by Ronald Barron | Nov 13, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Senior Technical Artist
Fully Remote
At Wizards of the Coast, we connect people around the world through play and imagination. From our genre defining games like Magic: The Gathering® and Dungeons & Dragons® to our growing multiverse, we continue to innovate and build new ways to foster friendship and connection. That’s where you come in!
Atomic Arcade is a brand-new video game development studio located in the Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina area led by industry veterans from AAA game and film studios. We are in the process of staffing up our development team with outstanding talent to build our first multi-platform, AAA game – a bold and contemporary new take on the GI JOE Universe starring the legendary character Snake Eyes! This is an excellent opportunity to not only build an outstanding AAA experience but to also help form the core foundations for the studio and team to build upon. We are proud to be part of Wizards of the Coast which is a division Hasbro.
We are looking for a skilled Senior Technical Artist with a strong passion for collaborating with artists and developers to refine the pipelines and techniques that will deliver our AAA vision.
What You’ll Do:
- Develop custom workflows using scripts and coded tool solutions in support of the character and asset teams.
- Maintain the integrity of art pipelines by identifying inefficiencies then recommending and implementing improvements.
- Facilitate technical art communication across teams by providing clear and constructive feedback and mentorship.
- Collaborate with a diverse and distributed team to promote innovation and refine the visual quality of our games
- Align artists around technical standards for asset creation.
- Troubleshoot and help resolve challenges through technical solutions.
What You’ll Bring:
- Demonstrate advanced knowledge in character pipelines and workflows.
- Experience working with physically-based material systems, and advanced rendering techniques.
- Knowledge of modular asset pipelines.
- A strong background in driving optimization and performance while understanding limitations of various platforms.
- Desire and knowledge of how to push technology and tools further.
- Experience developing in a AAA real-time game engine.
- Scripting experience in Python, C#, Blueprint or other.
- Experience multi-tasking and adapting easily to change.
- Passion for making and playing games.
- Enthusiastic, positive, team-oriented; must have the ability to interact and collaborate with all departments and teams.
- Self-sufficient and self-motivated, can perform duties with little oversight.
Nice to Have:
- Shipped a title in Unreal Engine.
- Knowledge and/or experience with Metahuman and Control Rig.
- Experience working with cinematic teams.
- Previous development experience on large, open environment games.
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by Ronald Barron | Nov 13, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Site Reliability Engineer, Core Team
Location: Remote (US or Canada)
Type: Full Time
Workplace: hybrid
About Assurance
Assurance IQ is a technology company headquartered in Seattle. We were acquired by Prudential (NYSE: PRU) to further the joint mission of improving financial wellness across the world.
Our team of world class software engineers, data scientists, and business professionals work every day to expand our product offerings and the reach of our platform. We simplify the complex world of insurance and financial services into straightforward, valuable solutions to improve people’s lives. We start by asking customers a few questions, so our system can learn about their needs; from there, our ground-breaking, proprietary platform takes over and analyzes the thousands of data points that make customers unique. This is how we create custom-tailored plans for each customer; plans built precisely for their needs and budget. Our platform serves as the intersection between customer and seller, technology, and the human touch.
At Assurance, we are innovative, persevering, collaborative, calculated, and authentic, and we’re working together to improve the lives of millions!
About the Position
Assurance’s Core Team owns the foundation of the Assurance application stack.
This position is responsible for the availability, performance and efficiency of all Assurance services, and work in close collaboration with all engineering teams to create a reliable and easy-to-use AWS infrastructure for application services. The ideal candidate has a good understanding of modern cloud-based architecture, and practical experience defining infrastructure in the fast-pacing environment. You dream in Terraform configs, meditate on smooth flow of new releases through BuildKite/CodePipelines/Jenkins, swear in Sentinel and IAM Access Policy languages and named your cats OpsGenie, Splunk and OAuth.
The ideal candidate is:
- Very comfortable working with AWS services
- Deeply familiar with infrastructure-as-code approach and it’s practical applications using Terraform, CloudFormation, Chef, Ansible and similar frameworks and services
- Experienced in building tooling and automation for large-scale computing environments
- Proficient in at least one high level programming language such as Python, Ruby, or Java
- Strong at debugging and systems analysis; should be able to identify and quickly resolve or mitigate issues
- Experienced in building, deploying and operating distributed applications
- An excellent verbal/written communicator
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by Ronald Barron | Nov 13, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
SaaS Customer Support Tier 1 (FULLY REMOTE)
- United States – Remote OK
- Full-Time
Help us redefine customer satisfaction, one support ticket at a time.
