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Java Solutions Architect

Scottsdale, AZ

At Packlane, we help customers create custom packaging that can transform their businesses – and we need you to build the powerful tools and integrations that make it all possible. In fact, we'd be OK with you wearing a brightly colored superhero cape at your desk because you have visionary powers to see the future, lasers in your fingertips to weld together innovative solutions, and X-ray vision for detecting and eradicating bugs and inefficiencies. 

As the ideal candidate, you understand that inventive and stable software is essential to the continued prosperity of our business — and also result in web experiences more forceful than a locomotive.

Consider Packlane a unique challenge - you'll be in charge of systems that enable people with a range of design knowledge (from novices to experts)  to create products that help them tell their business's brand story. It's a big job, but the engineer we're looking for will be excited to work on a career-defining startup that's pioneering new approaches to designing and manufacturing packaging. Join our team as a software engineer and put your super-skills to work for the forces of good.

What You'll Do:

• Ideate. Create. Innovate. Help our small (but ultra-productive!) team craft new and wonderful products both by building innovative elements and integrating solutions.
• Craft the core of the web applications that power our business and pitch in on front-end development.
• Build reliable systems in Elixir, Phoenix, and the BEAM ecosystem and integrate them with world-class applications driven by PHP, PostgreSQL, and more.
• Collaborate with stakeholders, department heads, and consultants to design and implement the best business solutions possible.
  
• Help chart our course to dramatically scale our business, while maintaining architectural simplicity, pervasive observability, readable code, and a happy and engaged development team.
• Bend steel with your bare hands (optional).

What You'll Love About Packlane:

• Use the technologies you love  - Packlane is an opportunity to cut your teeth on an exciting technology stack, including innovative development frameworks and cutting-edge functional languages. 
• We're a small team - You'll be one of few, which means you'll have a real chance to make an impact. Expect (and hopefully enjoy!) a lot of control and influence over product decisions and prioritization, with significant engagement and input into business decision-making. 
  
• You'll help build our future - We've got a lot of ambitious projects in the works, from re-building manufacturing infrastructure from the ground up, to implementing robust order management systems that orchestrate an intricate production flow, and you'll be at the forefront of it all.  We value creative thinking, bold decisions, and the courage to take ownership over solutions.
• You'll be challenged to grow - If you are curious and willing to continue to learn and level-up, you'll be right at home on our team. We value diverse and growing skillsets as well as deep knowledge in specific areas of software development and engineering. We encourage exploration and growth, sharing your knowledge, and evolving our stack and implementation.
• Flexibility - We're a fully remote company, from Engineering through Customer Service. We're proud of our remoteness and make sure to stay connected and interactive through Slack, Zoom, and other channels. Our core business spans the North American time zones from GMT-3 to GMT-7, so as long as your work schedule can overlap within those boundaries, we're good! We welcome applicants outside of the US / North America. We value work-life balance and work to find innovative solutions to meet peoples' needs.

• 3+ years of experience in Elixir, Phoenix, and Ecto to build domain logic, web APIs, internal tools, or similar big projects in production. You have a couple of languages under your belt and aren't afraid of picking up new ones. Experience with PHP and Javascript is a plus.
• Real-world experience in designing and evolving SQL schemas and writing code that manages relational data. You're confident working with production data, choosing indexing strategies for tables based on their access patterns, and deciding when and how to use data caching in memory, as a few examples. 
• A great understanding of web technologies, and how to optimize them so a website handles complex data with speed, robustness, and security. You don't break a sweat while debugging production issues with the help of logs and tracing.
• You understand the value but also the cost of writing tests. We value high test coverage and, at the same time, we try to avoid being slowed down by tests that are too implementation-dependent when refactoring existing code.
  
• An easy-to-work-with attitude, well-organized, and highly self-motivated.
• Reliable. Accountable. Dependable. And all the other good -ables. You know what they are.
• Great communication and collaboration skills.
• Strong work ethic and a healthy obsession with learning new things.
• Don't see your strengths listed? Tell us about them! We want eager and gritty applicants :) not narrowly pigeon-holed engineers.

Bonus Points

• Pragmatic approaches to complex problems. Know when a hack is the right solution.
• Expert at debugging and willing to jump into the fray.
• Previous experience on remote teams.
• Experience setting up and managing cloud resources in AWS or GCP

Employment type

• Employee or contract depending on location.
• US applicants and International contractors who can overlap with North America time zones (minimum 2 hours overlap with PST) are welcome to apply.

