by Ronald Barron | Dec 28, 2021 | Uncategorized
Employer: Ellevest
About This Position
As a Staff Software Engineer, you will assist in guiding the evolution of Ellevest’s technical architecture, tool selection, and process definition to support our rapidly growing business. You will de-risk technical projects by ensuring that our systems are secure, scalable, and compliant. You will partner with cross-functional stakeholders and Ellevest’s leadership team to synthesize requirements and develop a robust technical roadmap and execution strategy. Most importantly, you will be an example for engineers at all levels: mentoring and leading with compassion, raising the bar on technical excellence, and delivering meaningful results with urgency.
We follow agile methodologies, and on a day-to-day basis, leverage Ruby on Rails, React, React Native, MySQL, Sidekiq, Docker, and CircleCI, among others. Our team tackles challenging technical problems, with a keen eye to scalability, security, compliance, and data integrity. Our systems run on a modern AWS stack supported by exciting new technologies, and our entire team works in a highly collaborative, flexible structure to build towards high-impact client facing outcomes.
This is a remote position, and you will be working under the direction of one of our Engineering Managers within the Engineering organization.
Responsibilities
You will:
- Develop a thorough understanding of Ellevest’s present and future business plans and work to align the technical architecture accordingly
- Be involved in company strategy discussions providing technical perspective on feasibility and opportunities to deliver business advantage
- Remain attuned to changes around the company and industry to anticipate and prevent obstacles from hindering team performance
- Define and effectively communicate a technical strategy that includes considerations for security, privacy, compliance, and data integrity
- Use negotiation, patience, and influence to solve problems with other senior leaders, ensuring progress and setting the example for others
- Lead large, strategic, complex projects; usually multi-person projects that cross team and discipline boundaries
- Lead the architecture review process for major changes or additions to the system architecture with an eye to scalability and stability
- Quickly analyze and resolve tactical issues across a wide variety of areas
- Participate in the software delivery process by designing, writing, and reviewing code
- Openly share knowledge and experience with engineers at all levels through mentorship, coaching, and formal training
- Participate in recruiting, thoroughly assess engineering candidates’ technical experience and capabilities, and make recommendations for hiring
Qualifications
You have:
- At least 7 years professional software development experience with a strong track record of delivering sophisticated, real world systems
- Deep experience in one or more server-side languages such as Ruby, Python, Java, Scala, Go, C#, or C++
- Some exposure to web frontend technologies such as React, AngularJS, or VueJS
- Some exposure to mobile frontend technologies such as ReactNative, Swift, or Kotlin
- A strong command of object modeling and design patterns
- Experience designing and scaling distributed systems
- Experience utilizing cloud infrastructure such as AWS or GCP
- Proficient in component and deployment architecture
- Experience in finance, healthcare, commerce, logistics or other domains with significant backend complexity
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- A growth mindset approach to mentorship and a hunger to learn
- Passion for our mission to get more money in the hands of more women+
About Ellevest
Ellevest was built with a mission to get more money in the hands of women+. With a money membership that gives access to investing, banking, learning, and coaching and a private wealth management service, Ellevest helps women+ take control of their financial futures.
Ellevest was co-founded by Wall Street veteran Sallie Krawcheck. Sallie is chair of the Ellevate Network and author of Own It: The Power of Women at Work. She previously worked as CEO of Smith Barney and Merrill Lynch Wealth Management and as CFO of Citi. Ellevest has raised $70MM from investors including Rethink Impact, Pivotal Ventures, Valerie Jarrett, Salesforce Ventures, PayPal Ventures, MasterCard, Khosla Ventures, Morningstar, and Venus Williams.
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by Ronald Barron | Dec 28, 2021 | Uncategorized
Employer: Coalition Technologies
WHY YOU SHOULD APPLY
Our company is devoted to doing the best possible work for our clients and maintaining a fun, thriving environment for our team. You will work side by side with top talent to improve your skills and advance the company as a whole. We listen to your ideas and use them.
We offer opportunities for growth and training and the best profit sharing bonus plan in the industry. Up to 50% of all profits are paid out monthly to all full-time employees! All team members enjoy paid time off and subsidized gym memberships. In addition, our in-house team members enjoy flex days, free Friday lunches, regular company events, higher base salaries, and comprehensive insurance. We offer medical, vision, and life insurance in all US states.
