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Overview

Experience : 3+ years

Remote : Full Remote is possible

Location: Novi Sad

B2B : Not Available

Work Hours: Flexible

Team size : 9 (Team lead, 4 Developers, 4 QA)

Tech Stack: Python (Django, Flask), GoLang, React, k8s, Docker

Inhouse / Outsource: Inhouse

About the Position

As a member of the our team, you will design technical solutions, follow best practices to write clean and testable code, and ship high-quality products. Based on your skill set and preferences, you will have the opportunity to work on both the front end and back end of products running in cloud, virtual, and physical environments.

Key technologies we use include Python, Django, PostgreSQL, and Go on the back end and React on the front end. In addition, we have had the opportunity to work with a number of interesting tools for search and storage (Solr, Clickhouse, AWS S3, Azure), containers, and cloud computing (Docker, Kubernetes, and related AWS services).

You will work collaboratively within a highly skilled team consisting of product managers, UI/UX designers, software engineers, DevOps, and QA engineers. We strongly believe in delighting our customers by providing cutting-edge technology and a great user experience, encouraging honest feedback through code reviews by peers, and seeking excellence by setting high standards for quality assurance testing.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, reliable, and testable code
• Implement performant, high-quality back-end, and front-end code
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, as well as devise solutions to these problems
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automation; develop automated tests wherever possible to improve the CI/CD pipeline
• Actively participate in activities such as brainstorming sessions, development of design specifications and project timelines, documentation, testing, and ongoing support of systems
• Collaborate with a variety of stakeholders (PM, SDM, UX, QA, and DevOps) on defining and refining requirements, implementing them, testing, and shipping to production
• Share coding practices, design principles, and implementation patterns with other team members; provide expertise and guidance in setting standards, choosing tools, libraries, etc.
• Perform code reviews

Requirements

• Back end: strong experience with Python/Django (preferred), or desire to learn, Go or experience with other OO languages (Java, C#, Rust, etc.) and databases such as PostgreSQL or ClickHouse 

OR

• Front end: experience with React or similar JavaScript frameworks, including commonly used technologies such as TypeScript, WebPack, Redux, etc.

AND

• Experience with GNU/Linux-based systems
• Self-driven and willing to work with different technologies & languages
• Desire to be a fullstack engineer

Desirable skills and experiences

• Front end: experience with React or similar JavaScript frameworks, including commonly used technologies such as TypeScript, WebPack, Redux, etc.
• Experience with cloud computing platforms (AWS services such as S3, Lambda, SNS/SQS, IAM)
• Experience working in an Agile development environment (SCRUM, SAFe)
• Experience with Message queueing (Rabbit MQ, Kafka)
• Good understanding of DevOps tools and technologies (Git, Jenkins, Ansible)
• Good understanding of Container tools and technologies (Docker, K8s)

Why Join us?

We understand it’s unlikely you have experience with all of the tools and technologies we’d like you to know, but we also know that engineers motivated to learn will eventually close any potential gaps. We’re hiring engineers for their strengths, planning to use their skills well, and providing mutually beneficial opportunities for learning and development. This position in a team of experienced engineers will have you working on industry-leading solutions in a motivating environment and providing great professional growth.

Benefits

• All remote mode with all it’s benefits (Flexible working hours, better work-life balance, …) and with option to work from the office
• Opportunity to work on innovative solutions in malware analysis & software supply chain security domain
• Working on enterprise level products using latest tech with Fortune 500 and government agencies as clients
• Competitive compensation
• Growth opportunities through education and internal knowledge sharing
• Wellness Weekends – quarterly, company-wide three-day weekend, starting with a company-paid Friday off for all employees

Additional Information

Company and Organization

Who are we?

We are a small software development company based in Novi Sad, Serbia. Our dedication to software craftsmanship 🧶 empowers us to deliver impactful software solutions that drive tangible value and success for our customers. Our emphasis on learning 📖 ensures that we stay updated with the latest technologies and methodologies, enabling us to integrate cutting-edge solutions into the customer’s projects, thereby enhancing efficiency and functionality. Our commitment to writing quality code 🌟 ensures that the software is not only robust and reliable but also scalable and maintainable, reducing the likelihood of errors and future maintenance costs for the customer.

