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Karolina Coss Karolina Coss

SDE II, Top FAANG Company

SDE II 


DESCRIPTION

The Company is building a world class advertising business and we are responsible for defining and delivering a collection of self-service performance advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our products are strategically important to our Retail and Marketplace businesses driving long term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks daily and are breaking fresh ground to create world-class products. We are highly motivated, collaborative and fun-loving with an entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action. With a broad mandate to experiment and innovate, we are growing at an unprecedented rate with a seemingly endless range of new opportunities.

Our team's mandate is to launch and accelerate the advertising business in categories that require a differentiated customer and advertiser experience. We own end-to-end the advertising experience including placements, creative, ad serving, advertiser experience, and marketing.
We're looking for entrepreneurial, innovative individuals who thrive on solving tough problems. We are investing in a deep technical team to pursue a transformation opportunity. The successful candidate will build upon core program management successes and develop breadth across a range of problem domains.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· 4+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
· Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
· 1+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.
• 6 months+ professional experience in software development
• Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design
• Computer Science fundamentals in data structures
• Computer Science fundamentals in algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
• Proficiency in, at least, one modern programming language such as C, C++, Java, or Perl


PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field
· Equivalent experience to a Bachelor's degree based on 3 years of work experience for every 1 year of education
· Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive
· Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance, scalability, and availability
· Experience with UI frameworks such as Spring MVC, GWT, jQuery, Swing, etc.
· Coding skills in Java and/or C++ coupled with strong base in object-oriented design and development
· Experience in software development and full product life-cycles

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Karolina Coss Karolina Coss

Sr. Technical Program Manager, Top FAANG Company

Sr. Technical Program Manager, Identity

DESCRIPTION

Do you like helping customers and service teams simplify and speed up their work? Looking for a job where you can influence multiple products while running a program that streamlines the building and launching of new customer facing features?

The Top FAANG Company is seeking an experienced Sr. Technical Program Manager to manage delivering critical cross-organizational projects end-to-end. Responsibilities include collecting business and systems requirements from internal and external customers, driving project schedules from design to release, and managing production launches. You will be expected to drive consistency in solutions across multiple teams while incrementally streamlining the process in order to speed up delivery.

The right candidate will possess a strong program management background that's heavily focused on influencing product decisions and excel at identifying technical and process patterns that to make things simpler and more consistent for both external customers and internal service teams.You will have demonstrated experience leading multiple launches in parallel, and will have a well-rounded technical background in current web technologies.

By joining this fast growing team and space, you will have the opportunity to influence product decisions across multiple services while blazing a new path in the cloud computing space that is still in its infancy. This is the perfect area to learn about a wide range of services and technologies while helping shape the long-term trajectory of cloud computing as a whole.

The Company has the most services and more features within those services, than any other cloud provider–from infrastructure technologies like compute, storage, and databases–to emerging technologies, such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, data lakes and analytics, and Internet of Things. Whether its Identity features such as access management and sign on, cryptography, console, builder & developer tools, and even projects like automating all of our contractual billing systems, Our Platform is always innovating with the customer in mind. Our Platform team sustains over 750 million transactions per second. Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we aren’t focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, we’re happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced life—both in and outside of work.

We have a formal mentor search application that lets you find a mentor that works best for you based on location, job family, job level etc. Your manager can also help you find a mentor or two, because two is better than one. In addition to formal mentors, we work and train together so that we are always learning from one another, and we celebrate and support the career progression of our team members.

At Our Company, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and Gender Diversity conferences. The Company’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· 5+ years’ experience as a technical program manager leading cross-functional teams to deliver complex software projects
· Experience collecting business and systems requirements from customers (inside and outside the organization), driving project schedules from design to release, and managing production launches
· Experience with agile methodologies
· Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical individuals
· Excellent oral and written communication skills
· Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical field.


PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· Experience building high-performance, highly-available, scalable distributed systems
· Experience designing and building tools for global support organizations and/or customer self-service products
· Deep understanding of agile software development process.
· Demonstrated ability to dive deep in understanding our platform, our products, and the technical landscape
· Knowledge and prior use of The Company’s services
· Master's degree in a business or technology discipline or related field

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Karolina Coss Karolina Coss

Engineering Manager, Top FAANG Company

Software Development Manager, Identity


The company’s cloud product serves millions of customers, from startups to enterprises, in more than 190 countries and powers the developers who are building the next generation of global industry leaders. The product runs a globally distributed environment, operating at massive levels of scale.


The Identity team is looking for a Software Development Manager with a passion for building highly reliable and low latency services for use by all Company’s Services and customers to manage their resources. We are embarking on projects to create new systems to streamline the service integration with Identity services, and it’s a great time to join and help shape and deliver on this strategy.


This position represents a rare opportunity to build a new team and help shape the technology, product, and business. The ideal candidate will have both technical and business background, with experience in software design, development, testing, and operations, as well as the ability to define visionary, ground-breaking products, ability to hire and lead a team, and the desire to have an industry-wide impact.


Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we aren’t focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, we’re happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced life—both in and outside of work.

We have a formal mentor search application that lets you find a mentor that works best for you based on location, job family, job level etc. Your manager can also help you find a mentor or two, because two is better than one. In addition to formal mentors, we work and train together so that we are always learning from one another, and we celebrate and support the career progression of our team members.

