by Ronald Barron | Feb 10, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Database Administrator
REMOTE
Denver, Colorado, United States
Engineering
Full time
NinjaCat is a digital marketing performance management platform that provides brands, agencies and media companies tools to collect, connect, analyze, and present marketing data in a meaningful way. Our marketing data management and reporting solutions empower teams to communicate quickly and insightfully about the effectiveness of their marketing efforts at scale.
Our mission is to build a company that everyone wishes they were a part of and the proof is in the pudding: we were featured by Inc. Magazine as one of the best places to work (2 years in a row!) and 2020 AdAge best places to work. If that weren’t enough: we work remotely (work from anywhere!), offer great perks and have a unique culture built on our core values of compassion, action and trust. We recently raised a significant amount of capital, built a best-in-class leadership team, and were executing on a product vision that will transform the marketing analytics industry. We would love to have you be part of it. Learn more at www.ninjacat.io.
Interested but not sure you are qualified? If you are up for the challenge we want you to apply. We believe skills are transferable and we want everyone who wants to be part of NinjaCat to have a conversation with us.
About This Role
NinjaCat is growing our site reliability engineering (SRE) and infrastructure team. We are hiring a database administrator (DBA) to help us manage and scale our databases and data architectures. This role is a blend of database administration, operations, infrastructure and SRE work and will report to our Director of Engineering.
You will work closely with our Technical Architect and Information Technology teams to evolve our infrastructure and data-powered services. You will work across engineering teams and convert legacy decisions into performant data access patterns. You’ll work on updates to MySQL and Snowflake and educate teams on high performance queries and data structures.
Requirements
- Collaborate with engineers, and maintain and troubleshoot production systems (AWS RDS Aurora)
- Monitor and evolve current data architecture (MySQL, Snowflake) and implement upgrades and performance improvements
- Research options for the future of our technical infrastructure around high volume data ingestion, storage and querying
- Maintain and implement security best practices and collaborate with IT to identify risks while enabling engineering to build data-powered features
- Educate others with your knowledge of relational database concepts and tuning and document changes and share learnings as you grow within the technical organization of NinjaCat
- Experience with cloud data warehousing or online analytical processing (OLAP) datastores
Nice to Haves
- Experience with PHP, NodeJS, and Kotlin / JVM based web applications and frameworks
- Experience with migrating from a monolithic application to microservices using Kubernetes
- Knowledge of data ingestion or data engineering tools and technologies (dbt, Apache Airflow, etc)
- Ability to support the development and deployment of new services and systems in an AWS and Kubernetes environment
- Ability to educate the organization on best practices for logging, error handling and alerting (Datadog, Sentry, etc)
What You Bring
- 5+ years of experience with MySQL or Snowflake or an equivalent technology
- 1+ years of experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, or other infrastructure as code tooling
- 3+ years of experience in DevOps or Infrastructure / SRE roles
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP or Azure) and Kubernetes (helm)
- A collaborative mindset, effective people skills, and the ability to guide software engineers through database best practices
- The passion and perseverance to help NinjaCats engineering team be the best it can be
Benefits
Cash compensation for this role includes a base salary in the range of $125,000 to $145,000, but may vary based on job-related knowledge, skills and experience.
Other Benefits Include:
- Work from home (We are 100% remote!)
- 4-Day Work Week
- Unlimited Vacation
- 401k
- Health, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance
- An awesome place to work (Inc Magazine – Best Place To Work, and Glassdoor 4.7 Star Rating)
- Free books supported by NinjaCats reading program
- Personal learning and development stipend
- Monthly health and wellness reimbursement
- Yearly All Company in-person meetup
- Ability to have a huge impact on a growing company
- Work alongside an incredible CEO, and a fantastic team
- Ability to use cat puns and memes all day long
Equal Opportunity
NinjaCat is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.
This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeship. NinjaCat makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.
