This position will support Asia-Pacific hours.

Who is Percona?

Percona is an industry leader in providing elite services, training and software for MySQL®, MariaDB®, MongoDB®, PostgreSQL® and other open source databases in on-premises and cloud environments. Our services and software accommodate rapid growth and application development, help companies develop and deploy agile solutions and improve your ability to keep up with customer needs.

The Percona Support Team…

Percona Support is a global, elite team of engineers who love getting to the bottom of weird and interesting database behaviour. We understand our customers’ business needs and the nuances of their technical environments. This allows us to help our customers see the big picture and identify opportunities to improve their overall database infrastructures.

What you’ll be doing…

You’ll be teaming with some of the most well known database experts in the industry who are even better teammates, friends and mentors. You’ll have the opportunity to develop your own skills and become more powerful than you can possibly imagine…. with databases.

This is not a boring, entry-level role where you’ll just be triaging the boring and monotonous.

Your main responsibility will be helping our customers’ DBA teams when they need expert assistance.  You’ll do that by gathering relevant data and investigating issues to provide a detailed analysis of your findings in a digestible format by email, instant message or voice. For more serious and production impacting issues, you’ll perform screen sharing sessions to help them quickly navigate and resolve issues.

When you’re not fixing things, you’ll be authoring new blog posts on interesting topics for our open-source community to digest, answering questions on our forum, creating new articles in our customer facing knowledge base for more frequently seen issues, and hosting webinars amongst other things.

This is a remote role, so you can be located anywhere in the world. All you need is a decent, stable internet connection.

What does it take to be a Percona superhero?

• Excellent knowledge of both RDBMSs and MongoDB, including:

• All aspects of configuration and best practices

• Schema design, performance tuning, query optimization, & index tuning

• Backup solutions

• Replica set and sharding topologies

• Engine selection and usage

• Detailed understanding of monitoring requirements

• Demonstrable experience of administering Linux based systems

• Hands on experience of MySQL (Minimum 2+ years)

• Knowledge about virtualized environments such as VMWare, Docker and/or Kubernetes

• Knowledge about cloud providers (AWS, Google Cloud, Digital Ocean and/or Azure)

• Ability to troubleshoot methodically, identifying and applying fixes for known errors, and when necessary, capacity to think outside of the box to resolve complex issues

• Enthused to expand your skill set with new technologies as the industry continues to evolve

• Availability to travel for the occasional team meeting, conference and customer visits       

• Experience working with customers in English     

• Completed MongoDB University courses

It's cool if you also have experience with:

• Percona Backup for MongoDB

• Experience with MongoDB Atlas

• MySQL/Postgres DBA troubleshooting (basic level or higher)

• Nagios, Percona Monitoring Plugins and other monitoring tools

• Configuration management solutions such as Ansible, Puppet or Chef     

• Percona Toolkit suite

• Writing Python and Go

• MySQL and/or MongoDB certificates

Remote work from home openings require consistent and strong internet access.

HQ is in Durham, NC USA.  Staff members should be available if there is a need for any onsite trainings and/or events at any time.    

Note that your legal agreement will be with Percona Staffing LLC, a USA corporation and a subsidiary of Percona LLC.

Please review our Percona GDPR Privacy Policy.

Position Summary:

SemanticBits is looking to hire a talented senior software developer who can lead the development of modern digital health services implemented as highly scalable Java services deployed on the AWS cloud in Docker containers.  The project will be implemented using an Agile, Scrum-based process that includes Sprint Planning/Review/Retrospectives and daily stand-ups. The team uses human-centered design to implement highly modern, usable interfaces. This position is open to a mid-level to principal professional depending on experience.

Responsibilities:

• 5 years of experience in Core Java and JEE
• 3-5 years of experience with Spring Framework required
• Experience with Spring Boot required
• Experience with object-relational mapping frameworks, such as Hibernate and JPA, required
• Continuous build and test automation through Jenkins required
• Deployment and testing via containerization with Docker highly preferred
• Relational databases - should be very comfortable writing SQL, defining relational schemas, writing data migrations, and querying through ORM
• Modern frontend web development through React highly preferred
• RESTful microservice development in Java required
• Automated unit/integration/functional testing experience on both front- and back-end is a must: JUnit, Selenium/WebDriver, Protractor, Jasmine or similar
• Experience deploying and testing applications on AWS preferred
• Experience with git (workflows, merge strategies, etc) is strongly desired
• Knowledge of modern design pattern and building enterprise-grade production applications
• Excellent command of written and spoken English

Required Qualifications:

• Candidate must reside in the United States
• Bachelor's degree in technological or related field and a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience or a Master’s degree with a minimum of 3 years experience
• Flexible and willing to accept a change in priorities as necessary

Nice to Have:

• Experience working in the healthcare industry
• Federal Government contracting work experience

Physical and emotional requirements for the job:

This position is to be performed remotely from an individual’s home office and involves sedentary work. Employees in this role can be expected to exert up to 10 pounds of force on occasion in order to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move standard electronic equipment. Employees are expected to make decisions in a timely manner and display emotional intelligence during occasional stressful situations. 

