by Ronald Barron | Feb 10, 2022 | Uncategorized
Employer: Array.com
Array is revolutionizing how businesses leverage and enhance consumer data. Our platform enables innovative companies and developers to seamlessly integrate credit and identity data into their apps, websites or workflows. As a remote-first company, we’re focused on providing opportunities for autonomous individuals to have high levels of impact at the forefront of the fintech space. Continuous improvement, experimentation, and a clear mission stretch us individually and together in service of delivering the best products for our clients and users.
We build RESTful API’s using microservices built primarily in Go with some Node.js sprinkled throughout. We are looking for great engineers who know how to build scalable services to help consumers with their financial health and wellness via credit monitoring and identity protection. Interested? We’d love to hear from you! And we are always esp. happy to see any pointers you may have to your work on Git (GitHub, GitLab, etc.) or a personal Web site.
Responsibilities
- Build RESTful web services in Go to be consumed by single page application(s).
- Use best practices to help us optimize for developer productivity, reliability, and scalability.
- Implement business logic using both code and MSSQL stored procedures.
- Provide comprehensive unit and functional testing for all routes, endpoints, and features.
- Mentor and coach existing development team on Go standards, tooling, and best practices.
- Design & build caching mechanisms such as using Redis to provide the fastest experience possible to our customers / web visitors.
- Participate in daily standup calls with the development team and project managers.
- All services built will run in a containerized Linux environment in Docker and Kubernetes.
Job requirements
- 5+ years of software development experience building SaaS products.
- Experience building web and mobile backend services. (Ideally using Go but we will train you on Go if needed.)
- Usage of Redis or similar technology for caching, message and job queues, etc.
- Strong Javascript skills both client side and server side (NodeJS) to foster strong communication between varied project development teams.
- Experience as a team lead and mentoring junior developers.
- Experience with MS SQL database using stored procedures.
- Experience writing automated tests for both functions and service endpoints.
Bonus
- Experience with grpc via protobuf to accelerate communication between micro-services.
- Frontend experience consuming RESTful web services using any framework (React, Angular, etc).
- Understanding of credit bureaus, credit reports, and credit related products.
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by Ronald Barron | Feb 9, 2022 | Uncategorized
Employer: Fast AF, Inc.
Company Mission
Our mission is to make buying online faster, safer and easier for everyone. Fast Login and Fast Checkout enable a one-click sign-in and purchasing experience that makes it easier for people to buy and merchants to sell. The company’s products work on any browser, device or platform to deliver a consistent, stress-free purchasing experience. Fast is entirely consumer-focused and invests heavily in its users’ privacy and data security. Headquartered in San Francisco but open to a globally remote workforce, we are a founders-led, privately held company funded by Stripe, Index Ventures, Susa Ventures and other world-class investors.
We are committed to diversity and inclusion, and demonstrate our values through equitable pay, fantastic benefits, and access to all reasonable accommodations.
Summary
We’re looking for a Senior Data Scientist to join the best Data Science and Analytics team! As a Senior Data Scientist, you will partner closely with both technical and non-technical teams to design metrics, build models, conduct comprehensive analysis, and run experiments to measure the impact of new initiatives.
Role
- Work with cross functional stakeholders to scope data science projects and drive the project from start to finish
- Develop scalable, efficient automated pipelines to process massive datasets, identify patterns from various data sources and produce actionable insights
- Build statistical models to improve our understanding of user behavior and predict future performance
- Be a thought partner to business leaders in determining quantitative success and process improvements
- Design, implement, and analyze A/B experiments to measure the impact of product changes
- Create dashboards and reports with effective data visualizations
Requirements
- 5+ years of data science experience
- 5+ years in SQL and one scripting language (Python/R)
- BS in quantitative field (e.g. Statistics, Economics, CS, OR), or equivalent experience
- Strong knowledge of experimentation and statistical methods
- Skilled at leading DS projects and taking initiative
- Skilled with data visualization tools (Looker, Tableau, Jupyter Notebook)
- Knowledge of building data pipelines (e.g. dbt, airflow)
- Communicative with team members, thought partners, and others
Bonus
- Advanced degree in a quantitative field
- Experience in e-commerce
- Previous mature startup experience
Benefits and Perks- Because People Matter
- Comprehensive insurance (paid 99% by the company) with no deductible, and 10 dollar copays
- Globally remote with flexible work schedules to fit your needs
- Generous parental/family leave for all caregivers- available at any time within 12 months after the new family member joins you
- 401k with match up to 4%
- Equity grant
- People-focused PTO that you determine- time off is there when you want it, when you need it
- Frequent inclusive events scheduled to allow everyone to express their voice (or dance skills)
- Monthly exercise and internet stipends—and snacks
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by Ronald Barron | Feb 9, 2022 | Uncategorized
