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Stack Builders is an Agile software consultancy based in New York with offices in Quito, Ecuador.

We are passionate about providing clean and maintainable code that surpasses our clients’ expectations. We value developers who are flexible about working with different stack configurations, feel confident about tackling new challenges, and aim toward excellence.

We are looking for a remote contractor with a very solid Ruby on Rails background and experience working with agile methodologies to become a member of our team.

We are looking for an experienced Ruby on Rails developer who is passionate about high quality code and willing to join a team who takes clean code and TDD very seriously. The ideal candidate would be fluent in English and have outstanding communication and leadership skills.

Requirements

• An advanced English is required since all internal communications are conducted in this language.

• Effective communication and leadership skills are highly appreciated.

• We use Git and version control for all projects and expect proficiency in using them.

• This position would require a commitment to provide 40 hours a week.

• Additionally, as modern applications demand, some knowledge of the JavaScript ecosystem is required as well, such as webpack, transpilers, and testing frameworks.

Nice to have:

• Development experience with GraphQL.
• Experience working in Agile environments.

To assess your code quality, please submit the link of your GitHub page or similar. We will be looking for a clean, well-structured code, as well as automated tests.

If you are living in Ecuador, please apply through our portal for any in-house full-time employee positions that may be available. This position is not open to agencies or consulting firms.

Stack Builders is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, or pregnancy.

Benefits

Some of the perks of working with us are:

• Strong learning culture
• Regular pairing sessions
• Challenging projects
• Opportunities for company-sponsored conference participation and technical talks
• Exceptionally talented and passionate coworkers

Stack Builders is an innovative consultancy that delivers high-quality software. We work on interesting projects in a diverse, dynamic and passionate environment with a great company culture. Our organization values intellectual curiosity, strong communication skills, and great programming abilities.

On this project, you will be designing and maintaining the website for one of the top companies in the world in cloud communications. This company allows software developers to use their APIs to automate the delivery of SMS and voice calls, and build dynamic messaging applications using their services.

You will be working alongside the branding team to further position their products. If you love translating beautiful designs into interactive websites, while striving for pixel-perfect user interfaces, this is the right job for you!

Requirements

• Work proactively with designers and other web developers to ensure the product requirements translate into scalable web pages.
• Strong proficiency in frontend Javascript development using the best practices in the industry. It would be great if you also have experience using React.
• Have a consultant mindset to provide excellent problem-solving solutions to the team and the client.
• Possess a strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive.
• Have strong written and spoken English skills.
• Have a commitment of 40 hours per week.

Some additional skills that would be nice to have are:

• Experience with a backend development language such as PHP or Python.
• Experience with Sketch, Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.
• Experience working with Agile methodologies.

To assess your code quality, please submit the link of your GitHub page or something similar. We will be looking for clean, well-structured code, as well as automated tests.

If you are living in Ecuador, please apply through our portal for any in-house full-time employee positions that may be available. This position is not open to agencies or consulting firms.
Stack Builders is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, or pregnancy.

You can learn more about us visiting https://www.stackbuilders.com/ or take a look at our blog posts and tutorials to see some contributions from our team members.

Benefits

• We have a strong learning-oriented culture, with constant team communication and feedback.
• We have regular pairing sessions with other team members.
• Challenging and fun projects with cutting-edge technologies.
• Opportunities to company-sponsored for international conferences participation and tech talks.
• Exceptionally talented and passionate coworkers.

At Inflow we "Make It Matter" for every employee, every customer, and every mission. Apply today and become a part of a growing community of Inflowees: www.inflow-ns.com

What level Clearance do I need? Must be able to obtain DHS BI and DoD TS/SCI clearances.

What experience, training, and education do I need?

You MUST hold the following requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in IT, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related degree.
• Strong background in successful application migrations to the cloud.
• Ability to use wide variety of open source technologies.
• Experience with source code management tools such as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket or equivalent.
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL DBs such as SQL, MySQL, Amazon DynamoDB.
• Solid understanding of networking and core Internet Protocols such as TCP/IP, DNS, SMTP, HTTP and routing in distributed networks.
• A working understanding of code and script such as: PHP, Python, Perl and/or Ruby.
• Implementing architectural governance and proactively managing issues and risks throughout the delivery life cycle.
• Good familiarity with the disciplines of enterprise software development such as configuration & release management, source code & version controls, and operational considerations such as monitoring and instrumentation.
• Experience with consulting or service provider roles (internal, or external).
• Strong knowledge on software development methodologies like Agile/Scrum, Kan Ban etc.
• Broad understanding of enterprise project life cycle.

