Senior Java Backend Engineer

About the Senior Backend Engineer position
We’re looking for a versatile and passionate backend developer who will join our team of talented engineers.
You’ll design and operate the backend services that fuel our decentralised application, develop innovative services on top of Ethereum nodes, and help continuously improve our engineering practices.
Senior Backend Engineer responsibilities are:
  • Develop new services that will enable seamless interactions between mobile clients and smart contracts
  • Lead the architecture, development and operation of our backend infrastructure in a DevOps manner
  • Build a layer of innovative services on top of Ethereum nodes
  • Continuously improve the efficiency, scalability, and reliability of our backend systems
  • Research and recommend testing and automation tools
  • Review and enforce security best-practices for all internal and external services
  • Collaborate closely with the other engineering teams to ensure an overall efficient architecture of our product
Senior Backend Engineer requirements are:
  • 5+ years of experience designing and delivering scalable distributed systems in Java and a good knowledge of Node.js. Knowledge of Go is a plus
  • Knowledge of the Ethereum platform is a plus as our back-end interacts with our Ethereum smart contracts.
  • Hands-on experience in designing and operating a secure infrastructure on AWS
  • Getting your hands dirty and you are never afraid to experiment with technology
  • Good knowledge of cryptography and security best practices
  • Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills
  • Being comfortable working in a fast paced startup environment with a lot of unknowns
How we work ?
We are a distributed team but find communication much easier when working on similar time zones and a short flight distance. You’ll need to be based in the UK or Europe.
Every quarter we get together for a week to hang out, build, and explore new solutions.

Web / Graphic Designer

We are seeking a part-time / contract visual designer to conceptualize and build creative assets for e-commerce websites. Assets may include complete website layouts, product promotions, and graphics for social media. The ideal candidate should have an understanding of popular trends in web design, and the ability to create diverse graphics targeting a variety of markets. Coding skills are not required for this role.
 
Working remotely with a young team based around the world, you’ll have the flexibility to work on a variety of projects and wear many hats within the business. This is a remote position – you’ll be required to join group calls and participate in an online project management tool, however the work can be completed from any location.
This is an ongoing contract with part-time hours required.
REQUIREMENTS:
  • Strong portfolio of web design projects
  • Excellent design skills and understanding of principles (typography, color, composition, etc.)
  • Understanding of the latest trends and usability in modern web design.
  • Familiarity with Adobe Creative Suite applications is a major asset
  • Experience with UI and UX and best practices
  • Excellent verbal/written communication skills
  • Enthusiastic and willing to pitch in wherever necessary
  • Capable of working independently and on a team
  • Attention to detail and excellent organizational skills
PRIMARY DUTIES / RESPONSIBILITIES:
  • Design complete websites based on provided assets and strategic objectives
  • Create product marketing assets, including thumbnails, landing pages and social media graphics
  • Photography touch-up and manipulation
  • Monitor the web for new web technologies and potential product ideas

Freelance Writer of Literature Guides

LitCharts writers are an exclusive group of excellent writers with a deep understanding of literature and how to teach it to others. LitCharts writers have gone on to become best-selling nonfiction writers, 2017 national book award finalists, New York Times journalists, Harvard literature PhD candidates, and more. Now you can apply to join them!
We’re hiring writers to help expand our collection of over 700 literature guides. Writers can work from anywhere and compensation varies based on the length and difficulty of the work. Pace and schedule are flexible, though our ideal candidates will have at least 10 hours per week to spend writing LitCharts.

Calling all TensorFlow Experts! Earn extra cash while doing contract work from home. *No shoes? No problem.

We know what you are thinking: “This sounds too good to be true.” Hate to break it to you, but it’s not. Pluralsight is looking for the best TensorFlow Experts to teach the next generation by creating online courses and writing assessments so our learners can measure their skill level.
Here’s some more good news: Because this is contract work, our experts can work where and when it’s convenient for them. Midnight in your PJs? Check. Ten in the morning from your favorite coffee shop? You bet. You have the chance to use your knowledge to make some extra money through a great side gig. You can also build your portfolio and expert status in the TensorFlow community.
Reasons to Apply
Rather than just give you a cursory list of all the great reasons to partner with Pluralsight, we thought we’d share a few that might be important to you:
  1. Networking is everything and you will join one powerful network! Meet with the best technologists in the industry and combine your brain power to create the best blueprints and work on writing and reviewing assessments together.
  2. You’ll be a part of something bigger than yourself. Join a revolution that shapes the future of technology. Help us create the creators who will deliver technology that lifts the human condition. Your contributions will help save lives, transform living conditions and deliver new opportunities.
  3. Did we mention that you get to work at your convenience? We know we’ve said it before, but we think it’s a pretty nifty way to earn some dough.
About the Job
Interested? We’re looking for technologists with these qualifications:
  • A strong background in TensorFlow (you probably saw that one coming).
  • Experience in teaching others technical skills.
  • A knowledge of creating and editing videos is a plus.
  • The ability to follow Bloom’s Taxonomy framework when writing questions.
  • A talent for clearly and concisely expressing ideas in question form.
  • A strong command of the English language and the ability to use it to write questions that feature correct spelling and grammar.

