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  • Build new user-facing experiences, scale internal infrastructure.
  • Design intelligent AI-powered automations to help solve customer issues.
  • Translate ambiguous business problems into clear technical solutions.

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  • Think about users and long term objectives when designing a technical solution.
  • Design complex distributed systems that power products used by millions of users.
  • Mentor others and prioritize building inclusive, supportive teams.

Whatnot is the largest livestream shopping platform in North America and Europe. Our sellers are building real businesses across hundreds of categories, and we're shaping how an entirely new industry develops with a remote co-located team inspired by values and anchored in hubs.

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  • Lead the backend architecture for GitLab Duo Chat across the GitLab DevSecOps platform.
  • Integrate new generative AI models and providers into GitLab Duo Chat to expand capabilities and improve response quality.
  • Improve debugging, observability, and test coverage for AI-powered chat workflows to increase reliability at scale.

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, enabling organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. With over 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100 trusting GitLab, our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems.

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  • Improve the scalability and reliability of our core data systems.
  • Define and evolve how we model, store, and query resource data across Vanta.
  • Collaborate with product, design, and other engineering teams to understand user needs.

Vanta helps businesses earn and prove trust by providing continuous security monitoring and verification. They empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, with many having succeeded without prior extensive security experience.

Global Unlimited PTO 11w maternity

  • Lead the development of major team-scoped projects and participate in cross-team initiatives.
  • Actively participate in product work, providing feedback and suggesting solutions.
  • Design and implement APIs with performance, scalability, and maintainability in mind.

Remote simplifies global employment by enabling businesses to compliantly recruit, pay, and manage international teams. They foster a future-focused work culture with asynchronous collaboration across continents.

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  • Simplify workflows: Translate operational needs into reliable code that reduces manual effort by deciding when and what to automate.
  • Evolve the architecture: Identify ways to modernise systems, managing trade-offs to keep them dependable as they scale.
  • Advocate for quality: Advocate for better engineering practices using code reviews and design sessions as a sounding board for the team.

Iwoca provides flexible and responsive finance to small businesses through smart technology, data science, and customer service. They have cleared the way for 100,000 businesses with over £4 billion in funding and aim to support one million SMEs, fostering lasting community and economic impact.

  • Shaping the Python language ecosystem with a strong product and platform mindset.
  • Architecting, building and delivering high-impact solutions that uplift the Python developer experience.
  • Developing internal observability tooling and metrics that give the team actionable insights.

Canva is a design platform that enables users to create a variety of visual content. They have campuses in Sydney and Melbourne and co-working spaces in Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide; they value work-life balance by providing their teams with the choice in where and how they work.

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  • With support, break down projects into tasks, deliver in phases, and collaborate for timely delivery.
  • Support peers and stakeholders by collaborating with product management, design & analytics.
  • Support operations and availability by creating/monitoring metrics and supporting on-call efforts.

Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest. The company is remote-first with employees working almost anywhere within the country of employment and focuses on providing a simple and transparent pay structure.

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  • You will be responsible for owning and delivering quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers on your team through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems, and ensuring that everyone is supported throughout delivery.
  • You will support your peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics by participating in ideation, articulating technical constraints, and partnering on decisions that properly consider risks and trade-offs.
  • You will proactively identify project, process, technology or business issues, advocate for them, and lead in solving them.

Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest. The company values its employees and offers competitive benefits.

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  • Be responsible for owning and delivering quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems, and ensuring that everyone is supported throughout delivery.
  • Support peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics by participating in ideation, articulating technical constraints.
  • Proactively identify project, process, technology or business issues, advocate for them, and lead in solving them.

Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest. They are a remote-first company with a focus on building a presence around the world while valuing their employees.

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  • Lead the delivery of your team's roadmap with predictable, high-quality outputs.
  • Remove blockers and provide clarity in ambiguous situations.
  • Hire, onboard, and retain top engineering talent.

Jobgether is a platform that connects job seekers with partner companies using AI-powered matching. They focus on ensuring quick, objective, and fair reviews of applications against core requirements.