Desired experience:

• Experience leading a cloud infrastructure project for hands-on migration to government clouds.
• More Than 5 Years of experience and knowledge with these components:
  • Cloud Technologies
  • Cloudera
  • Collibra
  • Elastic Search/SOLR
  • Flume
  • HUE
  • IBM WebSphere MQ
  • Jupyter Notebooks
  • Kafka
  • Kubernetes
  • NIFI
  • ODBC/JDBC
  • Power BI
  • Python/R
  • SFTP
  • Spark
  • SQL
  • Tableau*

*Certified in business intelligence tools such as Tableau Desktop and Tableau Server. If not previously certified, there will be a 3-month grace period to obtain certifications.

Who will I be working with? In support of Inflow's contract with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), you will be working directly along side government leads and our team of other awesome Inflowees.

What will I be doing? The Cloud Solution Architect/Engineer specializing in migrations is a cloud role in the project delivery cycle with hands-on experience migrating customers to the cloud.

• Working closely with clients, partners and other business units to ensure consulting engagements are successful.
• Recommend Cloud architecture, which provides an optimized cost effective, elastic scalable solution.
• Support the “Lift and Shift” efforts to migrate to the cloud.
• Support Cloud Operations.

What is the client site that I would be working for? Washington, D.C. with the option to work remotely, if approved.

REF#: 32836

CBS BUSINESS UNIT: Simon & Schuster

JOB TYPE: Temporary / Per Diem / Freelance

JOB SCHEDULE: Full-Time

JOB LOCATION: New York, NY

ABOUT US:

Simon & Schuster, a part of CBS Corporation, is a global leader in the field of general interest publishing, dedicated to providing the best in fiction and nonfiction for consumers of all ages, across all printed, electronic, and audio formats. Its divisions include Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing, Simon & Schuster Audio, Simon & Schuster Digital, and international companies in Australia, Canada, India and the United Kingdom.

DESCRIPTION:

Simon & Schuster has an exciting role for a data engineer to join a fast-paced, leading-edge team working to help advance it’s publishing business. In this Freelance or Independent Contractor role, you will be working with a small team of data scientists and analysts to rapidly prototype data applications and analytics tools to serve our fast-growing imprint.

The full-time, contract position will be responsible for developing, testing and maintaining data flows and information architecture. This includes aggregating data from multiple databases in our data warehouse as well as external sources, establishing data pipelines, designing data models, deploying machine learning models to production and building robust data visualizations and reporting tools that align with the business needs of our team.

This is an exciting opportunity for the right candidate to build a robust data science and analytics environment from the ground up. You’ll be working with a small team of professionals based remotely. Hours are flexible. Two scheduled check-ins/code reviews are required weekly.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with team to align architecture with business requirements
• Stand up, test and maintain databases and information architecture
• Build tools to automate data acquisition and aggregation
• Develop data models and table schemas
• Identify ways to improve data reliability, efficiency and quality
• Deploy sophisticated analytics programs, machine learning and statistical methods
• Prepare data for predictive and prescriptive modeling
• Use data to discover tasks that can be automated
• Develop data visualizations, dashboards, reports and notification tools that respond to business needs
• Design analytical models that support analysis and inference.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Skills and experience:

• Computer science degree or equivalent with 2+ years data engineering and/or full stack developer experience
• Background in data science or equivalent continuing education
• Strong knowledge of Python 3
• Experience in developing and maintaining SQL databases and writing SQL queries; NoSQL (MongoDB) experience preferred but not required
• Experience establishing and maintaining AWS, Google Cloud, Heroku, Tableau or similar cloud-based environments
• Knowledge of HTML, CSS and JS and lightweight web frameworks such as Django, Flask
• Familiarity with database administration tools and best practices
• Background in extracting and storing data from APIs preferred but not required
• Background in deploying machine learning models to production preferred but not required
• Knowledge of Git/GitHub and software development workflows
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to summarize key findings into clear and actionable recommendations, and to interact with individuals at all levels.

