Senior DevOps Engineer (offline)

Mindojo, developing intelligent educational technology used by some of the world’s top companies, is looking for a professional DevOps engineer with knowledge of Python and strong technical background in continuous delivery and configuration management. Our remote team of senior engineers from different countries is developing the world's first self-evolving, adaptive learning platform that’s used for premium online courses, in partnership with companies such as Bloomberg LP. These courses help people (regardless of location and socioeconomic class) to accelerate their education and career growth, while saving time and money.

We have a brilliant team of professors who create unique non-linear learning content, and we’re on the way to disrupt the global education market. Within our platform, students are constantly engaged in a personalized dialogue with our AI private tutor, far surpassing the efficacy of existing resources (textbooks, video or classroom lectures, and various e-learning products).

We offer a full-time (100%, exclusive) contract for a remote senior devops engineer. You can work from wherever you wish and the work schedule is very flexible. As a Mindojo team member, you will also be invited to participate in our periodic company-paid team meetups in different countries together with your colleagues and management. Hiking in Armenia and skiing in Sochi? Sure. Bicycles and amazing sweets in Turkey, yachting in Cyprus, and cool beer in Prague? You got it! Expect something new every time.


Our culture

We believe in minimum bureaucracy and maximum creative freedom. Our team members enjoy lots of autonomy and are measured mostly by their actual deliverables. We work hard (who’s not familiar with healthy deadlines?) but are happy knowing that our efforts will help improve the lives of many, and help the global economy at large. We love people who can approach the problems from different angles and who are comfortable asking tough questions and proposing innovative solutions. We aren’t afraid to switch to new technologies as soon as it makes sense, and as a consequence much of our stack is always at the cutting edge. We continuously are looking for ways to improve our processes, and everyone’s suggestions are heard and considered on their merit, not based on seniority.

Requirements:

- Has experience at least 3 years of professional software development.
- A strong technical background in continuous delivery and configuration management.
- Intermediate or higher level in Python.
- Experience with RESTful APIs and an understanding of the frontend web technologies that communicate with them.
- Experience with Git, Jenkins, and/or a similar stack.
- Knowledge of configuration management with Ansible.
- Hands-on experience with AWS.
- Proven ability to automate processes and build infrastructure.
- Confident in communicating in English, verbal and written.

Bonus skills:

- Portfolio of previous works.
- Knowledge of software best practices (design patterns, clean code).
- Knowledge of Docker, PagerDuty, New Relic.
- Experience working as a part of agile team.
- Experience with working remotely.

What you will be doing:

- Work in a delivery-based, agile environment with a remote team of talented people.
- Streamlining our development process all the way from code check-ins, peer code reviews, static code analysis, running automated functional regression tests as part of an automated deployment process to production.
- Improving our continuous integration, increasing our automated test coverage, and helping us get to the next level of maturity with respect to
- Continuous Delivery.
- Building, improving, and maintaining development/qa, staging, and production environments.
- Being on call to respond to production outages — this involves debugging and, where necessary, escalating to appropriate team members.
- Directing and communicating the long-term DevOps strategy, constantly building toward the future you have envisioned.
- Participate in weekly video-meetings: retrospectives, sprint planning.
- Learn new technologies and be responsible for results of your work.

Benefits

- Competitive compensation.
- Individual bonuses related on your personal performance and common milestones.
- A stock option plan.
- Energetic, knowledgeable, and friendly small team.
- Challenging and interesting big projects.
- Company-sponsored events and educational programs.
- Very flexible work schedule and ability to work from home/anywhere in the world.
- Last, but not least: a real chance to play a key part in revolutionizing education worldwide.


Please write us, we don’t bite. We’ll tell you more about us, you’ll tell us more about yourself. Maybe we’ll become a perfect fit for each other and even best friends in the near future.

About Mindojo

Mindojo, a “remote-first” company founded in 2006, develops the world's first self-evolving, adaptive learning platform that’s used for premium online courses (CFA, GMAT, GRE, and others) in partnership with companies such as Bloomberg LP. These courses help people (regardless of location and socioeconomic class) to get better jobs, be more successful, and make their dreams come true.

Check out Bloomberg CFA, GMAT, GRE Prep: https://www.bloombergprep.com

Recently we began developing a sophisticated app offering a powerful set of learning games for kids learning English as a second language (ESL), targeting ~1B kids world wide. The app just came out of beta and already has over +1M downloads (see Aylee Learns English on Google Play / App Store). Check out our app: https://aylee.co/


Many new products are now in the pipeline of being developed, but some of the most exciting work we do is on building the platform to be an ever more intelligent and effective virtual private tutor.

We have a brilliant team of professors who create unique first-class content, and we’re on the way to disrupting the global education market. Within our platform, students are constantly engaged in a personalized dialogue with our AI private tutor, far surpassing the efficacy of existing resources (textbooks, video or classroom lectures, and various e-learning products).

Let’s be honest: we are lucky here because we have minimum bureaucracy and enough freedom. We truly enjoy a large amount of autonomy and independence in our day-to-day tasks, and sometimes we work hard (who’s not familiar with healthy deadlines?). But we are also happy with what we do and what we get. As a consequence of that, we're looking for top talents to join our growing team and who is comfortable asking questions and proposing valuable solutions to help us move forward.

We're looking for top talents to join our growing team.

Company website:
https://mindojo.com/