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Build/deploy/maintain security controls and instrumentation around and in our code. Consult with engineering teams on security-critical product features. Help facilitate our bug bounty program. Educate developers.

Our Systems Reliability Engineers are the stewards of our trading systems, balancing a safe, orderly production environment with profitability and sustainable growth. You will start in Optiver’s training program, where you will learn about our systems and principles so that you will be able to quickly contribute and make an impact. Your responsibility is to stay ahead of the complexity inherent in scaling a distributed system that handles over half a million correlated financial instruments across multiple data centers and thousands of servers, all the while striving for simplicity and operational excellence.

Work with other engineers and technical product managers to write, test, and deploy your code safely and automatically to production. We deploy multiple times a day. We work mostly in Ruby and Javascript (Typescript, React, and GraphQL) along with some Python, R, and Elixir but many employees come from other areas. We want strong programmers and our interview process is unbiased and language agnostic. Be a part of a strong culture of ownership, pragmatism, and testing. Contribute to tooling as well as our technology architecture and direction. We have a culture that treats engineers as both teachers and students, and encourage this by presenting weekly Lunch and Learns, hosting hackathons, and attending conferences. Contribute to open-source initiatives.

Develop IVR applications using a variety of technologies, including Java, .NET, VXML, JavaScript, JRuby and Groovy. Apply advanced knowledge of the Object-Oriented principles and best practices of software development to enhance products and customer experience. Perform design and code reviews. Learn and implement a wide range of technologies that integrate solutions with customers. Transition solutions to internal and external platform teams. Prioritize and juggle between multiple projects based on customer needs. Communicate with external customers as required.

Create a framework to allows engineers and management to see the deliver metrics of how often and reliably they are making changes to their applications and systems. Integrate or design tooling that captures, measures, and alerts on the health, availability, and performance of our applications and systems. Design a common set of tooling for engineers that allows them to self-service and automate their build, testing, and deployment needs for both applications and infrastructure. Provide a roadmap for current and future solutions in support of the delivery needs of the Product Technology and Customer Success organizations. 

The Senior DevOps Engineer will join Relativity's engineering operations department and be responsible for engineering a large distributed enterprise solution. They will work with other members of the engineering team and business stakeholders to support the development of products, features and services that drive and evolve our SaaS offering. 

On any given sprint you will work with Product Owners to understand requirements, collaborate with mobile and platform developers to make architecture decisions, specify API schemas, write code, open PRs, address comments or concerns from reviewers, obtain sign off from Product Owners, merge and release your work, monitor logs and metrics, celebrate, and reflect on what worked and what didn’t during the previous iteration. Our current tech stack includes Golang, GraphQL, Postgres, Ruby, Rails and Vue.js and is constantly evolving as we learn and grow. You don’t need to know all these technologies but you should be excited and willing to learn!

Programmatically create infrastructure in AWS, leveraging Autoscaling Groups, Security Groups, EBS, VPCs with Ansible. Ensure our systems are highly available and resilient. Enable our product development team to deliver new code daily through Continuous Integration and Deployment Pipelines. Protect our customer data with continuous security practices and monitoring.

As a Senior Software Test Engineer, the team will look to you for testing not only at the feature level, but on the product level. Not only will you be involved in writing tests and feature specs with developers, it’ll be your responsibility to manage test implementation and quality validation for the entire project. This includes everything from choosing and laying the groundwork for new test suites, to pushing back on deadlines when a project needs more TLC before release. Product confidence is a top priority for each team, and we’ll look to you to be its vanguard in each project.

We’re looking to hire super smart engineers who like to take ownership of our technical problems, and work autonomously to get things built and shipped without any unnecessary bureaucracy. Our team is built on trust, accountability and transparency. We sometimes ask a lot from our employees, but always reciprocate back with the same flexibility they give us. We’re small enough that every employee receives a healthy amount of equity and the chance to have a significant impact on technical process and company culture, but large enough that we’ve established product-market fit, so our engineers can focus their energy on scaling our platform to keep up with the growth of the business. This position is an opportunity for an engineer to take ownership of significant technical areas across the entire stack by tackling complex analytical problems across a large data set in a tech-centric company.

Own the overall architecture of our front-end systems, from our consumer product to our merchant platform to the internal systems. Evolve the front-end architecture, tooling and performance monitoring, to ensure product development teams are able to build quickly and test efficiently, while not sacrificing quality. Collaborate with product designers, fellow engineers and data scientists to build and iterate on experiments and product features that immediately impact our customers. Guide the team in driving and scaling technology development for the next generation of products. Be a technical evangelist for all things front-end. Know how to strategically introduce new technology to an existing team. Use technologies and tools like React, Redux, Webpack, Gulp, and node. Participate in design and code reviews. Evolve our UI component library, standards and best practices to streamline development and ensure consistency across products.