Applicants must be located and authorized in the US or Canada. At this time, NinjaCat does not offer visa sponsorship or transfers.
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by Ronald Barron | Feb 10, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Customer Success Support Specialist (Remote Technical Support, Robotics) – U.S.
- Employees can work remotely
- Full-time
Company Description
Locus Robotics is a leader in the rapidly growing eCommerce order fulfillment optimization space. Our solution helps warehouse owners attain 2-3X efficiency improvement over cart-picking operations, by empowering pickers to work collaboratively with our robots. All this is accomplished while integrating with the operator’s Warehouse Management System, utilizing and optimizing existing facility infrastructure.
This is an opportunity to join the ranks of a brilliant, high performance team, deploying cutting-edge technology to address real-world logistics challenges for major global brands.
Job Description
Locus Robotics is seeking a Customer Success Support Specialist to join our Tier 1 support team in providing support and resolution on tickets from our customer’s request and customer site end-users. This role provides training and a strong foundation to build a career path with a growing team dedicated to the support and success of our customers. The successful candidate for this role will have a passion for helping internal and external customers with providing technical support to non-technical people in a professional environment.
Responsibilities:
- Triage and resolve technical support issues relating to the Locus robots, connections, and customer sites with chat, e-mail and phone consultations.
- Escalate to Tier 2 on difficult to resolve technical issues.
- Update documentation and shared ticket system.
- Support multiple time zones and variety of environments.
Qualifications
- Experience in Help Desk, Technical Support or Customer Support role.
- Remote support, full training, set schedule.
- Perform multiple tasks concurrently and respond to emergency situations effectively.
- Ability to effectively communicate technical/complex information both verbally and in writing.
- Ability to troubleshoot and gather information on technical issues and escalate to appropriate internal teams following defined processes
- Strong written and verbal customer service communication skills
- Experience managing Windows environments, other systems
- AS or BS in Robotics, IT, CS, EE a plus, early career welcomed
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by Ronald Barron | Feb 9, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Seasonal/Contract Cvent-skilled Registration Website Developer
United States
About the Role
We’re looking for an experienced event registration website developer. Cvent experience is a required. If you have built complex registration websites in Cvent, read on!
You will primarily build event registration websites and apps but may also be asked to build within a virtual event platform and other event technology software. We are looking for strong, client-facing consultants who can get to a ‘yes’ through critical thinking.
Our culture is teamwork and collaboration for successful delivery. We are looking for individuals who embody and promote that mindset.
This is a virtual position. If you live in the Chicagoland area, you may be asked to work out of our downtown Chicago office a few days a week depending on the project.
What you will do
- Lead and project manage the development process for registration websites, apps, virtual event platforms, etc.
- Leverage the tools we use to achieve the optimal attendee online registration experience both for the front-end user and our administrative teams
- Speaking to and presenting on event technology tools to customers and coworkers
- Be a proactive, engaged, consultative and collaborative member of the assigned event team
You’re good at
- Learning and maintaining a current understanding of the event technology tools we use
- An aptitude for problem solving and untying technical knots
- Seeing the bigger picture on a project, seeing, and communicating potential client needs and solutions in advance of client conversations
- Managing and driving multiple project timelines
- Communicating… both in writing and verbally, with a variety of communication styles and can embrace ideas and opinions different than your own
You might also have
- EventCore or other event registration tool build experience
- Hands on registration and reporting experience
- Previous experience supporting and building in mobile applications
- An aptitude for learning technologies
- HTML, CSS or Bootstrap experience
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by Ronald Barron | Feb 9, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Staff Software Engineer
- United States
- Remote, United States
- Yes
- Engineering
- Development
- 1864
Job Description
Get to Know Us:
It’s fun to work in a company where people truly believe in what they’re doing!
At BlackLine, we’re committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business of enterprise applications. Since being founded in 2001, BlackLine has become a leading provider of cloud software that automates and controls the entire financial close process. Our vision is to modernize the finance and accounting function to enable greater operational effectiveness and agility, and we are committed to delivering innovative solutions and services to empower accounting and finance leaders around the world to achieve Modern Finance.
