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Friday, July 21, 2017

NOW HIRING: FULL STACK RAILS DEVELOPER

par8o
Headquarters: Boston, MA
www.par8o.com


Overview

Are you a Rails swat ninja global superstar?
Are you gaga for GitHub?
Pirouette in Pivotal?
Tippy for testing?

We are a team of startup veterans with a defined product and clear business model. We are profitable, gaining traction, and expanding our business into new areas. We are growing our highly talented, distributed development TEAM. We have been working remotely together for five years.  Our recent core collaboration toolset:  Slack, GitHub, Pivotal, and Hangouts.

Desirables

  • You have 2+ years of full stack Ruby on Rails experience
  • You know JavaScript pretty well (we use React and Angular)
  • You are looking for 30+ hours a week of contract development work
  • You can work remotely
  • You have experience with complex product architectures
  • You are ready to work hard (sustainably) and LOVE working in collaborative, nimble environments
  • You have worked on a large Rails code base with other developers
  • You have supported a Rails application in production
  • This is not your first rodeo


About par8o

par8o is named after the 19th Century Italian economist, Vilfredo Pareto, who first defined the powerful economic concept of "Pareto optimality" in which a system is able to maximize benefits for each and every participant. When applied to the healthcare industry, Pareto optimality holds the promise of being able to improve overall access to healthcare while lowering costs.


APPLY FOR THIS POSITION

Please email engineering@par8o.com

NOW HIRING: TECHNICAL WRITER

TITLE::  Technical Writer 
Position: 3months  contract 
Location: Remote

Description:

The Tech Writer will be a key member of the proposal/SOW development team, responsible for working with Solution Architects and Engineers in developing content for delivery to the customer. Will also play lead role in performing quality reviews of all material before final production.

• Your primary mission will be to develop content as expressed through words and paragraphs, and how they are arranged and presented.
• You can break complex, technical messages down into simple, meaningful vignettes that resonate with customers.
• Should have some exposure to Cyber Security solutions and products.Preferred Projects:
• Experience with technical publications, proposals, marketing materials, and/or sales collateral required.Technical Environment:
Microsoft Office, SharePoint, Skype and other collaboration tools as required

CLICK HERE TO APPLY

NOW HIRING: BACKEND DEVELOPER / DEVOPS ENGINEER – RUBY ON RAILS

virtualQ
Headquarters: Stuttgart, Germany
http://virtualq.io


virtualQ provides a novel cloud-solution that waits on hold during longer waiting times for callers of Customer Service Center. Callers can spend their time productively until virtualQ alerts them to call back when it is their turn. Thereby, the virtualQ enterprise software provides an unique customer experience, which is revolutionising the service branche.

Well-known companies like Albatros Lufthansa, the German insurance company HanseMerkur and the international cashback and shopping point provider Lyoness are already using our software. Several national and international institutions awarded the innovative cloud-products of virtualQ and the company is backed by an institutional investment fund.

You get the chance to work on an innovative and awarded product with top-notch technology and software management tools. We have a German-American background and like the concept of simplicity, design, flat hierarchy and employee participation. You have the chance to work in an awesome team atmosphere with lots for individual liberties. Do you want to change the way in which people wait on hold in customer service telephone lines with us? Let us know!


WITH THESE ACTIVITIES YOU WILL HAVE A GREAT IMPACT ON OUR BUSINESS

●      Work closely with our CTO and shape our product
●      Design Software and Architecture for our Ruby on Rails Backend, using the latest technologies
●      Design Voice and Audio Applications / Machine Learning Algorithms and Interfaces, that will shape the future of virtualQ
●      Interface with APIs like Twilio API, Google Machine Learning, Amazon Alexa Voice Services, IBM Watson
●      Lead a team of great Front and Backend developers
●      Support DevOps of Amazon AWS hosted Servers, Heroku etc.
●      Develop Monitoring, Uptime and Security Strategies
●      Code!!!


