\nWe are hiring a PHP Staff Engineer to focus on backend application work and technical leadership while contributing to DevOps, data, and frontend work as necessary. We’re a small team, so the blend will depend on the individual and the project.\n\n\nIdeal candidates will have an incredibly strong Web SaaS background, a decade or two of Web-based professional history, and a deep comfort with PHP. You are consistently assessing whether technical choices are adding or removing system complexity. You enjoy enabling your teammates to do their best work with clear & appropriate feedback, tailored guidance, and thoughtful workload sharing. You are deeply critical of which technical choices and work will have the most meaningful impact on our goals.\n\n\nThis role offers 160K/yr and participation in our ESOP (Employee Stock Option Program) with a 4-year vesting schedule. If you start by 1 April, you’ll be eligible for the company-wide annual 1 July pay raise. If you’re interested in the role but have questions or feedback, please email the hiring manager. No one’s resume will get buried for being critical, it’s kinda the point of the job.\n\n\nWe will accept applications through Friday, 21 February and begin the email screening process as soon as possible. Initial interviews will ideally be scheduled for 24-27 February, and second interviews the week of 10 March. There are two 90-minute interviews (hiring manager + panel) and we request 3 professional references (but let's talk anyway if you have circumstances that make that impossible). We are filling this role ASAP, preferably no later than 1 April. Please note availability concerns in your application! We can be flexible and are happy to accommodate whenever we can. \n\n\nAbout uConnect \n\n\nuConnect is on a mission to help more people realize their potential by improving access to career services for all people - early in their lives and throughout their careers. Focused on the traditional higher education market, uConnect's All-In-One Virtual Career Center is used by a wide range of institutions including UCLA, MIT, and Baton Rouge Community College to radically improve utilization of career services, career readiness and student outcomes.  We're a mission-driven team working in a fun and collaborative culture which puts people first. uConnect is backed by leading technology investors including Growth Street Partners, Strada Education and LearnLaunch.\n\n\n\nCore responsibilities\n* Collaboratively plan, document, and execute complex web application programming tasks. This is foremost an individual contributor role responsible for shipping.\n* Adhere to team coding standards and architectural principles.\n* Demonstrate advanced knowledge of one or more relevant programming languages in day-to-day use.\n* Demonstrate best practices in submitted code.\n* Make informed decisions about what qualifies as in- and out-of-scope for current tasks and communicate those decisions succinctly and thoroughly.\n* Raise concerns, questions, and ambiguities for team discussion; lead consensus-building.\n* Identify risks in current code, environment, and/or process; recommend alternatives.\n* Add automated low-level tests to code as appropriate.\n* Troubleshoot existing code for defects, performance issues, or other unwanted behavior.\n* Take ownership of overall application code base and be accountable for its long-term health, performance, and alignment with team goals.\n* Take on independent investigations or maintenance projects to enable the rest of the team.\n* Take a leadership role in overall technical decisions and direction.\n* Work cross-functionally with Product, Customer Success, and other stakeholders to identify the best outcomes possible given our goals and constraints.\n\n\n\nSecondary responsibilities\n* Assist with support and bug triage.\n* Assist with CI/CD pipeline as necessary.\n* Assist with E2E tests as necessary.\n* Improve application observability with logging and automated alerting.\n* Explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.\n* Guide and mentor other engineers of all levels with their professional growth and learning.\n* Assist with hiring engineers as requested.\n* Investigate new technologies for applicability to current and future engineering challenges.\n* Monitor the broader technology ecosystem for significant changes and brief team.\n* Respond to priority support incidents during off-hours in rare business-critical situations.\n\n\n\nWhat will a typical day look like?\n* Attend daily engineering standup (Mon-Thu). What’s blocking you, and how can you help your teammates? Sometimes we also do work refinement during this time.\n* Meet with stakeholders and peers to understand and prioritize needs.\n* Programming new product features, upgrading existing functionality, and updating dependencies and pipelines.\n* Performing code review async via pull request or synchronously via Zoom.\n* Validating application functionality through the use of both automated and manual testing.\n* Pairing with another engineer to trade experience or collaborate on a particular challenge. (We encourage pairing as needed and it shouldn’t be “never” but there’s no mandate.)\n* Researching tools, patterns and practices relevant to current or future work.\n* Writing internal documentation about technical choices, runbooks, or team practices.\n* Working with your manager to discuss and implement guidance or technical coaching plans for other engineers.\n* On Fridays (or an equivalent amount of time elsewhere in the week at your discretion), you’re encouraged to pursue team-agreed work that isn’t explicitly toward the product roadmap, like tool upgrades or technical research. We are purposefully targeting 20% of capacity toward maintenance work.\n\n\n\nCore skills & experiences (You check most of these boxes)\n* Building and maintaining Web SaaS products for at least 5 years (12+ is ideal).\n* Advanced programming experience in a Web server context, PHP strongly preferred.\n* Programming experience in JavaScript and HTML/CSS.\n* Advanced SQL query authoring and relational database design constraints.\n* Working remotely with a cross-functional team & collaborating with other engineers.\n* Task refinement & scoping, self-organization, and prioritization.\n* Team-based communication (asking for what they need and conveying challenges and timelines proactively), active listening, and consensus building.\n* Giving and receiving constructive and well-communicated code review feedback.\n* Experience with one or more web application frameworks, especially event-based (as in WordPress, not Kafka).\n* Troubleshooting DNS and web request / server response structures.\n* Validating code using test automation (unit or functional/integration).\n* Controlling major sources of application complexity and managing dependencies thoughtfully.\n\n\n\nAccretive skills (We hope you check a few of these boxes)\n* Using, designing, documenting, and building REST APIs.\n* Experience with WordPress (or similar).\n* Experience using caching layers to improve web application performance.\n* Building & improving CI pipelines (we use BitBucket).\n* Evaluating application-level security and remediation of flaws.\n* Evaluating & implementing accessibility requirements.\n* Experience with data pipelines, feed processing, and/or data migrations.\n* Working with Python (used in our data pipeline), data warehouses, and/or data visualization (We use GCP / BigQuery / Looker).\n* Iterative self-directed learning is second nature to you.\n* You’ve read resources or books like Will Larson’s Staff Engineer and are thoughtful about the strategic role of the Staff Engineer in an organization.