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  • Lead a team building and scaling the customer-facing leave platform.
  • Set a high bar for engineering quality and make thoughtful architectural decisions.
  • Translate ambiguity into well-scoped work for the team to execute.

Cocoon simplifies employee leave, addressing the complexities of parental, medical, and bereavement leave. They aim to empower every working person by removing friction for employees and employers, advocating for those navigating leave processes.

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  • Own all technical relationships and integrations with affiliate partners.
  • Ensure real-time bidding infrastructure connects seamlessly with affiliate platforms.
  • Maintain a high degree of integration reliability, visibility, and performance across all affiliate channels.

Trellis is rewriting the insurance experience from the inside out, bringing clarity and ease to insurance shopping with powerful tools and a customer-first mindset. As a remote-first team, they move quickly and experiment boldly, building with intention and backed by General Catalyst, QED, NYCA, and Amex Ventures.

$175,000–$235,000/yr
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  • Peer and primary point of contact for your Pod PM and Designer.
  • Bring your deep technical and system understanding to help ideate and design the next big product idea or feature.
  • Combine your technical skills and product sense to simplify the complexities of healthcare.

Counterpart Health is transforming healthcare and improving patient care using Counterpart Assistant, their innovative primary care tool. They support Primary Care Physicians (PCPs) to deliver improved outcomes at a lower cost through early diagnosis and longitudinal care management of chronic conditions; they boast an exceptional team of value-based care and technology experts.

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  • Work directly with the co-founders on priorities, execution, and technical direction
  • Act as the glue between engineering and product, ensuring alignment across teams and parallel projects
  • Lead greenfield projects from the ground up, building new products powered by LLMs and AI technologies

Amplemarket is an AI-powered sales platform helping B2B companies generate more opportunities. They are backed by Y Combinator and power sales teams at companies like Deel, Moveworks, H1, and Vanta.

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  • Shape and scale GitLab CI backend infrastructure to improve performance, reliability, and usability.
  • Design and implement AI-powered features for Agentic CI, including agents and LLM-backed tooling.
  • Own and drive measurable performance improvements across CI systems.

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. They enable organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. Their high-performance culture is driven by their values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling their team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems.

Europe

  • You will be responsible for owning and delivering quarterly goals for your team.
  • You will support your peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle.
  • You will proactively identify project, process, technology or business issues, advocate for them, and lead in solving them.

Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest. They are a remote-first company with competitive benefits.

Canada

  • You will be responsible for owning and delivering quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers on your team through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems, and ensuring that everyone is supported throughout delivery.
  • You will support your peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics by participating in ideation, articulating technical constraints, and partnering on decisions that properly consider risks and trade-offs.
  • You will proactively identify project, process, technology or business issues, advocate for them, and lead in solving them.

Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest. Affirm is remote-first company with a simple and transparent pay structure which is based on a variety of factors, including location, experience and job-related skills.

$54,260–$57,527/yr
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  • Design and evolve the technical architecture of applications.
  • Develop and maintain high-performance APIs in Python and Go.
  • Supervise developers technically (code review, mentoring).

Scalian is a leading Engineering Consulting Group in France, providing services in industrial project management, supply chain, and development of digital systems and AI. Founded in 1989, Scalian has over 5500 employees across 11 countries and 15 locations in France, with a turnover of 550 million euros. They work for major CAC40 groups on various projects and are Great Place to Work certified, experiencing 20% annual growth.

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Canada

  • Break down larger projects into individual tasks and deliver them in multiple phases.
  • Collaborate with product management, design & analytics by participating in ideation.
  • Support the operations and availability of your team’s artifacts by creating and monitoring metrics.

Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest. Affirm is a remote-first company; the majority of our roles are remote, with employees having the flexibility to work remotely.

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  • Develop/maintain/extend PartnerStack’s Vue.JS frontend and Python backend software systems.
  • Lead technical projects and be the go-to resource for the team.
  • Partner with leadership in Design and Product Management to drive constant improvements to overall product strategy

PartnerStack is a B2B partnerships network, with over 500+ companies using their platform to generate and sustain revenue. They have a high-impact and cross-team collaboration culture, empowering their teams to achieve success together.