consistency and efficiency across applications.\n* Collaborate with UX/UI designers to implement responsive and intuitive interfaces that meet user needs and business objectives.\n* Uphold high standards in code quality and system reliability through peer code reviews and advocating for best practices in software development.\n* Provide focus and direction by driving execution on some of our highest priority projects.\n* Willingness to be hands on and support your team whenever necessary whether coding, debugging, or testing new product features.\n\n\n\nYOUR EXPERIENCE - Basic Requirements\n* 10+ years of software engineering experience, plus a degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or other STEM area.\n* 3+ years leading an agile software development team.\n* 5+ years experience developing complex front-end applications using modern frameworks such as React, Angular, or Vue.js.\n* Experience integrating and leveraging LLMs to enhance product functionality and user experiences, including natural language processing, recommendation systems, or other AI-driven functionalities.\n* Experience in responsive design and cross-browser compatibility issues, ensuring consistent user experiences across different devices and browsers.\n* Experience with component-driven development and proficiency in tools like Storybook for building and maintaining design systems.\n* Skilled in building and utilizing RESTful and GraphQL web services.\n* Proficiency with Git and cloud technologies in AWS.\n* Comprehensive understanding of various testing methodologies, ensuring thorough coverage and high-quality user experiences.\n* Understanding of distributed application design patterns and asynchronous programming models.\n* Familiar with both relational and non-relational databases.\n* Knowledge of security best practices and adherence to data protection regulations.\n\n\n\nINTERVIEW PROCESS - consists of the following\n* Technical Interview with the CTO (45 minutes) and a Principal Engineer (45 minutes).\n* Interview with an Engineering Team member (45 minutes) focusing on experience working with cross-functional teams, integration of product development processes, and managing engineering teams.\n* Design/Coding Session (60 minutes) to assess problem-solving skills and technical proficiency.\n\n\n* Leadership/Cultural Fit Interview with the CEO (45 minutes).\n\n\n\nBENEFITS\n* Health Insurance (medical, dental, and vision)\n* Unlimited PTO\n* 401k Retirement Plan\n* Life & Disability Insurance\n* Paid Parental Leave\n* Torch Coaching\n* UP Days\n* Remote Workstation Stipend\n\n\n\n\n\n$160,000 - $200,000 a year\n\nTorch ensures equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, national origin, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, genetic information, citizenship status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, SaaS, GraphQL, Cloud, Git and Engineer jobs that are similar:\n\n $45,000 — $87,500/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
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\nHead of Frontend Engineering at hx\n\n\nRemote-First organisation - London HQ\n \n\nHurricanes \nAdvanced mathematics \nSatellite launches \nTechnology \nConcert tours \nSmart people \n…Telephone poles \n\n\n\nWhat do all of these things have in common? hx! \n\n\nOur mission \n\nTo reimagine technology to transform analytical decision-making, helping our customers make smarter decisions faster. \n\n \n\n\n\nWho we are \n\nThe most interesting scaleup you haven’t yet heard of! Our product, Renew, lets users build and iterate complex mathematical models with the small, sparse and fragmented datasets that are used to drive critical decisions in many businesses. Such models are used to help answer questions like: \n\n\n\n\n* What are the chances that SpaceX’s next launch will fail?\n\n* How often will a company like TalkTalk have a cyber data breach?\n\n* What would happen to the property in Silicon Valley if there was an earthquake?\n\n* What are the chances of Kanye West cancelling his sell-out tour? \n \n\n\n\n\nThis sort of analysis has recently been neglected in favour of big data/analytics, but we are on a mission to change this. Our product has applications across multiple industries – we are focusing on speciality insurance to start with, but we believe our software has far further reach (including beyond the financial sector). \n\n \n\n\n\nWhy is this role special? \n\n\n* It’s one of the most influential roles we will ever hire in Engineering \n\n* You have the opportunity to lead a capability with responsibility for the people, technology and methods within it - operating with significant autonomy in a high trust, high expectation environment \n\n* You will be able to shape your team as it scales by 15+ people over the next 12-18m \n\n* You will encounter Hard* engineering challenges and will make critical, load-bearing decisions that will shape the future of hx \n\n\n\n\n* capital ‘H’ intentional – we do some cool stuff you won’t see elsewhere \n\n\nWhat does Engineering mean at hx? \n\nOur Engineering team is front-and-centre in our mission to help our customers make smarter decisions faster. Building Renew has challenged us to solve many interesting problems, including: \n\n\n\n\n* How to run arbitrary customer code securely, whilst controlling for indeterminism without accidentally trying to solve the halting problem \n\n* How to produce a rich web-based development environment complete with IDE, version control, package management, tests, deployments and hosting... For non-developers \n\n* How to produce a UI that’s familiar to Excel users without actively tying us to Excel \n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe’ve historically solved