\n\n\n\nWhy take this role?\n* High impact, high efficiency, sustainable efforts, & minimal politics. Our entire company culture is oriented to winning together, not individual interests.\n* Truly flexible work schedule with consistent effort to minimize meetings and prioritize individual needs. Unlimited PTO, 15 holidays, plus a mostly-shutdown entire final week of the year.\n* Commitment to a healthy engineering culture with a focus on great documentation, team-based work refinement, and clear acceptance criteria. We’re not done improving how we work.\n* We’re not just “committed to diversity”, we have a diverse & inclusive team and continue to iterate on policies that support it.\n* You're aligned with our mission of improving access to career services & employment outcomes for higher education students by supporting their individual needs.\n* Your 5-year plan could involve deepening your technical skills and focusing on impact as a special project “solver”, becoming the technical lead of a second product team as it forms, or transitioning into an engineering management role. (It likely does not involve becoming an overall project “architect” as that is our principal’s primary role.)\n\n\n\nCompensation package\n* $160,000 annual salary (with annual raise 1 July).\n* 4-year vesting stock options\n* Unlimited PTO (you must use at least 3 weeks; 4-6 is normal)\n* Health insurance (Gold PPO) premium 100% covered for employee & 60% for dependents (Dental 75% for employee & 50% for dependents; Vision 75% for employee)\n* 4% 401K contribution (3% full match + 2% half match)\n* $600 annual home office stipend\n* 12 weeks parental leave (after 1 year)\n* Guaranteed remote work policy (there’s no office)\n\n\n\nHiring process\n* Screening over email (call optional)\n* 90-minute alignment interview (Zoom video)\n* 90-minute functional area interview (Zoom video)\n* Pre-offer stage: (1) 60-minute Meet & Greet with CEO (Zoom video), (2) 3 references (preferably all who worked directly with you for 6 months or more; 1 senior to you in your team or reporting chain)\n* Background check (we do not automatically disqualify applicants for non-violent criminal convictions)\n\n\n\nAbout the team\n* We are fully remote, but require employees reside in the continental US or Canada due to time zones & compliance overhead.\n* We employ 7 full-time engineers (Manager, 4 Application, 1 Data, 1 QA Automation) that lean senior (2 staff-level, 3 senior-level, 2 mid-level, 0 entry — yes, that’s the scale). There is 1 product manager (with plans to grow).\n* No engineers have left the company in 3 years. Our principal engineer has been with the company 12 years. \n* We use a Kanban workflow in Jira (“kanban-like” if we’re being pedantic) with clear acceptance criteria and Gherkin for testing criteria.\n* In 2024, half our tickets were in support of our strategic roadmap, 20% were maintenance work, and the rest were requests (support escalations and other non-roadmap work).\n* We primarily build in a WordPress-based monolith with a few ancillary AWS services.\n* We have managed hosting, so there is no on-call rotation, but as a staff engineer you will be on the short-list of emergency technical contacts. (We had zero emergencies in 2024.)\n* Two years ago, we had zero automated tests. Today, we have more than 500 (300 of which are E2E) and will aggressively increase that number this year, focusing on PHP integration tests in a specific section of the product.\n* We’re publishing our interview plan, onboarding impact plan, and performance review criteria for this role. Our small team works best by being engaged, taking ownership, and exercising critical thinking every day. This role is critical to continuing and expanding that strategy, so consider coming to your interviews with good questions.\n* West coasters beware: Standup is 10:30am ET (Mon-Thu; we don’t have standing meetings on Fridays). It is our team’s only standing meeting (besides 1:1s with your manager and monthly All Hands).\n\n\n\nWhat will your 90-day onboard look like?\n* Weeks 1: Meet people, read docs, complete training, set up your localhost, ask questions. We’re not a “commit code on day 1” shop; relax & adapt. Check in with your manager daily.\n* Weeks 2-4: Dig into team’s current problem set and how you can start contributing now, while also learning medium- and long-term goals to start aligning decisions with them. Join the team’s workflow and complete prioritized work. Check in with your manager a few times a week.\n* Months 2-3: Take work that aligns with your learning goals to quickly expand your exposure to various parts of the product and stack. Make strong contributions, but more biased toward learning than highest priority, tapering back toward priority-based work toward the end of 90-days at the pace that makes sense. Choose a longer-term 1:1 pace.\n\n\n\n\n\n$160,000 - $160,000 a year\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, SaaS, Wordpress, Python, Testing, JavaScript, Education, PHP, Senior, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $50,000 — $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\nCambridge, MA or Remote

\nAbout BLEN\nBLENers are passionate about using technology to solve real-world problems. For over 20 years, we've been helping government agencies and businesses transform their digital experience. We bring fresh perspectives to every project, from modernizing legacy systems to building cloud-native applications to experimenting with technology that’s just around the corner. We value building long and enduring partnerships to solve complex challenges by putting humans at the center of all the experiences. Our team thrives on turning tricky problems into solutions that are practical, accessible and performant.\n\n\nAbout this position\nAs a Senior Software Developer II - Full Stack at BLEN, you will take on a highly strategic role in designing, architecting, and developing scalable, robust digital solutions. This role demands a combination of deep technical expertise in both front-end and back-end technologies and the ability to collaborate closely with tech leads and sometimes take on tech lead responsibilities. You will be expected to think strategically, mentor team members, and deliver high-impact solutions while embracing ownership and accountability. In addition, this position requires a strong background in cloud services, system architecture, AI toolings, and an eagerness to innovate by building prototypes and transforming proof of concepts into production-ready features\n\n\n\nWhat we would like from you\n* Technical Leadership and Strategy\n* Collaborate closely with the tech lead, taking responsibility for the system's architecture and development strategy\n* Step in as the acting Tech Lead when required, making key technical decisions that ensure alignment with overall product and business goals\n* Design and implement scalable, efficient, and maintainable systems and architectures\n* Work on building prototypes and proof of concepts that later become major production features\n\n\n\n* Software Development and Problem-Solving\n* Leverage extensive full-stack development experience to lead high-complexity, outcome-driven projects\n* Proactively diagnose and solve architectural and technical issues, driving quality improvements in existing systems\n* Work hands-on with modern tech stacks, including advanced usage of cloud platforms, ensuring scalable system designs\n* Actively contribute to the development and deployment of AI-driven solutions and applications\n\n\n\n* Mentorship