Being a best-in-class SaaS Company, we understand that bringing in new ideas and innovative technology is mission critical. At BlackLine we are always working with new, cutting edge technology that encourages our teams to learn something new and expand their creativity and technical skillset that will accelerate their careers.
Work, Play and Grow at BlackLine!
Make Your Mark:
Since being founded in 2001, BlackLine has become a leading provider of cloud software that automates and controls the entire financial close process. Our vision is to modernize the finance and accounting function to enable greater operational effectiveness and agility, and we are committed to delivering innovative solutions and services to empower accounting and finance leaders around the world to achieve Modern Finance.
We are a technology-based company with a sense of adventure and a vision for the future. Every door at BlackLine is open. Just bring your brains, your problem-solving skills, and be part of a winning team at the world’s most trusted name in Finance Automation. Work, Play and Grow at BlackLine!
You’ll Get To:
As a Staff Software Engineer, you will play a crucial role in building the next generation of BlackLine application and data platform. BlackLine thrives on data and we are investing heavily in being able to sync data from and to BlackLine and various ERP, Bank, Payments, Tax and Subledger systems. You will be responsible for designing and building connectors to these various systems, while striving for extensibility, usability and scalability of data transfer using a full breadth of data transfer protocols available by each system. You will be be part of a team which drives innovation into our product suite by designing, developing, troubleshooting, maintaining, optimizing and scaling cloud-based backend platform components, services and frameworks, including but not limited to Event Bus, API Gateway, Developer Portal, Job Scheduler, Identity Management, Search, Workflow Orchestration and Data Integration. In addition to being a hands-on engineer, you will also lead and mentor other engineers in the team.
If you have a passion for delivering products that make a difference, are driven to make things better in all that you do and are eager to work in a collaborative agile environment where developers are dedicated to solving customer problems and innovating, we would love to talk to you.
What You’ll Bring:
Provide technical expertise and leadership in requirements analysis, design, effort estimation, development, testing and delivery of highly scalable and secure distributed backend services.
Work with product management, architects and other engineering teams to understand stated and unstated needs and turn them into functional and technical requirements.
Maintain a strong sense of business value and return on investment in planning, design, and communication.
Lead technical design and architecture discussions and help drive technical decisions while making appropriate trade-offs on technology, functionality, robustness, performance and extensibility.
Estimate the project scope and timelines, and consistently deliver on those commitments.
Implement, refine, and enforce software development techniques to ensure that the delivered features meet software integration, performance, security, and maintainability expectations.
Research, test, benchmark, and evaluate new tools and technologies, and recommend ways to implement them in product development.
Maintain high standards of software quality and technical excellence within the team by establishing good practices and writing clean, testable, maintainable, and secure code.
Inspire a forward-thinking team of developers, acting as an agent of change and evangelist for a quality-first culture within the organization.
Mentor and coach team members, guide them to solutions on complex design issues and do peer code reviews.
Proactively identify issues, bottlenecks, gaps, or other areas of concerns or opportunities and work to either directly affect change, or advocate for that change.
Perform critical maintenance, deployment, and release support activities, including occasional off-hours support.
BS degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
6+ years of professional experience in building Web scale highly available multi-tenant SaaS with focus on backend platform, frameworks, RESTful APIs and microservices.
Expert in one or more object-oriented programming languages – C#, Java or C++.
A solid computer science foundation including data structures, algorithms, and design patterns, with a proven track record of writing high concurrency, multi-threaded, secure, scalable code.
Proven experience deilivering and extending highly extensible, modular applications with various models of extensibility such as white-box, glass-box, gray-box, and black-box. In practice, experience with extensibiity through OO patters, plugins, external callouts, and events and notifications.
Experience as a technical lead for design, architecture and code review of highly scalable distributed systems and event driven architecture.