At WhatConverts we innovate and initiate! We are a dynamic SaaS company who offers a comprehensive lead tracking solution for marketers – one place to track ALL leads and prove the business value of your marketing spend. As a Customer Support Specialist I at WhatConverts, you will be entrusted with utilizing coding knowledge to solve our Tier 1 escalated tickets. A Customer Support Specialist places strong emphasis on customer training, consultation, and driving solutions.
This is a fully-remote, full-time position (40 hours per week).
In this role you’ll get to:
- Utilize knowledge of coding to assist customers via email, chat and the telephone on escalated tickets; ensuring they have the best experience possible when setting up an account, troubleshooting, and problem-solving.
- Utilize different systems, software and hardware to achieve customer satisfaction
- Exercise daily knowledge of the WhatConverts API and webhooks; including ability to troubleshoot
- Understand customer use cases and provide expertise on how WhatConverts can be leveraged to meet them
- Proactively search client accounts for potential future issues
- Work with the WhatConverts product team to design/build tools, while offering feedback that will speed up and increase the quality of support available
- Grow and develop customer relationships through proactive support with a focus on communication, expansion, adoption, retention and renewal
What we’re looking for:
- 2+ years of experience in technical customer support required; previous SaaS support experience preferred
- 2+ years of experience working with a modern frontend stack (JS, React, etc.)
- Strong knowledge of Google Analytics or similar web analytics experience
- Highly proficient in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
- Empathetic, positive attitude with a desire to help our customers reach their goals
- Ability to make customers feel empowered after interacting with support – there are no “silly” questions!
- Ability to speak with clarity and confidence to the end user, as well as the ability to write clearly and concisely
- Have an acute eye for detail and a high patience threshold
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by Ronald Barron | Nov 10, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Director, Frontend Engineering
Location: Remote US Canada
Type: Full-Time
Workplace: remote
JobDescription:
At Scribd (pronounced scribbed ), we believe reading is more important than ever. Join our cast of characters as we work to change the way the world reads by building the world’s largest and most fascinating digital library: giving subscribers access to a growing collection of ebooks, audiobooks, magazines, documents, Scribd Originals, and more. In addition to works from major publishers and top authors, our community includes over 1.9 M subscribers in nearly every country worldwide.
Have you heard about our future of work program, Scribd Flex? As a key principle, we embrace flexibility and allow employees, in partnership with their manager, to choose the work-style that best suits their individual needs and preferences. And, we create intentional in-person moments with each other that build culture and connection.
About the team and role
The Frontend engineers at Scribd are building cutting edge web applications that are used by 100M+ monthly unique visitors and drive the majority of the revenue growth for Scribd. We are doing that while modernizing our tech stack and improving our user experience. The charter for this team includes most of the customer facing web apps such as onboarding, consumption, account management, and SEO.
We carefully deliver new features via experiments, also known as A/B tests, giving developers a safe path to validate improvements at our tremendous scale. Going forward, we are going to increase the number, velocity, and diversity of our experiments; To accommodate these new and different experiments, our codebase must be nimble, cohesive and easy to deploy. We strongly believe in building a solid infrastructure to help our product vision and maintain the health of the code base. We are working on moving our architecture to Next.js based React SPAs that are independently deployed, talking to a new GraphQL API, while building the tooling for a modern developer experience. Code size, speed, and aesthetics play a major role in our success.
We are looking for a passionate, innovative and strategic frontend technology leader to head this team. This role provides a tremendous opportunity to collaborate across the organization and deliver meaningful improvements for our customers while also modernizing our tech stack.
About you
- You have experience managing large scale frontend teams.
- You have experience with architectural migrations and tech debt reduction efforts.
- You are a great manager and team builder.
- You have experience mentoring and helping cultivate emerging leaders.
- You communicate clearly and effectively with technical and non-technical audiences.
- You are deep technically and can mentor and guide all levels of engineers.
- You’re self-directed towards generating outcomes vs output.
- You care about building highly efficient teams that can move fast, learn & iterate quickly.
You will / Responsibilities / What you will do
- Lead the overall planning, development, and deployment for backend systems that power our web applications.