and Team Development\n* Mentor and support junior engineers, focusing on transferring skills in system design, cloud services, and AI technologies\n* Provide technical guidance across teams, fostering a culture of continuous learning and innovation\n* Engage in technical interviews, assessing candidates' skills and cultural fit\n\n\n\n* Communication and Stakeholder Engagement\n* Present design documents, architecture diagrams, and technical solutions to clients, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams\n* Communicate technical strategies and developments effectively across the team and external partners\n\n\n\n* Process Improvement and Innovation\n* Drive improvements in software development processes and practices, with a focus on high performance and scalability\n* Champion best practices in system design, architecture, cloud services, and AI development\n* Stay up to date with emerging technologies and trends in AI and cloud computing, applying this knowledge to drive innovation in the organization\n\n\n\nBasic qualifications\n* Essential Requirements\n* 10+ years of engineering experience, with a proven track record of designing and developing scalable, reliable, and maintainable systems and architectures\n* Extensive experience with full stack development using Python, React, Next.js, Node.js, Java or Ruby on Rails\n* Hands-on experience with Python and AI toolings, including familiarity with large language models (LLMs) and other modern AI frameworks\n* Strong expertise in containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes, ensuring systems are scalable and maintainable in a cloud-native environment\n* Experience working with both relational databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, and NoSQL databases like Firestore, MongoDB, ensuring effective database design, optimization, and scalability\n* Hands-on experience integrating external APIs and third-party services into applications\n* Strong cloud services management and configuration skills with AWS, Azure, or GCP, leveraging these platforms for high availability, scalability, and security\n* Proficiency in version control systems (e.g., Git), and experience managing large, complex codebases\n* Robust problem-solving skills, particularly in diagnosing and resolving complex system issues related to distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and application performance\n* \n\n* Preferred Skills and Experience\n* Prior experience leading engineering teams or acting as a Tech Lead\n* Experience building AI applications and their underlying infrastructure\n* Familiarity with DevOps tools and best practices\n* Ability to obtain a Public Trust Clearance\n\n\n\nRequirement\n* Must be a US Citizen or legal resident and able to work domestically\n* Must be located in the United States\n* Must be able to attain low-level security clearance\n\n\n\nPerks\n* Work from anywhere.\n* Competitive pay.\n* A contribution to your health benefit.\n* The chance to work on high-visibility projects and make a significant impact.\n\n\n\nGet to know us\n* We are a small, creative and highly technical team.\n* Our heroes are the scrappy folks that dare to dream and do great things. We love people that care more about doing the right thing than taking a shortcut.\n* We believe in finishing projects and floor our clients by how much we cared about their project.\n* We believe in integrity and because we're small, we are very selective of our partners and clients.\n* We do not use phrases like 'human resource' because you are NOT a resource. You are a team member and we will treat you like one.\n\n\n\nWhat you should expect from us\n* We will treat you fairly.\n* We give you space to grow both personally and professionally.\n* We will hear your ideas even when we disagree -- especially when we disagree.\n* We will be equitable with our success and be honest with our challenges.\n* We will always tell you the truth. Even when the truth is difficult.\n\n\n\nBLEN's hiring process\n* Resume Review: Our team evaluates your resume and online profiles (LinkedIn, GitHub, etc.) to assess qualification fit.\n* Role-Specific Assessment (depending on role, due in 24 - 48 hours): Complete a take-home assignment or live coding session to demonstrate technical skills. For this role, this will be the assessment: https://github.com/blencorp/blen-fullstack-engineer-take-home\n* Hiring Manager Screen (30 mins): Dive deeper into your experience and the role with the hiring manager.\n* Virtual Interviews (2 rounds, 30-45 min each): Technical and competency-based interviews aligned with Blen's values, conducted via Google Meet.\n* Decision & Offer: Post-interview, the hiring team decides. If selected, your recruiter will extend an offer and assist with logistics.\n\n\n\n\n\n$135,000 - $170,000 a yearThe salary range represents the compensation we expect to offer candidates who can perform the core responsibilities with minimal additional training. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as skill set, level of experience, and scope of responsibility. Our recruitment team is available to discuss your specific salary requirements and to provide more information about how we determine compensation. We are committed to fair and transparent pay practices and encourage open dialogue about our compensation structure throughout the application process. We look forward to learning more about your qualifications and how they align with our framework.\nEqual Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities\nThe contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c).\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Python, Docker, DevOps, Java, Cloud, Ruby and Senior jobs that are similar:\n\n $52,500 — $95,000/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\nWashington, DC

About Phaidra\n\nPhaidra is building the future of industrial automation.\n\nThe world today is filled with static, monolithic infrastructure. Factories, power plants, buildings, etc. operate the same they've operated for decades — because the controls programming is hard-coded. Thousands of lines of rules and heuristics that define how the machines interact with each other. The result of all this hard-coding is that facilities are frozen in time, unable to adapt to their environment while their performance slowly degrades.\n\nPhaidra creates AI-powered control systems for the industrial sector, enabling industrial facilities to automatically learn and improve over time. Specifically:\n\n\n* We use reinforcement learning algorithms to provide this intelligence, converting raw sensor data into high-value actions and decisions.\n\n* We focus on industrial applications, which tend to be well-sensorized with measurable KPIs — perfect for reinforcement learning.\n\n* We enable domain experts (our users) to configure the AI control systems (i.e. agents) without writing code. They define what they want their AI agents to do, and we do it for them.\n\n\n\n\nOur team has a track record of applying AI to some of the toughest problems. From achieving superhuman performance with DeepMind's AlphaGo, to reducing the energy required to cool Google's Data Centers by 40%, we deeply understand AI and how to apply it in production for massive impact.\n\nPhaidra is based in the USA but 100% remote; we do not have a physical office. We hire employees internationally with the help of our partner, OysterHR. Our team is currently located throughout the USA, Canada, UK, Norway, Italy, Spain, Portugal, and India.\n\n**Please only apply to one opening. If you are a better fit for another opening, our team will move your application. Candidates who apply to multiple openings will not be considered.