At Packlane, we help customers create custom packaging that can transform their businesses – and we need you to build the powerful tools and integrations that make it all possible. In fact, we'd be OK with you wearing a brightly colored superhero cape at your desk because you have visionary powers to see the future, lasers in your fingertips to weld together innovative solutions, and X-ray vision for detecting and eradicating bugs and inefficiencies. 

As the ideal candidate, you understand that inventive and stable software is essential to the continued prosperity of our business — and also result in web experiences more forceful than a locomotive.

Consider Packlane a unique challenge - you'll be working on systems that enable people with a range of design knowledge (from novices to experts)  to create products that help them tell their business's brand story. It's a big job, but the engineer we're looking for will be excited to work on a career-defining startup that's pioneering new approaches to designing and manufacturing packaging. Join our team as a software engineer and put your super-skills to work for the forces of good.

What You'll Do:

• Ideate. Create. Innovate. Help our small (but ultra-productive!) team craft new and wonderful products both by building innovative elements and integrating solutions.
• Craft the core of the web applications that power our business and pitch in on front-end development.
• Build reliable systems in Elixir, Phoenix, and the BEAM ecosystem and integrate them with world-class applications driven by PHP, PostgreSQL, and more.
• Collaborate with stakeholders, department heads, and consultants to design and implement the best business solutions possible.
  
• Help chart our course to dramatically scale our business, while maintaining architectural simplicity, pervasive observability, readable code, and a happy and engaged development team.
• Bend steel with your bare hands (optional).

What You'll Love About Packlane:

• Use the technologies you love  - Packlane is an opportunity to cut your teeth on an exciting technology stack, including innovative development frameworks and cutting-edge functional languages. 
• We're a small team - You'll be one of few, which means you'll have a real chance to make an impact. Expect (and hopefully enjoy!) a lot of control and influence over product decisions and prioritization, with significant engagement and input into business decision-making. 
  
• You'll help build our future - We've got a lot of ambitious projects in the works, from re-building manufacturing infrastructure from the ground up, to implementing robust order management systems that orchestrate an intricate production flow, and you'll be at the forefront of it all.  We value creative thinking, bold decisions, and the courage to take ownership over solutions.
• You'll be challenged to grow - If you are curious and willing to continue to learn and level-up, you'll be right at home on our team. We value diverse and growing skillsets as well as deep knowledge in specific areas of software development and engineering. We encourage exploration and growth, sharing your knowledge, and evolving our stack and implementation.
• Flexibility - We're a fully remote company, from Engineering through Customer Service. We're proud of our remoteness and make sure to stay connected and interactive through Slack, Zoom, and other channels. Our core business spans the North American time zones from GMT-3 to GMT-7, so as long as your work schedule can overlap within those boundaries, we're good! We welcome applicants outside of the US / North America. We value work-life balance and work to find innovative solutions to meet peoples' needs.

• 2+ years of experience in Elixir, Phoenix, and Ecto to build domain logic, web APIs, internal tools, or similar big projects in production. You have a couple of languages under your belt and aren't afraid of picking up new ones. Experience with PHP and Javascript is a plus.
• Real-world experience in designing and evolving SQL schemas and writing code that manages relational data. You're confident working with production data, choosing indexing strategies for tables based on their access patterns, and deciding when and how to use data caching in memory, as a few examples. 
• A great understanding of web technologies, and how to optimize them so a website handles complex data with speed, robustness, and security. You don't break a sweat while debugging production issues with the help of logs and tracing.
• You understand the value but also the cost of writing tests. We value high test coverage and, at the same time, we try to avoid being slowed down by tests that are too implementation-dependent when refactoring existing code.
  
• An easy-to-work-with attitude, well-organized, and highly self-motivated.
• Reliable. Accountable. Dependable. And all the other good -ables. You know what they are.
• Great communication and collaboration skills.
• Strong work ethic and a healthy obsession with learning new things.
• Don't see your strengths listed? Tell us about them! We want eager and gritty applicants :) not narrowly pigeon-holed engineers.

