by Ronald Barron | Jun 7, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Title: Staff Software Engineer, Content Quality, Signal Lifecycle TL
Location: San Francisco, CA, US; Remote, US
Job Description:
About Pinterest:
Millions of people across the world come to Pinterest to find new ideas every day. Its where they get inspiration, dream about new possibilities and plan for what matters most. Our mission is to help those people find their inspiration and create a life they love. In your role, youll be challenged to take on work that upholds this mission and pushes Pinterest forward. Youll grow as a person and leader in your field, all the while helping Pinners make their lives better in the positive corner of the internet.
Creating a life you love also means finding a career that celebrates the unique perspectives and experiences that you bring. As you read through the expectations of the position, consider how your skills and experiences may complement the responsibilities of the role. We encourage you to think through your relevant and transferable skills from prior experiences.
Our new progressive work model is called PinFlex, a term thats uniquely Pinterest to describe our flexible approach to living and working. Visit our PinFlex landing page to learn more.
The Content Quality team builds large-scale content processing systems that utilize machine learning signals to select the highest quality content to distribute to pinners. This team touches nearly every piece of content that comes into Pinterest and creates and distributes signals that drive impact across our suite of consumer or ads products. To scale our systems we leverage Spark, Flink, and low-latency model serving infrastructure.
What you’ll do:
- Architect and develop systems, data pipelines, tools, and processes for computing and delivering signals capturing quality aspects of content created on Pinterest.
- Collaborate with Machine Learning engineers during conceptualization and productionization of signal.
- Work with infrastructure and platform teams to build the right set of tools and APIs to support signal hosting and delivery.
- Collaborate with signal consuming teams to architect signal adoption frameworks.
What we’re looking for:
- 7+ years of industry experience with two years as TL.
- Expertise in at least one of the generic programming languages (Java/Scala/C++/Python/).
- Expertise in building and debugging scalable backend services and APIs.
- Expertise in technical leadership of a team and mentorship.
- Hands-on experience with large-scale distributed systems (distributed storage systems, stream processing, inference, and deployment at scale).
- Hands-on experience with big data technologies (e.g., Spark / Kafka / Flink/ Hadoop) and scalable real-time systems that process stream data.
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by Ronald Barron | Jun 7, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Title: Senior Staff Platform Engineer
Location: Remote
Job Description:
Honor exists to expand the worlds capacity to care.
Were combining high tech with high-touch to deliver better home care for aging adults, better jobs for Care Professionals, and entirely new offerings to support the aging journey, at scale.
Founded in 2014, and now a Series E funded Unicorn valued at over $1B, Honor leads the worlds largest home care network with the most advanced care platform. Our August 2021 acquisition of Home Instead has created a global company thats revolutionizing how society cares for older adults, their families, and Care Professionals.
The Honor Care Platform combines local care and the most advanced technology to bring the highest quality care to more aging adults.
Grow at Honor as part of a united team where everyone shows up authentically, shares ideas bravely, and solves complex problems!
About the Work:
We are looking for a seasoned Platform Engineer with experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable distributed systems & infrastructure. The platform engineering team builds and manages the infrastructure & core services that powers Honors Care Platform. Our charter is focused on providing foundational building blocks to enable the entire engineering organization to deliver reliably and efficiently. We also own build and deployment pipelines of our services, maintenance of various environments and their supporting infrastructure and serve as consultants to build the right abstractions for patterns of problems. This is a highly technical, hands-on role that requires a wide and deep experience in managing applications and infrastructure across cloud services. It requires deep practical knowledge of cloud platforms, advanced software design patterns & architecture, operations and automation, and containerization technologies like Kubernetes. The ideal candidate is driven by providing business value, is comfortable working with systems at varying levels of maturity, and appreciates making nuanced tradeoffs. You will be joining a small team of highly-skilled, enthusiastic, and passionate engineers with an opportunity to create an outsized impact in contributing to the future evolution of Honors Care Platform.
What are we looking for in a candidate:
- You thrive in a foundational role supporting diverse, cross-functional teams as your customers, possess exceptional problem solving and analytical skills.
- At least 6 years of professional experience in a platform engineering team within a product-centric company.
- Design and implement foundational patterns and libraries for Python applications, across a range of technologies from API services to event processing
- Utilize Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools to ensure reproducible and scalable environment setups.
- Design and implement infrastructure for applications hosted on AWS, supporting event-driven systems, containerized services on Kubernetes, and serverless functions.
- Develop and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, ArgoCD.
