Technical Product Manager
Job Description
About Us and Why We’re Hiring
We’re YNAB (“why-nab”), a financial education company with a spendfulness app that helps people all over the world spend their money (guilt-free!) on what matters most to them. For over 20 years, YNAB’s proven method has been changing lives—and people can’t stop telling their friends about the difference it’s made. Think: debt paid off, marriages strengthened, goals achieved, stress erased, and sleep finally restored. But don’t just take our word for it—dive into our vibrant communities on Facebook, TikTok, and Reddit (really!) or skim through our glowing app reviews. You’ll quickly see why people rave about YNAB and why we’re so passionate about creating something that truly changes lives for the better.
That’s no small task for our product teams, who navigate incredibly complex problems ranging from the psychology of spending money to the intricacies of Open Banking legislation. We also have an entire product group dedicated solely to improving our infrastructure, and we’ve decided it’s time to hire another technically-minded Product Manager to join that effort. You’re the person we’re looking for if the idea of making YNAB the app and YNAB the workplace more scalable, resilient, and joyful lights a fire under your tuchus.
What we’re looking for:
We have three hard requirements for this role—you must:
- Have at least three years of experience as a Product Manager.
- Have a strong technical background. (This can come in many forms; we’d love to hear about yours.)
- Live somewhere between the Pacific Time Zone (UTC-8) and the Central European Time Zone (UTC+1).
Beyond that, we’re open-minded. We value a diversity of experience and skills at YNAB, and every career path is different. That said, it may help you be successful in this role if you also have:
- Experience in the SaaS industry.
- Experience with things like: complex, data-rich applications; developer-facing products; cross-platform code sharing; legacy system migrations; developer documentation and architectural guidelines; analytics pipelines and data warehouses; security best practices; cross-platform release planning and execution; third party APIs; and infrastructure improvements that raise the tide for all the boats—er, product teams—they touch.
- A deep love for cross-functional product development (we really mean that cross-functional part!).
A bit about life at YNAB:
That’s a super brief intro to what we’re looking for. But first, you need to know if you’ll even like working with us. We’d love to share more about YNAB, and then we’ll get into (many) more details about this role.
YNAB was founded in 2004 and we haven’t taken on any outside funding—we’re established, profitable, and in this for the long haul. We have one overarching requirement when it comes to joining our team: our original Core Value Manifesto has to really click with you. If you’re nodding emphatically while reading it, you’ll probably really like it here, and we can’t wait to hear from you!
We live our Core Values every day at YNAB, and we mean it when we say we are an equal-opportunity employer. We believe that a diversity of backgrounds, abilities, beliefs, and experiences is critical to our success, and we are passionate about creating a welcoming, supportive, and collaborative environment for all employees. All are encouraged to apply as we continue to grow a smart, hard-working, and diverse team that loves working together to build something that matters.
We also work really hard, together, to make working at YNAB an amazing experience, and we’re (humbly) proud to have received many of Fortune's "great place to work" awards over the last several years, including #1 two years in a row! We have a team full of truly exceptional people—the kind you’ll be excited to work with. We’d love to introduce you to a few of them!
Who you’ll be working with:
We’re talking product management here, so you’ll be working with a lot of different people. We can’t even list them all, really. So we’ll start with a few of your closest collaborators:
Hannah is the Group Product Manager for our infrastructure effort, and she’d also be your manager. She loves building empowered, innovative, and trust-filled teams and is deeply invested in helping individuals and communities change their financial narratives and realities. She has a penchant for prepositional phrases and an abiding absorption with acronyms (and alliteration). She’s also a dancer and performing artist, and she does a fantastic British queen accent.
Buffy, our Director of Engineering, has been a Buffy since before Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and one of her life regrets is not buying buffy.com while she was in college. She loves a good debugging session and a well-placed Taylor Swift reference. When she’s not cleaning up our infrastructure, she’s probably knitting socks, biking, or otherwise frolicking outdoors with her family.
Brady is one of our full stack developers, and he’s been with YNAB since before our SaaS launch. He’s a self-declared geek which means you might catch him fiddling with a Raspberry Pi or flying his drone. Oh, and his awesome wife made us all YNAB decals for our laptops!
And as we said above, you’ll also cross paths with—well—probably everyone else. People like Becky and Eebs (a couple of our developers), Emily and Jack (both designers), Aaron (our Director of Product), Kendal and Carolyn (our Security Lead and Legal Counsel, respectively), and Eileen (a digital marketing specialist).
How You’ll Work at YNAB
Still with us? Now that you’ve met some of your potential future teammates, let’s talk more about YNAB as a company. Here’s how we operate:
Live (Almost) Anywhere You Want
We’ve always been a fully remote team, and have people all over the world. For this role, you’ll need to be located somewhere between the Pacific Time Zone (UTC-8) and the Central European Time Zone (UTC+1). Proximity doesn’t influence productivity, but it sure does help with communication. Wherever you are, just make sure you have a reliable internet connection—like, a really good one. Please.
