by Ronald Barron | Sep 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Senior Cloud Engineer
Location: United States, Remote
Human Interest is on a mission to ensure that people in all lines of work have access to retirement benefits. Nearly half of all working Americans are not saving enough for their future because they are employed by a company that doesn’t offer a retirement plan. Human Interest is changing that by making it affordable and accessible for small and medium sized businesses to offer employees a path to financial independence through retirement savings.
Our values (the guiding principles that reflect our view on what’s important and what’s right): In it for customers, autonomous & accountable, outcomes driven, inclusive collaboration, and decisive.
As a Senior Software Engineer on our Builder Tools team, you will design and implement our cloud management infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines and build tools that help speed up deployment frequency, and evolve our engineering organization into an Elite Devops’ team. The bar for accuracy is high as we fulfill a very important mission: making saving for retirement achievable for all Americans – folks are trusting us with their money!
What you get to do every day
- Design and implement fault-tolerant and robust cloud infrastructures in AWS.
- Design and implement CI/CD for a multi-account, multi-service environment.
- Build tools for engineers that make them more efficient and simplify the development process.
- Collaborate with other engineers and stakeholders to share knowledge and build expertise
- Write clean, high-quality code and tests to keep our system fast, reliable, and monitorable.
- Lead and participate in development life cycle activities like design, coding, testing, and production release.
- Contribute to our evolving engineering standards, tooling, and processes.
- Mentor other engineers and deeply review code.
What you bring to the role
- Minimum 4 years of professional experience in cloud-based environments or 3 years with relevant formal education or corresponding industry certificates.
- Minimum 2 years of professional experience with infrastructure as code technologies such as Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK, etc.
- Minimum 2 years professional experience with CI/CD technologies such as CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, etc.
- Strong communication skills; discussing complex technical concepts to engineers and non-engineers is no problem to you.
- Strong desire to learn, think creatively, and share knowledge with others.
- Ability to write understandable, testable code with an eye towards maintainability.
- Proactive and empathetic mindset – you love to roll up your sleeves to fix problems for our customers.
Please feel free to apply to this position even if you do not meet 100% of the requirements listed above.
Why you will love working at Human Interest
Mission – Highly collaborative startup dedicated to supporting employee engagement and growth. It’s an opportunity to help solve one of the biggest unsolved problems in America: saving for retirement.
Compensation – The salary range for this role is between $148,000 – $210,000. This information reflects a base salary range for this position based on current market data, and may vary by location. Exact compensation will be determined by the candidates’ skills, experience, and other relevant factors. This position may also be eligible for additional incentives such as equity awards, short-term incentives, or sales compensation.
Benefits –
- A great 401(k) plan: our own! Our 401(k) includes a dollar-for-dollar employer match up to 4% of compensation.
- Employees also receive 100% paid employee health, vision, and dental premiums; dependent premiums are covered at 50%.
- Generous PTO and parental leave policies.
- Monthly work from home stipend; annual wellness stipend.
- Employee Resource Groups including Veterans, Lift Ev’ry Voice, Pride, LatinX, Families, and Women in Tech.
- Fun online and regional events and celebrations and department and company-wide offsites.
- The vast majority of our positions can be 100% remote.
About Human Interest:
We’re a high-growth, Series D-funded company that’s changing the retirement industry. Named one of America’s Best Startup Employers by Forbes, one of the Best Places to Work by the San Francisco Business Times, and a Top Company by Y Combinator, we’ve raised $337M and are backed by leading investors, including TPG (The Rise Fund), SoftBank, Glynn Capital, NewView Capital, USVP, Wing, Uncork, and others.
Inclusive collaboration makes us a better business
Human Interest is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran or military status, pregnancy, or any other characteristics protected under federal, state, or local laws.
Human Interest employees must adhere to the Company’s security policies and Code of Ethics.
Please note Human Interest does not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than directly from candidates. We will not consider resumes from vendors including and without limitation search firms, staffing agencies, fee-based referral services, and recruiting agencies.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider employment-qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. We comply with CCPA guidelines. See more: https://humaninterest.com/disclosures
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by Ronald Barron | Sep 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Senior DevOps Engineer
Location: San Francisco, CA or Remote (Based in the U.S.)
Role Summary:
Consistently paced work environment with a solid 50/50 mix of project work and supporting other Engineering teams. From day to day you will be working with other engineers to help them pursue their projects within our infrastructure and then be working towards enhancing or automating sections of that same infrastructure to make things better in the future. You could be working to lift container provisioning out of ECS and into EKS, helping to shore up our ORR processes, or designing/implementing new facets of our Observability framework.This position would work across our two infrastructure teams as needed and serve as a strong technical leader attached to the leader of those teams.