Hotjar Support Engineer (Americas)

Although this is a remote position, we are currently only considering candidates in timezones within the Americas and willing to work EST hours.
Hotjar’s Hero Engineer team is looking for a new member to help us provide technical support to both Hotjar users and our internal departments. Our team is the glue between Customer Experience and Product & Engineering; we seek to maintain relentless empathy as we debug websites, communicate with customers, and build innovative new internal tools. We’re a collaborative team, led with a combination of high autonomy and accountability. Adaptability is key: our work varies based on our customers’ needs (both external and internal).
As a Hotjar Hero Engineer, you will investigate technical issues that Hotjar users have contacted us about. This means you’ll be at the cutting edge of web development and how it interacts with Hotjar’s tech stack. If you love staying abreast of the latest web technologies, and are naturally good at explaining things, then this role is for you. Due to the technical nature of our product, you should have a good understanding of web development. This includes being able to debug HTML, CSS and JavaScript in web browser based developer tools.
In this role you will:
  • Create ‘WOW’ moments by promptly replying and communicating with users on our support channels.
  • Investigate and solve technical issues users face on a daily basis by debugging complex issues in our codebase and on our users’ sites – which use a myriad of different technologies. Distill complex issues into underlying causes and work directly with our product teams to deploy solutions, while consistently delivering world-class support.
  • Use automation tools (eg, Zapier) to enhance and improve internal Hotjar processes.
  • Have the opportunity to create educational content and deliver technical training to the wider Customer Experience team.
  • Represent Hotjar users within the company – to further their needs and help generate innovative new product features.
Compensation Range
The budgeted compensation range for this role is $60,000 to $76,000 annually. Ranges are based on market research and are equitable to other roles within Hotjar. The actual compensation offered to a successful candidate will be based on relative experience and skills. At this time we are only able to provide official employment status to those located in Malta. All other candidates will join our team as full-time consultants and will be responsible for paying any taxes or applicable fees where they reside.

Requirements

  • Fluency in English, with flawless writing skills. If you also speak other languages, tell us! Portuguese, German, French, Spanish and Japanese will be considered assets.
  • Familiarity with HTML, CSS, Javascript, and using browser developer tools.
  • Naturally empathetic and able to communicate complex concepts in a way that empowers and never belittles.
  • Be able to work independently – accountable for your own actions and able to act with both urgency and integrity.
  • Desire and drive to always be learning.
  • Ability to work independently and within a team towards both personal and shared work goals.
  • Previous experience in a troubleshooting environment and be a great problem solver.
  • Passion for talking to users every day.
  • Flexible and adaptable in a fast workplace environment.
  • Desire to work in a caring, transparent, and giving work environment, in line with Hotjar’s company values, culture and ways of working.
  • Must submit to a background check confidentially processed by our third party

Client Engagement Specialist – Europe

By joining Kraken, you’ll work on the bleeding edge of bitcoin and other digital currencies, and play an important role in helping shape the future of how the world sees and uses money. At Kraken, we constantly push ourselves to think differently and forge new paths in a rapidly growing industry fraught with unexplored territory, which is why Kraken has grown to be among the largest and most successful bitcoin exchanges in the world. If you’re truly interested in pushing the envelope by disrupting an industry that some say cannot be disrupted, then we just might have the job meant for you. We’re hiring for our Client Engagement team, which provides customer support to our users and also handles most aspects of payments operations. Our team is one of the best in the industry, and we’re looking for people who can make us better. Many of us work remotely, but we’re in touch with each other constantly. We collaborate to solve tough problems and meet regularly to stay up to date on what’s going on in the company and industry. We have a great community-feel, and many of us have become close friends. Responsibilities:
  • Respond to 20 to 150 client requests by email regarding trading (explaining margin, answering questions about order execution), digital asset transfers (looking at block explorers, answering questions about bitcoin transactions), and other general questions on daily basis
  • Strive to make your team’s work as efficient as possible by improving or creating processes, automating as much of your work as possible, and so on
Requirements:
  • Strong written English communication skills (other languages are helpful)
  • Crypto trading experience, preferably on multiple platforms
  • High output – metrics-based experience is helpful
  • Able to make quick decisions autonomously
  • Security and privacy focused
  • Detail oriented
  • Loves helping people
  • Technical background a major plus
  • Experience with Kraken’s API a major plus