100% of our team works remotely with the support of time tracking software. Our company culture has specialized in supporting remote team members for over a decade. We welcome your application, wherever in the world it’s coming from!
YOU SHOULD HAVE:
- An expertise in HTML5, CSS3 and jQuery
- A thorough understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues
- Experience with media queries
- A knowledge of CSS platforms such as Twitter’s Bootstrap
- An ability to multi-task on multiple projects and tasks at the same time
- Great attention to detail and be highly organized
- A positive and upbeat attitude with the ability to learn quickly
- Proficiency in PHP/MYSQL and AJAX (preferred)
- Experience with WordPress, BigCommerce, Magento, and Shopify (preferred)
- Excellent written and spoken English
- The availability to work 40 hours per week from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm PST
- The ability to adapt to a diverse and multicultural environment
- Passion to build a startup
- Reliable transportation if working in-house
- A reliable workstation with a fast computer, microphone and speakers, reliable internet and power if working remotely
YOUR DUTIES AND TASKS:
- Transforming complex layout PSDs into pixel-perfect presentation-layer HTML5/CSS3 templates
- Creating responsive website designs
- Building websites with WordPress, extending and developing plugins and themes
- Working with Photoshop, Illustrator, and Fireworks to create images optimized for the web
- Working with version control systems such as GIT / SVN
- Working under tight deadlines
- Handling multiple projects at the same time
- Producing high quality of work with a strong focus on detail
No education or experience required for candidates who excel in our skills tests.
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by Ronald Barron | Dec 27, 2021 | Uncategorized
Employer: Upwork
We are looking for a curious, driven Analytics Manager to help us keep Upwork safe from bad users and build an easy-to-use/low-friction platform for our good users. The Trust&Safety Analytics team works with Product and Operations to understand how both good and bad users interact with Upwork. We develop ways to predict who’s who and put in automated and manual safeguards to make sure that the good users can use Upwork easily and without risk while making it difficult for bad users to exploit the good.
You will lead and grow a small team of analysts working within Trust & Safety. Your primary responsibility will be to empower, guide, and up-level your team, so that they can contribute to the growth of Upwork. You will be a player-coach. A mentor/technical leader that your team can lean on while taking on the hardest problems in your domain!
The Upwork Analytics team harnesses a wealth of data to empower our leaders across the company and drive thought leadership on critical projects. We strive to constantly improve our understanding of how users grow their business through Upwork and lead key analyses that accelerate growth. This is an opportunity to join an outstanding and growing team with an inclusive culture that delivers meaningful insights to the entire company!
Your Responsibilities:
- Be the rock that supports your team, the guide that shows them the path, and the leader that revels in their success.
- Use outstanding technical/business skills to train/help your team while knowing when to step back and let them find their way.
- Hold your team accountable while creating a safe/protected space to let them fail
- Contribute to solving the complex problems inherent to a double-sided marketplace. Deliver undiscovered insights to key partners that compel changes in corporate strategy and product decisions.
- Partner with the Leadership Team, FP&A, and the larger Analytics community in asking difficult questions about the inner workings of our marketplace, specifically as they relate to Trust & Safety, and then leading the effort to answer those questions.
What it takes to catch our eye:
- Showcase extensive experience leading analytics projects end-to-end and thriving in a multifaceted, fast-paced environment. Show us that you’ve made a difference with tangible outcomes in previous roles.
- Combine strong SQL skills, BI proficiency (Looker experience preferred but not required), a working knowledge of A/B experiments, and a demonstrable understanding of statistics.
- Show passion for getting into the details – write code, dig into data, iterate quickly and take action.
- Previous experience in a marketplace or eCommerce business.
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by Ronald Barron | Dec 27, 2021 | Uncategorized
Employer: Ellevest
About This Position
As a Security Engineer at Ellevest, you will work hands-on across the organization to provide security support to protect sensitive data like client information and actively monitor our systems. You work directly with the Product organization and review workflow security. You will work with Ellevest engineers on secure development practices and security code reviews, and to proactively identify and fix security vulnerabilities. You will also work closely with the Fraud team to continuously review fraud and ATO controls.
In this role, you will work to maintain and enhance our information security program to create the safest environment for Ellevest members and data, and you’ll play a vital role in scaling and automating security infrastructure and procedures. This is a role on our remote-first team.