- Mentor & grow a 15+ distributed, diverse engineering team which also includes managers.
- Define and drive architectural strategy to enable a world class customer experience that includes quality, scalability, and resilience as default characteristics.
- Partner closely with cross-functional teams including product management, design, performance marketing, business analytics and others throughout the business to build a clear vision & prioritized roadmap for the frontend organization.
- Formulate and execute process and organizational improvements to enhance overall effectiveness & velocity.
- Define how we approach engineering scale & technical debt reductions, driving for speed and efficiency in our development processes.
- Determine OKRs, project planning and resource requirements to accomplish projects and support users.
- Help identify issues and blockers that may delay the launch or impede the success of projects or capabilities and work with partners to communicate effectively, assess alternatives, and take action to resolve.
- Manage engineering morale, retention, culture, and performance.
- Provide career development, coaching, mentorship and sponsorship, and cultivate emerging leaders.
You Have / We’re looking for / Requirements
- At least 10 years of experience building and delivering software products.
- 5+ years of engineering management experience running frontend web teams and experience managing managers for at least 2 years.
- Strong record of thriving in a customer-obsessed product development environment with evidence of helping to define and influence overall product strategy.
- Experience in building modern Frontend Single Page Apps with technologies such as React, Next.js, and GraphQL.
- An exceptional understanding of technology best practices, application security, and history of making tradeoffs based on current needs.
- Proven track record of scaling a team in high-growth companies, not just in number of team members but also in developing team member capabilities and skills.
- History of building accountability and success by setting measurable goals and metrics for your teams.
- Ability to set strategic direction in working with senior executives, but also loves getting your hands dirty executing with the team.
- Thrive in a fast-paced, rapidly-changing, high-growth environment.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Demonstrated ability to understand and discuss technical concepts, prioritize and evaluate opportunistic new ideas with internal and external partners.
- Proactive, solution-oriented mindset and approach to problem solving.
Ideally, you have / Bonus points
- Experience in rearchitecting legacy systems and large scale technology modernizations. Experience in subscription business models or loyalty systems.
- At Scribd, your base pay is one part of your total compensation package and is determined within a range. Our pay ranges are based on the local cost of labor benchmarks for each specific role, level, and geographic location. San Francisco is our highest geographic market in the United States. In the state of California, the reasonably expected salary range is between $164,500 [minimum salary in our lowest geographic market within California] to $260,250 [maximum salary in our highest geographic market within California].
- In the United States, outside California, the reasonably expected salary range is between $144,000 [minimum salary in our lowest US geographic market outside of California] to $260,250 [maximum salary in our highest US geographic market outside of California].
- We carefully consider a wide range of factors when determining compensation, including but not limited to experience; job-related skill sets; relevant education or training; and other business and organizational needs. The salary range listed is for the level at which this job has been scoped. In the event that you are considered for a different level, a higher or lower pay range would apply. This position is also eligible for a competitive equity ownership, and a comprehensive and generous benefits package.
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by Ronald Barron | Nov 10, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Senior Vulnerability Management Engineer – US Remote
Location: United States – Remote
Type: Full-time
Workplace: remote
Job Description:
We are looking for a Senior Vulnerability Management Engineer who can navigate complex threat scenarios and remain committed to decreasing the overall attack surface of the company. Infrastructure Vulnerability Management remains a top priority at Guidewire, and you will be responsible for implementing and managing enterprise vulnerability tools and processes in a cloud environment, to reduce technical and business risks due to vulnerabilities and misconfigurations. This includes identifying and evaluating vulnerabilities, misconfigurations and supporting remediation activities.
Responsibilities
- Management, operation, and enhancement of vulnerability management, cloud posture management and container security tools.
- Provide security guidance to Cloud Engineering teams encompassing perimeter, misconfigurations, asset visibility, policies, container, patching cadence, and vulnerability scanning. Partner with cloud architecture, engineering and application development teams to establish and maintain comprehensive visibility into potential risk events across a large scale cloud environment.
- Improve and mature vulnerability reporting to key stakeholders, and drive remediation efforts by communicating, clearly articulating, and prioritizing risk and impact to all stakeholders to convey the urgency and need to remediate a vulnerability/misconfiguration.
- Develop processes and automation by engaging with stakeholders to harden and deploy AMI and docker container images.