Client Engagement Specialist – Asia/Pacific

By joining Kraken, you’ll work on the bleeding edge of bitcoin and other digital currencies, and play an important role in helping shape the future of how the world sees and uses money. At Kraken, we constantly push ourselves to think differently and forge new paths in a rapidly growing industry fraught with unexplored territory, which is why Kraken has grown to be among the largest and most successful bitcoin exchanges in the world. If you’re truly interested in pushing the envelope by disrupting an industry that some say cannot be disrupted, then we just might have the job meant for you. We’re hiring for our Client Engagement team, which provides customer support to our users and also handles most aspects of payments operations. Our team is one of the best in the industry, and we’re looking for people who can make us better. Many of us work remotely, but we’re in touch with each other constantly. We collaborate to solve tough problems and meet regularly to stay up to date on what’s going on in the company and industry. We have a great community-feel, and many of us have become close friends. Responsibilities:
  • Respond to 20 to 150 client requests by email regarding trading (explaining margin, answering questions about order execution), digital asset transfers (looking at block explorers, answering questions about bitcoin transactions), and other general questions on daily basis
  • Strive to make your team’s work as efficient as possible by improving or creating processes, automating as much of your work as possible, and so on
Requirements:
  • Strong written English communication skills (other languages are helpful)
  • Crypto trading experience, preferably on multiple platforms
  • High output – metrics-based experience is helpful
  • Able to make quick decisions autonomously
  • Security and privacy focused
  • Detail oriented
  • Loves helping people
  • Technical background a major plus
  • Experience with Kraken’s API a major plus
 

Engineering Manager

At Reify Health, we are building a more creative healthcare system. We envision a world where every potential therapy, if safe and effective, is available to the patients who can benefit.
Our healthcare system relies on clinical trials to develop new, potentially life-saving treatments for patients. But clinical trials continue to be slow, unpredictable, and expensive. Reify Health’s product helps both the research leaders driving forward clinical trials and the doctors and nurses who care for the patient participants.
As we continue scaling the adoption of our product, we accelerate world-class clinical research and unlock innovation. By joining our team, you will play a significant role in our growing engineering team, further establishing our foundation for a culture of impact and empathy.
Your Responsibilities
  • Run and improve on product engineering processes including sprint planning, training and timely delivery of product — in collaboration with engineering leaders
  • Work with product, design, data and customer teams to develop new initiatives and improve existing product engineering processes.
  • Foster a healthy and collaborative culture that embodies our team values e.g. Bro-Free Zone and thoughtfulness.
  • Manage engineering team health through retros, one-on-ones and other feedback meetings.
  • Help grow and develop a team of talented and motivated engineers.
What Will Make You Stand Out
  • Engineering management experience with a strong record of shipping product with Agile processes.
  • Experienced product engineer that knows which product engineering processes work well and don’t work.
  • Experience working remotely. The engineering team is a distributed one with remote-first processes.
  • Experience working in a startup and with engineering teams of 10-40 people.
  • Enjoy mentorship, talking to people and growing teams.
  • Experience or strong interest in healthcare products.
  • Strong technical discipline with a good dose of people skills.
  • Interest in working with teams that use functional programming languages. We primarily use Clojure(Script).
Compensation and Perks
  • Competitive salary ($100-160k) and meaningful stock options — commensurate to your experience and expertise. Compensation varies from mid-level to very senior.
  • Health (including telemedicine), dental, vision, disability and life insurance. We pay 100% of your premiums and more than half for dependents.
  • Paid time off plus standard holidays that can be floated.
  • Macbook Pro or similar laptop provided for those who prefer a separate work computer.
  • A public transportation monthly pass. We are a short 2-3 minute walk from South Station.
We value diversity and believe the unique contributions each of us brings drives our success. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
 We are currently only considering US citizens or Green Card holders. 