Ruby/Rails: We’re a Ruby shop here at Buildout, currently running Rails 4.2 with a Rails 5 upgrade incoming. so a deep knowledge of Rails is going to help you get up and running quickly. Our app uses all of the standard Rails goodness you know and love, as well as a lot of additional tools for design, business logic, and background jobs. If you like to learn new skills, you’re going to fit in really well. Javascript: Our front-end relies heavily on Javascript. We have currently have core features written using vanilla ES5, but are making a big push to develop major new features with ES6 and React. We are looking for people with a strong working Javascript base who want to keep finding and working with the best new tools. Testing: Is testing a natural part of your process? If so, you’ll be appreciated here. We are actively building out our test suite and providing ample team resources to make sure that everything we create is tested and rock-solid. Our test suite uses RSpec for most of our Rails work. Other Web Tech: We use git for source control, Slim for our view templates, lightly customized Bootstrap for our CSS. If you’re really passionate about some new technology, we’d love to hear about it.

At Morningstar, helping investors is what brings us together and drives our work. We are looking for QA Automation Engineers or Software Development Engineers in Test (SDET) who specialize in full stack QA (Front end, Webservice, & Non-Functional testing) to join our team, grow with us, introduce us to new ideas and develop products that empower our users. Every day, you’ll work with team members across disciplines developing products for investors. You’ll interact daily with our product managers to understand our domain and create technical solutions that push us forward. We want to work with other engineers who bring knowledge and excitement about our opportunities. These positions are based in our Chicago office.

We here at Jellyvision are the proud parents of ALEX®, an interactive employee communications platform that happens to share some DNA (and a sense of humor) with the smash-hit trivia video game YOU DON’T KNOW JACK®, created by Jellyvision's founder. ALEX makes navigating tricky decisions—like choosing and using employee benefits or improving your financial wellness—easier, faster, and more helpful, not to mention entertaining. The success of the

The Senior Cloud Security Engineer is considered the Technical Subject Matter Expert when it comes to Cloud & Security Engineering at Arity. This role will design and build Cloud Security solutions that will balance the need for speed and flexibility of Cloud infrastructure and IaaS/PaaS/SaaS applications with the need to protect Arity against ongoing and potential security threats. This role will work with Allstate’s Information Security team to implement and design for Cloud usage throughout the enterprise, enforce compliance with Security policies, controls and function as a technical security SME on various projects. This critical role requires the ability to synthesize radical ideas, and the aptitude to define new security strategies in a global environment.

Coding. Our clients don’t all work in one language or platform, and neither do we. As a developer, we’re looking for a breadth of experience in a variety of languages, and experience in one or two: Java, javascript, and React are high on our list. (Other notables: Python,Ruby, Scala, .NET, Clojure). You should also be up to speed on practices like TDD, continuous integration and pair programming.

We're looking for an organized and highly motivated Production Support Engineer to join our team. Our Production Support team manages production issues and collaborates with internal teams to ensure software defects as well as operational tasks are corrected and/or routed to the appropriate team. You will be responsible for triaging issues, resolving defects, working with partners on outstanding issues, develop reporting and dashboards, and becoming a Subject Matter Expert on the NextCapital line of Products.

Senior Software Engineers at Civis amplify the contributions of their colleagues by leading engineering teams or tackling our hardest, riskiest, or most complex technical projects. Depending on interest, roles for senior engineers may focus on team leadership or individual contribution; either way we’re looking for judgment, ownership, and autonomy. At Civis, you will be responsible for making good choices about technical questions, and also about what technical projects are worth pursuing. You will play an outsized role in making Civis a great place to build great software products.

Design secure and highly reliable services to integrate with blockchains and add new cryptocurrency assets to Coinbase, Pro, Prime, Custody and all other business units. Write infrastructural services that provide secure storage, accounting and transactional services to help our customers transfer assets safely. Work with engineers, product managers and senior leadership to turn our vision into a tangible roadmap every quarter. Add positive energy in every meeting, and make your coworkers feel included in every interaction.

Build integrations with fiat banking partners in countries around the world, to make cryptocurrencies accessible to everyone. Design secure and highly reliable services to integrate with blockchains and add new cryptocurrency assets to Coinbase and GDAX. Write infrastructural services that provide secure storage, accounting and transactional services to help our customers trade assets safely. Work with engineers, product managers and senior leadership to turn our vision into a tangible roadmap every quarter. Add positive energy in every meeting, and make your coworkers feel included in every interaction.