these problems with hard work and smart thinking, but we've reached the ‘two pizza limit’ and need move from ‘zero to one’ in places and ‘one to many’ in others so we can confidently solve more problems in parallel - problems like: \n\n\n\n\n* How will we reach our ‘north star’ of deploying on-demand whilst ensuring the safety, security and correctness of our product? \n\n* How do we safely move from one team to many and how should we divide the product domains? \n\n* How should we optimise our systems to run larger models, more quickly, for less overall cost? \n\n* How will we thoughtfully add 50+ people to the Product Engineering organisation over the next 18-24m without lowering our standards? \n\n* Which systems need to be rewritten, refactored, removed or simply polished? \n\n* How do we produce a UI component toolkit for our users that looks great and works brilliantly – irrespective of the weird and wonderful ways they’re assembled \n\n\n\n\n\nWho are we looking for? \n\nA Head of Engineering who will own, operate, grow and define our entire frontend capability. Your capability will be a pivotal part of a larger Product Engineering organisation along with groups from Backend Engineering, Product, Quality, Reliability and Security, and you’ll be part of its leadership team. \n\n\nYou must have: \n\n\n* Leadership experience as a Director/Head of Engineering who has led through others, ideally at a fast-scaling technology organisation \n\n* Significant experience developing advanced cloud-native applications and services with React and TypeScript \n\n* Excellent knowledge and experience of fundamental CS/software engineering principles, including algorithms, data structures, complexity, testing, design patterns and architecture \n\n* Strong understanding and significant experience working with and implementing modern software delivery practices including agile, lean, Kanban, organisational design and product engineering \n\n* Demonstrable experience of strategic planning combined with effective delivery \n\n* Proven experience attracting, motivating, developing and inspiring talented engineers \n\n* Proven experience establishing principles, patterns and ways of working that eliminate friction and help teams deliver more than traditional thinking says is possible \n\n\n\n\n\nYou must be: \n\n\n* Someone who’s smart, kind and gets stuff done \n\n* Confident communicating clearly up, down, to the side, inside and outside an organisation \n\n* Organised, proactive, self-motivated and reliable, and must thrive in a high trust, high expectation environment \n\n\n\n\n\nWe additionally appreciate: \n\n\n* Knowledge of adjacent and/or complimentary domains such as platform, backend, product, reliability, security and/or quality \n\n* Community contributions through meetup/conference talks, blogs or open-source \n\n* Insurtech or fintech experience \n\n* Prior B2B SaaS experience \n\n\n\n\n\nWhat will you do? \n\nIn your first week: \n\n\n* Meet everyone at our weekly company breakfast \n\n* Get set up, get to know hx and your team \n\n* Start learning about our past and present so you can define our future \n\n* Attend your first hx Engineering Forum, where we discuss and debate all things tech \n\n* Wrap the week at our all hands Show + Tell \n\n\n\n\n\nWithin one month: \n\n\n* Take the reins of your capability and responsibility for its success \n\n* Have understood and prioritised the people, technology and method challenges you want to tackle now/next/later and be developing a strategy to address them \n\n* Add new perspectives to our thinking through our design/ideation sessions \n\n\n\n\n\nWithin three months: \n\n\n* Have developed and agreed your strategy and will be actively delivering it \n\n* Have landed your first hires and be working with our Talent team to keep the pipeline full and flowing \n\n* Be working with your peers across Product Engineering to establish new cross-functional delivery teams \n\n* Be sharing our story with the world in a way that suits you \n\n\n\n\n\nWithin six months: \n\n\n* Have made your capability your own - with your people, technology and methods aligned to your strategy and direction \n\n* Be accelerating innovation across hx directly through your capability and indirectly through your network and influence \n\n* Be working with the CTO to identify and deliver additional strategic initiatives, tactical workstreams and/or special projects \n\n* Understand our market, product, and value streams intimately\n\n* Be thoughtfully influencing the broader product strategy and roadmap \n\n\n\n\n\nWhat do we offer? \n\n\n* Competitive salary + very staff-friendly EMI share options \n\n* £5,000 annual learning & development allowance \n\n* 33 days annual leave (inc. public holidays) \n\n* £250 gadget-for-the-office budget (on hiatus due to COVID19) \n\n* Top-spec equipment (choice of Apple or Dell laptop, mechanical keyboards, screens, etc) \n\n* Huge opportunity for personal development and mastery as we grow together\n\n* Regular remote hackathons, lunch & learns, socials and games nights\n\n* Team breakfasts and lunches, snacks, drinks fridge, fun office @ the Peckham Levels, \n\n* Annual team trip somewhere warm (sadly on hold due to COVID19) \n\n\n\n\n\nWhat’s next? \n\nhx is different and so is our hiring process. We want to see you at your best, so we let you customise the major stages – essentially a “choose your own adventure” hiring process that adapts to your individuality. \n\n\n* Initial call with our Talent team to kick things off \n\n* Introductory call with your future manager (with your choice of questions) \n\n* Practical skills assessment with your future colleagues \n\n* Meet the Chiefs \n\n* Meet the team (with your choice of who) + Meet the CTO + Meet the CEO \n\n* We offer! \n\n\n\n\n\nDiversity @ hx \n\nWe are committed to diversity and equal opportunity. We’re a talented and high-energy, but low-ego and kind team who believes that the more inclusive we are, the better our work and culture is. We are not yet where we want to be in terms of balance, but it is our mission to build a team that represents a variety of backgrounds and perspectives and we are working hard towards that goal. \n\n\n\nIf you like the sound of this role but you’re not totally sure whether you’re the right fit – please apply anyway and we’ll let you know either way. Remember: you miss every shot you don’t take!