**\nWho You Are\n\nWe are looking for a very experienced Software Engineer with a focus on MLOps tech leadership to be a part of our growing AI Platform team. You are bold and creative, and have deep empathy for customers. You will design and implement significant parts of the code base and will have the opportunity to make an immediate impact with your work and guide the product and team as we grow.\n\nYou are curious and like to understand technologies and their tradeoffs in depth - providing technical guidance to the team and peers as and when required. Leading by example, you have accumulated a wealth of insights and experiences from your hands-on involvement in the field, and you are committed to rolling up your sleeves and getting work done. You like joining and supporting other engineers in their work to learn from them as well as letting them benefit from your expertise and experience.\n\nYou have the motivation and skills to identify technical product needs, initiate projects and owning their delivery, including the involvement of engineering peers as needed. You are comfortable with challenging the status quo respectfully to drive and deliver technical excellence in the team.\n\n\n* We are seeking a team member located within one of the following areas: USA/Canada/UK/EU\n\n\n\nResponsibilities\n\nThe AI Platform team you are joining is responsible for building the core platform that powers model training, inference and decision making in our products. Furthermore the team owns MLOps and the services hosting our AI capabilities. Productionizing results from Research, as well as extending our systems and providing support according to our customer needs fall into team responsibilities as well. You will join this team as a very experienced engineer with a focus on MLOps solutions to grow our expertise in that area, but also contribute as a software engineer more widely in the team.\n\nAs an organization, we strongly believe in expertise across the stack. As such, you will experience flavors of Machine Learning, Software Engineering, Distributed Systems, MLOps and DevOps.\n\nIn particular, you will:\n\n\n* Design, build and lead the MLOps initiatives and vision for the AI Platform to strengthen automation, orchestration, versioning, observability, monitoring and collaboration for the platform.\n\n* Build and design scalable components for the AI Platform to allow high throughput training and inference for RL agents doing realtime inference for autonomous control of industrial systems.\n\n* Contribute to the design and implementation of the product backend by writing REST & gRPC API services and scalable event-driven backend applications.\n\n* Design clear, extensible software interfaces for the team's customers and maintain a high release quality bar.\n\n* Perform DevOps duties of CI/CD, Release & Deployment management.\n\n* Be a part of our global production oncall team and, own & operate your services in production, meeting Phaidra’s high bar for operational excellence.\n\n* Lead cross-functional initiatives collaborating with engineers, product managers and TPM across teams.\n\n* Mentor your peers and be a technical role-model in the team.\n\n\n\nOnboarding\n\nIn your first 30 days…\n\n\n* You will be immersed in an onboarding program that introduces you to Phaidra and our product.\n\n* You will spend time in the Engineering org, learning how the teams operate, interact, and approach problems.\n\n* You will read various parts of our handbook and familiarize yourself with the documentation culture at Phaidra.\n\n* You will set up your development environment and start working on an onboarding exercise that will introduce you to various parts of our code base.\n\n* You will learn about how we use agile and be able to navigate our sprint boards and backlogs.\n\n* You will learn about various team standards and development & release processes.\n\n* You will start to learn about our system architecture and infrastructure.\n\n* You will start picking up few good “first-tasks” to get yourself accustomed to the end to end release flow.\n\n\n\n\nIn your first 60 days…\n\n\n* You will get a solid understanding of what Phaidra does and how we do it.\n\n* You will meet with team members across Phaidra and started building relationships that will help you be successful at your job.\n\n* You will complete the onboarding exercise and will be on your way to completing your first production task.\n\n* You will take ownership for the MLOps work on the team, identify gaps and propose roadmap items on the topic.\n\n\n\n\nIn your first 90 days…\n\n\n* You will be fully integrated in the team and with team members across the company.\n\n* You will have a more in-depth understanding of our system architecture and infrastructure.\n\n* You will complete your first on-call experience helping monitor and improve our production environments.\n\n* You will become an expert with our tooling.\n\n* You will start to contribute to knowledge sharing throughout Phaidra and the team.\n\n* You will take proactively drive MLOps topics in the team and represent it technically throughout the company.\n\n\n\nKey Qualifications\n\n\n* 10+ years of work experience.\n\n* Proven record on impact as a Tech Leader and bar-raiser for ambitious Software Engineering teams\n\n* Strong experience on designing and implementing MLOps solutions for AI production systems\n\n* Extensive experience with platform Software Engineering with the ability to contribute on all levels as an individual contributor and tech leader\n\n* Strong expertise on building, operating and monitoring large scale multi-tenant systems with high availability, fault tolerance, performance tuning, monitoring, and metrics collection\n\n* Ability to take ownership of realtime production systems - aligning technical with business requirements, raising the bar for operational excellence and on-call incident handling\n\n* Strong expertise in Python and Cloud environments\n\n* Very good grasp of Machine Learning (especially Deep Learning) fundamentals\n\n* Ability to collaborate and communicate effectively in an all-remote setting\n\n* Doing your work with curiosity, ownership, transparency & directness, outcome orientation, and customer empathy.\n\n\n\nBonus\n\n\n* Experience with building applications that can be deployed in cloud, as well as in hybrid or on-prem environment\n\n* Exposure to Reinforcement Learning or other in-depth knowledge on modern ML applications\n\n* Experience with industrial applications, industrial control systems, IoT, sensor time series applications, or similar\n\n\n\nRelevant Technologies from our Stack\n\n\n* Python, Go\n\n* PyTorch, PyTorch Lightning\n\n* Ray.io, Prefect, mlflow\n\n* REST & gRPC micro-services\n\n* Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform & Kapitan\n\n* GCP - GKE, PubSub, CloudSQL, BigTable, Postgres, etc.\n\n* Grafana Cloud, Prometheus\n\n* Poetry, Pants\n\n* Gitlab CI, ArgoCD, Atlantis\n\n\n\nGeneral Interview Process\n\nAll of our interviews are held via Google Meet, and an active camera connection is required.\n\n* \n\nMeeting with Operations (30 minutes): The purpose of this interview is to meet you, learn more about your background, discuss what you are looking for in a new position and cover formalities around your application.\n\n\n* \n\nTech Lead interview (60 minutes): This interview is a combination of technical and cultural fit assessment. We will cover your technical experience and the skills as an engineer and a tech lead while discussing projects that you have worked on in the past. You will meet the manager for the role as well as our VP of Engineering, with the opportunity to ask any questions about the team, role and engineering at Phaidra.