Bonus Points

• Pragmatic approaches to complex problems. Know when a hack is the right solution.
• Expert at debugging and willing to jump into the fray.
• Previous experience on remote teams.
• Experience setting up and managing cloud resources in AWS or GCP

Employment type

• Employee or contract depending on location.
• US applicants and International contractors who can overlap with North America time zones (minimum 2 hours overlap with PST) are welcome to apply.

Are you a Senior System Engineer who has experience with DevOps and Jira administration? Do you want to work on a team with the largest number instances of Jira/ Confluence in the whole world? If so, Apex Systems has the perfect position for you.

If interested please email your resume to crynn@apexsystems.com.

Position: Sr Systems Engineer (DevOps Engineer with Jira admin background)

Length: Long term contract (1+ year)

Location: Remote

Rate: Dependent on experience

The Collaboration Tools Engineering Team provides a platform for our client's teams to plan, track and collaborate for executives to make decisions about resourcing and product roadmaps on a large scale. They leverage industry-standard tools like Jira and Confluence, and build their own custom web tools, data and reporting to empower management decision-making.

As a Sr Systems Engineering focused on Collaboration Tools, you'll have the opportunity to:

• Provide the world's best collaboration tool experience through customized Jira and Confluence Data Center instances
• Lead regular upgrades of Jira and Confluence
• Solve unique technical challenges with one of the largest scale instances of Atlassian tools
• Research and implement security vulnerability protections, working with Information Security teams
• Design integrations between Jira, Confluence, other 3rd party tools and custom applications through API or other solutions

Skillsets required:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or electrical engineering with >8 years of experience
• Usage of Jira and Confluence
• Management of web application(s) from a system build or operational support perspective
• Cloud concepts: Infrastructure as code, Azure, Openstack, or other cloud hosting and deployment solutions
• Understanding of database (Oracle, MS SQL), network, firewall, block storage mount concepts - ability to direct and work with those areas for end to end app solution
• Ability to manage systems projects end to end, set own schedule and track, build and implement repeatable test plans
• HA/DR design and implementation
• Coordinate activities with Infrastructure and Platform Teams for environment setup, configuration, and maintenance
• Manage and lead others within team as well as cross-functional resources
• Infrastructure design for and concepts for web applications
• Ability to work closely with Jira and Confluence Product owners and other systems engineers on the team
• Participate in an on-call rotation, triaging application incidents and customer escalations
• Application monitoring and troubleshooting of Java applications
• Experience with monitoring tools to monitor application performance
• Systems engineering background and Linux administration with an emphasis on DevOps practices

Preferred skills:

• Jira or Confluence administration
• Maintenance, Operational troubleshooting and tuning for Jira or Confluence health (system and application level)
• Automated performance testing
• Experience with monitoring tools for systems, infrastructure and applications
• Scripting (shell, groovy, or other scripting languages)
• Understanding of Active Directory concepts
• Vulnerability remediation
• Experience with SQL
• Ability to influence and follow up on requests for cross-functional teams

EEO Employer

Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law. If you have visited our website in search of information on employment opportunities or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation in using our website for a search or application, please contact our Employee Services Department at employeeservices@apexsystemsinc.com or 844-463-6178.

Are you a Senior System Engineer who has experience with DevOps and Jira administration? Do you want to work on a team with the largest number instances of Jira/ Confluence in the whole world? If so, Apex Systems has the perfect position for you.

If interested please email your resume to crynn@apexsystems.com.

Position: Sr Systems Engineer

Length: Long term contract (1+ year)

Location: Remote

Rate: Dependent on  experience

The Collaboration Tools Engineering Team provides a platform for our client's teams to plan, track and collaborate for executives to make decisions about resourcing and product roadmaps on a large scale. They leverage industry-standard tools like Jira and Confluence, and build their own custom web tools, data and reporting to empower management decision-making.

As a Sr Systems Engineering focused on Collaboration Tools, you’ll have the opportunity to:

Skillsets required:

Preferred skills:

Description

About ActivTrak:
The sudden rise in new remote work models has triggered an increase in the adoption of collaboration tools, an acceleration of digital transformations, and the need for visibility into how work gets done. Legacy metrics for assessing productivity in the workplace alone, are no longer sufficient for making the right business decisions in today’s reality. Companies must redefine their tech stack and data-driven dashboards to gain insights into how to inspire employees, boost team efficiency and promote positive outcomes-- all while building a culture based on trust and transparency. Redefining the measurement of performance in the workplace is one of the most important things an organization can do to modernize their workplace. And at ActivTrak, we’re taking on this challenge.