\n\n\nPS Our new blog is now live! \n\nCheck it out at https://medium.com/hyperexponential \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, Excel, SaaS and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $67,500 — $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

\nWhat you’ll be doing\n\nAs a Senior DevOps Engineer you will be on a team responsible for the platform that runs all Arachnys services. Our job is to ensure it’s secure, scalable, maintainable and cost-efficient. In addition to this core responsibility the team also provide consultancy to product-aligned development teams to assist with pipelines/infrastructure-as-code, performance troubleshooting as well as centrally defining best practices to ensure consistency and standards between projects. \n\nIn this role you’ll be expected to contribute to design/architecture decisions and defining best practices - being mindful of and able to carefully articulate the trade-offs and understand implications of decisions and how these map to current priorities. You’ll be able to draw on previous hard won experience to help deliver change safely as well as work on initiatives to simplify and manage complexity.\n\nRequired\n\n\n* We’re a multi-disciplined team and are looking for candidates that can demonstrate a strong background in cloud administration (ideally AWS) and IaC (ideally terraform) and one or more of the following -\n\n\n\n\n\n* Kubernetes - running production workloads on hosted clusters (e.g. EKS)\n\n\n\n* CI/CD - Experience of pipeline administration and best practices for deploying to production.\n\n\n\n* SRE - Experience of reliability engineering for cloud based workloads. You’ll have worked on observability tooling and have solid fundamentals with regards to systems and database performance, troubleshooting, TCP/IP, DNS + TLS.\n\n\n\n* Security - Experience of working in alignment with common security frameworks/standards e.g. CIS20, PCI-DSS, ISO27001. This might include vulnerability management , continuous compliance monitoring, rbac/iam, secrets management, secure build baselines etc..\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOur Stack\n\nThe Arachnys Platform is a set of multitenant SaaS applications deployed on AWS.\n\nOur backend is based on Python web services, backed by PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, and a number of AWS-specific services.\n\nOur frontend stack is based around React, TypeScript and Jest; in addition to the web client, we also have a Chrome extension.\n\nOperationally, we deploy Docker containers to Kubernetes, running on AWS infrastructure managed by Terraform.\n\nWe embrace new technologies and ways of doing things, but we do so deliberately, as a team, and weigh the real problems they solve against the complexity they introduce.\n\nBenefits\n\n\n* £500 budget for home-office equipment (we have an excellent remote-first working setup).\n\n\n\n* Bonus.ly - Our in-house micro-rewards scheme redeemable for haircuts, spotify memberships, games consoles and much more.\n\n\n\n* Generous parental leave.\n\n\n\n* A diverse and growing remote social culture that already includes gaming (board and video) and book club, as well as daily social calls and weekly coffee buddies.\n\n\n\n* A fitness programme that includes optional yoga, pilates, and HIIT classes (even under lockdown) as well as subsidised gym membership and a cycle to work scheme.\n\n\n\n* Career progression - Arachnys is a growth-stage company and there are plenty of opportunities to work across different parts of the stack and progress in your career.\n\n\n\n* Amazing colleagues - everyone at Arachnys cares passionately about what they do and our teams are filled with friendly, smart and highly collaborative individuals.\n\n\n\n\nDiversity\n\nWe are firmly committed to creating and maintaining a diverse and inclusive workplace in which all employees are valued, respected, safe, supported, and listened to without judgement or prejudice. These principles apply to all, regardless of race or ethnicity, age, gender, gender identity or expression, national origin, sexual orientation, mental or physical ability, religion, appearance, political beliefs, educational background, class, and position or tenure within the company. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are central to the direction we want our organisation to take, and are considered across all aspects of our business. \n\nLocation (COVID-19 statement)\n\nArachnys is a remote-first organisation, meaning that we work remotely but come together for collaborative on-sites and socials a handful of times a year (once it's safe to do so). We have found that candidates within 1-2 time zones of the UK work best with our current working practices. We provide all the technology and equipment our team needs to work productively remotely as well as all travel costs if we do ask them to come to a London onsite. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to DevOps, Senior, Engineer, Cloud, Scheme, Python, Travel, SaaS and Backend 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