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Here’s what we’re looking for:

 

We are seeking a talented mid-level LAMP developer with solid FE/UX development skills – JS/CSS/HTML and a good working knowledge of the NextJS applications. The Full Stack developer will work on building and maintaining brand sites and internal web applications. Developer will also collaborate with creative and UX teams and will support technical leads during deployments and updates. Ideal candidates will have a can-do attitude, passion for technology, a penchant for security and automation, solid OOP skills and a good understanding of test-driven development. They follow the architecture defined by the Senior Technical Architect to ensure solutions adhere to established development standards while considering security, performance, and accessibility implications. They are fluent in Scrum methodologies, utilize task management tools, and embrace Agile principles to keep complex development projects on track across multiple work streams. We also support several legacy applications built in WordPress, so some experience in WordPress and PHP is ideal.

Practice Contributor

Senior Developers are active voices in the department. They work closely with the Technology leadership to keep our practice up-to-date through ongoing research, reporting on industry trends and by advocating for new technologies. They work with the technology leadership to develop departmental standards for tooling, code style, documentation formats, frameworks, and libraries. Senior-level Javascript skill would complement this role as the team looks for ways to create performant and engaging front-ends for our sites.

Position reports to the Associate Director of Technology. This is open to remote work though we expect availability during core hours with the team in the San Francisco Bay Area. This position is a contingent, on-site, role. Our office is located close to BART in Oakland, CA.Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:

  • Participate in development activities (90%)
  • Write clean, unit-tested JavaScript and PHP code with an eye towards performance and maintainability
  • Write well-structured and accessible HTML and CSS.
  • Create and update project and departmental documentation.
  • Foster collaboration and help to increase the knowledge level of the team (10%)
  • Research and share industry innovations and trends, continuously improve our expertise and processes
  • Manage and collaborate with external development teams and vendor partners
  • Collaborate closely across disciplines (UX, visual design, PM) and accurately report project status to leadership

Qualifications:

  • 4+ year writing code using React, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP/MySQL
  • Write clean, modular, robust code to implement the desired requirements with little or no supervision
  • Experience with NextJS, especially with the App Router
  • Experience with headless CMSes like Contentful
  • Experience with PHP-based CMSes and application frameworks, especially Wordpress
  • Experience with modern DevOps tools and techniques for orchestration and automation
  • Familiarity with modern security practices and writing secure PHP code
  • Knowledge of caching, scaling, and front-to-back performance best practices
  • Knowledge of Web Services RESTful APIs.
  • Experience with test-driven and behavior-driven development methodologies and related testing frameworks and tools, leveraging SDLC principles and best practices
  • Strong dedication to application performance, extensibility, code reuse, and simplicity
  • Appreciate great UX and design, and thrive in a fun, creative environment
  • Passion for Scrum / Agile principles
  • Appreciate great UX and design, and thrive in a fun, creative environment
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field (Master’s Degree would be a plus)

Additional Qualifications:

  • Experience with integrating user authentication on a NextJS application
  • Knowledge in working with Acoustic CRM
  • Experience with AI development tools and aids like Github Copilot and Claude
  • Experience with integrating 3rd party MarTech or eCom services including: Lytics / BazaarVoice / MikMak

Why join to us:

  • Work Anywhere: Embrace the freedom to work from anywhere in the world. Your office could be a beach, a cozy café, or wherever you feel most inspired
  • Flexibility: Wave goodbye to the 9-to-5 grind. We believe in a flexible working schedule that fits your life.
  • Sponsored Education: We're invested in your growth. Enjoy sponsored education and training, ranging up to 50%.
  • Personal Development: We're not just about work; we're about your growth. Craft your personal development plan and watch your career soar.
  • Regular Salary Reviews: Your hard work won't go unnoticed. We conduct regular salary reviews to ensure you're fairly rewarded
  • Career Advancement: The sky's the limit! Move up the ladder based on your performance, and your career trajectory could surprise you
  • Corporate Events: From team outings to memorable celebrations, we know how to have a good time together
  • English Classes: Enhance your language skills and open doors to global opportunities with our sponsored English classes
  • Health Matters: Your health is our priority. Get your annual flu shot on us
  • Work Equipment: We provide top-notch tools. Receive a compensation of $600 for your work equipment
  • Paid vacation, sick leaves

Dear Candidate,

In an era of rapid technological advancement and the constant evolution of artificial intelligence, at Zazmiс, we believe in the importance of analyzing resumes not only through automated tools but also through interaction with a live recruiter. We value an individualized approach to each candidate and strive to make the hiring process more friendly and efficient.