Work Four Days a Week
We’ve adopted a four-day work week (still 100% paid!) and rarely work more than that. There are occasions and seasons where things get busy and people put some extra time in—but then we encourage them to take some extra time off, too. We’re a product-led organization that takes our work-life balance seriously, so we all prioritize working hard and smart, but at a measured pace. We care deeply about what we do, but we also love our families and about 2,000 other things. We have perspective and, ultimately, we think it makes us—and our work—even better.
Flex Your Work Schedule
We’re fully remote, so a lot of our work is done asynchronously, but we love working together in real time when it makes sense. We try to schedule most meetings between 12-3 pm Eastern time (16:00-19:00 UTC) Monday-Thursday. Outside of your meetings, we trust you to set your own schedule by balancing your team’s needs with your own needs. You don’t need to ask for permission to take off early one afternoon to see the doctor, or be “active” on Slack if you’re working deeply on a project. We look at what you accomplish—not when or how long you're in front of a computer.
Take Vacation (Seriously)
We want you to take vacation. In fact, we have a minimum vacation policy of three weeks per year. Five weeks feels about right (plus two extra weeks for our company-wide December Break). It’s important to get plenty of downtime and to get out and do something. We’ll look forward to seeing pictures of your adventures in our #office-wall Slack channel!
Meet the Team IRL
Some of our best work (and bonding!) is done in person. You’ll generally have the opportunity to meet with your YNAB teammates at least once a year, at a small-team work-focused meetup or at our company retreat. At the YNAB retreat, we love to catch up on spreadsheets and powerpoints in a Best Western conference room. Just kidding. (It’s actually hard to write that sentence, even knowing it’s a joke.) So far, we’ve gone to Costa Rica, a gigantic cabin in the mountains, a beach house in the Outer Banks, a ranch in Montana, Laguna Beach, Palm Springs, and most recently, Cape Cod. We work together, play together, and reinforce the bonds we’ve made as a team and company. Every time we meet up, we leave refreshed, motivated, and excited for the year ahead together.
Up Your Game
We’re serious about helping you improve your craft. It’s one of our favorite spending categories, and it’s the most important work of our managers. Think conferences, online courses and subscriptions, dedicated time away from work to learn something new… It's really up to you and your manager. We love to see our people grow!
Other Benefits
Our team is spread all over the world—mostly in the United States, but also in the UK, Canada, Germany, Brazil, Mexico, and several other countries. Team members who live in the US or UK are set up as employees, and those who live in other countries set themselves up as independent contractors. No matter where you live, you’re eligible for our generous paid family leave, vacation, holidays, and sick time.
If you’re in the US, we also offer fantastic medical, dental, and vision insurance, where we cover 100% of the premium for you and your family. No need to check your vision, you read that right—100%. (Although if you did need to check your vision, NBD, we’ve got you covered!) We also have a Traditional and Roth 401(k) option, where YNAB matches your contributions up to six percent, and matches vest immediately. (Are you a personal finance junkie like our founder Jesse? He set up YNAB’s 401k to have the lowest fee structure possible, where all plan costs are paid by YNAB, not your retirement nest egg. The investment funds available are fantastic, passively-managed, ultra low-cost index funds. You’re not a PF junkie? Trust us, it’s awesome.) If you’re in the UK, we also contribute six percent to your pension.
Competitive Compensation
At YNAB, we’re committed to equitable, market-driven, data-based compensation and we aim to offer a competitive benefits package to our team members. The starting salary for this role will be between $110,000 - $140,000 USD annually (with the top of that range reserved only for the most experienced candidates). If we decide to make you an offer, we’ll determine the most appropriate number based on what we know about your experience and competency for the role, and then we’ll make you our best offer and hope that you accept! If you join our team, you’ll also be eligible for a raise once a year and for our profit-share twice a year. (YNAB wins, you win—that kind of thing.)
A Few Final Tidbits
- Once you start, we DEMAND (in a friendly, ALL CAPS IS YELLING way) that you fill out your “Bucket List” spreadsheet with 50 items. (That’s harder than it sounds!)
- We love to celebrate with you when you complete something on your bucket list—AND, we love using your bucket list as inspiration for your best birthday present(s) ever.
- We want you firing on all cylinders, so we’ll set you up with a shiny new computer and replace it every three years.
- Did we mention that YNAB makes a huge, positive difference in people’s lives? You may not think that matters much, but then a few months down the road, you’ll realize it’s made your job really, really enjoyable. Don’t underestimate this one!
If this sounds like your ideal environment, read on because now we want to talk about you, and how you’ll play a big part in changing people’s lives.
Now back to you, our new Technical Product Manager....
Here at YNAB, we believe that good ideas can come from anywhere, so we strive to be cross-functional in all phases of product development. As a Product Manager, you won’t be a gatekeeper or the hub in a hub-and-spoke system—you’ll connect and empower people and ideas, often getting out of the way to enable your colleagues to do their best work. In collaboration with your product teammates and stakeholders across the organization, you’ll help chart and manifest the best path to achieving our company goals through rigorous discovery, rapid experimentation, skillful prioritization, and iterative delivery. Along the way, you’ll encounter a lot of paradoxical truths and part of your job will be to navigate how to move from “either/or” to “yes/and.”