If you were here 6 months ago, here are some things you might have worked on:
- Consolidate away from NewRelic into Datadog as subject matter experts assisting swathes of other engineering teams
- Looking and talking through our historical tooling to see what needs to be broken apart and evolved
- Take part in our ongoing conversations around most preferred outdoor cooking methods and is a hotdog actually a sandwich?
Where you can make an impact:
- Provide a central, well-documented set of reusable tools and practices that reflect the best way to write software in Python and Go within our culture.
- Make it frictionless to create, deploy, and manage services for the organization.
- Develop and maintain NerdWallet’s self-service approach for our engineering teams.
- Create and enhance scalable architecture solutions ranging from MVP to Robust.
- Write and maintain essential tooling for our Cloud infrastructure.
- Continually improve our ongoing progress with Observability.
You are:
- An excellent collaborator who enjoys enabling other engineering teams.
- Adaptable and able to adjust to changing priorities and requirements.
- Pragmatic and results focused.
Your experience:
We recognize not everyone will meet all of the criteria. If you meet most of the criteria below and you’re excited about the opportunity and willing to learn, we’d love to hear from you.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent experience.
- Experience in writing high-quality code in Go or Python. Experience with both is great!
- Experience developing on public cloud providers, AWS preferred.
- Experience or a strong interest in automating any routine task.
- Experience with containers and microservices (e.g. Docker, kubernetes, AWS EKS, etc)
Where:
- This role will be based in San Francisco, CA or remote (based in the U.S.).
- We believe great work can be done anywhere. No matter where you are based, NerdWallet offers benefits and perks to support the physical, financial, and emotional well being of you and your family.
What we offer:
Work Hard, Stay Balanced (Life’s a series of balancing acts, eh?)
- Industry-leading medical, dental, and vision health care plans for employees and their dependents
- Rejuvenation Policy Flexible Time Off + 13 holidays + 4 Mental Health Days Off
- New Parent Leave for employees with a newborn child or a child placed with them for adoption or foster care
- Mental health support through Ginger.io
- Financial wellness, guidance, and unlimited access to a Certified Financial Planner (CFP) through Northstar
- Paid sabbatical for Nerds to recharge, gain knowledge and pursue their interests
- Health and Dependent Care FSA and HSA Plan with monthly NerdWallet contribution
- Weekly Virtual Bootcamp, Yoga, and Mindfulness Meditation sessions
- Monthly Wellness Stipend, Cell Phone Stipend, and Wifi Stipend
Have Some Fun! (Nerds are fun, too)
- Nerd-led group initiatives Intramural Sports, Employee Resource Groups for Parents, Diversity, and Inclusion, Women, LGBTQIA, and other communities
- Hackathons, Happy Hours, and team events across all teams and departments
- Company-wide events like Little Nerds Day (aka bring your kids to work day, even if you’re remote!) and our annual Charity Auction
Lifestyle (Be your best self – we’ll take care of the details)
- Our Nerds love to make an impact by paying it forward Donate to your favorite causes with a company match
- Work from home equipment stipend and co-working space subsidy
- Anniversary recognition program choose from different items and experiences
- Commuting stipend
Plan for your future (And when you retire on your island, remember the little people)
- 401K with company match
- Annual Enrichment Stipend for learning and development
- Be the first to test and benefit from our new financial products and tools
- Access to Rocket Lawyer for online legal support and resources
If you are based in California, we encourage you to read this important information for California residents linked here.
NerdWallet is committed to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of any characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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by Ronald Barron | Sep 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Post-Production Coordinator / Project Manager – Temporary (3-4 months) – Remote
Location: United States
Curated is on a mission to help people find exactly what they’re looking for
Whether it’s your first snowboard, a brand new baby stroller, or a much needed upgrade to your coffee machine shopping is hard when the stakes are high. We make it easy by connecting customers with Real Experts who can answer their needs faster.
Curated is the home of America’s biggest community of Real Experts
Real Experts aren’t sales assistants. They’re people living ordinary lives, who also happen to be obsessively passionate about something. They have real, on-the-ground, lived experience they’re not proficient in tennis, they’re fluent in it.
Making high-stakes purchases easier is only the beginning
Our Real Experts connect with customers in ways that would be unimaginable in any other retail context. They work hard to understand your needs, trade stories, help make plans, and keep in touch.
It’s why customers are obsessed with Curated and why our Real Experts have a 4.96 average star rating over 85,000+ reviews.
