by Ronald Barron | Jun 20, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Senior Software Engineer, Commerce Platform
We’re transforming the grocery industry
At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers.
Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table.
Instacart is a Flex First team
There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. Our employees have the flexibility to choose where they do their best work—whether it’s from home, an office, or your favorite coffee shop—while staying connected and building community through regular in-person events. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work.
Overview
ABOUT THE ROLE
As we evolve to build a world class platform we are looking for highly skilled and motivated engineers to join our team. The role is half Cloud Service architecture, half expert mastery of e-commerce business logic; it’s a unique opportunity to design the next generation of Instacart’s foundational platform and help drive our exponential growth. You’ll ensure millions of orders, millions of credit card transactions, and tens of millions of line-item invoice calculations are completed reliably, scalably, and touch-free daily.
ABOUT THE TEAM
Our Platform team plays a pivotal role in driving innovation and scalability within Instacart’s core e-commerce capabilities, including pricing, discounting, orders, invoicing, and loyalty. By focusing on shared services and infrastructure, the team accelerates value creation for multiple product and feature teams. We recognize the significance of building robust foundations that enable efficient scaling to new business lines and use cases. Joining our team means being at the forefront of shaping the future of online grocery shopping, where your contributions will directly impact millions of customers and partners worldwide.
ABOUT THE JOB
- We work in small teams with significant ownership and autonomy over your project
- You’ll be working across teams, solving big problems at an organizational level that changes how Instacart operates
- Design, implement, and ship high-quality features with a strong sense of urgency and accountability
- Work closely with product managers, designers, data scientists, and peer engineering teams to define project requirements and execution plans
- Ensure that system designs including APIs, deployment architecture, and dependency selection result in highly scalable, robust solutions that minimize support costs and improve an outstanding customer experience
- Contribute broadly to Instacart’s success by exercising your freedom to suggest and drive organization-wide initiatives
ABOUT YOU
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of software development experience
- A strong sense of ownership
- Self-motivation and enjoyment of a startup environment
- Solid understanding of common back-end Web technologies in a production environment
- An ability to balance priorities with shipping high-quality and pragmatic solutions
- Experience working with a large codebase shared with multi-functional teams.
- Strong knowledge of SQL
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or equivalent work experience
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Do you have exceptional experience with, skills for, or just interest in any of the following software engineering areas? We are looking for someone who has a good mix of the following traits:
- Expertise in invoicing and billing processes within an e-commerce environment. This includes being familiar with customer invoices, resolving discrepancies, and managing invoicing cycles. Familiarity with relevant invoicing regulations and tax requirements is beneficial.
- Experience with order management systems (OMS) or eCommerce platforms that handle the end-to-end order lifecycle. Understanding of the overall eCommerce operations and processes involved in managing customer orders, from the point of placing an order to delivery
- In-depth understanding of various payment systems and methods used in eCommerce, including credit/debit cards, digital wallets, mobile payments, and alternative payment solutions. Familiarity with payment gateways and payment service providers (PSPs) is also valuable
- Experience in eCommerce discounting, including a solid understanding of discount strategies and promotional campaigns. Good knowledge of pricing strategies, discount structures and ability to analyze the financial impact of different discount scenarios and make data-driven decisions.
- Experimentation frameworks and data driven approach to development
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by Ronald Barron | Jun 20, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Title: Product Designer II, Enterprise Tools
Location: San Francisco, CA, US; Remote, US
About Pinterest:
Millions of people across the world come to Pinterest to find new ideas every day. It’s 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, you’ll be challenged to take on work that upholds this mission and pushes Pinterest forward. You’ll 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 that’s uniquely Pinterest to describe our flexible approach to living and working. Visit our PinFlex landing page to learn more.
Pinterest is looking for a methodical and thoughtful Product Designer with a passion for crafting intuitive, consistent and delightful experiences. You’ll partner with the Payments and Billing team and work closely with the International Growth product team to evolve one the core building blocks of our product.
You have a knack for visual details as much as holistic systems thinking. You’re a problem solver, and your designs reflect your ability to advocate for the user. You’re passionate about our mission, raising the quality bar, and making the basics great.