Senior DevOps/System Admin Engineer

Have you built and managed large cloud server deployments that have seen real production usage? Are you an expert at automation tools like Chef, Consul, Terraform, and Kubernetes? Does having an amazing logging system like Splunk or ELK really get you excited? If so, we’d like you to learn about Action Verb.
We’re looking to hire a senior engineer for our Infrastructure team, which is responsible for keeping our network of 100 cloud servers across 8 AWS regions and their associated services running like a well-oiled machine.
You’ll be working with our existing deployments of Chef, Ansible, Consul, Terraform, ELK, Grafana, Statsd, Asterisk, MySQL, Redis, Memcached, Zeromq, Puma, Jenkins, and many other exciting open source systems. But you’ll also be free to deploy anything else if it gets the job done!
About our Network
  • ~100 servers, mostly hosted on AWS
  • 8 AWS regions, as well as multiple colocated hosting providers
  • Hundreds of public IP addresses
  • 500+ HTTPS requests per second
  • 25+ FTP/SFTP/FTPS logins per second
  • 100+ file transfers per second
  • 10,000+ log entries per second
  • 150,000+ metrics
  • 99.9% uptime record

For Roles on Our Infrastructure Team, We Want To See This Track Record of Results:

  • Experience managing large cloud server deployments that have seen real production usage.
  • Experience building distributed, failure-resistant architecture, including disaster recovery, backups, failover, etc.
  • Experience with the advanced features of public cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure (we use AWS).
  • Significant experience working with GNU/Linux servers, including a complete understanding of the command line, /proc, services, etc.
  • Comprehensive understanding of networking concepts, including layers, firewalls, DNS, VPN, etc.
  • Proficiency with configuration management tools, such as Chef or Puppet, and fluency with at least one major scripting language.
  • Familarity with large scale monitoring and analysis systems, such as ELK or Splunk (we use ELK).
  • Complete understanding of how to build secure infrastructure and an awareness of common server security vulnerabilities.
  • History managing a large database at scale (we use MySQL).
Please stop reading now if these bullets do not describe your experience. We do not make inexperienced hires. But if they do describe your experience, please read on!
Salary and Benefits
Action Verb offers competitive salaries combined with unparalleled flexibility and other benefits to secure top talent.
This position pays at least $110,000-130,000 per year, based on experience and track record, plus a great benefits package, and a $2,500 signing bonus to purchase a new computer, desk, or anything else that would help build or refresh your home office.
After your first year with Action Verb, we’ll update your salary annually based on your performance, as reviewed by your peers. Over the course of your career at Action Verb, your salary can grow by 2-3x if you are one of our highest performers.
We fully pay base plan health insurance premiums (exact plan details depend on your state of residence), and we’ll pick up the tab for 75% of your spouse or family if they wish to join your chosen plan. We want your family to be healthy.
You’ll take off 11 company-wide holidays per year as well as 20 days of PTO for vacations. Go have fun. Don’t work all the time.
Plus, you can join Action Verb Risk Free because of our $7,500 Quitting Bonus Within Your First 90 Days.

PR & Communications Coordinator

We’re looking for a PR/communications professional to help us launch and grow a new site focused on small businesses.
In a nutshell, you will be the point man/woman, responding to press inquiries, performing outreach to potential media outlets and websites, and working with the rest of our remote team to get our content placed and in front of the right people.
While this job is remote (anywhere in the world), you will need to be available Monday-Friday overlapping with both Pacific and Eastern time, so you can do interviews.
Ideally, you have a PR, communications, and marketing background, and have worked on similar projects in the past, and can show us proven and successful campaigns that you’ve worked on recently.
What you’ll be doing day to day:
  1. Coordinating interview requests and doing the actual interviews (usually for local radio)
  2. Finding new outlets and doing outreach to get placed in those outlets
  3. Working with existing outlets you developed in #2 to get even more placements
  4. Reviewing inbound PR queries from various sources and responding to the relevant ones
  5. Managing the entire flow of research, outreach, placements, and interviews.
  6. Develop new tactics and strategies related to our PR
  7. Coming up with ideas for more PR content and then coordinating with our content team to get it built/executed
What success looks like:
(actual #s to be discussed with individual candidates)
  1. Increase in placements and articles about our content and message
  2. Web traffic on a consistent “up and to the right” basis
  3. Establishment of the brand as a go-to resource for journalists and reporters who report about issues related to small business and the economy
What we’re looking for in a hire:
  1. Have done something like this before.
  2. Have previous and good experience working remote.
  3. Are a detail-oriented person.
  4. Enjoy talking to and interacting with people.
  5. Speak and write fluent, mother-tongue English
  6. Know how to use tools like BuzzStream, BuzzSumo, aHrefs and the like to find PR and placement opportunities.
This position is on a Freelance/1099 basis.