Fluent in SQL, No-SQL, data modeling and transactional flows.
Superior analytical, problem-solving and system level performance analysis abilities.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Adaptable team player with strong collaboration skills and a focus on results and value delivery.
Experience working in an Agile development environment.
Passion for engineering excellence through automation, unit testing, and process improvements.
Experience with data integration and ETL tools (both productized and open source)
We’re Even More Excited If You Have:
Experience with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code.
Good knowledge of internet security issues in software design and code.
Open source contributor.
Proven experience in delivering one or more core platform services, such as API gateway, identity management, authentication, messaging (Kafka or RabbitMQ), workflow orchestration, job scheduling and search.
3+ years of experience with a public cloud (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and solid understanding of cloud-native services.
FinTech or Financial services domain background.
Experience with ERP (SAP, Oracle, Netsuite or Microsoft) platforms, with a focus on the general ledger.
Thrive at BlackLine Because You Are Joining:
- A technology-based company with a sense of adventure and a vision for the future. Every door at BlackLine is open. Just bring your brains, your problem-solving skills, and be part of a winning team at the world’s most trusted name in Finance Automation!
- A culture that is kind, open, and accepting. It’s a place where people can embrace what makes them unique, and the mix of cultural backgrounds and varying interests cultivates diverse thought and perspectives.
- A culture where BlackLiner’s continued growth and learning is empowered. BlackLine offers a wide variety of professional development seminars and inclusive affinity groups to celebrate and support our diversity.
BlackLine is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity or expression, race, age, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, ancestry, color, marital status, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, status as a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking, medical condition, genetic information, or any other protected class or category recognized by applicable equal employment opportunity or other similar laws.
#LI-NR1
Salary Range:
USD $139,800.00/Yr. – USD $215,800.00/Yr.
Pay Transparency Statement:
Placement within this range depends upon several factors, including the applicant’s prior relevant job experience, skill set, and geographic location. In addition to base pay, BlackLine also offers short-term and long-term incentive programs, based on eligibility, along with a robust offering of benefit and wellness plans.
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by Ronald Barron | Feb 9, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Senior Email and SMS Developer
at MERGE (View all jobs)
Remote – U.S. Based
Merge Storytelling and Technology
We MERGE storytelling and technology to promote health, wealth and happiness in the world. We help marketing and technology executives engage hearts and connect parts by offering full-service capabilities including strategy, creative communications, experience engineering, performance marketing, media, digital platform development and more.
Promote Health, Wealth & Happiness
We are committed to promoting health, wealth and happiness in the world by partnering with purpose-driven clients in purpose-driven industries such as healthcare, financial services and consumer products. Our health clients are literally on the front lines saving lives. Our wealth clients are changing the financial potential in people’s lives. And our consumer clients make lives…a little bit happier every day.
Partner with Clients of Iconic Brands
MERGE has enduring client partnerships with American Express, T-Mobile, LG, Facebook, Adobe, Kate Spade NY, Coach, The North Face, Fidelity, Eaton Vance, BlueCross BlueShield, Abbott, Astellas, Seqirus, Supernus, Boston Scientific, Advocate Aurora Health, Indiana University Health and Marco’s Pizza to name a few.
Work with Poets and PHD’s
With 750+ employees across offices in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Montreal and New York City, MERGE uses a talent-to-task process that connects our poets and PHD’s which enables clients to think higher and feel deeper about their customers.
Emerge to the Top of Your Career
At MERGE, we strive to create a superior work experience where people with ability, agility and humility can grow and do the best work of their careers.
