** This is a Remote, Work-from-Home Role in the United States **

** Lead Python Software Engineer - Flask - New Product Development **

Summary

This senior API engineer will be a senior lead member of a Scrum team responsible for developing and supporting one of our web-based SaaS offerings. This person will be an expert in Python and have extensive experience designing, refactoring, and supporting enterprise applications. This person must have team and/or project leadership experience, be self-motivated and possess strong communication and coordination skills between Product, Engineering, and QA. This person must be an Agile enthusiast, partnering with the team scrum master to drive sprint success and partnering with the product owner to oversee features and maintenance task execution and address technical debt.

 Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Leadership:

• Apply “one team, full system, whole product” perspective and thinking to lead ownership of architectural integrity, code quality, development project execution, service and support, and releases
• Champion and participate in value delivery through Agile, Scrum and SAFe  processes
• Build for quality through code reviews, support of continuous integration and test automation, and the burndown of technical debt
• Define, estimate, code, review, test and document solutions for feature development, maintenance and refactor initiatives
• Install and maintain your individual development environment
• Uphold DIGARC’s software development processes and standards

Support:

• Assist in tier-3 support of SaaS-based enterprise product (client issues, performance, data integrity, integration with related applications)
• Handle issue triage independently and by coordinating the efforts of the right team members
• Communicate solution measures with affected departments (Support, Systems, other Product teams)

Communication:

• Communicate ideas, problems and solutions effectively with the VP of Product Development, the chief architect, other engineers, and across other teams
• Engage other engineers in healthy collaboration about code and processes
• Act as a cross-department communication point person for  innovation, continuous improvement and issue status, causes and resolutions

Competencies: 

• Self-motivated, high energy, results oriented contributor who thrives in a very fast-paced setting

• Extremely organized with strong time management and prioritization skills

• Creative thinker with proven success in providing solutions to solve business issues

• Excellent listening and interpersonal skills

• Ability to build rapport and relationships quickly and develop trust with others

• Ability to listen, understand, anticipate needs

• Able to multi-task and deal with shifting priorities

• Proven ability to inspire, motivate and lead others

• Demonstrated aptitude for constantly learning new technologies

• Demonstrated experience with agile development and software development life cycles

• Demonstrated experience developing and maintaining enterprise SaaS software 

• Experience with a noSQL persistence layer

• Understand and troubleshoot the application stack (Python, Angular) and infrastructure on AWS

• Understand, configure, and optimize a full text search

• Troubleshoot an application from all angles (client issues, performance, data integrity)

Education and Experience: 

• B.S. in Computer Science, Information Systems or related Engineering or equivalent experience

• Minimum 8 years of experience in a software product development environment

• Minimum 6 years of experience designing, building and supporting end-to-end web-based systems for enterprise applications

• 6+ years of professional development in Python on Linux

• 2+ years of professional experience developing RESTful APIs

• Experience developing software hosted in a cloud environment.

• Experience as a software development project leader or technical lead including project planning and execution, staffing, tasking and reporting

• Experience with enterprise software development, maintenance, and processes

• Experience with Agile processes, especially Scrum, Scrumban, or Scaled Agile (SAFe) 

• Experience problem-solving with large, complex web-based applications

• Experience with enterprise, web-based data integration including transactions, full CRUD and ETL across business applications

• Experience working in and maintaining a Docker environment

Physical Demands and Work Environment: 

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  

** U.S. Citizenship or ability to work in the United States without sponsorship (currently and in the future) **

All DIGARC employees are expected to display unquestionable integrity in every aspect of work and dealing with others.  Respect for diversity and inclusion of all individuals is imperative to our business success and required.

Zurich, fully remote possible | Permanent employment with our customer Labster AG
Reference number: 505558/1

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My duties

• Designing technical solutions to automate and streamline the client's internal processes end-to-end across Finance, Customer Success, Sales, and Platform
• Lead the implementation of the solutions across the company
• Oversee the work of required specialist consultants
• Work closely with the client's engineering team to integrate new products with Sales, Customer Success and Finance teams
• Ensuring code quality within the business systems team
• Collaborating closely with Business systems product owner, and other team leads