Understanding the significance of your time and that of our colleagues, we offer you the opportunity to provide additional information that will help us better understand your profile and its alignment with the job description. Your initiative will assist us in making a more informed decision when considering your candidacy.

Please note that Zazmiс reserves the right not to respond to a candidate’s application if we conclude that the candidate does not meet our requirements for any reason. Please understand this as part of our commitment to an efficient and fair hiring process.
Thank you for your understanding and participation in our recruitment process.

Best regards,
The Zazmiс Team

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    Dear Candidate,

    Before submitting your resume, please pay attention to the location – we will not be able to review your resume and provide feedback if you are not (in fact) located in the location of the vacancy.

    Thanks for understanding

    Here’s what we’re looking for:

    The Technical Lead is responsible for managing all technical aspects of a project, interfacing with UX, Design, Project Management, and Product Owners. They develop the plan for a development project, contributing code as well as delegating programming tasks to other members of the team. They ensure standards are followed and enforce software quality through mentoring and code reviews. They follow the architecture defined by the Technical Architect to ensure solutions adhere to established development standards while considering security, performance, and accessibility implications.

    Teams consist of local and remote resources, so Technical Leads must be great planners and communicators. Ideally, they are fluent in Agile methodologies, utilize task management tools, and embrace Agile principles to keep complex development projects on track across multiple

    work streams.

    Practice Contributor

    Technical Leads are active voices in the department. They work closely with the Technology leadership to keep our practice up to date through ongoing research, reporting on industry trends and by advocating for new technologies. They help to establish departmental standards for tooling, code style, documentation formats, frameworks, and libraries. Architect level Javascript skill would complement this role as the team looks for ways to create performant and engaging front ends for our sites.
    Position reports to the Associate Director of Technology. This position is a contract role, with a potential pathway to full time conversion. Our office is located close to BART in Oakland, CA.

    Key Responsibilities:

    • Participate in development activities (50%)
    • Write clean, unit-tested JavaScript and PHP code with an eye towards performance and maintainability
    • Write well-structured and accessible HTML and CSS.
    • Manage teams, foster collaboration and help to increase the knowledge level of the team (30%)
    • Research and share industry innovations and trends, continuously improve our expertise and processes
    • Manage and collaborate with external development teams and vendor partners
    • Collaborate closely across disciplines (UX, visual design, PM) and accurately report project status to leadership
    • Estimate and plan development projects (20%)
    • Analyze requirements, wireframes, and APIs of related applications to propose technical solutions
    • Transform requirements into user stories and tasks, estimating the effort, and planning sprints, managing development

    Qualifications:

    • 5+ years development experience with minimum 1-year time spent as team lead
    • Adept at interfacing directly with all stakeholders, including clients, tailoring communication to each audience
    • Experience with test-driven and behavior-driven development methodologies and related testing frameworks and tools, leveraging SDLC principles and best practices
    • Strong dedication to application performance, extensibility, code reuse, and simplicity
    • Possesses deep Front-end Web development skills with an emphasis in expert Javascript knowledge.
    • Experience in React and specifically in NextJS, especially with the App Router
    • Experience with headless CMSes like Contentful
    • Experience with PHP based CMSes and application frameworks, especially Wordpress
    • Experience with cloud infrastructure vendors and tools from AWS and GCP
    • Experience with PAAS services like Vercel and Pantheon
    • Passion for Scrum / Agile principles
    • Appreciate great UX and design, and thrive in a fun, creative environment
    • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field with 3+ years of relevant experience IT/software industry (Master’s Degree would be a plus)
    • Familiarity with current website privacy and security standards

    Additional Qualifications:

    • Experience with integrating user authentication on a NextJS application
    • Knowledge in working with Acoustic CRM
    • Experience with AI development tools and aids like Github Copilot and Claude
    • Experience with integrating 3rd party MarTech or eCom services including: Lytics / BazaarVoice / MikMak

    Why join to us:

    • Work Anywhere: Embrace the freedom to work from anywhere in the world. Your office could be a beach, a cozy café, or wherever you feel most inspired
    • Flexibility: Wave goodbye to the 9-to-5 grind. We believe in a flexible working schedule that fits your life.
    • Sponsored Education: We're invested in your growth. Enjoy sponsored education and training, ranging up to 50%.
    • Personal Development: We're not just about work; we're about your growth. Craft your personal development plan and watch your career soar.
    • Regular Salary Reviews: Your hard work won't go unnoticed. We conduct regular salary reviews to ensure you're fairly rewarded
    • Career Advancement: The sky's the limit! Move up the ladder based on your performance, and your career trajectory could surprise you
    • Corporate Events: From team outings to memorable celebrations, we know how to have a good time together
    • English Classes: Enhance your language skills and open doors to global opportunities with our sponsored English classes
    • Health Matters: Your health is our priority. Get your annual flu shot on us
    • Work Equipment: We provide top-notch tools. Receive a compensation of $600 for your work equipment
    • Paid vacation, sick leaves

    Dear Candidate,

    In an era of rapid technological advancement and the constant evolution of artificial intelligence, at Zazmiс, we believe in the importance of analyzing resumes not only through automated tools but also through interaction with a live recruiter. We value an individualized approach to each candidate and strive to make the hiring process more friendly and efficient.

    Understanding the significance of your time and that of our colleagues, we offer you the opportunity to provide additional information that will help us better understand your profile and its alignment with the job description. Your initiative will assist us in making a more informed decision when considering your candidacy.

    Please note that Zazmiс reserves the right not to respond to a candidate’s application if we conclude that the candidate does not meet our requirements for any reason. Please understand this as part of our commitment to an efficient and fair hiring process.
    Thank you for your understanding and participation in our recruitment process.

    Best regards,
    The Zazmiс Team

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      Dear Candidate,

      Before submitting your resume, please pay attention to the location – we will not be able to review your resume and provide feedback if you are not (in fact) located in the location of the vacancy.

      Thanks for understanding

       

      Who we are:
      We believe that we are better together and welcome you for who you are. Our workplace is for everyone, just like our people-powered platform. We want you to bring your unique perspective and experiences so we can collectively revolutionize travel and discover the good out there together.

      Key Responsibilities:

      • Work closely with internal teams across the organization to develop custom technical solutions for advertising partners.
      • Embed with various teams, adapting to different projects and objectives while delivering high-quality solutions.
      • Independently design and implement features across the stack (database, API, and UI).
      • Build scalable and maintainable microservices and APIs.
      • Develop interactive user interfaces using modern front-end technologies.
      • Ensure high-quality software through automated testing and iterative improvements.
      • Write thorough documentation to support newly developed features.
      • Quickly learn and apply new technologies to solve customer-specific challenges.
      • Monitor, support, and maintain features after release.

      What We’re Looking For:

      • At least 4 years of experience in commercial software development.
      • Proficiency in both front-end (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React) and back-end (Java, GraphQL) technologies.
      • Strong understanding of relational database design and querying.
      • Ability to quickly adapt to new technologies and environments.
      • Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills with a focus on simplicity and efficiency.
      • High-quality verbal and written communication skills.
      • Strong sense of ownership and urgency in delivering solutions.
      • Previous experience supporting advertising or sales-focused solutions is a bonus.
      • If you thrive in dynamic environments, enjoy working across different teams, and love solving complex technical challenges, we’d love to hear from you!

      Why join to us:

      • Work Anywhere: Embrace the freedom to work from anywhere in the world. Your office could be a beach, a cozy café, or wherever you feel most inspired
      • Flexibility: Wave goodbye to the 9-to-5 grind. We believe in a flexible working schedule that fits your life.
      • Sponsored Education: We're invested in your growth. Enjoy sponsored education and training, ranging up to 50%.
      • Personal Development: We're not just about work; we're about your growth. Craft your personal development plan and watch your career soar.
      • Regular Salary Reviews: Your hard work won't go unnoticed. We conduct regular salary reviews to ensure you're fairly rewarded
      • Career Advancement: The sky's the limit! Move up the ladder based on your performance, and your career trajectory could surprise you
      • Corporate Events: From team outings to memorable celebrations, we know how to have a good time together
      • English Classes: Enhance your language skills and open doors to global opportunities with our sponsored English classes
      • Health Matters: Your health is our priority. Get your annual flu shot on us
      • Work Equipment: We provide top-notch tools. Receive a compensation of $600 for your work equipment
      • Paid vacation, sick leaves

      Dear Candidate,

      In an era of rapid technological advancement and the constant evolution of artificial intelligence, at Zazmiс, we believe in the importance of analyzing resumes not only through automated tools but also through interaction with a live recruiter. We value an individualized approach to each candidate and strive to make the hiring process more friendly and efficient.