As our Sr. Email & SMS Developer, you will…
Be Accountable and Responsible
- Manage email and SMS execution across assigned larger, more complex clients
- Manage accounts that represent more than 30% of total email solutions budget or require advanced coding, scripting or database management
- Coordinate and oversee email and SMS execution tasks for multiple clients to ensure work is completed on time, to standard, and without error
- Communicate performance trends, escalate issues, and make recommendations to all project stakeholders as appropriate
- Define email execution and solutions processes and coordinate documentation
- Automate email execution processes, activities, reporting Research best-in-class tools
- Design emails and creative templates utilizing Photoshop or similar design applications
- Advanced coding languages that pertain to the clients ESP program
- Write SQL for use in queries
- Advise on implementation of tracking code
- Pull, load, create and manipulate subscriber lists and counts within the email platform
- Create email campaigns in email platform
- QA/DC test and seed list sends for email and SMS
- Troubleshoot email and SMS issues (platforms, HTML, rendering)
- Troubleshoot and respond to ESP issues, list questions, and conduct advanced ad hoc analysis
- Develop the recommendation and implementation of email program automations
- Assist Email Strategists on email playbook as it pertains to the capabilities and functionality within the ESP
- Email layout and HTML coding for client emails, text content emails and landing pages
- Work with pre-existing HTML templates and providing design and image editing
- Test emails for compatibility across all email providers on multiple digital platforms
- Develop email campaigns, including (but not limited to) trigger-based, responsive design and re-contact email campaigns
- Work with internal and external IT resources to ensure essential technical steps are taken for proper email program setup and integration
- Ensure our client’s email files are properly maintained: Opt-In, Opt-Out updates, ECOA, etc.
- Ensure all client emails comply with currently CAN-SPAM and other email legislation
- Ability to craft and execute Basic Builds (5+ per day)
- Ability to project manage multiple campaigns simultaneously
- Participate in or lead client meetings
- Speak as the Subject Matter Expert on relevant client calls
- Lead and coordinate in onboarding new clients on email platforms, or training clients on third party tools as necessary
These are the qualifications we’re looking for
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent work experience) in Graphic Design, Marketing, or Business Communications
- 4+ years within email marketing
- 3+ years within HTML coding
- 2+ years within ESP coding language(s), SQL, advanced email automation
- 1-2+ years experience with Salesforce Marketing Cloud is mandatory as this will be the ESP you work in the majority of the time
- 1-2 years’ experience with AMPscript, Email Studio, Journey Builder, and Automation Studio (or competitive ESP)
- Experience setting up customer lists and deploying email sends in the ESP
- Advanced knowledge with a variety of Email Service Providers
- Required knowledge of email metrics reporting from ESPs and Google tags
- Solid technical skills and expertise with HTML and CSS optimized for email deployment with an understanding of the difference between coding for the web and coding for email
- Strong experience with Adobe PhotoShop, Dreamweaver, and animated gifs/flash
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (specifically Excel, Access, and PowerPoint)
- Exhibit proficiency with writing SQL queries within the scope of email solutions and automations
- Understand Master Service Agreement and Email Strategy SOWs
- Work with the pre-sales team as a SME on additional platform capabilities to benefit our clients
- Understand Client Call Expectations/Processes
- Ability to lead client brainstorming meetings
- Understand partnership opportunity and identification processes
- Advanced working knowledge of Google Analytics
- Ability to work well under pressure and tight deadlines
- Ability to work some after-hours and/or weekend support required, especially October through December
Compensation: $65,000 – $80,000
Salary differential is based on seniority, merit, education, training and experience. MERGE’s career ladders reflect department growth from Associate through Partner levels, with details of roles and responsibilities associated with each level. New hires are assigned a job level within a particular position based on these criteria and salary is set within the job level based on these criteria. Growth from one level to the next occurs when employees master their role, and are promoted into the next level, generally during salary review cycles which are posted in the employee handbook.
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#LI-REMOTE
And here’s how we live our values at MERGE
- Mastering our craft
- Delivering with a growth mindset
- Collaborating for shared success
MERGE is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer
MERGE welcomes and celebrates diversity regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, veteran status or people with abilities. We believe that the more diverse we are, the more creative our work will be!
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