Our Cloud Infrastructure team leverages Terraform and GitOps to automate the deployment and maintenance of our global infrastructure. We work to continuously build upon our platform by closely collaborating with other SRE teams and backend developers. Whether it’s new services to improve customer experience, or handling the ever-growing pool of customers on the platform, we are tasked with optimizing our systems to meet these needs. We facilitate new service rollouts and maintain and expand existing multi-cloud environments, all while ensuring the infrastructure is secure.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Participate in pair programming and knowledge sharing sessions
- Automate cloud infrastructure deployments and maintenance
- Implement monitoring to ensure security standards across cloud environments
- Active participation in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting infrastructure
- Participate in on-call rotation
- Work closely with development teams
SKILLS + QUALIFICATIONS
- Knowledge of industry standard security practices (CIS, Vault)
- Experience running production workloads in a major cloud provider (AWS, GCP)
- Experience using IaC tooling (Terraform)
- Strong time management skills
- Comfortable programming in Python or Golang
- Experience with Kubernetes and familiar with the ecosystem
- Experience with databases and web services
- Analytical mindset
- Familiar with Agile methodologies
WHAT WE OFFER
- 100% coverage of the employees health care, vision and dental insurance
- Company contribution towards dependent coverage
- 401k (retirement savings)
- Maternity/paternity leave
- PTO and Company Holidays
- Some pre-tax benefits through the PEO
- Great team of highly qualified and motivated team members who work with a mutual respect and appreciation, take responsibility and evolve together
AND THERE’S MORE
- You will be involved in challenging and meaningful projects in a company with over 10 years of history
- You will be working with one of the technology leaders in the growing e-commerce business
- We are a growing, international company with offices in Berlin, Munich, London, Amsterdam, Singapore, and Durham
- Modern workplaces and technology (e.g. MacBooks) in bright offices (open-plan spaces as well as conference rooms and smaller rooms for quiet times)
- Flexible, family-friendly working hours
- Collegial, open working atmosphere where your creativity and new ideas are encouraged
- Healthy feedback and error culture and a climate of mutual appreciation and respect
- Kombucha on tap, coffee, tea, snacks, and catered lunches
- Do you have a dog? We’re a dog friendly office.
We are all different and that is what makes us stronger! We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it makes our company better.
At commercetools, we are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.
At commercetools, we hope to be the place where a diverse mix of talented people choose to come, stay and do their best work. We pride ourselves on bringing modern principles to ecommerce through both technology and company culture. We know success comes from the hard work and dedication of our passionate and creative employees.
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by Ronald Barron | Feb 9, 2022 | Uncategorized
Employer: RECUR Forever
This is a completely remote role and can work anywhere in the US or Canada.
RECUR is building the future of digital collectibles on-chain, known as Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) – the newest Unicorn industry.
Global brands are interested in venturing into NFTs to establish new connections with their fans. However, they are very careful about who they work with, especially in the cutting-edge world of blockchain. RECUR is founded by the perfect blend of leaders in the brand licensing space and technology leaders from top cryptocurrency exchanges, digital asset trading desks, financial institutions, and blockchain software companies. Investors include Joseph Lubin, co-founder of Ethereum, Gary Vaynerchuk, Winklevoss Twins, Courtside VC, Hashed, and many more.
RECUR needs a Senior SRE and DevOps engineer to design and build and maintain our software delivery capability and production cloud infrastructure while automating everything by writing code. You will be a member of the DevOps engineering team and will help us build, deliver, secure, and manage our cloud platform.
What do we at RECUR believe makes a great engineering team?
Here are our core beliefs:
- It’s important to have team members that care about the team’s results more than their own individual achievements
- It’s important for leadership to be tolerant of making mistakes
- It’s important that the team members help, teach, and mentor one another
- It’s important not to place blame on individuals when things go bad but instead to evaluate as a team how we do it better the next time
- It’s important to be clear on what that mission is and minimize the distractions on the teams executing on that mission
- Small teams execute better than big ones, empower small teams with ownership and minimize the dependencies between them
- It’s important to encourage self-directed innovation
What you will do at RECUR:
- Build and maintain the infrastructure for our NFT cloud platform in AWS
- Design and implement our software delivery capability using the latest CI/CD tools and techniques
- Describe all resources in infrastructure-as-code and automate everything
- Build observability and monitoring into our systems from day one
- Monitor and maintain our production systems
- Mentor and teach members of the team
- Work on a small team of software engineers doing Agile software development
- Be on an on-call rotation
What you bring to RECUR:
- 3+ years developing, deploying, and/or maintaining cloud applications, platforms, and infrastructure
- 2+ years focusing on Site Reliability and DevOps
- You have an automate-everything mindset with solid scripting skills in BASH and Python (Preferably, you are a strong programmer in one or more other languages).
- Strong understanding of cloud networking and web protocols
- Experience building, deploying, and managing services in AWS (S3, ELB, security groups, VPC, ECR, ECS, RDS, Aurora, EKS, ElasticSearch, ElastiCache, Lambda, API Gateway, etc.)
- Experience deploying and implementing logging and monitoring tools such as CloudWatch, Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, DataDog, and PagerDuty.