At our company, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and Gender Diversity conferences. The company’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Engineering, other related fields, or equivalent experience
· Proven skills designing and developing simple solutions to complex problems
· 10+ years of professional software development experience
· 3+ years of experience managing software engineering teams
· Good understanding of platforms and technologies with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
· 3+ years of experience working with engineering teams to deliver software requiring coordination between multiple teams in disperse functional groups
· You have a track record of delivering technical programs, projects, and products in a highly technical multi-team environment
· Excellent written, spoken, and listening communication skills


PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· Master's degree in Computer Science or related fields
· Experience in working backwards from the customer and delivering innovative and simple solutions
· You have a clear understanding of cloud computing services and deployment architecture
· Excellent technical, problem-solving and partnering skills
· Creative leader with superior analytical abilities
· Cross-team coordination skills
· Proven ability to concisely communicate with an executive audience in both written and verbal communications
· Meets/exceeds the Company’s leadership principles requirements for this role
· Meets/exceeds the Company’s functional/technical depth and complexity for this role

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Karolina Coss Karolina Coss

Marketing Lead, AAA Game Studio

Big Time Studios


About Us

We are a bold new game studio with a mission to build cutting edge AAA entertainment for the 21st century.  Our team are veterans in the fields of online games, social games and crypto from EA, Epic Games, Blizzard, Sony, Zynga and Decentraland.  We are fully funded and building a dream team of A-players who want to work with the best of the best and take their careers to the next level.


Marketing Lead

We are seeking a Marketing Lead to own the company’s communications, PR and community development initiatives, as well as preparing for a few Kickstarter-like campaigns for the sale of digital items, the first one of which will take place in June on Nifty Gateway. This is a remote position that can be done from anywhere in the world with a good internet connection. 



RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Own the creation and delivery of a AAA marketing experience, including our brands communications, GTM plan, customer and market research, PR and community development.

  • Execute tactically on growth, owning metrics and analytics, SEO, social media reach, influencer relationships, ad buys, and LTV optimization. Deploy successful marketing campaigns from ideation to execution.

  • Help design and launch a kickstarter-like campaign for the sale of digital items, the first one of which will take place in mid June.

  • Work with Product to distill and communicate the unique selling points for our game and platform.

  • Develop strategies and tactics to boost the company’s reputation and drive qualified traffic.

  • Experiment with various organic and paid acquisition channels.

  • Manage and coordinate all marketing, advertising and promotional staff and activities.

  • Conduct market research to determine market requirements for existing and future products.

  • Analysis of customer research, current market conditions and competitor information.


REQUIREMENTS

  • Have 5 years minimum hands-on experience as a Marketing Lead.

  • Solid understanding of online & free-to-play marketing strategies.

  • Strong copywriting skills.

  • Understands how to create desire in the minds of customers.

  • Must love games.


DESIRABLE

  • Experienced giving pitches and demos.

  • Understands modern social media marketing including streamers and influencers.

  • Has strong relationships with top and trending gaming influencers.

  • Experience with large dollar ad campaigns.

  • Existing relationships with top gaming influencers and magazines.

  • Deep knowledge of game genres especially action RPG.

  • Metric driven approach to user acquisition.

  • Knows how to nurture and grow a gaming community.

  • Ability to balance community and stakeholder needs.

  • Strong public speaking skills.


WHAT WE OFFER

  • Fully remote work.

  • Experience working with gaming veterans who’ve created titles with a gross aggregate revenue of over $10B USD.

  • Flexible 20 days off PTO (holidays + local national holidays).

  • Experience creating a new IP with franchise potential.

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Karolina Coss Karolina Coss

DevOps Engineer, Fin-Tech

DevOps Engineer, Fin-Tech

**Our company** 

The company builds a secure platform that simplifies your life. It supports individuals and families in managing their complex lives in a secure, private, and efficient manner. It organizes families’ disparate assets, provides clear approval processes for investments and other approvals, and helps organize projects and management with tasks and checklists. This strengthens the connections and creates an audit history with trusted sources, such as family members, property managers, captains, crew, lawyers, tax advisers and investment managers. 

**Our Ideal Candidate has: **

* 3+ years of experience at a startup or technology focused company

* Strong background in Linux administration

* Experience with automation/configuration management using either Ansible, Puppet, Chef or an equivalent

* Experience running containers in a highly available production environment

* Experience managing a multi-environment cloud infrastructure as code, preferably with Terraform

* Experience with multi-tenant architecture

* Used monitoring and log management tools to improve observability for production applications, networks and systems (Datadog, SumoLogic, Splunk, etc.)

* Maintained build and deployment pipelines for development and production environments (Jenkins, Bamboo, CircleCI, Buildkite, etc.)

* Strong experience with relational databases, at-scale (Postgres or MySQL)

* Fluent understanding of at least one scripting language (Bash, Python, Perl and/or Ruby)

* Knowledge and understanding of best practices for highly-available, distributed applications

**What you will be doing: **

* Assisting DevOps and Engineering teams with design and rollout of the company's future auto-scaling, containerized, multi-tenant architecture

* Cultivating a deep understanding of the application architecture

* Defining and maintaining the company's cloud infrastructure as code, using Terraform and Ansible

* Working with architects to develop requirement criteria for new applications, services and enhancements, while maintaining our web server infrastructure

* Creating new, and improving existing, automations in collaboration with the Engineering teams

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Karolina Coss Karolina Coss

VP of Engineering, Fin-Tech

VP of Engineering, Fin-Tech

About the job

Our company 

The Company builds a secure platform that simplifies your life. It supports individuals and families in managing their complex lives in a secure, private, and efficient manner. It organizes families’ disparate assets, provides clear approval processes for investments and other approvals, and helps organize projects and management with tasks and checklists. This strengthens the connections and creates an audit history with trusted sources, such as family members, property managers, captains, crew, lawyers, tax advisers and investment managers. 

Our ideal candidate has

  • 7+ years of software experience at a startup or technology focused company

  • 4+ years of managing and mentoring of engineers of all experience levels

  • 2+ years of experience as a Director of Engineering or equivalent role

  • Strong expertise and talent in wielding full-stack Javascript

  • Strong expertise in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) processes

  • Strong expertise in defining engineering team metrics

  • Expertise in service architecture

  • Privacy and Security focused mindset and practices

Bonus points for

  • Expertise with Agile methodology

  • Expertise with Accounting or Investment management software

  • Expertise with Mobile development

What you'll be doing

  • Will be responsible for the managing and continuous career development of the engineering and QA team. The role will also include 10-20% of time focused on individual contributions.