ActivTrak is a product-led, innovative software company that introduced it’s award-winning workforce analytics platform in 2015. Our cloud-based platform provides productivity insights into how teams work, improving employee and customer experience, while also enabling better business outcomes. At ActivTrak, we recognize the powerful link between these two concepts and we're on a mission to understand it more every day. Alongside 8500+ paying customers, our team uses the platform internally to assess team and organizational performance, hone product features, develop best practices, streamline processes, invest in new innovations, and promote a culture of immediate feedback and transparency.

We are a fast-growing, agile company with a forward-thinking, inclusive culture. Our teams are encouraged to collaborate daily to solve challenges, create and champion new ideas, and execute initiatives that help global customers and their modern workforces succeed by working better together. We’ve grown our team to over 100 people, raised over 70M money from some of the best venture capital firms around like Sapphire Ventures and Elsewhere Partners, and have experienced triple digit growth with ARR in eight figures. Customers love our product—with an average rating of 4.7/5 stars across 800+ online reviews.

Requirements

What you will do:
As a full-stack developer on the Production Engineering team, you will be focused on resolving customer issues, handling escalations, and building technical capital in our application. You will be joining a close-knit team working at the heart of our business. This position reports to the engineering organization. We need your skills to continue to support hundreds of millions of events per day, leverage our petabyte+ of existing data, and support our 200,000+ users as we disrupt the productivity analytics industry. As a full-stack developer, you can work at all layers of our application for full ownership of feature sets. ActivTrak is a Cloud-Native SaaS application; you can expect to be on the cutting edge of modern SaaS design and .NET Core development.

Your experience:

● Comprehensive C# knowledge (e.g., Reflection, Lambda, LINQ, Multithreading)

● AngularJS, MVC … experience with React or Angular+ is a plus

● HTML/XHTML, CSS

● Javascript and jQuery

● Experience in cloud environments (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud Platform)

● Data Modeling design

● API design/implementation (e.g., Microservices, REST, etc.)

● Serialization (e.g. JSON, XML)

● Strong SQL experience

● Docker/Containers, Kubernetes

● .NET coreUnderstanding of cross-browser compatibility issues

● Agile development

● Visual Studio

● Knowledge of the Software Development Lifecycle and software development best practices

● Software source control system, such as Git

Benefits

Work environment:

We have seven foundational values that are core to who we are and how we work:

This is an incredible opportunity to embark on an exciting journey with an early-stage, dynamic VC-backed company. If you have a positive attitude towards urgency, risk, and challenges that comes with working in a startup environment, then you will be a great fit! To see the many faces of ActivTrak, visit https://activtrak.com/our-team/.

ActivTrak is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. ActivTrak does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, age, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.

Apex Systems the 2nd largest IT Staffing firm in the nation is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to join our client’s team. This is a  W2 contract position  is slated for 6 months with possibility for extension/conversion and is FULLY REMOTE (PST hours).

**Must be comfortable sitting on Apex System's W2**

If you are interested send all qualified resumes to Nathan Castillo (Professional Recruiter with Apex Systems) at Ncastillo@apexsystems.com! 

Job Description:

We are on a mission to connect every member of the global workforce with economic opportunity, and that starts right here. Talent is our number one priority, and we make sure to apply that philosophy both to our customers and to our own employees as well. Explore cutting-edge technology and flex your creativity. Work and learn from the best. Push your skills higher. Tackle big problems. Innovate. Create. Write code that makes a difference in professionals’ lives.

Gobblin is a distributed data integration framework that was born at client and was later released as an open-source project under the Apache foundation. Gobblin is a critical component in client's data ecosystem, and is the main bridge between the different data platforms, allowing efficient data movement between our AI, analytics, and member-facing services. Gobblin utilizes and integrates with the latest open source big data technologies, including Hadoop, Spark, Presto, Iceberg, Pinot, ORC, Avro, and Kubernetes. Gobblin is a key piece in client's data lake, operating at a massive scale of hundreds of petabytes.