My qualifications

• BSc or MSc in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
• Profound working experience in integrating business APIs
• Hands-on experience and expert knowledge of Salesforce and working knowledge of other BI tools
• Can-do attitude with a strong focus on value creation
• Lifelong learner, keen to learn new technologies and skills
• You are an analytical thinker, with an eye for simple yet powerful solutions.
• Passionate about good code quality and software design 
• Experience working in an Agile development environment (Scrum, CI/CD, TDD)
• Knowledge of Python, Django, PostgreSQL, Node.js is a plus
• Full proficiency in English

My benefits

• A city with a high quality of life that perfectly embraces both modern and traditional values
• A highly motivated team and an open way of communication
• Annual employee events
• Benefits of a permanent employment: flexitime account and overtime compensation, company pension scheme
• Dynamic and innovative market environment
• Fully remote work possible

About Hays

IT specialists hold all the cards: for its customers in industry and the public sector, Hays is looking for motivated employees who like looking at the bigger picture and growing with new challenges. We make sure that you benefit from our many years of experience in IT recruitment and will find you the right role to suit your skills and interests – all completely free of charge to you. Register with us and reap the benefits of job offers that are both interesting and relevant to your skills and experience.

My contact person

Nikolaus Schönecker

Reference number
505558/1

Contact
Phone: +41-44-2255 - 129
E-Mail: nikolaus.schoenecker@hays.ch

Summary

This Senior Engineer will be a valuable member of a Scrum team responsible for developing and supporting one of our web-based SaaS offerings. This person will be highly proficient in Angular 2+ and Javascript for enterprise application development. This person should also have experience programming against APIs. This person will have experience working on a scrum team within sprints, participating in estimations and refinements, and able to follow a story’s acceptance criteria and mockups to produce a working user interface. This person will need to be self-motivated and possess strong communication and coordination skills between Product, Engineering, and QA. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Engineering:

• Complete sprint stories, fix bugs, and code new features:

• Assist in refining backlog work and defining acceptance criteria
• Accurately estimate time required for a story
• Support work with code reviews, unit/integration tests and by contributing documentation
• Install and maintain personal docker environment
• Uphold DIGARC’s development process

Essential Duties and Responsibilities (c0nt):

Communication:

• Engage other Engineers about code, process and challenges within the Agile framework
• Communicate problems and solutions directly and effectively to leadership

Competencies: 

• Ability to analyze, design, read, write, and explain Angular 2+
• Ability to understand and troubleshoot the application stack (Python API, Angular front end, MVC Structure)
• Ability to write quality unit tests
• Ability to use Git effectively
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills 
• Self-starter 
• Adept at working independently and efficiently on several projects in the same timeframe
• Proven ability to work collaboratively with others
• Tenacity in troubleshooting (client issues, performance, data integrity)
• Aptitude for constantly learning new technologies, highly desired

Education and Experience: 

• B.S. in Computer Science, Information Systems or related Engineering or equivalent experience
• 4+ years of experience debugging and problem solving with large, complex web-based applications

• 4+ years experience with Javascript front end development, preferably Angular 2+
• 2+ years experience working with APIs or Python
• 2+ years with enterprise software development, maintenance and process
• Experience testing frameworks and unit testing
• Experience with Docker
• Experience with Agile process, especially Scrum

Physical Demands and Work Environment: 

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  Travel outside of the office is minimal but can happen on occasion.  Typical professional office working conditions.

** U.S. Citizenship or ability to work in the United States without sponsorship (currently and in the future) **

All DIGARC employees are expected to display unquestionable integrity in every aspect of work and dealing with others.  Respect for diversity and inclusion of all individuals is imperative to our business success and required.

Scalable Path is looking for a Full-Stack Django Developer and Project Leader. This is a remote, part-time position (approximately 4 hours/day).

CLIENT COMPANY DESCRIPTION:
The client is a real estate startup that helps homeowners and homebuyers make a successful transaction without the complexity and cost of agents and commissions.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
You will be both a leading a small development team and developing new features in an existing Django web application. Your responsibilities will include:
- Leading a daily scrum meeting
- Working with the client (Product Owner) to define new features
- Managing the development team (you and two other developers)
- Making important technical/architectural decisions
- Coding new features such as Integration with 3rd party providers
- Setting expectations with the client and being accountable for commitments

RELATIONSHIPS - WHO YOU'LL BE WORKING WITH:
You will be leading a development team with two other developers and at least one member of the client's management team who will be acting as the Product Owner. The client is in the America/New York (-04:00) EDT time zone.