\n\n\n* \n\nML system design & SRE (90 minutes): In this interview, we will go over a real world MLOps problem. You can expect to draw architecture diagrams using boxes & arrows in your browser. We will talk about system design, scalability and monitoring\n\n\n* \n\nML interview (60 minutes): This interview will focus on Machine Learning approaches, algorithms and theory. You will be asked about ML algorithms you are familiar with, how they work under the hood and how to use them in an applied setting.\n\n\n* \n\nCulture fit interview with Phaidra’s co-founders (30 minutes): This interview focuses on alignment with Phaidra’s values and the mutual cultural fit.\n\n\n\nBase Salary\n\n\n* US Residents: $156,000-$234,000/year\n\n* UK Residents: £108,000-£162,000/year\n\n\n\n\nSalary ranges for EU countries will vary based on the market rate for the location.\n\nThis position will also include equity.\n\nThese are best faith estimates of the base salary range for this position. Multiple factors such as experience, education, level, and location are taken into account when determining compensation.\nBenefits & Perks\n\n\n* Fast-paced and team-oriented environment where you will be instrumental in the direction of the company.\n\n* Phaidra is a 100% remote company with a digital nomad policy.\n\n* Competitive compensation & equity.\n\n* Outsized responsibilities & professional development.\n\n* Training is foundational; functional, customer immersion, and development training.\n\n* Medical, dental, and vision insurance (exact benefits vary by region).\n\n* Unlimited paid time off, with a minimum of 20 days off per year requirement.\n\n* Paid parental leave (exact benefits vary by region).\n\n* Home office setup allowance and company MacBook.\n\n* Monthly remote work stipend.\n\n\n\nOn being Remote\n\nWe are thoughtful about remote collaboration. We look to the pioneers - like Gitlab - for inspiration and best practices to create a stellar remote work environment. We have a documentation-first culture and actively practice asynchronous communication in everything we do. Our team stays connected through tools like Slack and video chat. Most teams meet daily, and we have dedicated all-hands meetings bi-weekly to build strong relationships. We hold virtual team building events once per month - and even hold virtual socials to watch rocket launches! We have a yearly in-person, all-company summit in locations like Seattle, Athens, Goa, and Barcelona.\nEqual Opportunity Employment\n\nPhaidra is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Phaidra is governed on the basis of merit, competence, and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability, or any other legally protected status. We welcome diversity and strive to maintain an inclusive environment for all employees. If you need assistance with completing the application process, please contact us at [email protected].\nE-Verify Notice\n\nPhaidra participates in E-Verify, an employment authorization database provided through the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Social Security Administration (SSA). As required by law, we will provide the SSA and, if necessary, the DHS, with information from each new employee’s Form I-9 to confirm work authorization for those residing in the United States.\n\nAdditional information about E-Verify can be found here.\n\n#LI-Remote\n\nWE DO NOT ACCEPT APPLICATIONS FROM RECRUITERS.\n\n  \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Python, DevOps, Cloud, API, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $105,000/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\nSeattle, Washington, United States

Who You Are\n\nWe are looking for a driven Software Engineer (MLOps) to be a part of our growing AI Platform team. You are bold and creative, and have deep empathy for customers who may not be tech-savvy. You will design and implement significant parts of the code base and will have the opportunity to make an immediate impact with your work and guide the product and team as we grow.\n\nYou are curious and like to understand technologies and their tradeoffs in depth - providing technical guidance to the team and peers as and when required. Leading by example, you have accumulated a wealth of insights and experiences from your hands-on involvement in the field, and you are committed to rolling up your sleeves and getting work done. You like joining and supporting other engineers in their work to learn from them as well as letting them benefit from your expertise and experience.\n\nYou have the motivation and skills to identify technical product needs, initiate projects and owning their delivery, including the involvement of engineering peers as needed. You are comfortable with challenging the status quo respectfully to drive and deliver technical excellence in the team.\n\n**We are seeking a team member located within one of the following areas: USA/Canada/UK\nResponsibilities\n\nThe AI Platform team you are joining is responsible for building the core platform that powers model training, inference and decision making in our products. Furthermore the team owns MLOps and the services hosting our AI capabilities. Productionizing results from Research, as well as extending our systems and providing support according to our customer needs fall into team responsibilities as well. You will join this team as an experienced engineer with a focus on MLOps solutions to grow our expertise in that area, but also contribute as a software engineer more widely in the team.\n\nAs an organization, we strongly believe in expertise across the stack. As such, you will experience flavors of Machine Learning, Software Engineering, Distributed Systems, MLOps and DevOps.\n\nIn particular, you will:\n\n\n* Design, build and lead the MLOps initiatives and vision for the AI Platform to strengthen automation, orchestration, versioning, observability, monitoring and collaboration for the platform.\n\n* Build and design scalable components for the AI Platform to allow high throughput training and inference for RL agents doing realtime inference for autonomous control of industrial systems.\n\n* Contribute to the design and implementation of the product backend by writing REST & gRPC API services and scalable event-driven backend applications.\n\n* Design clear, extensible software interfaces for the team's customers and maintain a high release quality bar.\n\n* Design and optimize data storage & retrieval mechanisms for high throughput, security & ease of access.\n\n* Perform DevOps duties of CI/CD, Release & Deployment management.\n\n* Be a part of our global production oncall team and, own & operate your services in production, meeting Phaidra’s high bar for operational excellence.\n\n* Lead cross-functional initiatives collaborating with engineers, product managers and TPM across teams.\n\n* Mentor your peers and be a technical role-model in the team.\n\n\n\nOnboarding\n\nIn your first 30 days…\n\n\n* You will be immersed in an onboarding program that introduces you to Phaidra and our product.\n\n* You will spend time in the Engineering org, learning how the teams operate, interact, and approach problems.\n\n* You will read various parts of our handbook and familiarize yourself with the documentation culture at Phaidra.\n\n* You will set up your development environment and start working on an onboarding exercise that will introduce you to various parts of our code base.