Curated is seeking a Post-Production Coordinator to manage the end-to-end post-production pipeline of videos hosted by our ski and snowboard experts for our YouTube Channel. As a Post-Production Coordinator, you will produce engaging content that resonates with our audience and utilizes our brand style and voice.
Responsibilities:
- Manage day-to-day operations, workflow, schedules, for a small team of video editors (2-4)
- Own master post-production schedule and video timelines, ensuring workflow efficiency
- Update project management systems (Monday.com) and communicate with key team members via Slack, daily
- Keep assets organized and prepped for hand-off and for closing out projects
- Review edits, provide notes in frame.io, and provide constructive feedback to editors
- Identify and assist with technical roadblocks, including visual, audio, or other project-related obstacles, proactively touching base with relative team members to help resolve
- Maintain localization, seamless asset hand-off, and naming conventions from cloud/server to individual hard drives for all digital assets used in a Premiere project
- Publish YouTube videos, collaborating with writers and designers for video descriptions and thumbnails
- Maintain best practices, quality control standards, and brand guidelines across all pipelines
- Assist editors in sourcing stock music when needed
- Ensure procedural documents are followed and remain up to date
- Enable and unlock new content initiatives from video as needed
Requirements:
- 3+ year professional experience working in video production, on a creative team, and/or as a Project Manager
- Strong knowledgeable of story, pacing, timing, lighting / exposure, color grading, and audio mixing basics
- Ability to multi-task and manage a variety of projects and a small team of editors with ease
- Strong technical skills, including hands-on experience using Premiere, experience with After Effects, and Media Encoder software is a plus
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Meticulous attention to detail
- Extremely organized and resourceful in identifying solutions
- Ability to work well under strict turnaround time constraints and tight deadlines
- Experience producing video content for Youtube and/or web platforms is a plus
- Working knowledge of various raw footage file types (DSLR, Mirrorless, Action cameras)
- Interest and/or experience in skiing and/or snowboarding (is a plus)
Please be sure to include a link to your portfolio (if applicable) and attach your resume.
This is a temporary full-time position. Company benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision, PTO, 401K, etc) will not be offered. Please note this position requires use of your personal laptop.
While these qualifications are typical of a strong candidate, they are not exhaustive and not required unless noted. We take a holistic approach to hiring and would love to connect if this role sounds interesting to you!
About Curated
Curated was founded in 2017 to humanize online shopping. Backed by Forerunner, Greylock, and CapitalG, we’ve built a collaborative shopping experience brought to life by passionate experts. Every shopper on Curated gets one-on-one personalized advice to find the perfect product, so they can enjoy more of what they love.
Through our expert community, Curated has created a new type of knowledge economy that enables people to earn meaningful income by sharing their expertise, from anywhere.
Curated is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply, as we strive to build a marketplace that serves every demographic with the highest level of quality and respect.
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by Ronald Barron | Sep 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Senior Compliance Auditor
Location: United States
Job Category: Health Care Operations
Job Type: Full-time
Travel Percentage: -1
Job Description:
UnitedHealthcare is a company that’s on the rise. We’re expanding in multiple directions, across borders and, most of all, in the way we think. Here, innovation isn’t about another gadget, it’s about transforming the health care industry. Ready to make a difference? Make yourself at home with us and start doing your life’s best work.
The Senior Compliance Auditor will be responsible for performing multiple internal compliance audits simultaneously that cover all parts of the organization, including delegates.
You’ll enjoy the flexibility to telecommute* from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Leading discussions with Compliance and business partners (including executive level individuals) to appropriately scope audits based upon risk
- Learning, understanding, and being able to discuss complex business processes
- Creating strategies to test business processes for compliance with laws, regulations, and/or contractual requirements
- Conducting and documenting testing results with evidence that support conclusions reached
- Communicate audit results to ensure all interested parties understand where audit findings were identified
- Writing audit reports that concisely summarize audit conclusions and are clear to all key stakeholders involved
- Ensuring all projects are completed timely and with quality
You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.
