Day: 19 July 2021

Palo Alto Insight LLC: Senior Frontend Web Developer (React)

Posted on July 19, 2021

Headquarters: Washington

URL: https://www.paloaltoinsight.com

We are looking for a frontend web developer who can rapidly develop, launch and maintain multiple React web apps for our client businesses. The apps we develop usually have a data visualization component to it, so experience with frameworks such as D3.js is a plus. You will work directly under the CTO of the company in a small team of developers, and will be involved in multiple projects.

Your responsibilities:

  • Take design prototypes and wireframes done by our UX designer and turn it into a working web app.
  • Ensure that the app is secure. We work with sensitive data for our clients.
  • Work with our data scientists so that their visualizations can be recreated in the app.
  • Work on the backend and infrastructure as necessary (with other members of the team).
  • Develop and deploy the app in production (each developer is on rotation to do weekly deployments for all apps).
  • Maintain the app.
  • Do the above for potentially multiple apps in parallel.

Desired qualities:

  • You have good taste.
  • You are smart and can get things done quickly and correctly the first time.
  • You can learn new technologies to get the job done as necessary.
  • You are responsible.
  • You are good with data and data manipulations and visualizations.
  • Experience working remote.
  • Nice to have but not necessary: Japanese

Benefits:

  • Medical, dental, vision and life insurance plans
  • A competitive 401(k) retirement savings program matched by
  • Paid vacation and sick leave policy
  • Personal development up to $2000 per year – Personal development books, courses and conferences
  • Company provided MacBook Pro 
  • Fully remote

If you feel you are a good candidate for the job, please send us your resume, where you are located, portfolio (GitHub repositories), and a short memo on how you fulfill the desired qualities. Email us at careers at paloaltoinsight dot com

To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/palo-alto-insight-llc-senior-frontend-web-developer-react

Yet Another Mail Merge: Principal Software Engineer – Remote (European timezones)

Posted on July 19, 2021

Headquarters: Brussels, Belgium

URL: https://yamm.com

Do you like having the time and freedom to explore a problem and its potential solutions? Want to be part of a company where your ideas can be easily and openly discussed? How about being able to have a high impact on a product with millions of users? You’ve knocked at the right door.
Yet Another Mail Merge enables users to send email campaigns directly from their Gmail account, using a simple spreadsheet to configure and track. It is used, loved and highly rated by millions of users.
We are looking for a highly motivated Software Engineer to join our growing engineering team. You will be responsible for the end-to-end development of core parts of the product. We expect you to help us take our products and our team to the next technical level and to teach us something we don’t know.

Our product values are: simplicity, empowerment, and getting out of the way.
Our infrastructure is entirely on the cloud on Google Cloud Platform. We use Firebase, Cloud Functions, PostgreSQL. We code in TypeScript, JavaScript (React), Google Apps Script, and Java.

Core responsibilities:
  • Taking full responsibility for big projects and core parts of the product from a software engineering perspective
  • Writing technical specifications for and developing new large features
  • Contributing to product specification by evaluating the technical difficulty of a project
  • Proactively proposing architecture, performance and infrastructure improvements
  • Owning the release process, improving the software engineering life cycle (build, CI/CD)
  • Helping set and maintain a high professional standard
  • Helping junior developers to grow
Some examples projects that you could work on:
  • Working on features that will improve the deliverability of emails sent with YAMM: spam predictor, bounce checker, throttling, etc
  • Making our data model evolve to be more flexible and scalable, and make the right database choice for the next stage of our growth
  • Designing and implementing the API of a new billing system and pricing model
  • Developing a webhooks API and integrating fully with Zapier
  • Improving performance across the board
  • Revamping our billing system
You:
  • You care more about making reliable software used by many than a shiny unstable thing used by no one. You understand that engineering work is done first and foremost for the customers.
  • You care a lot about performance, understand that speed is a core feature
  • Fully capable of building, owning and running entire systems (new add-on, new billing system, new api)
  • Deep, substantial expertise in multiple programming environments, with a particular focus on the front-end
  • You can provide material feedback on the work of junior programmers
  • You’re a fan of spreadsheets and their programming paradigm
  • You’re a team player
Qualifications:
  • Experience: 6+ years as a professional programmer on products, preferably SaaS products with many users.
  • Cloud: you have experience with one of the 3 main cloud platforms. Bonus points for GCP and serverless experience
  • Programming languages: you have experience with JavaScript (TypeScript/Flow and React) and at least one back-end programming language (Java is a plus)
  • Software engineering tools: you’ve worked with git and Jira, you’re familiar with front-end build tools, benchmarking, CI/CD and profiling tools
  • Language: excellent in English, both written and oral
  • Writing: you enjoy writing, you care about words and grammar, you are sharp and thorough
Benefits:
  • The range for this role is EUR 70k-110k, depending on experience and type of contract
  • 30 days of paid time off including national holidays
  • Medical, dental and vision insurance (depending on the type of contract)
  • Paid parental leave
How to apply:
We want to get a sense of how you write and think. To that end, please write an email that covers at least the following:
  • Tell us why you want this job, and why you’re interested in building Yet Another Mail Merge
  • Tell us about something you’ve built that you’re proud of, show us some code if possible
  • Tell us what you’re excited about in programming these days
  • Include a link to something you’re proud of having written online (or copy/paste if not public – we won’t share)
  • Please ask the questions you have
We value great writers, so please use your application to show off those skills (stock cover letters won’t do)
 
Send to the email address indicated on WWR. 
 
Interview process:
  1. We will first ask you a few targeted questions to be answered by email so as to get acquainted with you in writing
  2. If that goes well, we’ll send you a technical test 
  3. You’ll then move on to an interview with a Lead Engineer
  4. Finally, an interview with the CTO
We can’t wait to hear from you!

To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/yet-another-mail-merge-principal-software-engineer-remote-european-timezones