\n\n* You will learn about how we use agile and be able to navigate our sprint boards and backlogs.\n\n* You will learn about various team standards and development & release processes.\n\n* You will start to learn about our system architecture and infrastructure.\n\n* You will start picking up few good “first-tasks” to get yourself accustomed to the end to end release flow.\n\n\n\n\nIn your first 60 days…\n\n\n* You will get a solid understanding of what Phaidra does and how we do it.\n\n* You will meet with team members across Phaidra and started building relationships that will help you be successful at your job.\n\n* You will complete the onboarding exercise and will be on your way to completing your first production task.\n\n* You will take ownership for the MLOps work on the team, identify gaps and propose roadmap items on the topic.\n\n\n\n\nIn your first 90 days…\n\n\n* You will be fully integrated in the team and with team members across the company.\n\n* You will have a more in-depth understanding of our system architecture and infrastructure.\n\n* You will complete your first on-call experience helping monitor and improve our production environments.\n\n* You will become an expert with our tooling.\n\n* You will start to contribute to knowledge sharing throughout Phaidra and the team.\n\n* You will take proactively drive MLOps topics in the team and represent it technically throughout the company.\n\n\n\nKey Qualifications\n\n\n* 7+ years of work experience.\n\n* Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science, or equivalent experience.\n\n* Strong experience on designing and implementing MLOps solutions for AI production systems\n\n* Expertise with production Software Engineering - relational and non-relational data modelling, micro-services, understanding of event driven systems, etc.\n\n* Strong experience building large scale multi-tenant systems with high availability, fault tolerance, performance tuning, monitoring, and statistics/metrics collection.\n\n* Strong expertise in Python and Cloud environments\n\n* Good grasp of Machine Learning (especially Deep Learning) fundamentals.\n\n* Ability to collaborate and communicate effectively in an all-remote setting\n\n* Doing your work with curiosity, ownership, transparency & directness, outcome orientation, and customer empathy.\n\n\n\nBonus\n\n\n* Experience as a service owner of a realtime production system - operating & monitoring services in production, including using observability tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, Tempo or equivalent offerings and incident management.\n\n* Experience with building applications that can be deployed in cloud, hybrid or on prem environments\n\n* Exposure to Reinforcement Learning\n\n\n\nOur Stack\n\n\n* Languages - (Backend) Python, Go; (Frontend) JavaScript/TypeScript, React; Customer SDK & Clients - C# .NET\n\n* PyTorch\n\n* Cypress\n\n* Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform & Kapitan\n\n* Gitlab CI, ArgoCD, Atlantis, Vercel\n\n* GCP - GKE, PubSub, CloudSQL, BigTable, Postgres, etc.\n\n* Ray.io\n\n* REST & gRPC micro-services\n\n* Poetry, Pantsbuild\n\n\n\nGeneral Interview Process\n\nAll of our interviews are held via Google Meet, and an active camera connection is required.\n\n* Initial screening interview with a People Operations team member (30 minutes): The purpose of this interview is to meet you, learn more about your background, and discuss what you are looking for in a new position.\n\n* Hiring manager interview (30 minutes): The purpose of this meeting is for you to get to know the manager for the role. This chat will mainly focus on your previous experience and technical background. You can expect to talk about projects that you have worked on in the past and ask any questions about the team & role.\n\n* Technical Interview 1 (60 minutes): The purpose of this interview is to assess your skills in Machine Learning and related mathematics.\n\n* Technical Interview 2 (90 minutes): In this interview, we will go over a real world MLOps problem. You can expect to draw architecture diagrams using boxes & arrows in your browser. We will talk about system design, scalability and monitoring.\n\n* Meeting with VP of Engineering (30 minutes): This interview is a combination of technical and cultural fit assessment. You will cover the technical experience and the skills that you brinand have an opportunity to ask any questions about the team’s culture or vision.\n\n* Culture fit interview with Phaidra’s co-founders (30 minutes): This interview focuses on alignment with Phaidra’s values\n\n\nBase Salary\n\nUS Residents: $115,200-$208,800/year\n\nUK Residents: £96,400-£144,000/year\n\nThis position will also include equity.\n\nThese are best faith estimates of the base salary range for this position. Multiple factors such as experience, education, level, and location are taken into account when determining compensation. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Python, DevOps, Cloud, API, Senior, Engineer and Backend 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
\n\n#Location\nSeattle, Washington, United States

\nJob Posted: 1/4/24\n\nLocation: Americas (Pacific Time)\n\nHi there!\n\nZapier’s on a mission to make everyone more productive at work.  With millions of people benefiting from automation, we're excited to keep expanding our product and team. As we continue to scale our product and grow our team, we’re looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to manage a remotely distributed team of Site Reliability Engineers.\n\nOur Site Reliability Engineers collaborate closely with developers, aiding in the design, automation, and maintenance of services. While developers manage the services themselves, our SREs ensure they have the necessary tools and knowledge for success.\n\nIn this role, you'll work across various teams, ensuring your group offers the right support to developers. You'll coordinate multiple projects and collaborate directly with senior leaders to set project priorities. By nurturing your team's talents, you'll enhance application reliability through a software engineering approach to operations. This position allows you to impact every engineering team within the organization, utilizing a wide range of technologies. Maintaining strong relationships and effective communication with teams is key to your success.\n\nWhen issues arise, your team will be there to address root causes, learn from failures, and establish a robust and resilient system for our customers. We prioritize solutions that automate problems rather than relying on manual efforts.\n\nJoin us in our mission to revolutionize productivity through automation!\n\n \nThings We've Done Recently:\n\n\n* Developed numerous microservices within Kubernetes, spanning across multiple AWS accounts.\n\n* Actively participated in open-source Kubernetes initiatives to bolster our stack's autoscaling capabilities.\n\n* Scaled our infrastructure to effortlessly manage millions of daily requests.\n\n* Successfully executed substantial migrations involving hosting providers, database platforms, and stateful technologies.\n\n* Established efficient deployment pipelines utilizing GitLab and ArgoCD to facilitate continuous delivery.\n\n* Crafted user-friendly tools for instantaneously launching new Kubernetes services with a simple click.\n\n* Our journey has been filled with growth and innovation, and we're excited to continue pushing boundaries!