  • Code review of all significant front end and back end modifications

  • Coordination with CTO and VP of Tech Ops on major architectural changes and planning

  • Contributing to product teams within normal release cycle

  • Monitoring industry developments and determining impact and implementation within our platform

  • Growing future leaders by serving as a mentor to junior staff, helping them develop both technically and in their role

  • Will drive incremental value through iteration of processes, frameworks and ideas

  • Practicing constant vigilance with respect to security and privacy

  • Grow engineering teams as needed, including hire, promote, and mentor leads

Oh yeah, and we can offer you

  • A tight-team knit of motivated, dedicated individuals who work together without ego

  • Extensive access to, and engagement with leadership

  • Practice of Agile methodology

  • Opportunity to strengthen individual privacy and digital protections

  • Competitive salary

  • Access to new technology

  • A fully stocked kitchen in our San Francisco or Chicago office

  • 401K

  • Cell Phone Reimbursements

  • Health, dental, vision, and commuter benefits

Expectations in first six months

  • Command leadership of the team with the team's trust in you and ability to help team members develop professionally.Provide objective recommendations that demonstrate technical and business understanding.

  • Performance of the API is improved to < 0.5 second latency for common non-trivial read operations.

  • Shorten Release cycle from 4 weeks to 2 weeks. This implies:

  • Oversee automated testing and unit test coverage

  • Ensure high quality code

  • Enable quick builds and easy rollbacks

  • Establish sound, repeatable coding standards for:

  • Layout and UX techniques

  • Client side state management

  • Component libraries with right level of abstraction and configuration

  • Appropriate use of API’s , pagination

  • Caching

  • Appropriate use of Node (patterns, anti-patterns)

  • Efficient SQL

  • Multi-tenant architecture designed to complement current single tenant offering

  • API is improved to allow for easy integrations to third party software.

Industry

  • Individual & Family Services

  • Employment Type: Full-time

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Karolina Coss Karolina Coss

Sr. Full Stack Engineer, Fin-Tech

Senior Full Stack Engineer, Fin-Tech

About the job

The Company

The Company is a secure ecosystem that allows individuals and families to manage their complex lives privately and efficiently. It strengthens the connections to trusted sources, folks like family members, lawyers, tax advisers and investment managers in order to help you with your life. 

We are seeking a dedicated and talented individual to help us define and build the platform as it scales. Our Sr Full Stack Software Engineer position spans the backend and frontend services for creating phenomenal user experiences, all in Javascript. You will be collaborating with and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement and support technical solutions in full stack development tools and technologies 


Our ideal candidate has

  • 5+ years of software experience at a startup or technology focused company

  • Strong talent with and/or interest in using Javascript

  • A desire to learn and improve on a daily basis

  • Actively participate and perform in code reviews and design sessions

  • Mentor other engineers, support technical culture, and ensure best practices

  • Creativity, courage, empathy and stamina are integral to you as a person and employee

  • Experience defining and implementing system architecture with significant impact


Bonus points for

  • Expertise in our frameworks (React, Node, Express) is a strong plus, but we expect the world to change quickly and we want people who can be adaptive and who can come in and teach us too

  • Experience with UI principles and a comfort talking the talk and walking the walk of design

  • Seeing the importance of strong security while scaling

  • Exposure to ultra high net worth individuals/families

  • CS or STEM degree

  • Strong experience in React, SQL

Oh yeah, and we can offer you

  • A tight-team knit of motivated, dedicated individuals who work together without ego

  • Extensive access to, and engagement with leadership

  • Practice of Agile methodology

  • Opportunity to strengthen individual privacy and digital protections

  • Competitive salary

  • Access to new technology

  • A fully stocked kitchen in our San Francisco or Chicago office

  • 401K

  • Cell Phone Reimbursements

  • Health, dental, vision, and commuter benefits

  • Team dinner on Mondays, lunch on Tuesdays, WFH Wednesday, and team dinner on Thursdays

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Karolina Coss Karolina Coss

Sr. Full Stack Engineer, AAA Game Studio

It all begins with an idea.

SR. FULL STACK ENGINEER, AAA GAME STUDIO

About The Company

We are a bold new game studio with a mission to build cutting edge AAA entertainment for the 21st century. Our founders are veterans in the online games, social games, and crypto fields. We are fully funded and building a dream team of A-developers who want to work with the best of the best and take their careers to the next level.

About the position

We are searching for a Full-Stack Engineer to join a small, fully remote team and work on backend systems for an exciting (and unannounced) Multiplayer, Action RPG title. In this role, you would work on game-supporting APIs and features as well as web facing products interacting with users directly. Our stack includes Node.js, Typescript, MongoDB, React, PostgreSQL, and C++ among others. You would be working with another engineer focused on front-end, but some familiarity with frontend frameworks would be required.

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Own the technical design and implementation of robust, scalable, and extensible online services.

  • Collaborate with the engineering team to implement back-end services for our upcoming game.

  • Build web services to interact with the blockchain as well as game servers.

  • Optimize and debug complex systems spanning multiple services and providers.

  • Build robust, extensible and easily maintained code.


REQUIREMENTS

  • Extensive knowledge of Node.js, its strengths and its weaknesses.

  • Experience architecting scalable Node.js applications.

  • Strong programming background and knowledge of JavaScript (ES6/ES7), TypeScript.

  • Strong problem-solving abilities. Prior experience working on shipped full-stack applications.

  • Experience with AWS and Docker. Experience with SQL database, database design, as well as NoSQL database paradigms.