Benefits:

• Generous base salary
• Three weeks of PTO
• Excellent health benefits program (Medical, dental and vision)
• 401k retirement plan. We contribute 3% of base salary irrespective of employee's contribution
• 100% paid short-term and long-term disability
• 100% paid life insurance
• FSA
• Casual working environment
• Flexible office hours
• New laptop (Mac or PC - your choice)

SemanticBits, LLC is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law. We are also a veteran-friendly employer.

Thorn is a non-profit focused on building technology to defend children from sexual abuse. Working at Thorn gives you the opportunity to apply your skills, expertise, and passion to directly impact the lives of vulnerable and abused children. Our staff solves dynamic, quickly evolving problems with our network of partners from tech companies, NGOs, and law enforcement agencies. If you are able to bring clarity to complexity and lightness to heavy problems, you could be a great fit for our team.

Last year, we took the stage at TED and shared our audacious goal of eliminating child sexual abuse material from the internet.

About the Role:

Engineers at Thorn build tools to help law enforcement improve the effectiveness and efficiency of their investigations into domestic sex trafficking and child sexual abuse.

What You’ll Do:

• Collaborate with other engineers on your team to build up complex client applications built on top of hundreds of terabytes of data.
• Work closely with the product manager and engineers to define product requirements, and collaborate to devise optimal engineering solutions.
• Create technical specifications, prototypes, and presentations to communicate your ideas.
• Play a critical role in day-to-day coding, code reviews, and troubleshooting production issues.
• Drive technical innovation by researching and incorporating new technologies and tools into our core system.

Skills We’re Seeking:

• You have a commitment to putting the children we serve at the center of everything you do.
• You have proficient software development knowledge with experience building, growing, maintaining a variety of products, and a love for creating elegant applications using modern technologies.
• You have experience prototyping, implementing, testing, and deploying code to production. You can work with shifting requirements and collaborate with internal stakeholders.
• You have empathy and can be a strong advocate for our users while balancing the vision and constraints of engineering realities.
• You communicate clearly, efficiently, and thoughtfully. We’re a highly-distributed team, so written communication is crucial, from Slack to pull requests to code reviews.
• You actively level up engineers around you, and develop positive mentor/mentee relationships with others on your team

Technologies We Use:

You should have non-trivial experience with React and SQL, but we’re excited about teaching folks that have the desire and ability to learn the rest.

• React / TypeScript
• Node / Express
• Relational databases (MySQL, MemSQL)
• GraphQL
• Docker / Kubernetes
• AWS

Thorn is a strong and flexible team because of the diverse backgrounds of our staff. This includes professional background, subject matter expertise, culture, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, and expression, language, hobbies, etc. We strongly encourage women, minorities, and people from underrepresented backgrounds to apply. Your skills are needed here.

JOIN OUR AMAZING COMPANY!

Being part of WebDevStudios means more than just having a job. We strive to foster passion, creativity, innovation, and pride in what we accomplish every day. We look to our employees to show us where they really shine and put each individual’s skills and interests at the forefront of our projects.

We could not accomplish what we do daily without our employees and the wonderful jobs they perform. They are our most valuable resource. We recognize that when you love what you do, your best self-shines through.

Do you enjoy working with the server-side principles of web applications and WordPress themes? Are you enthusiastic to push the web forward, and better yourself? Are you passionate about mentoring and serving your teammates? Join and let’s work together to solve some of the most interesting and challenging engineering problems in the WordPress space through our partnerships with our amazing clients.

Your Day-to-Day

As a Lead Engineer, you will be responsible for leading the effort to define and develop the technical vision of projects for your team. You will also be ensuring the code being delivered, is of substantial quality. In practice, this means mentoring your team, reviewing code, coordinating releases, working with Project Managers and stakeholders to keep an eye on milestones and budgets. You will need excellent verbal and written communication skills — while adhering to our values, Agile methodologies, coding best practices, and established organizational processes.

This is a full-stack engineering role, and modern frontend experience is often needed alongside traditional PHP backend expertise.

Learn more about what it’s like to be part of the gang at WebDevStudios.

Qualities that matter to our team:

• A positive attitude, a good work ethic, and enjoy helping others.
• Be a supportive team member and leader.
• Be candid and respectful.
• Not afraid to ask for help, teachable, a quick study, and have the ability to be flexible when “stuff happens.”
• Understand deadlines and can complete a variety of tasks throughout the week.
• Willing to participate in company-paid training courses to further their skills.
• Excited about contributing back to open-source technologies.
• Comfortable communicating via Slack and participating in video calls with their team while working remotely.