- Have experience automating the lifecycle management of code from development through production, including code promotion and configuration management.
- Instrument observability through tools such as CloudWatch and DataDog to monitor and optimize application performance across multiple environments.
- Scale infrastructure to meet increasing demand while managing cost effectively
- Have experience defining, instrumenting and measuring standards for quality, security, scalability, and availability with a focus on delivering business value.
- Have passion for delivering turn-key developer experience for local development
- Keen interest in developing talent through mentorship
- Strong written and verbal communication, tailored to a variety of audiences
- A strategic thinker with a product-first approach and customer obsession.
Some, or all, of these are true:
- You have experience working with an RPC architecture
- You work at or have worked at a technology startup and familiar with the challenges of evolving platform maturity
- You have first hand experience navigating multiple distributed architecture patterns
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by Ronald Barron | Jun 7, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Title: Senior Manager, Engineering Growth Tech
Location: United States
Job Description:
Honor exists to expand the worlds capacity to care.
Were combining high tech with high-touch to deliver better home care for aging adults, better jobs for Care Professionals, and entirely new offerings to support the aging journey, at scale.
Founded in 2014, and now a Series E funded Unicorn valued at over $1B, Honor leads the worlds largest home care network with the most advanced care platform. Our August 2021 acquisition of Home Instead has created a global company thats revolutionizing how society cares for older adults, their families, and Care Professionals.
The Honor Care Platform combines local care and the most advanced technology to bring the highest quality care to more aging adults.
Grow at Honor as part of a united team where everyone shows up authentically, shares ideas bravely, and solves complex problems!
About the Work:
As Sr. Engineering Manager of Growth Tech; You lead and build engineering teams to deliver Growth Tech solutions to our Home Instead offices. You partner with Product and Data to deliver innovation and scalable solutions for demand management, hiring, and care operations. Your solutions interact with leading 3p SaaS used by thousands of users to drive operations automation and intelligent prioritization of tasks that drive our key business metric: increasing the hours spent caring for aging clients. Each release delivers new functionality and progress toward office operations architecture. You lead architecture and delivery. You prioritize development by customer voice, adoption potential, business impact, and architecture improvements. Drive product from concept to launch and operations.
Responsibilities:
Technical Competencies and Leadership:
- Develop and execute a robust technical strategy that encompasses development methodologies like Agile and Scrum, systems architecture, and extensive use of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
- Lead and review the architecture of systems, ensuring best practices in code quality, managing technical debt, and implementing effective APIs and eventing strategies.
- Oversee the migration strategies from third-party to in-house solutions, ensuring seamless transition and integration.
Stakeholder Management:
- Partner with Product to align delivery to identified Customer needs from regular operator conversations, data and process analysis, and industry best practices. Drive the voice of the customer with weekly Owner WBR sessions using your products to conduct deep dive operating reviews at the owner/franchise level.
- Help define Growth planning architecture vision and then coordinate stakeholder requests and customer needs into product solutions complete with feedback loops, adoption plans, and collaborate on measured business impact projections.
- Lead project planning activities including sprint planning, resource allocation, setting timelines, budgeting, managing cross-team dependencies, and risk management.
- Ensure the delivery of projects on time and within budget, while managing the technical and business risks.
Team Development:
- Hire, align, and develop your team into defined roles with ongoing refinement of team charter and mission
- Mentor and develop the team, promoting a healthy engineering culture and managing performance to foster engineering excellence and career development.
Operational Excellence:
Be responsible for improving operational efficiency, managing technical operations, and ensuring system reliability to support business operations and growth.
What results do you generate?
Support the Honor Growth Tech Tenets of delivering value through business impact
Key results for this role:
- Increase franchise owners with revenue growth — by improving input drivers and efficiency through focus on high-value tasks
- Drive product adoption/satisfaction while lowering operating costs.
- Increase automated and AI powered applications
- Increase delivery cadence of new functionality and business value
Required Skills
- Computer Science or Engineering focused undergraduate or master degree in computer science or equivalent experience in a technical company.
- Demonstrated leadership of one or more engineering teams in different size organizations from startup to scaled big tech to deliver initiatives and architecture.
- Demonstrated Software Management skills including design, feature prioritization, operations and successful deployment/release management delivering or growing online or SaaS products
- Building Customer focus informed from regular direct user interaction, industry monitoring, and observations across domains. High eq, empathy visible via UX in products built and the development process.
- Prioritization across multiple work-streams: Managing multiple goals, deadlines, timelines, scopes, and resources.