Strong project management skills and ability to plan and prioritize work in a fast-paced environment.Please send a link to your work samples on Github

EEO STATEMENT:

Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled

• Strong, commercial React experience
• Redux experience
• HTML/CSS framework and CSS pre-processors (ideally SASS)
• GitHub/Online Portfolio
• Previous Remote working experience
• Ability to work in a large team
• Previous experience working with overseas teams

Turn on your monitor and join the hangout for your daily standup. There are some GitHub pull requests that need your attention, time to put your Ansible hat on. Lunchtime - you go and meet some friends at your favourite cafe. When you get back to your desk, your Terraform environment has finished provisioning and you kick off some smoke tests on your Kubernetes cluster. Then it's back to your earlier automation work. Before you know it, it's time to close the laptop.

At NearForm, we work with international clients who are industry leaders in their respective fields. Our role is to help them build solutions and platforms; help them to launch new product ventures and fundamentally change how they operate.

Join a highly skilled multidisciplinary team; typically consisting of designers, front-end and back-end experts, DevOps engineers, and also members of the client team. This mix follows a modern agile development methodology where we run 2-week sprints with a defined backlog, daily standups, weekly demos, sprint planning and sprint retros; all with as little ceremony as necessary.

• 6+ years experience developing at an enterprise level
• Modern DevOps mindset using best of breed open source tools and technologies, including, Terraform and Ansible
• Experience working with containers and container orchestration, including, Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience managing and automating real-world platforms/applications on AWS
• Experience with Continuous Integration and the building of continuous delivery pipelines
• Security awareness throughout the stack
• Data storage experience with RDBMS and NoSQL technologies
• US or South American Timezone
• Availability for short-term travel on a semi-regular basis
• Fluent English and outstanding communication skills (written and oral)

• Work/Life balance: we have a genuine dedication to work/life balance.
• Family friendly: we understand how important family is, so our flexible environment allows you to work around what matters - school run, no problem!
• The Wellness Hub: we offer resources and support and have a genuine commitment to fostering/improving NearFormer's wellbeing.
• Knowledge perks: explore new hobbies, brush up on life skills or simply learn something new, there is something there for everyone.
• NearFest: we all get together in person at our annual company retreat

We adopt a person-first approach to hiring. That means we hire the best people – it's as simple as that. Our lucky HR team gets to pick the cream of the crop from around the world and has brought together a collection of dynamic and talented individuals we like to call ‘NearFormers'.

Although we are widely dispersed, NearFormers are a tightly-knit team. We trust one another and care about our colleagues. Building on our open source origins, we promote the sharing of thoughts, knowledge and ideas.

NearForm is committed to shaping a better world in all that we do. Our global team is built based on respect, inclusivity, diversity and excellence.

Contract Software Validation and Quality Engineer required for a start-up based in Stirling, with remote/flexible working options available. The contract is expected to last for six months and can offer a rate of £350 - £380.

The Role

On a day to day basis you will be expected to validate and test the computer and software systems to ensure they are fit for purpose, in accordance with international standards. You will be solely responsible for performing all validation activities across their ERP system, software development tools, and cloud applications and will be someone who is passionate about ensuring best practice is implemented throughout the business.

You

You'll be someone who is a strong and confident communicator who is able to champion the processes necessary to validate the various tools to a high standard. You'll also be someone who understands that time is of the essence and can produce quality work in a fast-paced environment. You might be someone who has done something similar across the pharmaceutical or medical devices industry.

You will have experience across most of the following:

** Perform validation of cloud and implementation tools (including tools such as Jira, Github etc.)

** Manage the process from end-to-end, working with suppliers to resolve validation issues

** Meeting international standards such as ISO13485, or similar

** Meeting country specific regulations

** Good automated manufacturing practice (GAMP5) for the validation of automated systems

The Company

This is an opportunity to join a fast-growing company who are working on brand new projects and are developing real cutting-edge products. What they are building is revolutionary and will better the lives of millions of people across the globe - a big claim, but a true one! The product is now ready and has just gone to market, and so this is a period of really positive growth for the company and a great time to join them.

They look after their staff well, with access to the latest kit, flexible working and real progression opportunities across the entire organisation.

Salary and Location

The role is based primarily at their Stirling HQ, but the company would be open to someone working remotely dependant on experience / set-up at home. Their head office has plentiful parking and is easily commutable from Edinburgh, Falkirk, Glasgow and surrounding areas.

Travel around the UK will be a part of this role but is only likely to be three to four days per month.

If this opportunity is of interest, please do apply or reach out to Erin Donnelly at Cathcart Associates for more information.