      Understanding the significance of your time and that of our colleagues, we offer you the opportunity to provide additional information that will help us better understand your profile and its alignment with the job description. Your initiative will assist us in making a more informed decision when considering your candidacy.

      Please note that Zazmiс reserves the right not to respond to a candidate’s application if we conclude that the candidate does not meet our requirements for any reason. Please understand this as part of our commitment to an efficient and fair hiring process.
      Thank you for your understanding and participation in our recruitment process.

      Best regards,
      The Zazmiс Team

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        Dear Candidate,

        Before submitting your resume, please pay attention to the location – we will not be able to review your resume and provide feedback if you are not (in fact) located in the location of the vacancy.

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        Our client

        is seeking an outstanding Senior Software Engineer (Back-End) to join our award-winning Conversation AI team. Conversation AI harnesses the power of artificial intelligence to create the ultimate sales coaching and productivity improvement experience.

        As a Senior Back-End Engineer, you will collaborate with Product, SRE, and other Engineers to develop next-generation capabilities. You will tackle complex challenges, drive innovation, and deliver outstanding results.

        Key Responsibilities

        • Take ownership of features throughout the entire development lifecycle, collaborating closely with Product teams.

        • Apply industry best practices and tooling to server-side development.

        • Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code with strong observability.

        • Refactor and enhance code to improve clarity and accelerate future development.

        • Develop expert-level proficiency with relevant third-party integrations.

        • Identify and advocate for process improvements within the team and across the organization.

        • Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback.

        • Author technical documentation to share knowledge on complex topics.

        • Actively manage work in Jira, ensuring transparency and proactive communication.

        • Be an engaged and supportive team member!

        What we are looking for (must-have):

        • 7+ years of professional Java development experience in SaaS/PaaS environments
        • Experience working in startups
        • Strong expertise with Spring 5 / Spring Boot 2, Maven, and ORMs
        • Proven experience designing and developing secure, high-quality REST APIs, preferably in API-first environments
        • Hands-on experience with Redis and PostgreSQL
        • Expertise in developing, debugging, and operating software in resilient, distributed systems
        • Front-end development experience with React or similar JavaScript frameworks is a plus
        • Experience with Elasticsearch is a strong plus
        • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex ideas and build credibility with both internal and external stakeholders
        • Passion for teamwork, collaboration, problem-solving, customer focus, and innovation

        Why join to us:

        • Work Anywhere: Embrace the freedom to work from anywhere in the world. Your office could be a beach, a cozy café, or wherever you feel most inspired
        • Flexibility: Wave goodbye to the 9-to-5 grind. We believe in a flexible working schedule that fits your life.
        • Sponsored Education: We're invested in your growth. Enjoy sponsored education and training, ranging up to 50%.
        • Personal Development: We're not just about work; we're about your growth. Craft your personal development plan and watch your career soar.
        • Regular Salary Reviews: Your hard work won't go unnoticed. We conduct regular salary reviews to ensure you're fairly rewarded
        • Career Advancement: The sky's the limit! Move up the ladder based on your performance, and your career trajectory could surprise you
        • Corporate Events: From team outings to memorable celebrations, we know how to have a good time together
        • English Classes: Enhance your language skills and open doors to global opportunities with our sponsored English classes
        • Health Matters: Your health is our priority. Get your annual flu shot on us
        • Work Equipment: We provide top-notch tools. Receive a compensation of $600 for your work equipment
        • Paid vacation, sick leaves

        Dear Candidate,

        In an era of rapid technological advancement and the constant evolution of artificial intelligence, at Zazmiс, we believe in the importance of analyzing resumes not only through automated tools but also through interaction with a live recruiter. We value an individualized approach to each candidate and strive to make the hiring process more friendly and efficient.

        Understanding the significance of your time and that of our colleagues, we offer you the opportunity to provide additional information that will help us better understand your profile and its alignment with the job description. Your initiative will assist us in making a more informed decision when considering your candidacy.

        Please note that Zazmiс reserves the right not to respond to a candidate’s application if we conclude that the candidate does not meet our requirements for any reason. Please understand this as part of our commitment to an efficient and fair hiring process.
        Thank you for your understanding and participation in our recruitment process.