- Communication & Collaboration Skills: Ability to communicate effectively, particularly via written communication with both technical and non-technical team members from front line contributors to c-level leaders.
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by Ronald Barron | Jun 7, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Title: Senior Java+React Engineer
Location: OR US
Job Description:
Looking for a place where you, your skills, and your contribution are valued and recognized? Somewhere you can grow not just as a professional, but also as an individual? You’ve come to the right place. At IT Labs, we take care of our own – and we mean it. If you love to code, can easily prioritize and analyze work, and keep one eye on the bigger picture and business needs – then you’re the Senior Backend Engineer we’re looking for.
As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will be tasked with ensuring we meet the clients needs. We expect that you will use your full knowledge and skills to design, build, and maintain reliable lines of code, but also help develop the strategic plan for projects, and leave your mark to one of our most complex and enterprise projects.
At IT Labs, learning is a process that never stops and we much appreciate a positive attitude towards learning new things, proactivity and innovative approach when facing challenges, and above all – the will to cooperate with every team member.
Sound like a job for you?
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience in backend engineering with Java,
- You possess the ability to write and maintain understandable technical documentation,
- Proficient in Java, with a good knowledge of its ecosystems,
- Knowledge of 3+ years React,
- Ability to understand, recognize and properly implement software design principles and patterns,
- Ability to understand and use Object-Relational Mapper (ORM) frameworks,
- Experience with Agile/Scrum development methodologies,
- Strong knowledge and understanding of the Software development lifecycle process,
- Analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills,
- Strong desire to stay on top of the latest developments in web technologies
Nice to have:
- Consistency in the application of standards and processes
- AWS or Azure Certificates
- Interest or experience in generative AI, search/information retrieval systems, and machine learning (e.g. LangChain, OpenAI).
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by Ronald Barron | Jun 7, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Accounting Director Commerce Revenue and Receivables
Location
Jacksonville, FL / Remote with travel to Jacksonville, FL
Company
As a global leader in licensed sports merchandise, Fanatics Commerce is building the leading global digital sports platform and changing the way fans purchase their favorite team apparel, jerseys, headwear, and hardgoods through an innovative, tech-based approach to making and quickly distributing fan gear in todays 24/7 mobile-first economy. Fanatics offers the largest collection of merchandise whether shopping online, on your phone, in flagship stores, in stadiums or on-site at the world’s biggest sporting events. Fanatics holds partnerships with the most prominent sports leagues, teams, schools and players in the world – including leagues such as the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, MLS, NASCAR – to deliver an unrivaled fan experience.
Roles & Responsibilities
As Fanatics Commerce continues to expand our business globally, we are looking for an influential leader to help transform how we operate. This is a critical and high-profile role, partnering with the key business stakeholders across Commerce and Fanatics Holdings Inc (FHI) in the development and execution of our growth strategy. This role will report to the SVP, Accounting – Fanatics Commerce.
Key responsibilities:
Develop, optimize, and govern global Commerce revenue and receivables accounting processes with the appropriate people, policies, and controls that will drive business growth efficiently over the coming years while maintaining compliance with accounting regulations
Lead month, quarter, and year-end close & reporting processes for revenue and receivables to publish timely financial reporting and analysis for management and key stakeholders
Support the accounting team in researching and analyzing new accounting guidance and applying guidance to topics in a fast-growing environment
Partner with the FHI Shared Services team to establish key metrics, optimize processes and ways of working, and establish the appropriate governance over accounting work performed on behalf of Commerce.
Help manage working capital by driving improvements in the areas of credit & collections and customer terms in partnership with the Shared Services team as appropriate
Support the implementation of new finance and accounting technology systems
Drive and achieve results through leading and influencing team members
Build and maintain a highly effective team that is aligned with company values through talent development, training, and mentoring to promote a culture of high performance
- Act as a cultural driver embracing change, fostering a sense of belonging and inclusion, and nurturing an environment where diversity is celebrated.
- Inspire and influence others through your actions, encouraging collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning.
Educational / professional qualifications
Bachelors degree in business, accounting, or related field.
Minimum of 15 years of progressive financial accounting experience with a retail, manufacturing or consumer products company
Minimum of 10 years of accounting leadership experience in a company with annual revenues of at least $1 billion
Strategic business partner to executive leadership and department heads across the company
Experience working at or closely with a Big 4 audit firm
CPA preferred
Proficient knowledge of GAAP and IFRS
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