\n\n\n\n\nWe know applying for and taking on a new job at any company requires a leap of faith. We want you to feel comfortable and excited to apply at Zapier. To help share a bit more about life at Zapier, here are a few resources in addition to the job description that can give you an inside look at what life is like at Zapier. Hopefully, you'll take the leap of faith and apply.\n\nOur Commitment to Applicants\n\nCulture and Values at Zapier\n\nZapier Guide to Remote Work\n\nZapier Code of Conduct\n\nDiversity and Inclusivity at Zapier\n\n \nAbout You\n\n\n* \n\nYou're an effective team builder. This isn't your first leadership role and you've been in a direct leadership role for at least two years. You know how to hire, train, and develop Site Reliability Engineers from all backgrounds. You understand the benefits of building a diverse and inclusive SRE team. You value teamwork and believe in helping others feel safe to grow and develop. You help engineers get better at what they do, and you don’t need to be in the same room to help them succeed.\n\n\n* \n\nYou have a background in site reliability engineering. You’re comfortable talking about SLOs, incident management, and building a culture of reliability. You have empathy for our customers and our engineers who use our systems and are eager to make improvements for them. You seek to reduce toil and understand what it means to take a software engineering approach to operations.\n\n\n* \n\nYou're customer-focused. You seek to delight your customers. You have experience working directly with both internal and external customers to understand their needs. You know how to take a customer problem and help guide your team towards finding and implementing the best solution.\n\n\n* \n\nYou have excellent communication skills. You regularly work with engineers and other stakeholders, balancing engineering concerns (such as technical debt) with product concerns. Not only do you know how to share your knowledge with the team and document things well so they can be consumed asynchronously (we do this a lot as a remote company), but you know how to communicate effectively with software and support teams.\n\n\n* \n\nYou’re a strong leader. You lead by example and empathy, understand the business and how to prioritize project work, emphasize mentorship, and create an environment of learning. You understand that experimentation is essential and know how to support your team through that process. You encourage diversity of thought and know that the team is collectively stronger than any individual.\n\n\n* \n\nYou know the cloud. You’ve designed and maintained highly available, cloud-based infrastructures in AWS or another cloud offering. You understand how to leverage infrastructure as code tools and have experience implementing best practices for reliability and observability.  We use Terraform, Kubernetes, Redis, GitLab, and Datadog.\n\n\n* \n\nYou can code. You have experience with a language like Python or Go to create automated tools. You believe in hands-off deployments and infrastructure as code. Well-honed expertise with the fundamentals of software development goes a long way here.\n\n\n* \n\nYou value our values. At Zapier, our values are at the heart of how we work together and think about our customers. In our remote setting, they help develop trust and ensure we work and collaborate to democratize automation. You see how these values can empower meaningful work, thrive in a collaborative setting, and are eager to continue growing excited to be part of the team.\n\n\n\n\n\n \nThings You’ll Do\n\nZapier is a fast-growing company, so you'll likely get experience on many different projects across the organization. Here are some things you'll probably do:\n\n\n* \n\nCollaborate closely with engineering peers to deliver high-quality, reliable, and efficient production software.\n\n\n* \n\n Champion the advancement of Site Reliability Engineering practices within the Engineering department.\n\n\n* \n\nLead the development of incident management processes and on-call response procedures.\n\n\n* \n\nOperate within an agile framework to provide essential infrastructure for Zapier's engineering team.\n\n\n* \n\nExecute the strategic vision of Production Engineering by identifying and delivering relevant backlog items.\n\n\n* \n\nFoster effective communication, monitoring, and leadership through weekly one-on-ones and team meetings.\n\n\n* \n\nKeep the leadership team informed of your team's progress through approaches like one-on-one discussions, updates, and regular team gatherings.\n\n\n* \n\nBuild rapport with each member of your Engineering Team (and beyond!) Support them through coaching and mentorship to help level up their skills.\n\n\n* \n\nActively participate in recruiting, onboarding, and training new engineers at Zapier, which may involve refining interview assessments and documentation.\n\n\n\n\n \nZapier Compensation Guiding Principles\n\nWe believe all Zapiens should be rewarded competitively and equitably, using practices that are simple and transparent. This philosophy ensures we’re able to find, grow, and retain exceptional people from a broad range of backgrounds. Here’s how we define our compensation principles:\n\n\n* Competitive: Zapier pays well among the technology sector.\n\n* Equitable: Consistent pay practices; Pay for impact.\n\n* Simple: Pay is well understood, and pay practices are built for scale.\n\n* Transparent: Zapiens know how pay works, including how their pay is determined.\n\n\n\n\nThe pay ranges for this role are:\n\nUnited States $184,000- $230,000- $276,000 USD\n\nCanada  $184,000- $230,000- $276,000 CAD\n\nA Candidate's compensation package is finalized once the interview process is concluded and accounts for demonstrated experience, job knowledge, skills,  abilities, and internal equity. We use a business impact approach to base pay, which means we set pay for all Zapier employees based on their demonstrated impact to Zapier’s success. In alignment with that philosophy, the upper half of a pay range is typically reserved for individuals who have consistently demonstrated a high impact in their current role and level while at Zapier.\n\nFor more information on Zapier’s Total Rewards please click here.\n \nHow to Apply\n\n\nAt Zapier, we believe that diverse perspectives and experiences make us better, which is why we have a non-standard application process designed to promote inclusion and equity. We're looking for the best fit for each of our roles, regardless of the type of education or companies in your background, so we encourage you to apply even if your skills and experiences don’t exactly match the job description. All we ask is that you answer a few in-depth questions in our application that would typically be asked at the start of an interview process. This helps speed things up by letting us get to know you and your skillset a bit better right out of the gate. Please be sure to answer each question; the resume and CV fields are optional.\n\nAfter you apply, you are going to hear back from us—even if we don’t see an immediate fit with our team. In fact, throughout the process, we strive to never go more than seven days without letting you know the status of your application. We know we’ll make mistakes from time to time, so if you ever have questions about where you stand or about the process, just ask your recruiter!\n\nZapier is an equal-opportunity employer and we're excited to work with talented and empathetic people of all identities. Zapier does not discriminate based on someone's identity in any aspect of hiring or employment as required by law and in line with our commitment to Diversity, Inclusion, Belonging and Equity. Our code of conduct provides a beacon for the kind of company we strive to be, and we celebrate our differences because those differences are what allow us to make a product that serves a global user base. Zapier will consider all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, consistent with applicable laws.