Responsibilities

• Define and deliver solutions for prioritized deliverables.
• Lead, mentor, and support other Engineers.
• Ensure project teams meet documented deadlines, budgets, and complete tasks in accordance to project milestones.
• Enforce coding best practices and testing requirements.
• Communicate the status of your work to Project Managers and participate in a project team and department calls.
• Take responsibility for the engineering success of your project(s).
• Be available during normal business hours.
• Able to work remotely, with a strong emphasis on communication and organizational skills.

Requirements

• You have 2+ years of professional experience as a Lead Engineer, Technical Lead, or Team Lead.
• You have significant experience with most of the following areas of technology and the ability to quickly learn and close any gaps that you encounter while engaged: WordPress at scale, MySQL, PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, Gutenberg, WP-CLI and WP REST-API, RESTful services and APIs, linting PHP, CSS, and JavaScript.
• You have good working knowledge with: build-tools like Gulp, WebPack, Docker, package management tools like NPM and Composer, Git, and CSS preprocessors like SASS.
• You have experience developing responsive interfaces and debugging for a wide range of browsers and devices.
• You have a strong comprehension of PHP and object-oriented programming (OOP) practices.
• You have experience setting up code deployments and build/test environments.
• You are familiar with Agile SCRUM and Waterfall project methodologies.
• You can follow, and help enforce, coding best practices.
• You possess the ability to work effectively and dependably in remote environments.
• You possess the confidence to effectively present well-reasoned options to decision-makers.

Benefits

We know the value in supporting our employees’ holistic well-being, and we make sure our benefits package reflects our commitment to our team.

• 100% Paid Medical
• Paid Sick Leave
• Unlimited Flex Time
• 25 days paid time off
• Work from anywhere
• Employee 401k
• Paid Continuing Education
• Paid Parental Leave
• Annual Company Retreat

Angular Developer who loves TDD

Main project

Our main project is a learning management system (LMS) which allows learners to enroll and take courses online. Our primary customers are healthcare workers who are required to maintain their licenses by taking courses to get CEU’s (continuing education units)

This project has a frontend served with node, built with angular 2+ which consumes our backend application via RESTful API maintained by other team members. The backend is mostly php but you won’t need to touch that unless you really want to.

What you will be doing

• Adding new features to our LMS frontend application. This includes all UI/UX, design to development.
• Meet with stakeholders to understand our clients needs and propose solutions.
• Design functional user interfaces to meet those needs
• You bring your own unique skill set to
  the table and collaborate with others to accomplish your goals.
• Develop components backed by tests, code quality and tests are HIGHLY valued here, you will have time to make sure it is done right!
• Cleaning existing tightly coupled components that where not done right the first time…
• Migrate old features out of the legacy application. Best not to touch it lest it break, so just re-make it the right way!
• We are all about continuing education, you will be provided the time resources to learn and grow and we expect you to do so!
• You will be the lead frontend engineer, expected to mentor those under you.
• Review other team members pull requests and respond to feedback on your own.
• Prepare release candidates and respond to testing feedback (product owner manually tests things before they are approved to deploy)
• Look for ways to improve anything and propose your ideas. We want to hear them!

Day-to-day flow

• You’re part of an agile, multidisciplinary team. You bring your own unique skill set to
  the table and collaborate with others to accomplish your goals.
• One week sprints planned ahead in JIRA
• Super short daily stand-up in the afternoon
• Learn something new each day
• Enjoy flexible work hours while getting stuff done!

Our Dev Team

Company size is about 20 to 30 people. The dev team size is about 5, two frontend, two backend, and then a devops/backend guy who manages all kinds of stuff.  We collaborate, bounce ideas off each other, have fun.  We do TDD kata's and coding challenges just for fun.  We talk on slack and google meet.

Tools

• Slack
• Jira
• Github
• TravisCi or CircleCi (we have and use both for different things)
• Docker
• AWS

Languages and Frameworks

We need you to know JavaScript, TypeScript, Angular

Though others may be using PHP, Bash, Python, Go

Computers

Mac or Linux please, lets leave it at that :)

Must haves:

• JavaScript
• Angular 2+
• TypeScript
• TDD
• passion for clean, quality code that is maintainable!

Nice to haves:

• AngularJS (some legacy stuff needs re-done)
• Nodejs, storybook, cypress, jest
• Docker
• DevOps, CI/CD Pipeline
• Linux CLI

We offer:

• Money
• Flexible work schedule
• We pay for your training (udemy, pluralsight, cleancoders)
• 15 days paid time off (PTO)
• health, vision, dental, 401k, etc.

