Senior Web Application Developer

San Francisco, CA

We are seeking a talented, ambitious, and experienced Web Application Developer to join our development team. You should love technology, love to code, and love a good challenge. This position contributes to the development of various Lytmus products while collaborating with fellow team experts in software engineering and marketing. You should be a resourceful developer who crafts elegant coding solutions but also knows when to ask for help. (It’s all about collaboration here!)

What else? You should have expertise in developing and architecting complex and scalable web applications using Python and SQL. You should be great at writing clean, unit-tested code with an eye towards performance and maintainability. You should be dedicated to application performance, extensibility, code reuse, and simplicity.

Beyond all this, we want you to grow and develop with us. We believe in our product, our mission, and the people on our team. If that sounds exciting, we’re excited to meet you.

Requirements

  • 6+ years developing production-level full-stack web applications
  • Deep experience designing, documenting, and implementing RESTful APIs
  • Intuitive relational databases and data modeling abilities
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills: You can easily explain your rationale.
  • Familiarity with MVC frameworks like Django, Pylons and their relevant ORMs
  • Relentless collaborator: You’re the person others want to join forces with!
  • Value the importance of documentation and TDD
  • Clear understanding of how various web technologies work together
  • Solid organizational skills: a self-starter with great time management skills

Extra Credit

  • Ideally we’d love a developer who can easily traverse the stack from Javascript to Python, contributing wherever necessary. That said, backend experience is a higher priority for this position.
  • Hands-on exposure with frameworks: AngularJS or EmberJS is a big plus!
  • Experience with JavaScript design patterns
  • Understanding of the importance of process and the desire and ability to help evolve our own
  • Proficiency creating cross-browser/cross-platform, high-performance code
  • Intuitive UX and Design understanding

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

San Francisco, CA

We are looking to hire an experienced engineer to join our eight-person team, and lead the Site Reliability and Automation efforts. This is a high-impact position at Lytmus, since all our assessments are conducted inside an increasingly large number of virtual machines in the cloud.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement tools to build, test, and release code.
  • Care about uptime, scalability, and security of a rapidly-growing number of servers.
  • Create and maintain virtualized environments for development and production.
  • Perform general Linux system administration: configuration, installs, monitoring, automation.
  • Collaborate with the development team in every part of our product—from the earliest stage of design and development, to deployment, troubleshooting, and performance analysis.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience managing large-scale, public-facing websites.
  • Understanding of the infrastructure and protocols that support highly-scalable websites.
  • Obsessive desire to automate everything. Experience with VMWare, Vagrant, Docker, or Fabric is a definite plus.
  • Expert-level Linux system administration skills; Ubuntu Linux is a plus.
  • Fluency with shell scripting and a high-level language; Python is our language of choice.
  • Experience with hosted and cloud-based services; AWS is a plus.

Technical Recruiter (Contract)

San Francisco, CA

Lytmus is seeking a Technical Recruiter to help us match and place candidates to our partner companies. We offer an innovative skills credentialing platform that allows candidates to show what they know and get noticed by employers. Your role will be to help place these candidates at our partner companies who are interested in hiring candidates based on what they know as opposed to where they are from. You'll directly interact with candidates and recruiters at companies that we work with to help find great matches and get people jobs.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and execute on sourcing strategies to get more candidates to go through our skills credentialing platform.
  • Help match the most qualified candidates with jobs at our partner companies.
  • Call and screen technical candidates.

Preferred Qualifications

  • A strong interest in helping candidates get the best jobs for their skill level
  • A strong interest in meritocracy and leveling the hiring playing field
  • Interest in technology startups, recruiting and building exciting companies

Required experience

  • Technical recruiting: 1 year

Frontend Engineer

San Francisco, CA

We're seeking a talented and ambitious frontend UI engineer to join our engineering team. We’re interested in someone who can code with a good eye for design and user-experience.

The ideal candidate loves to code, enjoys a good challenge, and is a resourceful developer who crafts elegant coding solutions, but also knows when to ask for help. (It's all about collaboration here!). You are dedicated to application performance, extensibility, code reuse, and simplicity.

We want you to grow and develop with us. We believe in our product, our mission, and the people on our team. If that sounds exciting, we’re excited to learn more about you.

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to the development of the marketing website and core products while collaborating with fellow team experts in engineering and marketing
  • Work with our product team to visualize new features in the form of wireframes and mockups prior to realizing the features in code
  • Write clean code with an eye towards performance and maintainability

You'll ideally have most or all of the following:

  • 5+ years developing production-level web sites and applications
  • Demonstrated skills in HTML5, CSS and JavaScript
  • Good eye for design and the ability to mockup and wireframe user-experiences based on business needs
  • Experience with modern frameworks such as Angular or EmberJS
  • Experience with JavaScript design patterns
  • Experience working with RESTful APIs
  • Experience in web frameworks a plus (e.g., Django, Node.js, Rails, etc.)

Frontend UI & UX Engineer

San Francisco, CA

We're seeking a talented and ambitious front-end UI & UX engineer to join our engineering team. We’re interested in someone who can code with a great eye for design and user-experience.

The ideal candidate loves to code, enjoys a good challenge, and is a resourceful developer who crafts elegant coding solutions, but also knows when to ask for help. (It's all about collaboration here!). You are dedicated to application performance, extensibility, code reuse, and simplicity. You love and have an excellent sense for good design and usability, and can bring this vision to life in your code and on the screen.