What you’ll do:
- Design products-systematically, interactively, visually-with pixel-level precision
- Collaborate closely with sales, account managers, product marketing, engineering, product management, and research to develop impactful, innovative, and data-informed solutions to support our sales teams and customers
- Collaborate with and manage feedback from stakeholders across the company
- Work alongside engineers throughout the implementation and quality assurance phases
- Uphold and inspire a high level of design execution across the team
What we’re looking for:
- Must have experience designing for B2B tools, having enterprise and/or AI domain knowledge is a plus
- Proven track record envisioning, building, and iterating on digital products in close partnership with product management and engineering
- Strong portfolio that demonstrates outstanding design skills (prototyping is a must) and product thinking informed by qualitative and quantitative insights
- Great communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate your design decisions and the problems they’re solving
- Attention to detail and a sense of pride and ownership over the quality of the product
- Expert knowledge and examples of strong visual design
- Ability to work within and extend a design system – experience working in design systems and/or product redesigns is a plus
- Strong collaboration skills and ability contribute and grow cross-functional teams and partners as part of your process
- High level of self-awareness with a growth mindset
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by Ronald Barron | Jun 20, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Senior Graphic Designer
Newport Beach CA-700
Full time
R12679
Job Description:
Pacific Life is investing in bright, agile and diverse talent to contribute to our mission of innovating our business and creating a superior customer experience. We’re actively seeking a talented Senior Graphic Designer to join our CMD Marketing team in Newport Beach, CA. This role can be TRAVEL”>on-site, hybrid, or 100% remote.
As a Senior Graphic Designer, you’ll play a key role in Pacific Life’s growth and long-term success by developing and maintaining graphic designs to support the organization’s image, identity and brands. You will fill an existing role that sits on a team of seven people in the CMD division. Your colleagues will include Sr. Web Designers and fellow Sr. Graphic Designer professionals.
How you will make an impact:
- Develop and maintain graphic designs (e.g., art, color themes, photographs, web pages and other visual solutions) to support the organization’s image, identity and brands.
- Develop and design the aesthetics, visual design and/or layout of product artwork and marketing materials to enhance product image.
- Create and assemble images and graphics to produce designs for websites, print media, displays and productions.
- Meet with colleagues to determine and assess effectiveness of imagery and presentation needs and may direct marketing design projects, collaborating with multiple departments.
- Integrate current and contemporary visual trends and media into day-to-day assignments
The experience you will bring:
- 5–8+ years graphic design experience with a focus on digital communications
- 4-year degree or equivalent experience
- Expert skills in the Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, and Salesforce marketing cloud
- A passion for design with deep experience in brand identity, campaign development, and traditional disciplines (typography, color, layout)
- Experience developing and executing ideas from strategic concept to project completion across all media platforms
- Ability to collaborate and take constructive feedback that aligns with business strategies and goals
- Be able to handle concurrent projects and adhere to fast-paced timelines, schedules, and budgets
- Strong presentation skills
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by Ronald Barron | Jun 20, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Sr. Systems Site Reliability Engineer
Full time
job requisition id
JR466324
Who is Forcepoint?
Forcepoint simplifies security for global businesses and governments. Forcepoint’s all-in-one, truly cloud-native platform makes it easy to adopt Zero Trust and prevent the theft or loss of sensitive data and intellectual property no matter where people are working. 20+ years in business. 2.7k employees. 150 countries. 11k+ customers. 300+ patents. If our mission excites you, you’re in the right place; we want you to bring your own energy to help us create a safer world. All we’re missing is you!
The ideal candidate will be Dallas based (for a hybrid role) & have a broad background spanning both applications and infrastructure. They will have direct experience with multiple coding language, core SRE practices & methodologies.
Open to US Remote
Essential Functions
Solve problems relating to mission critical services and build automation to prevent problem recurrence, with the goal of automating response to all non-exceptional service conditions. This individual will be focused on maximum availability, reliability, security, and performance for Forcepoint services.