  • Experience with MongoDB and PostgreSQL. Some familiarity with C++. Must love games

DESIRABLE

  • Experience with Game Development.

  • Blockchain experience (Ethereum).

  • Front-end design experience.

  • Experience with React.

  • Experience creating and maintaining REST APIs in node/typescript.

  • Experience interacting or creating subgraphs in thegraph

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Karolina Coss Karolina Coss

Sr. Animator, AAA Game Studio

It all begins with an idea.

SENIOR ANIMATOR, AAA Game Studio


About the Company

We are a bold new game studio with a mission to build cutting edge AAA entertainment for the 21st century. Our team are veterans in the fields of online games, social games, and crypto from EpicGames, Insomniac, Blizzard, Sony, EA, and Decentraland. We are fully funded and building a dream team of A-players who want to work with the best of the best and take their careers to the next level.

About the position

We are seeking a hands on Senior Animator to contribute to the design and development of a brand new IP. This is a full-time, remote position that can be done from anywhere in the world with a good internet connection.


RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Create high-quality animation for players, creatures, bosses, and other in-game characters.

  • Work closely with our creative teams to shape the look and feel of our iconic game world.

  • Hold the quality bar high to ensure we achieve “AAA” quality standards.

  • Contribute innovative and original ideas on all aspects of game production and development, providing constructive insight and feedback when needed.


REQUIREMENTS

  • Have 3 years minimum hands on experience in the entertainment industry as an animator.

  • Experience animating characters in at least one shipped “AAA” game.

  • Ability to tell amazing stories and bring characters to life through animation.

  • Strong animation fundamentals with a focus on melee combat.

  • Expert animating in Maya/3DSMax/Blender including rigging experience (real-time preferred).

  • Ability to plan and block animation in a way that best meets the narrative needs of the game.

  • Must love games.


DESIRABLE

  • Experience creating visceral melee combat animations.

  • Experience creating Real-Time Cinematics with Live Link.

  • Familiarity with the Unreal Engine 4 including sequencer tools.

  • Experience with performance and motion capture sessions.

  • Experience working on a distributed team spread across several time zones.

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Karolina Coss Karolina Coss

Gameplay Engineer, AAA Game Studio

It all begins with an idea.

About the Company

We are a bold new game studio with a mission to build cutting edge AAA entertainment for the 21st century.  Our founders are veterans in the online games, social games, and crypto fields.  We are fully funded and building a dream team of A-developers who want to work with the best of the best and take their careers to the next level.

About the position

We are searching for a world-class Gameplay Engineer to join a small, fully remote team and work on an exciting (and unannounced) Multiplayer, Action RPG title. Working on Gameplay at BTS you would interact closely with Designers, Artists, and other engineers to architect and implement gameplay systems throughout the game.

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Carry implementation and design of major gameplay systems throughout the game from start to finish.

  • Areas of work include (but are not limited to) AI, Combat, Controls, Locomotion, etc.

  • Collaborate and iterate closely with design team on gameplay systems.

  • Plan and implement systems to be extensible, scalable, and easy to use in production.

  • Profile and optimize performance across the game to hit ship targets on multiple platforms

REQUIREMENTS

  • 5+ years of game development experience.

  • Shipped at least one high-quality AAA game for PC or Console.

  • Strong programming background and C++ knowledge.

  • Strong problem solving abilities.

  • Unreal Engine 4 experience.

  • Hands-on experience with gameplay systems like AI, Animation, Combat and Missions in Unreal Engine 4.

  • Experience profiling and optimizing game performance.

  • Ability to thrive in a collaborative environment with multiple stakeholders.

  • Must love games.

DESIRABLE

  • Experience with MMO or Action RPG game development.

  • Experience with procedural world and dungeon generation algorithms.

  • Experience working on a distributed team spread across several time zones.

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Karolina Coss Karolina Coss

Data Scientist, Auto-Tech

Data Scientist, Auto-Tech

ABOUT THE COMPANY:

The Company is the world’s leading roadside assistance platform.  We expand mobility and transportation options for consumers, automotive, logistics, and technology companies.  Analysts project travel miles to increase by one third globally by 2030 from new services which means more things breaking.  We help fix those things by offering a seamless, end-to-end digital platform, viewable by every stakeholder in real-time.  

 

The Company is proud that:

●      We rank #6 out of 500 in Deloitte’s 2019 Technology Fast 500 fastest-growing tech-forward companies in North America

●      We rank #10 on the Financial Time’s 2020 list of fastest growing companies

●      We rank #221 on the 2020 Inc. 500 list of fastest-growing private companies in the U.S.

●      We are backed by BMW, Porsche, Jaguar Land Rover and some of the world’s other biggest mobility companies.  We work with some of the coolest brands on the planet!

Your mission

Your mission is to improve Urgent.ly business processes and user experience which include dispatch algorithms, demand pricing, service provider supply & demand predictions using data science.  By developing and implementing new machine learning algorithms and understanding human behavior,  you help to accelerate the company’s growth, serve more customers better and faster than our competitors.

Your legacy

You developed data science products in a collaborative team setting using data analyses & machine learning processes, created and tested new hypotheses from the service provider, customer & company perspectives.  You built new products and innovated by testing and measuring new improvements and quantified your impact in key KPIs and company OKRs.  Your models helped the company grow its business, reduce costs and innovate in the mobility space.

Competencies (HOW)

●      You have a Bachelor Degree (Masters preferred) in a STEM or related quantitative field (economics, social sciences, finance). You have proven experience in using statistical and/or predictive modeling to build algorithms that will move human behavior in a desired direction.  You are obsessed with data and want to know how things work under the hood.

●      You are well-rounded. You are a technical expert in data science and programming.  You can express your ideas by building algorithms, data analysis and visualization.  You are self-directed and ask the right questions.