The Role

As a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer within the Player Immersion & Expression (PIE) initiative, you'll report into the team’s Engineering Manager. You will take product ideas around discoverability and acquisition of content and bring them to life. The mission for the Player Immersion & Expression (PIE) initiative on League of Legends is to "create immersive offerings of expression, commemoration, and delight to amplify player experiences in League". One strategy, among others, that we use to work towards this mission is through creating feature-rich content. But it doesn't stop there. We need players to discover and acquire this content at the first source of inspiration! This is where your expertise comes in.

Responsibilities:

As a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer for League of Legends you’ll contribute to the following areas depending on your interests and experience:

• Develop and test player content experiences in the League of Legends client
• Contribute to architecture requirements and design
• Design and enhance League microservices
• Write unit and integration tests
• Code reviews
• Enhance build and deployment tooling
• Improve product visibility through telemetry and analytics

In time, you'll provide mentorship to other engineers, create and develop documentation for ongoing support, and participate in an on-call rotation to provide support high availability for our products.

Required Qualifications:

Insight into applying to Riot Engineering is available on our discipline page

• 5+ years experience as a software engineer, with 5 years in full stack development
• Experience in designing, launching & maintaining and supporting production UI or microservices with large user-bases or that exist as components of larger, more complex applications.
• Experience implementing best-practices in software design, code reviews, code linting and analysis, automated testing, continuous integration.
• Expertise in operational best-practices, implementing automated builds, software packaging, automated deployments, logging, monitoring, automated-alerting
• As comfortable communicating in distributed teams as with people sitting right next to you.
• You will visit our Los Angeles HQ approximately two to four times a year for around four to five weeks in total.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with Java, Golang, node.js, or Python
• Experience with databases such as MySQL, MongoDB, Riak
• Experience with Docker, Terraform or Ansible
• Experience with Webpack, ES6, Dust, Ember, React, SASS

Our Perks:

• Medical, dental, and vision plans that cover you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children
• Open paid time off
• Retirement benefits with company matching
• Life insurance, parental leave, plus short-term and long-term disability
• Play funds so you can broaden and deepen your knowledge of our players and community through games
• We will double down on your donations of time and money to non-profits

Let's Thrive Together:

Because together we are better

It’s our policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and members of Riot Games, Inc. We know that fresh and varied perspectives will make us better at what we do, so however you identify and whatever background you bring with you, we’re excited to hear from you. Don’t be discouraged if you feel you don’t fully meet every single one of the requirements for a particular role, there’s always room for growth at Riot. If you spot a role that will make you want to jump out of bed in the morning, we are waiting to hear from you!

Why CartHook? 

CartHook works with merchants to help add new revenue to their stores with post-purchase upsells. Come join a team that’s working with some of the biggest online direct-to-consumer brands, helping them thrive in today’s ecommerce environment. CartHook gives merchants control over an essential part of their stores, helping them generate new revenue through post-purchase upsells, and have processed over $1 billion on the platform. 

The role 

As a senior backend engineer at CartHook, you will be creating powerful, flexible, highly scalable APIs and developing various backend systems and operations. Additionally you will architect, define and maintain our database and models, and ensure our systems can keep up their high performance and responsiveness. You will be responsible for implementing new features and integrations as well as supporting our existing functionality. You will also join us in sprint planning and retrospectives and have the opportunity to make a lasting impact on our stack and the future of ecommerce. 

This is a full-time, fully remote role. Ideally, you are located in a European timezone, but we are open to other timezones on a case by case basis 

Who we are 

We are a group of people who give a damn. We believe in doing what’s right and speaking up, even when it’s difficult. We pursue success, humbly. 

We work on two continents, with offices in Portland, Oregon, and Ljubljana, Slovenia. We bridge the timezones and distance with thorough and transparent communication, and processes designed to empower and support each other. We’re a company of people from a variety of backgrounds, with a range of perspectives, which makes us stronger. 

At CartHook, you can be the person you are, regardless of ethnicity, religion, political affiliation, age, size, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity. We provide a safe, welcoming space for those who are marginalized. 

What we're looking for: 

• Minimum 5 years of experience in backend systems and API development
• Advanced knowledge of PHP (minimum of 5 years)
• Advanced knowledge of Laravel (minimum of 2 years)
• Advanced knowledge of MySQL or similar relational database systems
• Excellent REST API understanding
• Excellent understanding of OOP concepts
• Excellent understanding of software design patterns
• Excellent time management skills
• GitHub, Docker, Buildkite, and similar development tools
• Ability to problem-solve, track, and follow up on a variety of complex technical issues with internal and external stakeholders
• Ambition, the ability to think beyond, be highly collaborative, and extremely driven

Bonus points 

• AWS Knowledge
• Ecommerce knowledge
• Scrum and agile development
• Experience with high performance systems
• Deep understanding of database operations