Requirements:
- Designs and Maintains secure, scalable, and highly available architectures for On-Prem and Cloud Hosted environments
- Fully understands Agile Systems Engineering practices
- Strong understanding of cloud-based architecture and cloud operations. Hands-on experience with Amazon Web Services and/or equivalent public cloud technology
- Experience in administration/build/management of Linux systems
- Foundational understanding of Infrastructure and Platform Technology stacks
- Strong understanding of Networking concepts and theories, such as different protocols (TCP/IP, UDP, routing protocols, etc), VLAN configuration, DNS, OSI layers, and load balancing
- Understanding of security architecture and certificate management
- Working knowledge of Infrastructure and Application monitoring platforms such as Grafana Cloud, Solarwinds, NewRelic, DataDog etc.
- Working knowledge of Incident Response and Alerting platforms such as PagerDuty, Opsgenie, XMatters etc.
- Understanding of the core DevOps practices (CI/CD pipeline, release management etc.)
- Ability to write code using any one modern programming language (Python, JavaScript, Ruby etc.). Additional scripting skills are preferred
- Configuration management platform understanding and experience (Chef/Puppet/Ansible)
- Prior experience in Cloud management automation tools (Terraform/CloudFormation etc.) is crucial
- Experience with source code management software and API automation is crucial
- Cloud certifications or equivalent experience is highly regarded
- Service availability oriented mindset with a pro-active approach to problem solving. An ideal candidate should be able to develop automated solutions to prevent recurring problems
- Possesses the ability and willingness to challenge the status-quo and optimize current procedures and processes
- Creates flowcharts, diagrams, and other documentation
- Knowledge of Container tools Docker/ Kubernetes,
- Benchmarks applications and services performance and design scalable systems and APIs
- Must have strong Linux experience supporting production systems
- Additional Qualification:
- Expertise in designing, analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
- Understanding of Unix/Linux systems from kernel to shell and beyond, taking in system libraries, file systems, and client-server protocols along the way
- Good knowledge of virtualization technologies and container technologies
- Experience with containers and HA clusters; experience with Docker and Amazon ECS /Kubernetes/ Mesosphere/Docker Swarm a plus VMware certification is preferred.
- Proficient Knowledge or Application of Agile/Scaled Agile: Familiarity with agile methodologies (such as Scrum or Lean) and experience in applying them to IT development or project management. Understanding of scaled agile frameworks (SAFe) is a plus.
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by Ronald Barron | Jun 20, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Title: Senior Product Designer
(Remote)
Location: Remote – US
Type: Full-time
Workplace: remote
Category: Product and Design
Job Description:
EMPOWER OVERVIEW
Empower is a high-growth financial technology company on a mission to expand access to fair credit to give anyone in the world the opportunity to improve their financial security and mobility. We dream up and launch one-of-a-kind features that help our members get money instantly whenever they need it, save for the future, and rewrite their financial story. Our members see Empower Cash Advance as a life-saver, Empower Automatic Savings as a game-changer, and the new Empower Thrive line of credit as a lifeline to low-cost borrowing and the only practical path to building good credit.
Empower is backed by Sequoia Capital, Blisce, and Icon Ventures. Are we the next great place to grow your impact and accelerate your career? We think so:
Inc. ranked Empower #56 in the 2023 Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in the US (#55 in 2022). Forbes put Empower on its 2023 list of America’s Best Startup Employers. Fast Company recognized the new Empower Thrive line of credit in their 2022 list of the Next Big Things in Tech.
THE EMPOWER WAY
- Great Expectations: We come up with bold, audacious goals for ourselves and go all out for impact
- Owner Mindset: We give every employee latitude to act independently, make smart choices, and move the business forward
- Spirited Debate: We love skeptics and seek counter opinions to challenge our personal assumptions and expand our view
- Customer Obsession: We listen to understand, empathize, and create a memorable, rewarding experience for our community
- Inclusive Collaboration: We believe diverse teams make the best decisions, and we strive to give diverse voices a seat at the table
- No Jerks Allowed: We value our relationships and take the time to build trust and connection and communicate respectfully
WHAT EMPOWER OFFERS
- Competitive salary
- Generous equity package
- Full healthcare and dental benefits
- Technology expense reimbursement
- Work from anywhere
JOB DESCRIPTION
As a Senior Product Designer at Empower, you’ll be integral to the entire design process. Our Product Designers are customer-centric and collaborate closely with other designers, product managers, and engineers to bring innovative ideas to life, ensuring our products positively impact our customers’ financial lives.