Our latest work involves integrations with cutting edge technologies such as Apache Iceberg to allow near-real-time ingestion of data from various sources onto our persistent datasets that allow complex and highly scalable query processing for various business logic applications, serving machine-learning and data-science engineers. Furthermore, we play an instrumental role in client's transformation from on-prem oriented deployment to Azure cloud-based environments. This transformation prompted a massive modernization and rebuilding efforts of Gobblin, transforming it from a managed set of Hadoop batch jobs to an agile, auto-scalable, real-time streaming oriented PaaS, with user-friendly self-management capabilities that will boost productivity across our customers. This is an exciting opportunity to take part in shaping the next generation of the platform.

What is the Job

You will be working closely with development and site reliability teams to better understand their challenges in aspects like:

Increasing development velocity of data management pipelines by automating testing and deployment processes,

Improving the quality of data management software without compromising agility.

You will create and maintain fully-automated CI/CD processes across multiple environments and make them reproducible, measurable, and controllable for data pipelines that deal with PBs every day. With your abundant skills as a DevOps engineer, you will also be able to influence the broad teams and cultivate DevOps culture across the organization.

Why it matters

CI/CD for big data management pipelines have been a traditional challenge for the industry. This is becoming more critical as we evolve our tech stack into the cloud age (Azure). With infrastructure shifts and data lake features being developed/deployed at an ever fast pace, our integration and deployment processes must evolve to ensure the highest-quality and fulfill customer commitments. The reliability of our software greatly influences the analytical workload and decision-making processes across many company-wide business units, the velocity of our delivery plays a critical role to transform the process of mining insights from massive-scale Data Lake into an easier and more efficient developer productivity paradigm.

What You’ll Be Doing

Technical Skills

Years of Experience

Preferred Skills

Apex Systems the 2nd largest IT Staffing firm in the nation is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to join our client’s team. This is a  W2 contract position  is slated for 6 months with possibility for extension/conversion and is FULLY REMOTE (PST hours).

**Must be comfortable sitting on Apex System's W2**

Job Description:

We are on a mission to connect every member of the global workforce with economic opportunity, and that starts right here. Talent is our number one priority, and we make sure to apply that philosophy both to our customers and to our own employees as well. Explore cutting-edge technology and flex your creativity. Work and learn from the best. Push your skills higher. Tackle big problems. Innovate. Create. Write code that makes a difference in professionals’ lives.

Gobblin is a distributed data integration framework that was born at client and was later released as an open-source project under the Apache foundation. Gobblin is a critical component in client's data ecosystem, and is the main bridge between the different data platforms, allowing efficient data movement between our AI, analytics, and member-facing services. Gobblin utilizes and integrates with the latest open source big data technologies, including Hadoop, Spark, Presto, Iceberg, Pinot, ORC, Avro, and Kubernetes. Gobblin is a key piece in client's data lake, operating at a massive scale of hundreds of petabytes.

Our latest work involves integrations with cutting edge technologies such as Apache Iceberg to allow near-real-time ingestion of data from various sources onto our persistent datasets that allow complex and highly scalable query processing for various business logic applications, serving machine-learning and data-science engineers. Furthermore, we play an instrumental role in client's transformation from on-prem oriented deployment to Azure cloud-based environments. This transformation prompted a massive modernization and rebuilding efforts of Gobblin, transforming it from a managed set of Hadoop batch jobs to an agile, auto-scalable, real-time streaming oriented PaaS, with user-friendly self-management capabilities that will boost productivity across our customers. This is an exciting opportunity to take part in shaping the next generation of the platform.

What is the Job

You will be working closely with development and site reliability teams to better understand their challenges in aspects like:

Increasing development velocity of data management pipelines by automating testing and deployment processes,

Improving the quality of data management software without compromising agility.

You will create and maintain fully-automated CI/CD processes across multiple environments and make them reproducible, measurable, and controllable for data pipelines that deal with PBs every day. With your abundant skills as a DevOps engineer, you will also be able to influence the broad teams and cultivate DevOps culture across the organization.

Why it matters

CI/CD for big data management pipelines have been a traditional challenge for the industry. This is becoming more critical as we evolve our tech stack into the cloud age (Azure). With infrastructure shifts and data lake features being developed/deployed at an ever fast pace, our integration and deployment processes must evolve to ensure the highest-quality and fulfill customer commitments. The reliability of our software greatly influences the analytical workload and decision-making processes across many company-wide business units, the velocity of our delivery plays a critical role to transform the process of mining insights from massive-scale Data Lake into an easier and more efficient developer productivity paradigm.

What You’ll Be Doing

Technical Skills

Years of Experience

Preferred Skills