        Best regards,
        The Zazmiс Team

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          Dear Candidate,

          Before submitting your resume, please pay attention to the location – we will not be able to review your resume and provide feedback if you are not (in fact) located in the location of the vacancy.

          Thanks for understanding

          About the project – №1 Travel platform in the world! 

          We believe that we are better together, and at company we welcome you for who you are. Our workplace is for everyone, as is our people powered platform.
          At company, we want you to bring your unique identities, abilities, and experiences, so we can collectively revolutionize travel and together find the good out there.

          Our client, the world’s largest travel site, operates at scale with over 500 million reviews, opinions, photos, and videos reaching over 390 million unique visitors each month.  We are a data driven company that leverages our data to empower our decisions.  prject is extremely excited to play a pivotal role in supporting our travelers.

          Our data engineering team is focused on delivering product’s first-in-class data products that serve all data users across the organization. As a member of the Data Platform Enterprise Services Team, you will collaborate with engineering and business stakeholders to build, optimize, maintain, and secure the full data vertical including tracking instrumentation, information architecture, ETL pipelines, and tooling that provide key analytics insights for business-critical decisions at the highest levels of Product, Finance, Sales, CRM, Marketing, Data Science, and more. All in a dynamic environment of continuously modernizing tech stack including highly scalable architecture, cloud-based infrastructure, and real-time responsiveness.
          product provides a unique, global work environment that captures the speed, innovation and excitement of a startup, at a thriving, growing and well-established industry brand.

          We take pride in our data engineering and are looking for a talented and highly-motivated engineer with a passion for solving interesting problems to add to our high-performing team.

          What you’ll do:

          • Providing the organization’s data consumers high quality data sets by data curation, consolidation, and manipulation from a wide variety of large scale (terabyte and growing) sources
          • Building data pipelines and ETL processes that interact with terabytes of data on leading platforms such as Snowflake and BigQuery.
          • Developing and improving our enterprise data by creating efficient and scalable data models to be used across the organization.
          • Partnering with our analytics, data science, CRM, and machine learning teams.
          • Responsible for enterprise data integrity, validation, and documentation.
          • Solving data pipeline failure events and implementing sound anomaly detection

          What we are looking for:

          • 4+ years of data engineering or general software development experience
          • Experience with Big Data technologies such as Snowflake, Databricks.
          • Solid level skills writing and optimizing complex SQL.
          • Solid experience developing complex ETL processes from concept to implementation; these should include defining SLA, performance measurements and monitoring.
          • Advanced query language and data exploration skills, proven record of writing complex SQL queries across large datasets.
          • Hands-on knowledge of the modern AWS Data Ecosystem, including AWS S3 and AWS Lambda.
          • Experience with relational databases such as Postgres, and with programming languages such as Python and/or Java
          • Experience with relational and NoSQL databases.
          • Experience with programming languages such as Python, Java and/or Scala.
          • Proficiency with Linux command line and systems administrations.
          • Knowledge of cloud data warehouse concepts.
          • While not mandatory, experience in building and operating data pipelines and products in compliance with the data mesh philosophy would be beneficial. Demonstrated efficiency in treating data: data lineage, data quality, data observability and data discoverability.

          Why join us:

          • Ability to work remotely from anywhere in the world
          • Close cooperation with the development team and client
          • Opportunity to influence product development
          • Professional growth: the certification preparation course is free for our specialists. The company pays for two attempts to pass the exam, regardless of the exam result
          • We cover English classes (with a native speaker)
          • Boost professional brand: you can participate in local conferences as a listener or as a speaker
          • Regular team buildings: have fun with teammates
          • Gifts for significant life events (marriage, childbirth)
          • Tech and non-tech Zazmic Communities: support and share experience with each other

          Dear Candidate,

          In an era of rapid technological advancement and the constant evolution of artificial intelligence, at Zazmiс, we believe in the importance of analyzing resumes not only through automated tools but also through interaction with a live recruiter. We value an individualized approach to each candidate and strive to make the hiring process more friendly and efficient.

          Understanding the significance of your time and that of our colleagues, we offer you the opportunity to provide additional information that will help us better understand your profile and its alignment with the job description. Your initiative will assist us in making a more informed decision when considering your candidacy.

          Please note that Zazmiс reserves the right not to respond to a candidate’s application if we conclude that the candidate does not meet our requirements for any reason. Please understand this as part of our commitment to an efficient and fair hiring process.
          Thank you for your understanding and participation in our recruitment process.

          Best regards,
          The Zazmiс Team

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