Successful Senior Product Designers are ambitious and relentlessly pursue excellence. Design thinking is at the core of their creative process. They push boundaries and innovate, applying design thinking principles to solve complex problems and create user-centered solutions. This involves empathizing with users, defining clear and actionable insights, ideating on potential solutions, prototyping, and rigorously testing their designs to ensure they meet the highest standards. Their ambition drives them to continuously improve and refine their skills, staying ahead of industry trends and delivering exceptional value through thoughtful, well-crafted design.
Empower is a remote-first company. We drive connectivity through regular company offsites. Travel for company offsites is expected at a minimum 2 times a year.
Qualifications
- 4-5+ years of work experience in product design, visual design, UI/UX and mobile app design
- Own design projects across the entire product lifecycle and iterations that follow
- Work closely with our product, engineering, and ops teams to find visually appealing and practical solutions to business problems
- Influence and help shape the design culture at Empower
- Strong customer empathy and experience shaping product’s User Experience and execution based on customer needs
- Strong strategic thinking, problem-solving, and logical structuring abilities
- An excellent portfolio that demonstrates love and care for their craft (Please submit your portfolio)
- Proven experience building high-quality consumer-facing mobile products
- Experience quickly iterating and building prototypes
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Expert level skills in Figma or Sketch
- Relevant fintech experience is a plus
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by Ronald Barron | Jun 19, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Title: IT Client Platform Engineer – Linux Systems Development
Location: Hybrid or Remote
Job Description:
About Us
At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.
We realize people do not fit into neat boxes. We are looking for curious and empathetic individuals who are committed to developing themselves and learning new skills, and we are ready to help you do that. We cannot complete our mission without building a diverse and inclusive team. We hire the best people based on an evaluation of their potential and support them throughout their time at Cloudflare. Come join us!
Locations, Remote US
About the department
You will be joining a team of Client Platform Engineers dedicated to delivering enterprise-level client platform services, development, support, and client enablement for a globally distributed user base. Our team is committed to providing highly resilient and observable services while minimizing manual tasks. We prioritize delivering a positive customer service experience and enhancing user satisfaction.
What you’ll do
We are seeking an IT Client Platform Engineer with a focus on Linux management and security to ensure a seamless End User Computing (EUC) experience. In this role, you will address complex hardware, software, and security challenges, collaborating closely with the Enterprise Security, Engineering, and IT Operations teams to resolve security, operational, and user experience issues on a global scale.
- Solve complex Linux OS configuration problems
- Provide design, implementation and operational support for the Linux End User Computing (EUC) Platform
- Seek guidance from the team when needed
- Be flexible and available for after hours support
- Assist the team with macOS, Windows, and Linux platform management
- Provide thoughtful feedback on asks and requirements for new integrations
- Work collaboratively across geographical and team boundaries to solve problems
- Work in a team environment
- Create and update technical documentation
- Help make your team and cohort teams lives better
Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience
- 2+ years of proven work experience in a systems administration role
- 2+ years of proven work experience in a systems integration role
- Hands-on experience with Windows/Linux/Mac OS management platforms
- Hands-on experience with scripting languages such as Python, Golang, and/or Rust
- Good understanding of computer systems, mobile devices management platforms and software development best practices
- Ability to perform root cause analysis on deployment failures and implement solutions
- Experience with serverless application development, observation, and deployment methods
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code, Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment, DevOps, and Agile methodologies
- Excellent problem-solving and communication skills
- Ability to provide step-by-step technical guidance, both written and verbal
- BS degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or relevant field or equivalent experience
Bonus Points
- Experience with Jamf Pro, Microsoft Intune, or Ubuntu Landscape
- Experience with Ansible and Linux system administration
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) frameworks
- Experience working in the technology/software development industry
- Experience working in a Service Desk, Help Desk, or Call Center environment
- Experience developing for Platform as a Service development teams
- AWS Technical Certifications
- Microsoft Azure Technical Certifications
- Google Cloud Technical Certifications
- Agile Certification
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