WE HAVE GOT A LOT TO OFFER

●      A fair salary – we might be a startup, but we pay like a company
●      Flexibility at its best: work remotely from home or join us in Stuttgart or Berlin
●      Results Only Work Environment – we do not care when and where you work, we care about your work results. Therefore, we do not count working hours and holidays either
●      Plenty of freedom and opportunities to grow in a young company, which will turn the Service Center market upside down
●      Workshops? Seminars? BarCamps? Tell us what you need to develop your skills and we will make it happen
●      An awesome, international, open minded team


WITH THESE SKILLS YOU ARE OUR PERFECT CANDIDATE

MUST HAVES

●      You know Ruby on Rails by heart
●      You are familiar with AWS
●      You speak German OR English fluently (native or 2nd language)
●      You have got a technical education / background
●      You do not take things for granted, instead you question the status quo


NICE TO HAVE

●      You have worked with some of the following systems / languages:
        OpsWorks, Chef or Puppet, Containers / Docker, Linux Servers / Web Servers, Open Source Databases, Machine Learning, Algorithms
●      You have worked in the Telecommunication market before

APPLY FOR THIS POSITION

Please send your CV and you letter of motivation to Anika e-mail: Dreamjob@virtualQ.io

NOW HIRING: Customer Success/Support

QuickMail.io
Headquarters: Zurich, Switzerland

How This Job is Different?


Working for a small self-funded company means a lot of freedom and ability to build close bonds with each user. We strive to be anti-corporate, we remove all possible walls between the user and us to truly deliver exceptional experience.

No investors, we are master of our destiny.

We are crushing it serving more than 1500 clients & trying to make them all succeed. You’ll get plenty of hands-on experience, and can explore many avenues like moving to producing educational content or more into customer success.

You will work directly with the founder and together with your input find ways to exceed customer expectations. You’ll get exposed to entrepreneurship and hustling to get things moving fast. If speed excites you, then you are in the right place. We are a very fast-paced company where speed & quality are king.

Pro-activity & curiosity as well as personal development is highly valued and not only encouraged but mandatory.


Who we are

QuickMail is a sales automation tool for sending B2B cold emails. Small and medium businesses use it to reach out to potential customers in their market and grow their business.

We are a 100% customer funded start-up, we hit product market fit very fast and are growing quickly. We need help from enthusiastic people who want to change things!

With no investors to please, decisions are made fast between you and the founder for the good of the customers.

We care about helping our customers deeply, if this means recommending another tool more suited to their needs, then so be it.

Check out our values here: http://quickmail.io/values/ and unlike most corporate BS, we do stand by this (I have countless examples to demonstrate it). Please don’t apply if this doesn’t resonate with you, you won’t be happy here.


The work

We work remotely and cover US hours.

This is a full-time paid position but we will definitely consider part-time too. You’ll start at $16/hour.

You’ll be in charge of answering support, ensuring the help documentation is up to date & designing customer support&success processes.

Your primary role will be to help user shine and succeed.


REQUIREMENTS

You are a reliable fast thinker & executioner, you live up to your words.
You are a people person who is tech savvy. Excellent at relating with people and communicating in writing (email / live chat).

You relish challenges. Coming up with ideas and executing on them in a self reliable manner. In short: you don’t need a lot of management and you are able to drive results.

Previous experience working remotely a must.

Must have 2 years as customer support experience.


BENEFITS

You will…

Get to grow the customer success and support department.
Work directly with the founder who understand the importance of delighting users.
Work remotely from anywhere in the world. No need to commute to work.
Learn a ton about how to run a startup from a no-bs founder.
You’ll grow tremendously if you can keep up with the pace


APPLY FOR THIS POSITION

Take this personality test: https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test , send yourself the results and grab the personalised link. Send an email to jobs@quickmail.io with this exact subject: “customer support role”, the body should be nothing else than the direct link to your personal personality test result.

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