●      You have proven experience in working with large datasets in a Cloud environment. You worked with data in its many forms such as relational or NoSQL databases in structured and unstructured formats.  You have  worked with large datasets in streaming format, large tables or flat files and have used big data tools (i.e. EMR, Spark) in AWS (Amazon Web Service).

●      You are adept at coding and developing prototypes. You have built machine learning models in Python, Jupyter Notebooks, PySpark, SparkML or related technology. 

●      You have previous experience in transportation, supply & demand and/or logistic field. You worked in logistic, supply chain and/or location based fields and know how to analyze location data in a time series.

●      You have proven knowledge of advanced modeling techniques such as classification/regression, spatial analysis, time series analysis. You have used location based data to solve the optimization of complex customized networks in the mobility space.

●      You have designed A/B experiments and can evaluate its effectiveness with statistical hypothesis testing and analysis.

●      You have outstanding written and verbal communication skills. You can effectively communicate a complex data science concept simply in writing and in person.  Your writing can move an audience to a clear decision.

 

 

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Karolina Coss Karolina Coss

Data Product Manager, Auto-Tech

Data Product Manager, Auto-Tech

 

ABOUT THE COMPANY:

The Company is the world’s leading roadside assistance platform.  We expand mobility and transportation options for consumers, automotive, logistics, and technology companies.  Analysts project travel miles to increase by one third globally by 2030 from new services which means more things breaking.  We help fix those things by offering a seamless, end-to-end digital platform, viewable by every stakeholder in real-time.  

 

The Company is proud that:

●      We rank #6 out of 500 in Deloitte’s 2019 Technology Fast 500 fastest-growing tech-forward companies in North America

●      We rank #10 on the Financial Time’s 2020 list of fastest growing companies

●      We rank #221 on the 2020 Inc. 500 list of fastest-growing private companies in the U.S.

●      We are backed by BMW, Porsche, Jaguar Land Rover and some of the world’s other biggest mobility companies.  We work with some of the coolest brands on the planet!

Your Mission

The amount of data created, captured and consumed at the Company is growing exponentially and the business relies on rich datasets to gain deep insights and make decisions in real-time. Your mission is to define the strategy and deliver products that powers the intelligence. You and the Data Products team super charge critical applications like dynamic pricing, operational workflow, network optimization.

 

Your Legacy

Your legacy is a defined strategy that delivered products that powered the intelligence at the Company. You and the technical lead enabled the pipeline, took the event data we captured and routed it through analytics applications and other services we use that sit on top of our data. You collaborated with every aspect of the Company’s business and worked side by side with product managers, designers, engineers and data scientists. You changed the course of how the company uses data and created a world class product suite connecting all aspects of the business to drive growth. 

 

This position reports to:  Chief Product Officer

Competencies:

●      You are familiar with exciting new technology. You have worked with Hive, Kafka, Spark, Dicker, Mesos, data housing solutions and in memory databases.

●      You are customer centric. You have examples of working through complex product issues and have demonstrated that you can overcome and deliver for your customers through research and experimentation.

●      You are excellent at product delivery and execution. You translated product solutions by writing detailed features and user stories for the swimlane. You worked on highly complex products with multiple touch points across multiple teams. This would include the creation of prototypes and proof of concepts.

●      You are a great leader demonstrating success through agile development.  You own and manage along with the technical lead the product backlog and priorities with our business and technology partners. You will work with internal and external teams to manage dependencies between projects and other swimlanes.

●      You own the roadmap and people know it.  You scope out and ensure alignment on the prioritization of  projects based on business and customer impact. You also factor in technical debt and long term technical investment in the roadmap.

●      You are always thinking about go-to-market strategies.  You collaborate with stakeholders and dev/PMO teams to create and communicate anticipated releases. You work on supporting sales, marketing and other stakeholders with necessary product knowledge and documentation. 

●      You measure everything that matters.  You identify, analyze and synthesize product use data and use the data to drive decisions. You generate and maintain dashboards and reports that track the product health and success metrics.

●      You know to move quickly.   You run pilot and beta programs with early stage products to learn and drive the business forward aggressively.

●      Quality and performance matters to you.  You are accountable for the product quality and performance in the production environment. You are also accountable for the product and dev teams response in the event of a major defect or blocker including communication to call stakeholders.

●      You obsess over the success of your products.  You identify the execution, operational and organization issues that prevent your product from being successful. You drive the improvement plan to change or resolve the issues.

 

Qualifications:

●      A Bachelor's degree in computer science or relevant equivalent plus hands-on software engineering experience.

●      PHD in computer science preferred.

●      Minimum of 5 years of relevant Product Management experience in an agile software product development environment.

●      Ability to develop initiatives, features, and user stories that the Development teams can ingest.

●      Demonstrates complete mastery of business side skills including communication, customer research, product vision, feature definition and technical architecture.

●      Technical understanding must go from the highest abstractions down to the hardware.

●      Proven technical leadership with experience working in the technology industry or automotive industry.

●      Preference will be given to candidates who have experience in an automotive tier-1 or tier-2 supplier of electronic components.

●      Proven ability to effectively and efficiently communication with leadership.

●      Proven analytical skills with demonstrated ability and analyze product use data and use the data to drive decisions.

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Karolina Coss Karolina Coss

Sr. Data Engineer, Auto-Tech

Sr. Data Engineer, Auto-Tech

ABOUT THE COMPANY:

The Company is the world’s leading roadside assistance platform.  We expand mobility and transportation options for consumers, automotive, logistics, and technology companies.  Analysts project travel miles to increase by one third globally by 2030 from new services which means more things breaking.  We help fix those things by offering a seamless, end-to-end digital platform, viewable by every stakeholder in real-time.  