Required Qualifications:
- Associate or Undergraduate degree
- 3+ years of conducting audits
- Intermediate level of proficiency with MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
- Full COVID-19 vaccination is an essential job function of this role. Candidates located in states that mandate COVID-19 booster doses must also comply with those state requirements. UnitedHealth Group will adhere to all federal, state and local regulations as well as all client requirements and will obtain necessary proof of vaccination, and boosters when applicable, prior to employment to ensure compliance. Candidates must be able to perform all essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience working with Medicare, Medicaid or Commercial regulations
- Excellent project management, organizational, and time management skills
- Ability to manage multiple projects while meeting deadlines
- Ability to take ownership of projects
- Ability to handle a variety of challenges and independently solve problems as they arise
- Superior verbal and written communication skills
- Solid interpersonal skills and the ability to build and grow relationships across a diverse organization
- Positive attitude and drive to continuously improve
To protect the health and safety of our workforce, patients and communities we serve, UnitedHealth Group and its affiliate companies require all employees to disclose COVID-19 vaccination status prior to beginning employment. In addition, some roles and locations require full COVID-19 vaccination, including boosters, as an essential job function. UnitedHealth Group adheres to all federal, state and local COVID-19 vaccination regulations as well as all client COVID-19 vaccination requirements and will obtain the necessary information from candidates prior to employment to ensure compliance. Candidates must be able to perform all essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation. Failure to meet the vaccination requirement may result in rescission of an employment offer or termination of employment.
Colorado, Connecticut or Nevada Residents Only: The salary range for Colorado residents is $66,100 to $118,300. The salary range for Connecticut / Nevada residents is $72,800 to $129,900. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, UnitedHealth Group offers benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with UnitedHealth Group, you’ll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives.
*All Telecommuters will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy.
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by Ronald Barron | Sep 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Character TD, Facial
Location: United States, Remote
The Character TD Team at Insomniac Games is Growing. We are looking for a Character TD responsible for authoring facial rigs and facial riggings systems from scratch or utilizing a variety of high-resolution scan-data; participate in facial research & development efforts; pioneer and recommend new tools, techniques and technology for pushing visual boundaries, performance and efficiency; and seek to continuously push the state of the art. Responsible for a strong understanding of FACS and facial anatomy, as well as cutting edge approaches to facial technology.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following:
- Authors high quality photorealistic facial rigs based on FACS using blendshapes
- Authors rigging systems to augment or support blendshape-based facial rigs
- Authors or contributes to systems/workflows for integrating head and body rigs
- Collaborates with Character Art, Animation, and Engineering teams to deliver the highest quality assets with animator/mocap friendly interfaces that run smoothly in engine.
- Contributes to tools for authoring and editing facial rigs (python/pyqt/pyside)
- Contributes to automated tools and workflows for runtime optimization (i.e. smooth skinning decomposition, etc)
- Contributes to tools for ingesting 3rd party facial rigs
- Contributes to facial animation systems such as facial solvers and R&D (python/C++/Machine Learning)
- Sculpts FACS (from scratch if necessary) using deformers and/or sculpting tools
- Designs supporting facial rigging systems such as sticky-lips and corneal bulge
- Processes and cleans 3D or 4D scan data from FACS sessions, and extracts useful information such as wrinkle and bloodflow maps
- Focuses on performance optimization for runtime
- Keeps up with state-of-the-art approaches to facial rigging for photorealistic characters in film and games
- Has strong understanding of facial shape transfer techniques and ability to implement shape transfer pipelines
- May be asked to direct actors through FACS during facial acquisitions.
- May ingest and integrate facial assets from 3rd parties.
- May be expected to maintain relationships and provide feedback to external vendors
- Other duties may be assigned
Supervisory Responsibilities: This role has no supervisory duties but may mentor other TD’s with regard to facial mechanics, rigging, sculpting, or solving techniques.
Education/Experience:
- Five to Seven years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience
- One to four years of experience in character setup, Python scripting, a familiarity with MEL and a comprehensive understanding of all technical aspects of Maya animation.
- One to two years of animation training covering all basic animation principals.
- Expert-level experience with Maya
- Experience sculpting details with ZBrush, Mudbox, or comparable; processing scan data with Wrap3 or comparable; with deformation transfer workflows.
- Preferred experience with machine-learning based solutions for facial scanning/authoring/solving (TensorFlow, PyTorch, etc); authoring plugins that aid in facial deformation transfer or solving (python or C++); and working with faces in realtime (Unity, Unreal or other).
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite
Other Skills:
- Strong understanding of state-of-the-art approaches to rigging photorealistic faces for film or games; of FACS, how it relates to facial anatomy, and ability to identify primary action units on sight; Understands current approaches to facial performance capture & solving; of modern approaches to scanning including lightstage and 4D scanning
- Expert understanding of facial skeletal and muscle anatomy; Passion for achieving highest quality detail through iteration and refinement. Ability to think outside the box to achieve more realistic solutions or optimize runtime performance. Passion for collaborating and sharing knowledge across teams
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