Do we outsource or are our projects in-house?

Working in team as a service mode to one dedicated client as an integral part of their company (from their perspective we are one of their engineering teams and we are included in all activities as rest of the teams)

What is our company size?

6 full time employees + contractors (plus klijentska strana)

How are we organized?

Flat organization (team lead, developers, designers, QA) following some variation of SAFE (Scaled Agile) framework. Regular stuff – daily, planning, grooming when needed …
From the customer side we have dedicated – Project managers, Product managers, UX designers, …

What are our team sizes?

Currently 9 people (Team lead, 4 Developers, 4 QA)

Projects and Technologies

What is our tech stack?

Python (Django, Flask), GoLang, React, k8s, Docker, Linux, MacOS

What is the nature of our projects?

Security domain, our main focus is on two products:

• Internal licensing portal/APIs for all customer products that we’ve built and are currently maintaining
• Portal for one of the main client products (on-prem and hosted versions)

What development approach are we using?

SAFE (Scaled Agile) framework

What is our version control system like?

We are using GitLab

Are our employees in direct contact with the clients?

Yes, from organizational perspective we are considered as the integral part of clients organization

Communication and Tools

What communication tools do we use?

Gmail, Google Meet, Slack

Culture and Values

What are our company’s values?

• Kindness: Prioritizing compassionate interactions, ensuring that team members and clients feel valued and respected. This approach helps build strong, positive relationships within the company and with external partners.
• Communication: Clear and effective communication is fundamental to our processes, ensuring that both internal collaboration and client interactions are seamless.
• Creation: We prioritize innovation and creativity in software solutions, aiming to build products that are both functional and forward-thinking.
• Inspiration: By fostering an environment that encourages new ideas and approaches, we aim to inspire both their team and their clients.
• Fostering a Culture of Learning: By promoting a culture where learning is valued and encouraged, CoLens helps their team members to continuously improve their expertise.
  How would we describe our organizational culture?
  CoLens’s organizational culture is designed to support effective collaboration, innovation, continuous learning, and employee well-being, creating a positive and productive work environment.

Working Conditions

What are our work hours?

Not strictly defined but we usually need to overlap for 5-6 hours daily. We have mandatory daily meet at 10:30 each working day. (Serbian time)

Is our work environment remote, hybrid, or office-based?

Remote with optional periodic collective work from the office

What do we think about overtime work?

In the long run it leads to burnout so we do not support overtime being a standard and we avoid having it. Usually each of us have their own tasks and some expectations that are clearly communicated and collectively defined (which take into consideration the position of the employee and standard working hours), and the focus is on meeting those expectations.

Benefits

What do we offer as benefits for employees?

• Organizational – Small company benefits + large company benefits
• All remote mode with all it’s benefits (Flexible working hours when needed, better work-life balance, …) and with option to work from the office
• Opportunity to work on innovative solutions in malware analysis & software supply chain security domain
• Working on enterprise level products using latest tech with Fortune 500 and government agencies as clients
• Competitive compensation
• Growth opportunities through education and internal knowledge sharing
• Wellness Weekends – quarterly, company-wide three-day weekend, starting with a company-paid Friday off for all employees
• 25 vacation days
• Sick leave – as needed
• Performance review – once per year for each employees

What personal development opportunities do we offer for employees?

• Opportunity to work on innovative solutions in malware analysis & software supply chain security domain
• Access to the learning courses and platforms (Udamy, Plural)

Selection Process 

What does our selection process look like?

• Initial candidate filtering based on the CV and position requirements
• Introduction meet (going through the details from CoLens and candidate perspective)
• Candidate receives a task and as a result responds with the link to the repository with the implementation and any additional documentation
• Technical meet with the candidate on which we go through the implementation
• CoLens sends the offer to the candidate