 

The Company is proud that:

●      We rank #6 out of 500 in Deloitte’s 2019 Technology Fast 500 fastest-growing tech-forward companies in North America

●      We rank #10 on the Financial Time’s 2020 list of fastest growing companies

●      We rank #221 on the 2020 Inc. 500 list of fastest-growing private companies in the U.S.

●      We are backed by BMW, Porsche, Jaguar Land Rover and some of the world’s other biggest mobility companies.  We work with some of the coolest brands on the planet!

YOUR MISSION: Your mission is to manage and optimize our cloud data platform. This means you will be responsible for working on a variety of data projects which includes orchestrating our data pipelines using modern big data tools as well as the engineering of existing transactional processing systems while meeting our security requirements.

 

YOUR LEGACY:  Your legacy will include ensuring that every team member across our growing organization is able to access data from any source within minutes and that none of our data is ever lost.  The result?  You helped the Company become the world’s leading mobility assistance company. 

WHAT YOU’LL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR:

1) First 3 months:

●      Understand our platform development environment and philosophy.

●      Understand our cloud platform and applications’ infrastructure.

●      Understand our engineering teams’ work culture.

 

2) First 6 months:

●      Integrate a number of 3rd party data sources

●      Employ various cloud agnostic tools to marry our internal and external systems and third party APIs together.

●      Develop data platform services.

●      Build monitoring infrastructure / services to give visibility into the pipeline’s status.

●      Interface with different teams to make data available for reporting and analytics.

3) Ongoing...

●      Continue to optimize our data platform.

●      Gather data requirements from other teams and implement solutions

●      Ensure integrity between our various systems and champion the flow of data across all of our systems ensuring data consistency.

●      Work with structured and unstructured data at scale from a variety of different data sources (key-value, document, columnar etc.) as well as traditional RDBMSs.

●      Constantly monitor and support our complete data ecosystem.

●      Maintain the data platform security and integrity.

●      Operate and manage the services in production with high availability, disaster recovery and CI/CD in mind

 

WHO YOU ARE:

The ideal candidate for this role must have a Bachelor’s degree in computer science or applied mathematics and 8+ years of software development in startups or companies working on big data technologies.

 

Technical Skills : 

○      Strong programming skills. Must be proficient in one of the following languages:  Python / Scala / Java.

○      Must have working knowledge of Pyspark, Panda Data Frames, SparkSQL etc.

○      Working knowledge of messaging and data pipeline tools like Apache Kafka, Amazon Kinesis.

○      Must have experience developing APIs using frameworks like Flask/Django etc.

○      Experience with stream-processing systems: Apache Spark-Streaming, Apache Storm, AWS Kinesis Suite of products, etc.

○      Experience working in open table / in-memory table formats for huge analytics dataset: Iceberg, Parquet, Arrow, AVRO etc.

○      Experience writing and understanding complex SQL queries.

○      Experience with data orchestration tool such as Airflow and log mining tools such as Splunk

○      Experience using AWS tools such as Database Migration Service, S3, RDS and Redshift

 

Industry Experience:

○      You have been involved in developing at least one data pipeline that involved collecting/streaming, storing and processing (ETL) the data for various business use cases.

○      You have  been an Integral part of a team working with structured, semi-structured and unstructured large data sets from real time/batch streaming data feeds.

●      Problem Solving: You are known for proactively  solving problems before they can become real problems.   You are the kind of person who is constantly upgrading your  skill sets & is always looking for ways to enhance the data platforms you’re working on.  

●      Team Member:  You pride yourself on working collaboratively with all of your teammates.  You are transparent in your communication and proactively share what others need to be aware of.

 

NICE TO HAVES:

●      Experience with AWS cloud services: EMR, Glue, Athena.

●      Have worked with data pipeline and governance tools:, Azkaban, Luigi etc.

●      Experience working with NoSQL databases like, Apache Solr, DynamoDB, MongoDB.

●      Have knowledge of HDFS, Flume, Hive, MapReduce

●      Nice to have worked in other data warehouse tools such as Snowflake.

 

THE NITTY GRITTY:

●      Location = Great news!  You have the option of working from anywhere in the U.S.!   Successful candidates for this position must be located outside of California.  It is also our expectation that all work for this position will be conducted outside of the state as well.

●      Manager = You’ll report to Director of Data Engineering

●      Compensation = Commensurate with experience for a company of our size

●       Benefits = we have awesome benefits!   We cover 100% of the cost of your dental and vision plans and we also provide short term and long term disability and life insurance to you all free of charge!   We have two medical plans - a base plan that has a Health Savings account add on and a PPO option (you do have to pay for these).  You’ll have 12 holidays off and unlimited paid time off..  We match 100% on the first 3% you contribute to our 401(k)and then 50% of the next 2% you contribute. So, if you contribute 5% of your paycheck, we’ll match 4% of that.  Free money!

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Karolina Coss Karolina Coss

Sr. React Engineer, Auto-Tech

Sr. React Engineer, Auto-Tech

ABOUT THE COMPANY:

The Company is the world’s leading roadside assistance platform.  We expand mobility and transportation options for consumers, automotive, logistics, and technology companies.  Analysts project travel miles to increase by one third globally by 2030 from new services which means more things breaking.  We help fix those things by offering a seamless, end-to-end digital platform, viewable by every stakeholder in real-time.  

 

The Company is proud that:

●      We rank #6 out of 500 in Deloitte’s 2019 Technology Fast 500 fastest-growing tech-forward companies in North America

●      We rank #10 on the Financial Time’s 2020 list of fastest growing companies

●      We rank #221 on the 2020 Inc. 500 list of fastest-growing private companies in the U.S.

●      We are backed by BMW, Porsche, Jaguar Land Rover and some of the world’s other biggest mobility companies.  We work with some of the coolest brands on the planet!

