Technical Lead – Back End at AWeber Communications

Title: Technical Lead – Back End

Location: Charleston United States

Job Description:

We’re currently hiring for remote team members in the following states: DC, DE, GA, IL, MA, MD, NH, NJ, OH, PA, SC, UT, and VA. #BI-Remote

We’re AWeber – a remote-first company that helps small businesses around the world form meaningful connections with their customers and grow their businesses using our marketing communication software. We are fanatical about small businesses and we hope you are too!

As Technical Lead on our Integrations team, you will design, develop, maintain, and operation solutions the power our public facing APIs as well as our integrations with third party solutions. Your mission will be to build efficient and reliable systems, while mentoring others on your team to do the same, that power delightful experiences for our customers.

Every day you will work alongside a team of skilled engineers, writing APIs and event-driven, distributed microservices in Python with frameworks like Tornado and Rejected. You will leverage internal tools to deploy applications onto a modern, hybrid platform using Docker and Kubernetes. On any given day, you could be found designing/implementing edge facing services to add new subscribers (requiring zero downtime), or evolving our technical solutions for retrieving analytics data and search functionalities, or even providing technical leadership around evolving our login and session management flows. Your code will capture metrics with tools like statsd, Graphite, and Grafana that you will use to monitor the health of services. You will join a 24×7 on-call rotation to make sure our product is available for customers around the clock.

To thrive as a Technical Lead, you take pride in producing secure, well-tested and maintainable code that balances the many competing priorities of a modern web platform while delivering for the customer. You enjoying coaching more junior developers through code reviews, paired programming, and providing technical thought leadership. You feel energized when you’ve worked with a team to deploy a new feature or solve a tough problem. Learning quickly is one of your super-powers, and you enjoy technologies and problems that are new to you, eager to share what you’ve learned. You assume intense ownership over your areas of responsibility, always advocating for improvement and pushing to keep systems updated to current standards.

About AWeber:

At AWeber we create marketing/ communication software that empowers small businesses around the world to form strong connections with their customers and grow their businesses. Who are our customers you might ask? They are creators, bloggers, entrepreneurs – people just like you that are passionate about an idea or product they want to share with the world. At AWeber, YOU make an impact on these small businesses each and every day!

As a team, we work remotely across the US, and although we’re in separate locations, nothing can keep us apart! We collaborate everyday using a variety of tools such as slack, google meet, and confluence/ JIRA to ensure we’re making decisions with our customers’ best interests in mind – something that’s not possible when you work in a siloe. At AWeber, YOUR voice and YOUR opinion matters, regardless of your role. We expect all AWeber team members will ask tough questions, provide/ receive feedback regularly, and explore their passions on a daily basis. Sound exciting? Take the next step and apply.

AWeber Benefits:

• 100% Remote – we’re not going back to the office and here’s why.
• Strong culture that supports flexibility, entrepreneurialism, and collaboration. Think we should be doing something different? Share your feedback! We’re looking for you to add your AWesomeness to our culture.
• We have some other pretty cool benefits to make your life easier:
  • 100% Company Paid PPO medical, dental, vision insurance (spousal and domestic partner benefits available).
  • 4-7 weeks of paid time off and holidays (based on tenure).
  • 4 week paid sabbatical (based on tenure).
  • 401K retirement plan with 4% company match.
  • Company Profit Share.
  • Home office equipment and internet stipend.
  • Tuition reimbursement, conferences, and learning opportunities.
  • Gym Memberships Reimbursement.
  • Company Paid Short Term Disability Insurance.
  • Company Paid Life Insurance.
  • Additional Supplemental Benefits (Long Term Disability, Critical Illness, and Additional Life Insurance).