Remote JavaScript + PostgreSQL + Travel + UX Jobs

# Who we are\nWhen was the last time you were pleasantly surprised by an insurance company? We bet the answer is never—and we've built Feather to change that.\n\nWe’re committed to creating a brand new insurance experience. We envision one without commission-hungry brokers, where our customers' best interests are always at the center.\n\nWe’re a small, but ambitious team and we’re crazy about fintech and insurance. Our company was founded in 2018 by Rob (CEO) and Vincent (CTO). Vincent was one of the first employees at N26, where he was instrumental in building and scaling their iOS app. Rob was previously working at McKinsey, where he consulted top insurance companies on how to improve their digital strategy.\n# About the role\nWe're looking for an experienced Senior Backend Engineer to join our product team remotely.\n\nThe product team consists of several cross-functional units that are responsible for different parts of our insurance business. As a part of such a unit, you will be the one to make all the technical decisions necessary to grow our product.\n\nYou will be contributing to our TypeScript microservices and APIs, occasionally touching statically typed Python code. Anything you build will be immediately used by our customer base.\n\nWe put the customer first, and that is what defines how our tech evolves. We care about the UX of our products, but at the same time, we go out of our way to ensure security and privacy of the customer's data. \n\nWe set high standards in that regard, and we use the best tools available to meet them. You will define how the backend architecture and cloud infrastructure look like and collaborate with everyone across the team on the way.\n# Who we’re looking for 👀\nWe're looking for someone who already worked in a similar role as a Senior Software Engineer. This role requires a high degree of autonomy and excellent English communication skills. \n\nYou tick the following boxes:\n\n- You are proficient with TypeScript and any of the modern node frameworks.\n- You have a security mindset and care for data privacy.\n- You show a good understanding of databases.\n- You have worked with any ubiquitous cloud provider and containerized/serverless deploy.\n- You are good at design patterns and architecture. You have worked with microservices and asynchronous architecture before.\n- You have an eye for how things look and feel when it's facing the customer.\n\nIdeally, you have experience with:\n\n- Building event-driven systems with Cloud Pub/Sub, Kafka, Redis or RabbitMQ.\n- Managing cloud infrastructure. Terraform experience is a plus.\n- Running docker containers in production.\n- Using PostgreSQL and writing raw SQL.\n- Secure uploads to Google Cloud Storage or AWS S3.\n- Using managed Kubernetes/KNative clusters.\n- Serverless deployment using Google Cloud Functions, Cloud Run or AWS Lambda.\n\nThat said, don't be afraid to reach out to us if you are missing some of the above! \n# What we offer\n- Small team, flat hierarchy, mission-driven, and no politics. The usual buzzwords here, except we actually mean them. We’re small, lean, and we love what we’re doing.\n- You’ll be building a product that people need, and are grateful for. Our excellent [Trustpilot](https://www.trustpilot.com/review/feather-insurance.com) and [Google reviews](https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=Feather,+Lohm%C3%BChlenstra%C3%9Fe+65,+12435+Berlin,+Germany&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8) speak for themselves. We’ve built a product around people, and they love it!\n- Budget for learning. We want you to grow with us, so we offer a €1,200 yearly budget that you can spend to learn new stuff (books, conferences, subscriptions, etc.).\n- Remote work from anywhere close to the CET timezone. You may be requested to travel to Berlin several times a year.\n- Freedom to contribute to Open Source. We are passionate about OSS and we have a bunch of our own code [available on GitHub](https://github.com/getpopsure/).\n- A modern tech stack to work with—TypeScript, Terraform, NestJS, GitHub Actions just to name a few.\n\n# Does this sound like you? Apply now!\nWe'd like to chat about so many things with you! Please, let us know what interests you the most.\n\n- We highly encourage people from underrepresented groups in tech to apply.\n- We encourage people without degrees to apply: we believe that what you’ve worked on and achieved is way more important than on-paper qualifications. \n\nPlease mention the words **DEBRIS ATTRACT WASP** 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 $70,000 — $100,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n ⏰ Async\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n
\n\n#Location\nEurope

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# Looking for a more meaningful job?\n# Help us bring meritocracy to corporate hiring.\n\n## COMPANY:\nAssessUp.com is the first unbiased platform to detect and promote talented professionals. \n\nWe provide individual users with a freemium online application to: \n * Give confidential professional reviews on people they have worked with (while respecting everyone's privacy). \n * Get their skills validated by others and their profile picked up by recruiters. \n * Discover the reviews given on existing or potential colleagues who are using the website. \n\nWe crowdsource the questions creation while avoiding any personal or defamatory comment, so that we are able to create customized, nuanced and relevant questionnaires for every profile. \n\nWe offer our corporate customers a disruptive recruitment tool where only checked and vetted professionals are selected. \n\nIn addition, we will sell software as a service to companies for their employee performance assessment needs, leveraging our technology, algorithms and database of questions (Performance Management System). \n\n\n## POSITION:\nInitially a solo project of a trader escaped from the City, AssessUp.com is now online in its Alpha version. As a Rails / Ember developer, you will join a team composed of at least one business developer and the original founder (technical background).\n\nThis is a complex and ambitious project:\n* Intensive use of hashing & encryption (passwords, private keys locally for name & identities) for legal and security reasons (cf https://www.assessup.com/public/technology).\n* Points, levels, grades, reputation, tags everywhere, crowdsourced and customized assessment questionnaires based on profiles' tags.\n\nThe website is already built with all the main features, hopefully using a well-structured code. We now need to improve, consolidate, optimize, refactor, test it.. and launch it.\n\n#### The current stack is:\nBack end: Rails 4, PostgreSQL + Redis, Resque, ActionController::Live / short polling, cloudfront / S3, Heroku hosting, git.\nFront end: Ember 1.13 + Ember Data with offline mode (two stores), Bootstrap 3, crossfilter.js + a bit of d3.js (more to come). \n\n#### We would like you to bring at least some of those skills:\n\nFamiliarity with the current stack above, + design / UX skills, growth hacking, experience with job boards, experience with developing APIs for third parties, Ember 2.0, Ember Data, web workers for Ember Data serializations, Ember for mobile, pdf.js, Rails' Action Cable or other WebSockets, SEO, mailers, payment systems, web apps in WebView, code optimization and testing, testing, testing..\n\n\nOur collaboration would start by working for some weeks on a predefined set of tasks to familiarize yourself with the project (with equity + cash compensation), followed by a meaningful cash + equity package.\n\nWe are an early stage startup, and although we should be able to pay you a competitive salary, we are aiming for someone as passionate about the project as we are, a strong and sharp profile, focused, hard-worker and independent, dedicated to the project and able in the future to manage their own team. Remote is possible, better to be able to travel regularly to (West) London.\n\n\nThis is a unique opportunity to join an ambitious project right before its release. We are a lean startup with a disruptive business model, a unique technological advantage embedded in the current platform, and a potential for strong and diverse revenue sources.\n\nExtra tags: ember.js, ruby on rails \n\nPlease mention the words **DISMISS FACE COUPLE** 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 No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to JavaScript, Ruby, Developer, Digital Nomad, Travel, Legal and Heroku jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $120,000/year\n