YOUR MISSION:  Your mission is to lead the mobile app development.  This means you will own the feasibility and delivery of new features and maintenance of React JS based mobile applications.

 

YOUR LEGACY:  Your legacy will include ensuring that every team meber across our growing organization is able to use ReactJS based web apps seamlessly and error-free. Improve the design of the webapp to make it easily extendable and publishable as a microapp.  The result?  You helped the Company become the world’s leading mobility assistance company. 

 

 

WHAT YOU’LL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR:

1) First 2 months:

 

●      Understand our existing mobile app design and architecture.

●      Understand how mobile App development environment and philosophy, and how it interacts with the rest of the service.

 

2) First 6 months:

 

●      Understand the mission of the mobile app team.

●      Enhance the mobile app architecture for performance and stability.

 

5) Ongoing...

●      Optimize the code, ensure best coding practices are followed, and support the existing team in their technical hurdles.

●      Monitor and support the service providers using the app in the field.

 

WHO YOU ARE:

●      Technical Must Haves:

○      Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information security, or a related technology field

○      7+ years in mobile web-development in similar environments.

○      In depth and demonstrable knowledge of React JS, Javascript

○      Must have designed, developed and reviewed multiple architecture in Mobile and Mobile-Web along with integration with Back-end system

○      Previous experience providing clients feedback on front-end strategy, framework selection and emerging technologies.

○      Expert architecture and code review

○      Contribute to the development of our internal tools and reusable architecture.

○      Integration experience between React JS, React Native and native (iOS and Android)

○      Experience creating optimized code and performance improvement for production system and applications

○      Unit and system testing frameworks, familiarity with Jest framework

○      Must have Git experience

●      Detail Oriented: As a lead engineer, you excel at keeping detailed documentation of what you and your team are developing.

●      Dedicated: You own the apps that you and your team are developing and take quality very seriously. 

●      Problem Solving: You proactively solve problems before they can become real problems. You are constantly upgrading your skill set and applying those practices.

●      Technical Leadership: You are a technical leader and are always mentoring developers as well as articulating the design to a team of developers.

 

NICE TO HAVES

●      Experience with Test Driven Development

●      Experience with logistics software (delivery, transportation, route planning), RSA domain.

 

THE NITTY GRITTY:

●      Location = Great news!  You have the option of working from anywhere in the U.S.!  Successful candidates for this position must be located outside of California.  It is also our expectation that all work for this position will be conducted outside of the state as well.

●      Manager = You’ll report to Application Development Manager

●      Compensation = Commensurate with experience for a company of our size

●      Benefits = we have awesome benefits!   We cover 100% of the cost of your dental and vision plans and we also provide short term and long term disability and life insurance to you all free of charge!   We have two medical plans - a base plan that has a Health Savings account add on and a PPO option (you do have to pay for these).  You’ll have 12 holidays off and unlimited paid time off..  We match 100% on the first 3% you contribute to our 401(k)and then 50% of the next 2% you contribute. So, if you contribute 5% of your paycheck, we’ll match 4% of that.  Free money!

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Karolina Coss Karolina Coss

Sr. Software Engineer - Drop Network, Auto-Tech

Senior Software Engineer - Drop Network, Auto-Tech

ABOUT THE COMPANY:

The Company is the world’s leading roadside assistance platform.  We expand mobility and transportation options for consumers, automotive, logistics, and technology companies.  Analysts project travel miles to increase by one third globally by 2030 from new services which means more things breaking.  We help fix those things by offering a seamless, end-to-end digital platform, viewable by every stakeholder in real-time. 

 

The Company is proud that:

●      We rank #6 out of 500 in Deloitte’s 2019 Technology Fast 500 fastest-growing tech-forward companies in North America

●      We rank #10 on the Financial Time’s 2020 list of fastest growing companies

●      We rank #221 on the 2020 Inc. 500 list of fastest-growing private companies in the U.S.

●      We are backed by BMW, Porsche, Jaguar Land Rover and some of the world’s other biggest mobility companies.  We work with some of the coolest brands on the planet!

YOUR MISSION: We are an automated dispatch platform and are on the mission to optimize the dispatching using data science. Your mission is to contribute to design and implement algorithms and business logic for Vehicle Repair Center Selection Service. This means you will own the feasibility, delivery and service quality of our Vehicle Repair Center Selection Service with your team, its integrations and support.

 

YOUR LEGACY:  Your legacy will include ensuring that every team member across our growing organization is able to use Vehicle Repair Center Selection Service in real time using APIs and is able to assess quality and performance of the service in real time. The result?  You helped the Company become the world’s leading mobility assistance company. 

 

WHAT YOU’LL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR:

 

1) First 2 months:

-        Understand our platform development environment and philosophy.

-        Understand how our current Vehicle Repair Center Selection Service works and the mission of it.

 

2) First 6 months:

-        Take over the development Vehicle Repair Center Selection Service.

-        Extend the service cloud to integrate with partner services.

-        Work with the data platform team to optimize the service.

 

 

5) Ongoing...

-        Optimize our vehicle repair center selection. 

-        Optimize delivery confirmation.

-        Operate the service in production.

 

WHO YOU ARE:

The ideal candidate for this role must have a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security or a related technology field.

 

Must Have Technical Skills:

 

-        In depth and demonstrable knowledge of Microservices architecture

-        Expert knowledge of programming languages (Scala, Java, Python) and related ecosystem

-        In depth knowledge of dispatch and routing algorithms

-        In depth knowledge of operationalizing optimization algorithms like regression, multivariate optimization and statistical inference models

-        In depth knowledge of operationalizing classification and predictive models

-        Data structures and fundamental algorithms

-        Hands on MySql and NoSql data systems, search systems and Graph Databases

-        Unit and system testing frameworks

-        Test Driven Development

-        Feature Flags

-        Git

●      Detailed: As a lead engineer, you create detailed documentation of what you and your team is developing.

