BackgroundThe future will be distributed. This is important because the centralized powers of today extract our data and sell it to the highest bidder, to our detriment. We can fix that. Federated protocols for messaging, microblogging, as well as distributed network architectures for payments, identity and organization are well underway. We are missing a consumer product that enables users to move away from data repositories centralized in the hands of big tech so they can safely and privately interact with digital technology. We need a new personal computing platform that enables this. And we need your help to build that platform.Our organization is a values driven cooperative that prioritizes people and our planet over profit. We aim to have a global and positive impact on people’s lives by creating technology that works for people, instead of trying to extract data or money from them. We value open and open source software We look for strong values-driven people who share our vision. We look forward to telling you more about our vision, our values and what we are building.Requirements<ul><li>*Nix experience</li><li>CI/CD development</li><li>Ability to independently architect an application</li><li>Proficiency in multiple programming languages (e.g. javascript, python, C)</li><li>Ability to learn a new language quickly (e.g. rust)</li><li>Community participation and management</li><li>Security minded (ability to architect for security)</li><li>Analytic communication skills</li><li>[Optional] Ability to work remote</li><li>[Optional] Machine learning affinity</li></ul>RoleWe are looking for a fun and skilled full-time&nbsp;backend engineer&nbsp;to join our diverse and distributed team. We are bound by our common vision and strong values. You will help our team to design and develop the backend for our privacy-by-design data platform. We are looking at using a graph database in combination with security focussed language (e.g. rust) and possibly modules written in other languages (e.g. python, swift). You will join an existing organization of machine learning and distributed technology (e.g. blockchain) researchers. We are just transitioning from research to productizing our solution and look forward to working closely with you to see our common vision come alive.&nbsp;ValuesWe are strongly values driven. We believe that this provides the structure to scale our organization, innovate our technology and attract top talent as we strive to change the world towards a better future. These values apply to how we work and the philosophy of the solutions we create.&nbsp;What we offerAs an early organization we offer a base salary with a large stake in the future upside of our effort.&nbsp;Our leadership has successfully started and sold previous startups.&nbsp;We offer a creative, highly participatory environment without the classical top-down hierarchy.&nbsp;We value that each candidate brings their own unique mix of skills and experience.&nbsp;We have a preference to hire in Amsterdam or to offer relocation to Amsterdam.&nbsp;We believe your life outside your professional commitments should be enjoyed, and time to rejuvenate is critical to thriving: we offer 5 weeks paid holiday time.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Backend Engineer

What will you be doing?As with many young companies, your responsibilities will change over time. However, here are some of the responsibilities we expect you to take on as a&nbsp;Principal Engineer.<ul><li>Work with our engineering teams to translate business requirements into high-quality, well architected software solutions.</li><li>Oversee two (out of four)&nbsp;of our product development teams day-to-day.&nbsp;Ensure that your team members are being developed, mentored and challenged, acting as an advocate for them within the organisation and ensuring roles and responsibilities are well defined.</li><li>Act as a "right-hand-person" to our Head of Engineering, share the duty&nbsp;of management and&nbsp;leadership of our engineering organisation. Work on strategy, goals and the structure of the team together with the Head of Engineering to ensure we're best placed to meet our targets.</li><li>Advocate for&nbsp;engineering excellence:&nbsp;Coding standards and&nbsp;quality, less tech debt and better engineering, solution design &amp; architecture, robustness, cost efficiency.</li><li>Technical leadership &amp; ownership – Lead design reviews, ask the hard questions, probe assumptions, highlight risks &amp; edge cases.</li></ul>RequirementsSounds interesting?&nbsp;Here’s what we’re looking for:<ul><li>Residency requirement: You must currently be a legal&nbsp;resident of an EU country (excludes UK)&nbsp;with the right status allowing you to work in that country without additional visa sponsorship). If you live in&nbsp;Germany we can offer visa support, but not in any other country unfortunately.</li><li>A strong background in software engineering. Proven ability to navigate complexity and translate vague problems into software specs, understand functional requirements and interaction between&nbsp;different software components.</li><li>2+ years of leadership experience - you know how to build and manage teams of engineers. You love helping people to grow and improve, achieve their potential by inspiring excellence and innovation.</li><li>You're not a typical "professional manager", instead&nbsp;you are motivated to lead by example. This could mean&nbsp;getting into the weeds and writing code sometimes –&nbsp;you do what it takes to help push things forward and help the company make progress.</li><li>You are comfortable with the reality&nbsp;that being a strong leader will mean more work and more&nbsp;pressure than being an individual contributor.</li><li>Strong critical thinking and an outcome-driven mindset. You believe challenging the status quo is fundamental to improve processes, best-practices and technologies in order to stay competitive.</li><li>Work ethic and communication - we value transparency and open communication. We try to avoid problems by working to resolve tensions and coming together as a team to achieve our shared mission.</li><li>You’re always up for pairing and helping your colleagues to solve challenging problems.</li></ul>Nice to haves<ul><li>Data experience: You’ve worked with systems processing hundreds of millions of events. You have previous experience with ETL and data pipelines.</li><li>Experience with Ruby on Rails,&nbsp;PostgresSQL,&nbsp;Go, Rust,&nbsp;Kubernetes.</li></ul>What is it like to work at ChartMogul?&nbsp;<ul><li>You’ll join the adventures of an early stage company and experience what it means to have a job that’s incredibly impactful.</li><li>You’ll become part of a team of nice, awesome and highly dedicated people that all have the same mission: Helping companies to build better subscription businesses.</li></ul>