- Experience using modern approaches to software delivery in the cloud (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, CloudFormation)
- Experience with scalable web architectures and concepts including microservices, serverless services, progressive web apps, headless CMS, site generators, and CDNs
- Experience analyzing and optimizing the performance of applications, databases, networks, and servers
- A strong understanding of cybersecurity best practices and how to build and maintain highly secure platforms in the cloud
Benefits & Perks:
- Commitment to being a remote-first company & embracing remote work best practices
- Company sponsored Health, Dental and Vision Benefits, 401K with 2% match
- 3 weeks paid vacation, 10 company holidays and fully paid parental leave
- Industry focused lunch & learns, swag and the and flexibility to get tooling you need
- The chance to work with incredibly passionate people on a mission to shape an industry!
- This is a completely remote role and can work anywhere in the US.
APPLY HERE
by Ronald Barron | Feb 9, 2022 | Uncategorized
Employer: Chordoma Foundation
The Chordoma Foundation was started on the belief that the democratization of technology would give us the ability to make progress against our neglected disease on a scale that had previously only been possible for the most common ones. And that has turned out to be true: Technology has enabled our small but mighty team to connect with and serve the vast majority of chordoma patients in North America, to stimulate research in more than 300 labs and companies across the world, and to bring seven treatments into clinical trials — nearly unprecedented achievements for a rare disease.
Now, we’re scaling up our efforts. To engage and support more patients worldwide and build the capacity to quickly carry out in-house research, we need better data management and new technology solutions to support our work. Which is where our new Data and Technology Manager comes in.
In this role you’ll use your data management skills and technology prowess to empower our entire team to operate more efficiently. Specifically, you’ll:
- Collaborate with our Director of Operations in managing the full suite of cloud-based applications that power our team’s work, and in implementing and updating our technology roadmap
- Work closely with our Head of Engagement to deliver relevant content to our various audiences and to design and implement compelling constituent journeys
- Support our Patient Services team in developing and delivering services and resources to meet the needs of the chordoma patient community
- Assist our Research team in organizing and disseminating data needed to drive research progress
POSITION OVERVIEW
- New, full-time position
- Fully remote, open to candidates located anywhere in the U.S.
- A flexible work schedule
- Occasional travel (2-4 times per year) required for team meetings and Foundation patient/researcher conferences
- Coordinates the work of multiple consultants/vendors (e.g. Salesforce and web developers)
RESPONSIBILITIES
Operations
- Support our entire team in utilizing our Salesforce database to the fullest: continually monitor and work to improve data quality; perform bulk data imports and updates; create reports, views and dashboards to facilitate data analysis; set up forms and data connectors to automate data capture; assist with other enhancements as needed
- Onboard new employees on our technology and train team members on new applications
- Produce and update user-friendly documentation for all of our technology solutions
- Assist staff with technology troubleshooting as needed
- Partner with our Director of Operations to promote data privacy and mitigate cybersecurity risks, ensuring compliance with relevant privacy regulations (e.g. GDPR)
- Manage data backup, retention and recovery
- Continually look for and propose opportunities to implement user-friendly technology to make our team more efficient and effective
Communications
- Serve as the primary administrator of our website: ensure that it remains operational and secure, update content as needed, maintain good search engine visibility across various geographies, and work with our web developers to implement upgrades and enhance functionality
- Manage our email marketing system, including sign-up forms and lead capture, list management and segmentation, automation, and email coding
- Use data to enable relevant and personalized engagement with all of our constituents across multiple channels
- Monitor engagement metrics across all communications channels and collaborate with colleagues on initiatives to optimize key metrics
- Prepare mailing lists for various appeals, events, and initiatives
Programs
- Assist our Patient Services team in managing the platform powering our online patient community
- Support our Patient Services and Research teams in adding new content and functionality to our website
- Manage the technical operation of periodic webinars, virtual conferences and in-person events
- Help to implement, maintain and improve technology solutions and manage data for various research programs including our biospecimen and model repositories, Drug Screening Program, and planned Patient Registry
QUALIFICATIONS
- Love of creating order, elegance and efficiency around you
- A sharp sense for how (and how not) to structure/organize data to facilitate downstream use and analysis
- Eagerness to delight both your colleagues and the constituents you serve by deeply understanding their needs and using your skills to address them
- Ability to effectively manage a queue of requests from various colleagues, including balancing work to advance multiple open projects/requests simultaneously, setting realistic timelines, keeping stakeholders informed and delivering on schedule
- Experience and natural comfort with a wide variety of modern SaaS tools, and an eagerness to explore and learn new ones; experience with Salesforce, Classy, WordPress, Google Analytics Tableau, and/or AWS a plus
- Basic proficiency in HTML and CSS
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS
The Chordoma Foundation offers a competitive salary and benefits package including:
- 100% employer-sponsored health insurance plan
- Dental and vision insurance
- Short and long-term disability insurance
- Life insurance
- SIMPLE IRA with company matching
- Holidays and paid time off
Holidays and paid time off
- Support for professional development, learning and skills building
- Highly nimble, efficient and tech-enabled work environment
- Personal connection with the patients and families whose lives your work will touch
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