Responsibilities
You will:
- Maintain and enhance information security program
- Develop and implement workflow for entitlements review, onboarding and offboarding in a SaaS world
- Develop, monitor, and investigate security events across the organization, including application vulnerability reports, SIEM events, DLP events, NGAV events, etc.
- Improve and maintain application security products, including vulnerability scanners
- Create efficiencies around logging, correlation, and auditing capabilities
Qualifications
You have:
- At least 1 year of experience in Information Security
- Proficiency in one or multiple areas such as Windows, Unix, anti-virus, firewalls, intrusion detection
- Scripting (Python, BASH, Perl, or PowerShell), coding or other development experience.
- Knowledge of security event management, network security monitoring, log collection, and correlation.
- Understanding of Cloud Security
- Knowledge of OWASP Top 10
- Bachelors in Computer Science with some concentration in Information Security or security-specific certifications that demonstrate equivalent proficiency
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by Ronald Barron | Dec 27, 2021 | Uncategorized
Employer: Twilio
See yourself at Twilio
Join the team as the Principal Software Engineer for the Developer Publishing Platform at Twilio.
Who we are & why we’re hiring
Twilio powers real-time business communications and data solutions that help companies and developers worldwide build better applications and customer experiences.
Although we’re headquartered in San Francisco, we’re on a journey to becoming a globally antiracist company that supports diversity, equity & inclusion wherever we do business. We employ thousands of Twilions worldwide, and we’re looking for more builders, creators, and visionaries to help fuel our growth momentum.
About the job
This position is needed to serve as the technical architect for the web application powering Twilio’s most critical developer experiences, including API documentation and technical tutorials. Serving alongside developer evangelists, developer educators, and other technical content creators, you will build a web app used by millions of developers every year. You will innovate in the presentation, performance, and user experience of developer documentation. You will ensure that developers always find the right content on our website by optimizing for search. You will drive operational excellence for a critical piece of web infrastructure at Twilio. As an experienced, multiple-hat-wearing, product-focused hacker, you will employ a variety of technical and non-technical skills to create industry-leading developer experiences.
Responsibilities
In this role, you will:
- Become the chief architect and tech lead for the web application serving twilio.com/docs and other web-based developer experiences
- Mentor and direct a distributed team of engineers working on the publishing platform
- Collaborate with subject matter experts, fellow developers, and internal stakeholders to turn business goals and creative ideas into a roadmap to deliver great developer experiences
- Create world-class tooling for technical content creators, so they can spend more time writing and collaborating, and less time wrestling their content to work well on the website
- Drive operational excellence for the publishing platform application, maintaining robust uptime and enabling continuous delivery
- Work with content and SEO experts to ensure that our website is built for performance and usability from search
- Engage with end users and the broader developer community to learn how our documentation, tutorials, and technical content can best serve them
- Propose and implement new ideas to advance the state of the art in developer documentation and web-based developer tools
Qualifications
Not all applicants will have skills that match a job description exactly. Twilio values diverse experiences in other industries, and we encourage everyone who meets the required qualifications to apply. While having desired qualifications make for a strong candidate, we encourage applicants with alternative experiences to also apply. If your career is just starting or hasn’t followed a traditional path, don’t let that stop you from considering Twilio. We are always looking for people who will bring something new to the table!
Required:
- 7+ years of experience as a technical leader on web development projects
- Experience mentoring and providing technical leadership to developer teams
- Full stack software development experience, including rich front ends in JavaScript and backends in a major web programming language (Python, PHP, Java, and Node.js will appear in this tech stack)
- Experience interfacing with business stakeholders, and translating business requirements into software solutions
- Experience navigating and understanding a large scale software architecture, and understanding how pieces fit together in a distributed system
- Experience building and supporting web applications that operate at scale
- Experience supporting mission-critical web applications and infrastructure
- Comfortable asking questions and taking initiative to solve problems in a rapidly growing company, where it is often necessary to draw the owl
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills
- Demonstrated commitment to seeking diverse viewpoints, and acting with intention to create an inclusive team environment
Desired:
- Experience building Python web applications
- Experience with the Django web framework
- Experience building and deploying APIs with Django REST framework
- Experience with the Wagtail CMS
- Experience managing AWS web infrastructure
- Experience building products for a developer audience
- Track record of open source contribution
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