- Stay abreast of emerging threats, and promote understanding of associated risk with stakeholders by reviewing and analyzing vulnerability data to identify trends and patterns.
- Supporting compliance and risk management activities, recommending security controls and corrective actions to mitigate vulnerability risks.
- Partner with the leadership team to report program roadmap status, define Key Risk Indicators and automated dashboards presenting risks and KPIs.
Requirements
- Knowledge of vulnerability scoring systems and prioritization techniques (CVSS, EPSS, SSVC, etc.)
- Experience with cloud specific tooling such as Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM), Cloud Workload Protection Platform (CWPP) and Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP).
- Thorough understanding of enterprise security controls, cloud security, network protocols and operating system (Windows/Linux/MAC).
- Familiar with best practices in securing Kubernetes and have a firm grasp on the challenges and solutions around securing containers and K8 clusters.
- Hands-on experience handling vulnerability management operations for cloud workloads at scale in AWS/Azure/GCP.
- Ability to conduct thorough analysis, automate redundant processes using scripting languages (Python or similar languages) and recommend data driven actions.
- Results-oriented, high energy, self-motivated and love for a team environment.
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by Ronald Barron | Nov 10, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Manager of Solutions Engineering
Locations: Remote – USA
Time Type: Full time
Job Requisition Id: R4790
The expected salary range for this position is $115,600.00 – $144,500.00. Employees in specific high cost of labor locations in the United States (such as San Francisco, CA and Seattle, WA) may qualify for a geographic differential. Compassion International is not responsible for third parties who omit this information when copying and re-posting job openings.
This leader provides management and oversight to the solutions engineering team to manage the lifecycle of critical corporate-wide and customer-specific technology based products primarily using Lean and Agile SDLC practices. The primary purpose of this position is to provide full, daily management for assigned professional staff. This responsibility includes hiring, discipline, and termination, as well as, coaching, performance management, assigning, checking, and approving work to satisfy department objectives. The incumbent will ensure accomplishment of department responsibilities based on oversight from senior management, following established practices, organizational strategy, department guidelines, and within approved budget.
What will you do?
Maintains a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Is a consistent witness for Jesus Christ, maintains a courteous, Christ-like attitude in dealing with people within and outside of Compassion, and faithfully upholds Compassion’s ministry in prayer.
Acts as an advocate to raise the awareness of the needs of children. Understands Christ’s mandate to protect children. Commits to and prioritizes child protection considerations in all decision-making, tasks and activities across the ministry. Abides by all behavioral expectations in Compassion’s Statement of Commitment to Child Protection and Code of Conduct. Reports any concerns of abuse, neglect or exploitation of children through Compassion’s internal reporting process and appropriately supports responses to incidents if they occur.
Provides leadership, planning and consultation to subordinates, executives, and peer management in the successful alignment of assigned department resources to ensure achievement of operational priorities and initiatives, integrating priorities within organizational strategies to ensure that department’s purpose is fulfilled. Creates work environment promoting continual improvement and learning, free from fear of failure, supporting mistakes that encourage continual learning. Employs Lean leadership style focusing on developing team members’ skills. Studies and understands new developments in Lean, Agile, and contemporary software development and management practices and encourages same for teams.
Contributes to or prepares and administers the annual budget and departmental expenses, ensuring accountability for on-time completion of deliverables based on department objectives, SLAs, and other Compassion standards, ensuring compliance with regulatory and board policies.
Selects, manages and develops assigned staff, establishing goals and objectives, coaching and managing performance, including discipline, motivation, and annual reviews; supports continuous learning and development that enhances individual performance and organizational capability. Coaches teams to identify a given problem, understand the root causes, and build solutions that will be embraced by the organization. Creates teams that are jointly responsible for success, solving problems together in ways that develop people’s capabilities and increases their engagement and commitment, focusing on respect for people.
Contributes to developing and setting strategy for application software design and development and technical and strategic expertise and leadership in the creation of inter-related system design for existing architecture.
Defines specifications for requirements to deploy applications. Serves as a key leader, leading the implementation of new standards in software development.
Working through subordinate professionals, leads developers and solutions engineering professionals who develop and update program logic for multiple applications or analyze and modify logic in existing applications.
What do you bring?
- 5+ years engineering management with an emphasis on mobile apps and/or Salesforce technologies
- Previous experience as a Software Engineer
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