●      Dedicated: You operate the services that you and your team develops, and take quality seriously. 

●      Problem Solving: You proactively solve problems before they can become real problems. You have an experimentation mindset. You are constantly upgrading your skill set and applying that to be proactive about the current and emerging security issues and practices.

●      Technical Leadership : You are a technical leader and are always mentoring junior developers, designing and articulating the design. You value team accomplishments more than individuals.

●      Industry Experience: You have spent 5+ years of software development in similar environments.

●      Quality Ownership: Your work demonstrates how much you care about the quality of what you produce and how it is performing in the real world.

 

NICE TO HAVES

●      Experience with data science tools

●      Experience with search systems like Elastic Search

 

THE NITTY GRITTY:

●      Location = Great news!  You have the option of working from anywhere in the U.S.!  Successful candidates for this position must be located outside of California.  It is also our expectation that all work for this position will be conducted outside of the state as well.

●      Manager = You’ll report to the SVP of Technology.

●      Compensation = Commensurate with experience for a company of our size

●      Benefits = we have awesome benefits! They include competitive pay, medical/dental/vision benefits and stock options which give you a stake in our company. In addition, we offer short-term and long-term disability, life insurance, approximately 12 holidays off every year and unlimited paid time off. On top of all this, the Company gives you free money when you save through our 401(k). We match 100% on the first 3% you contribute and then 50% of the next 2% you contribute. So, if you contribute 5% of your paycheck, we’ll match 4% of that.

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Karolina Coss Karolina Coss

Sr. Software Engineer - Dispatch System, Auto-Tech

Senior Software Engineer - Dispatch System, Auto-Tech

 

ABOUT THE COMPANY:

The company is the world’s leading roadside assistance platform.  We expand mobility and transportation options for consumers, automotive, logistics, and technology companies.  Analysts project travel miles to increase by one third globally by 2030 from new services which means more things breaking.  We help fix those things by offering a seamless, end-to-end digital platform, viewable by every stakeholder in real-time. 

 

The company is proud that:

●      We rank #6 out of 500 in Deloitte’s 2019 Technology Fast 500 fastest-growing tech-forward companies in North America

●      We rank #10 on the Financial Time’s 2020 list of fastest growing companies

●      We rank #221 on the 2020 Inc. 500 list of fastest-growing private companies in the U.S.

●      We are backed by BMW, Porsche, Jaguar Land Rover and some of the world’s other biggest mobility companies.  We work with some of the coolest brands on the planet!

 

YOUR MISSION:  We are an automated dispatch platform and are on the mission to optimize the dispatching using data science. Your mission is to contribute to design and implement algorithms and business logic for the Dispatch Engine. This means you will own the feasibility, delivery and service quality of our Dispatch Engine with your team as well as support integrations.

 

YOUR LEGACY:  Every member of team across our growing organization is able to use Dispatch Engine service in real time using APIs.  They are able to assess quality and performance of the service in real time.  The result?  You helped the company become the world’s leading mobility assistance company. 

WHAT YOU’LL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR:

1) First 2 months:

-        Understand our platform development environment and philosophy.

-        Understand how our current Dispatch Engine works and it’s overall mission.

2) First 6 months:

-        Take over the development of the dispatch engine.

-        Extend the service cloud to integrate with partner services.

-        Work with the data platform team to optimize the service. 

3) Ongoing...

-        Optimize our vehicle repair center selection. 

-        Optimize delivery confirmation.

-        Own the service operation and technical support

 

WHO YOU ARE:

●      Detailed: As a senior engineer, you create detailed documentation of what you and your team is developing.

●      Dedicated: You operate the services that you and your team develops, and take quality seriously. 

●      Problem Solving: You proactively solve problems before they can become real problems. You have an experimentation mindset. You are constantly upgrading your skill set and applying that to be proactive about the current and emerging security issues and practices.

●      Technical Leadership : You are a technical leader and are always mentoring junior developers, designing and articulating the design. You value team accomplishments more than individuals.

●      Industry Experience: You’ve been developing software in similar environments for at least 5 years.

●      Quality Ownership: Your work demonstrates how much you care about the quality of what you produce and how it is performing in the real world.

 

Must Have Technical Skills:

-        Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technology field

-        Minimum of 8 years of software development experience

-        In depth and demonstrable knowledge of Microservices architecture

-        Expert knowledge of programming languages (Scala, Java, Python) and related ecosystem

-        In depth knowledge of dispatch and routing algorithms

-        In depth knowledge of operationalizing optimization algorithms like regression, multivariate optimization and statistical inference models

-        In depth knowledge of operationalizing classification and predictive models

-        Data structures and fundamental algorithms

-        Hands on MySql and NoSql data systems, search systems and Graph Databases

-        Unit and system testing frameworks

-        Test Driven Development

-        Feature Flags

-        Git

NICE TO HAVES

●      Experience with data science tools

●      Experience with search systems like Elastic Search

 

THE NITTY GRITTY:

●      Location = Great news!  You have the option of working from anywhere in the U.S.!  Successful candidates for this position must be located outside of California.  It is also our expectation that all work for this position will be conducted outside of the state as well.

●      Manager = You’ll report to VP of Technology

●      Compensation = Commensurate with experience for a company of our size

●      Benefits = At the Company, we have awesome benefits!   We cover 100% of the cost of your dental and vision plans and we also provide short term and long term disability and life insurance to you all free of charge!   We have two medical plans - a base plan that has a Health Savings account add on and a PPO option (you do have to pay for these).  You’ll have 12 holidays off and unlimited paid time off..  We match 100% on the first 3% you contribute to our 401(k)and then 50% of the next 2% you contribute. So, if you contribute 5% of your paycheck, we’ll match 4% of that.  Free money!

 

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