\n\nZapier is committed to inclusion. As part of this commitment, Zapier welcomes applications from individuals with disabilities and will work to provide reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodations are needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact [email protected].\n\nApplication Deadline: The anticipated application window is 30 days from the date job is posted, unless the number of applicants requires it to close sooner or later, or if the position is filled.\n\nEven though we’re an all-remote company, we still need to be thoughtful about where we have Zapiens working. Check out this resource for a list of countries where we currently cannot have Zapiens permanently working.\n\n#LI-Remote\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Python, Education, Cloud and Senior jobs that are similar:\n\n $52,500 — $85,000/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\nBased in Washington, D.C., United States, Quorum is the leading provider of workflow software for government affairs professionals across Fortune 100 corporations, non-profits, associations, and governmental end-markets. Quorum’s innovative AI-powered integrated cloud platform allows users to manage stakeholder engagement, launch grassroots advocacy campaigns, manage PACs (Political Action Committees), and track legislative activity at all levels of government, including federal, state, local, EU, and internationally.  \n\nHelp us build the future of PAC management software! As the Engineering Manager of the Quorum PAC Expansion software team, you will coach, manage, and support a squad of full-stack engineers focused on building new PAC features to support our growing list of customers. As Engineering Manager, you will be hands-on and own the technical roadmap planning and execution in collaboration with the PAC Product Manager, peer engineering managers, Product Design, and QA. In managing the individual contributors, hands-on coding and technical guidance are expected at about 50% in any given week, though delegating technical tasks is usually expected. As the Engineering Manager, you will deliver high-quality results and work through risks, challenges, and obstacles, all while setting and managing expectations with various stakeholders. \n\nWhat You'll Do\n\n\n* First Week: You will work closely with an onboarding mentor to complete the standard engineering onboarding process and learn to ship new code to production to understand the end-to-end tech stack and software development lifecycle.\n\n* First Month: You will be up and running with your standard managerial practices and processes, learn the ins and outs of Quorum’s PAC product, technical strategy, roadmap, and challenges, and get to know the members of your team, product managers and other leaders on the technology team.\n\n* First Three Months: You will fully own the planning and execution of the PAC Expansion team, including technical roadmap and milestones. You will mentor and coach existing team members to improve their skills & team productivity and help bring new team members into the organization as needed. \n\n* First Six Months: Your team will have successfully shipped many new features, improved team operations and effectiveness, and facilitated the onboarding of new customers.\n\n\n\n\nAbout You\n\n\n* 5+ years of relevant experience, including 1+ years as an Engineering Manager and/or Tech Lead with proven technical and leadership abilities.\n\n* Data expertise: data modeling in relational & non-relational databases, data quality, data integration, search, data visualization, and performance tuning. \n\n* Expertise in software development and Quorum’s front-end and back-end technologies, including must-have Python and React (or similar Javascript framework), PostgreSQL, AWS, and Linux. Nice to have: Django. \n\n* Experience with cloud-native architectures, AWS preferred.\n\n* Experience with Docker and containerized build and deploy pipelines. \n\n* Excellent communication skills, including good English\n\n* Strong, agile project management skills as demonstrated by a strong track record of completing complex technical projects that this individual directly owned\n\n* Strong coaching and management skills as indicated by a strong track record of supporting the growth and development of other engineers\n\n* Experience with US-based companies as part of a remote or hybrid team is preferred.\n\n* This position requires approximately 50% hands-on development time. \n\n\n\n\nAbout the Software Development Team\n\n\n* We're a fast-growing team dedicated to improving our people, processes, and platform. The team is primarily structured into product-oriented squads.\n\n* We support many different products but internally think of them as one system with a single unified codebase supporting the Quorum platform. We aim to build centralized systems that handle complex problems for multiple features and products.\n\n* We’re focused on doing the important things the right way -- we write solid documentation, test our code well, design for scale, and follow defined software development processes.\n\n* We follow best-in-class security practices to safeguard our data and application against bad actors. We regularly test and update processes and technology to fight complacency because we know good security is a continuous effort.\n\n* We curate high-quality datasets essential for effective mapping and tracking of the government and public affairs spaces. Our datasets underpin our promise to give users the information necessary to make intelligent decisions influencing policy.\n\n* We set rigorous quality standards and monitor them with a mix of programmatic and manual verifications to ensure users maintain high trust in our systems.\n\n* We’re very close as a team and invest not only in each others’ skills and careers but also in building genuine relationships with one another: product development is a team sport where open communication and collaboration lead to amazing outcomes for our customers. We believe it’s better (and more fun) to work on a team of people you know well and care about.\n\n\n\n\nOur Work Environment\n\n\n* We are a remote-first team with flexible work options: work remotely, or you may choose to come into our office in Belo Horizonte.\n\n\n\n\nDo you want to learn what it's like to have a real impact at a fast-growing company that is changing the way the advocacy process works? If so, drop us a line. We'd love to talk to you!\n\n\n* This is a full-time CLT position.\n\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n\n* Standard Brazil Holidays\n\n* Monthly Work from Home Stipend\n\n* Mental and Dental Care by SulAmérica\n\n* Monthly Professional Development/Mental Health stipend\n\n* Alelo Food Voucher\n\n* Incompany English classes with a native speaker teacher\n\n* Free Subscription to the Calm app\n\n* Invest in Yourself Days - one Friday per quarter is dedicated to your professional development!\n\n* Flexible Paid Time Off\n\n* Virtual and in-person team events\n\n* Inclusion & Diversity Affinity Groups to support belonging\n\n* 12 weeks of paid parental leave\n\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 Design, React, Python, Docker, JavaScript and Cloud jobs that are similar:\n\n $57,500 — $105,000/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\nBelo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil