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About Very
Very has been a remote-first company since 2011 which has allowed us to develop an amazing remote working experience and to have a remote office culture that exceeds that of any traditional on-site office.
Weâve built a collaborative, tight-knit team that thrives, whether weâre hanging out in person at our annual retreat or coordinating work across time zones. The results show that weâre doing something right. In 2020, we were named one of Incâs Best Workplaces, Parity.org's Best Companies for Women to Advance List, and Fatherlyâs Best Places to Work for Dads.
At Very we are focused on delivering world-class IoT hardware, software, and smart product engineering services to our clients. We have a wide array of clients from enterprise-level clients such as Vizio, Clear and iHeart Radio to small greenfield start-ups. Whatever size company our goal remains the same - Deliver world-class IoT services and solutions and truly partner with our clients to ensure overall product success.
About this Role
Very is looking to hire an experienced software engineer specializing in native mobile development to work across a wide variety of projects and technology stacks.
As a Lead Software Engineer, you will be responsible for delivering high-quality, scalable and well tested code. At Very, teaching and learning is at the core of what we do. Whether through pair programming, workshops, conferences or other cross project collaboration we expect every engineer to continue advancing and developing their skills.
Responsibilities:
At Very we do not have just one technology stack as we work on interesting problems, not specific technologies. However, we do have some preferred stacks and proficiency in two of them is required:
Backend Web / Embedded Technologies Elixir: Phoenix / Nerves Python: Django / Flask / Serverless / Scientific Python Ruby: Rails JavaScript: NodeJS Backends Kotlin/Java: Web Backends C/C++: Zephyr RTOS / BareMetal
Frontend Web / Mobile Technologies TypeScript: React / React Native Swift/Objective C: iOS Native Kotlin/Java: Android Native
We value well-tested, reusable code and expect our engineers to be as good of practitioners as they are leaders and teachers.
What Youâll Be Working On
We take customer success extremely seriously here at Very. As a senior engineer, you will be partnering with our clients to bring their products to market. You will be utilizing one or more of the above mentioned technology stacks coupled with a cloud provider to deliver an end-to-end solution for our customers.Â
Each project is slightly different and can contain any combination of hardware, firmware, web / mobile frontend as well as an API backend/cloud architecture. We follow best practices such as Infrastructure as Code, well thought out and designed CI/CD pipelines, TDD, and other testing best practices, and always keep an eye on scalability.Â
We remain as agile as possible working on delivering a vertical slice of all involved layers as early as possible so we can iterate and demonstrate progress. Your role on a project will be focused on your area of expertise coupled with your learning goals.
Qualifications
Required Unfortunately, applicants who do not meet these criteria will not be considered.
Nice-to-haves
Contract
Your contract with Very will be as an independent contractor for an indefinite period. This type of contract carries some additional responsibilities for you - you'll have to save some money to take care of taxes and you'll have to pay for public social security (Health and Pension) out of pocket. Â That being said, we're confident that our competitive compensation and benefits package (see below) will still mean that you are happy with your take-home amount at the end of each month. For more information about Very and the contract type, see here.
How Youâll Be Compensated
Base compensation Depending on your skill and experience, you can expect a monthly salary between USD $7,900 and $11,100 upon joining the company. We also offer performance bonuses, a generous maternity/paternity leave policy, and numerous other employee benefits (including eliminating the stress and cost of commuting each day)
We also offer world-class perks: -$1,000 annual Healthcare Stipend (to be used towards Health insurance premium) -Paid Parental Leave -Continuing Education Stipend - After 1 year of Employment ($3000/ year for learning and 100% of the costs if youâre speaking at an event)
Additional Perks (could vary)
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