We want you to grow and develop with us. We believe in our product, our mission, and the people on our team. If that sounds exciting, we’re excited to learn more about you.

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to the development of the Lytmus marketing website and other products while collaborating with fellow team experts in software engineering and marketing
  • Work with our product team to visualize new features in the form of wireframes and mockups prior to realizing the features in code
  • Write clean code with an eye towards performance and maintainability

You'll ideally have most or all of the following:

  • 5+ years developing production-level web sites and applications
  • Demonstrated skills in HTML5, CSS and object-oriented JavaScript
  • Great-eye for design and the ability to mockup and wireframe user-experiences based on business needs
  • Experience with modern frameworks such as Angular or EmberJS
  • Experience with JavaScript design patterns
  • Experience working with RESTful APIs
  • Experience in web frameworks a plus (e.g., Django, Node.js, Rails, etc.)

Software Engineer

San Francisco, CA

We're seeking a talented and ambitious software engineer to join our engineering team. We’re interested in someone with a strong background or interest in building successful products or systems.

The ideal candidate loves to code, enjoys a good challenge, and is a resourceful developer who crafts elegant coding solutions, but also knows when to ask for help. (It's all about collaboration here!). You are dedicated to application performance, extensibility, code reuse, and simplicity.

We want you to grow and develop with us. We believe in our product, our mission, and the people on our team. If that sounds exciting, we’re excited to learn more about you.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain core services and systems across multiple technologies such as virtual machines, docker, api servers, databases, etc.
  • Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
  • Work with engineering and product teams to build new features at large-scale
  • Write clean code with an eye towards performance and maintainability

You'll ideally have most or all of the following:

  • 3+ years developing production-level services and applications
  • Expertise with software development in languages like Python, Javascript, Java, and Go
  • Experience writing performant, decoupled, testable, maintainable code
  • Understanding of high-availability, fault-tolerant, scalable, distributed systems

QA Engineer

San Francisco, CA

We're seeking a talented and ambitious QA engineer to join our engineering team. We’re interested in someone with a strong background or interest in ensuring that only high quality products are released to customers.

The ideal candidate loves to break things, enjoys a good challenge, and is a resourceful engineer who values high quality products. You have a strong aptitude for learning new technologies with a good instinct for discovering defects.

We want you to grow and develop with us. We believe in our product, our mission, and the people on our team. If that sounds exciting, we’re excited to learn more about you.

Responsibilities

  • Design, plan, and execute integrated cross-functional system and validation tests
  • Develop and maintain test automation
  • Identify, reproduce, isolate, and validate issues
  • Work with engineering to identify risk areas and testing responses
  • Perform manual testing while automating new test plans

You'll ideally have most or all of the following:

  • 3+ years of software quality assurance background consisting of both manual and automated testing
  • Experience in developing automation using scripting languages
  • Demonstrated ability to own a complete functional area of an application or product
  • Good understanding and execution of software quality assurance methodologies and practices

Customer Success

San Francisco, CA

We're seeking a talented and ambitious customer success manager to join our team. We’re interested in someone with a strong background or interest in advising and guiding customers towards a successful product adoption.

The ideal candidate enjoys a good challenge, is resourceful, and values helping customers discover business value from the Lytmus platform.

We want you to grow and develop with us. We believe in our product, our mission, and the people on our team. If that sounds exciting, we’re excited to learn more about you.

Responsibilities

  • Work closely with customers to discover their business needs and challenges with a proactive customer success process
  • Help customers successfully adopt and deploy the Lytmus platform
  • Be the voice of the customer -- coordinate with product and engineering teams to help advocate and prioritize features
  • Maintain high levels of customer engagement and satisfaction with a focus on customer loyalty
  • Create and maintain customer onboarding and support assets
  • Handle customer support issues and feedback that come through the help desk

You'll ideally have most or all of the following:

  • 3+ years of experience in a customer facing role such as customer success, customer support, account management
  • Proactive and self motivated team player with ideas to inspire customer adoption and loyalty
  • Strong ability to multi-task between customer success and support for a wide variety of customers

Content Marketing

San Francisco, CA

We're seeking a talented and ambitious content marketing manager to join our team. We’re interested in someone with a strong background or interest in developing content and strategies for sales, growth, and product marketing.

The ideal candidate loves to create, share, and promote online materials (such as videos, blogs, and social media posts) to stimulate interest in Lytmus products and services.

We want you to grow and develop with us. We believe in our product, our mission, and the people on our team. If that sounds exciting, we’re excited to learn more about you.

Responsibilities

  • Develop content (such as case studies, presentations, emails, website, blogs, videos) for marketing and sales campaigns
  • Work with cross-functional teams to create and optimize content to help generate qualified leads and meaningful engagement
  • Help socialize and create awareness around Lytmus concepts and differentiators
  • Experiment and develop key success metrics to prioritize marketing channels and mediums
  • Work with engineering and product teams to build clear and concise marketing messages and campaigns
  • Implement SEO strategies and best practices

You'll ideally have most or all of the following:

  • 4+ years developing high quality online content
  • Strong communication and writing skills
  • Demonstrated ability to create and promote social online materials
  • Proactive and self motivated team player that can thrive in a dynamic startup environment
  • Experience working cross functionally across marketing, sales, product, and engineering
  • Strategic and metrics-driven passion for content marketing