REQUIRED SKILLS:
- Strong written and spoken English communication skills
- Ability and desire to lead a small dev team
- Experience with playing the role of a Scrum Master on a daily meeting
- Experience with hosting and deploying web applications on AWS
- Python (Django)
- JavaScript
- CSS
- Git (Github)

DESIRED (NICE-TO-HAVE) SKILLS:
- Certified Scrum Master

START DATE:
As soon as possible.

EXPECTED CONTRACT DURATION:
Long-term (ongoing)

SemanticBits is looking for a full-stack engineer to help us build modern digital health services that are used to support the Center’s for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) Quality Payment Program (QPP). The project involves implementing highly interactive and modern web interfaces with Angular that will be used by healthcare providers across the country. The system is backed by Node business services implemented in a microservices paradigm. The application uses a MySQL database. 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.

Responsibilities

• Be part of a dynamic, highly-independent Scrum team following the standard Scrum ceremonies in a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) environment
• Work with the Product Owner and Scrum Master to break down requirements into technical tasks
• Take ownership of various user stories and work with the development team to manage dependencies on the QPP Program
• Collaborate with members of other teams to address integration needs and/or other interdependencies
• Assist with the release management process
• Assist team members in any way necessary to meet team commitments

Requirements

• Expertise working as part of a dynamic, interactive Agile team developing and delivering digital services
• Minimum 3 years experience developing front-end web user interfaces with Angular
• Experience with integrating with RESTful backend microservices using Node.js(+typescript)
• Experience with AWS highly preferred, along with Docker
• Experience with build tools like webpack, npm, and gulp/grunt
• Experience with Test-Driven Development using automated testing frameworks such as Mocha, Karma, Jasmine, Sinon, and/or Protractor
• Experience ensuring your code builds and deploys properly through Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment processes, built in Jenkins or a comparable tool
• Ability to work with and coordinate with other developers using digital tools such as Slack
• Experience with version control tools, such as Git
• Knowledge of modern design patterns and building enterprise-grade production applications
• Excellent command of written and spoken English

Benefits Competitive base salary Three weeks of PTO Ten paid holiday days Comprehensive health benefits (medical with HSA option, dental, and vision) Professional development and training reimbursement 401k retirement plan with matching benefit 100% paid short-term and long-term disability 100% paid life insurance Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) Casual working environment Flexible working hours 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.

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ABOUT THE POSITION

We are currently searching for a Technical Product Manager to lead the future of our Emerging Languages agents. If you are passionate about creating great customer experiences and driving immediate business impact, this role might be just what you have been looking for.   The ideal candidate will have a good understanding of the modern software development lifecycle, the developer persona, and the security space. This role requires a broad understanding of the market trends around Node, Ruby, Python and their corresponding frameworks. He/She should be obsessed about scoping and prioritization, have a strong software engineering foundation, and a track record of driving Agile development as a Product Owner. 

Responsibilities:

• Product owner for the Node, Ruby and Python agents across the agile development process, including sprint planning, grooming and retrospectives.
• Own and drive the business case for new agents and the strategy and roadmap for the Node, Ruby and Python agents with focus on usability, versatility, adoption and competitiveness. 
• Collaborate with the broader product management team to align on the agents priorities across our various product and GTM initiatives. 
• Develop a deep understanding of the market landscape and identify key areas of competitive differentiation and market disruption.
• Continuously monitor the pulse of the market through frequent interactions with customers, sales and customer success.
• Work with cross-functional teams to execute successful software releases covering support, operations, communication, documentation & sales enablement.
• Establish clear metrics and KPIs to continuously evaluate business performance and usability with a direct feedback loop into the product strategy.

Qualifications:

• 1-3 years of technical product management / product owner experience in relevant markets. Experience on targeting the developer persona is a plus.
• Software development experience, especially in Ruby, Python and the corresponding frameworks.
• Customer Experience and KPI-driven mindset that focuses on delivering delightul solutions with measurable success.
• Talent for handling input from various stakeholders and distilling it down to prioritized actionable plans that engineering can execute and deliver.
• Demonstrated experience with Agile and Lean development practices while working closely with engineering.
• Ability to thrive in a startup environment
• Bachelor's degree in engineering; MBA a plus.

What We Offer:

• Competitive Compensation
• In-office Lunches
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits
• 401(k) + matching
• Flexible paid time off