Product management is inherently messy (and beautifully so), but most of your day-to-day work will fall into one of these buckets:
- Determining what to work on (and why);
- Participating in the how;
- Sharing the responsibility for execution;
- And acting as the grease (not the glue).
To determine what to work on (and why), you’ll:
- Become an expert on the business, the product, the customers we are serving (and the ones we are not), our capabilities, the marketplace, industry trends, and potential disruptions. You’ll do this by synthesizing previously gathered data, opinions, experiences, and history along with conducting your own qualitative and quantitative research. We’ve been around for 20 years but we know that the market is always changing, and the best way to stay in sync with our customers is by speaking with them directly!
- Use your research to refine your team’s priorities, test your assumptions, and validate your hypotheses.
- Map the team’s work from a long-term vision (we’re talking years ahead), to all the possible ideas from all the possible sources, to the short-term roadmap of execution: what are we going to build, what are we not going to build, and in what order should we act?
- Navigate countless trade-offs (okay, maybe not countless, but hundreds wouldn’t be an exaggeration). Searching for a true win-win is the happiest path, but sometimes constraints are constraints. You know the former from the latter and have the vision and pragmatism to know when to keep digging and when to move on.
- Define the key indicators that would show your team is on the right track, as well as the ones that would show the opposite.
- Communicate clearly and repeatedly (evangelize!) the value and strategic purpose of the work your product team is delivering.
- Be intensely curious. Period.
To participate in the “how”, you’ll:
- Act as a critical sounding-board for product designers and engineers, articulating the problem to be solved and managing scope throughout both the discovery and delivery phases of product development. You’re not afraid to ask questions and in fact, have a knack for knowing when to ask the right ones to help your team move forward.
- Monitor the effort and resources involved in each approach your team considers, always keeping one eye on the future and one eye on the here and now. You have a finely tuned spidey sense for how different work streams will impact each other and you love a good scheme if it means getting more value in the hands of users faster.
- Meet your colleagues where they are—you can speak the languages of engineering and/or product design when needed to evaluate a tradeoff or understand a blocker—and help bring everyone back to the user and their experience.
In sharing the responsibility for execution, you’ll:
- Understand that accountability is ultimately shared in our collaborative, cross-functional work—but also be willing and able to provide direction and make decisions when choices are not obvious. (In fact, you love when that happens. You’re the type of person who expounds on decision-making strategies for way too long at summer barbecues, but somehow keeps people listening.)
- Take on some project management responsibilities. This isn’t the core of your work, but since you sit at the center of a lot of information flow, you’ll naturally also facilitate a fair amount of process and planning conversations, and keep the trains on the track, so to speak.
- Define launch plans, manage release cycles, and conduct retrospectives in collaboration with stakeholders from across the company.
In acting as the grease (not the glue), you’ll:
- Communicate relentlessly to ensure that your team is aligned and the dots are being connected between the work of your team, the work of other teams, and our overarching strategy.
- Collaborate with engineers and product designers (and other stakeholders as needed—you know when to ask for help!) to validate assumptions and weed out bad ideas. You’ll also play a key role in evaluating work-in-progress.
- Communicate your team’s roadmap and release timelines to the rest of the organization, especially around high-visibility launches. You are relentless about ensuring that everyone is aligned because you know this clarity allows others to take confident actions.
That’s a whopping sixteen bullets, but let’s still say that your success as a Product Manager at YNAB comes down to this: Your ability to approach product development as holistic, simultaneous, problem-solving of both user and business goals.
And if we haven’t yet spilled enough metaphorical ink on this idea: We work collaboratively here so you’ll listen to ideas, questions, and critiques from teammates with grace and patience—not because that’s nice, but because you see this as critical to our shared success. That said, you know your stuff and when the rubber hits the road you can both make hard calls and eloquently and logically explain them.
How to Apply
Apply here by Sunday, January 26th at 11:59pm PT. Firm. It’s a real deadline. The kind you love.
What to include in your application:
- A resume. If you don’t have an updated formal resume, that’s fine! An informal overview of your work history and education is all we’re looking for.
- A cover letter and answers to three questions. But not your typical cover letter. You have our permission to NOT be formal, just help us get to know you.
- On page 1: We’d love for you to tell us a bit about yourself, why you’re interested in this role at YNAB, and why you think you’d be a great fit. Please also be sure to describe your technical background, and share what drew you to the technical side of product management.
- On page 2 onward: Please answer these questions three:
- Imagine you’re our new Technical Product Manager (yay!) and your team has been working diligently on a suite of enhancements to our internal design component library. Everyone’s really excited about this work! One day, you get a message from your manager: they need to temporarily pull you and your team off of the component library enhancements. The company is investing in a new third-party tool that will increase the customer support team’s capacity to provide personalized guidance and troubleshooting and they want your team to lead the implementation. It’s an important and potentially high-impact project, but you know your team is going to be disappointed and maybe even a little frustrated. It has not been easy to build momentum on the component library enhancements and you know how the developers feel about third-party integrations. Please draft a 1-2 paragraph message as though you’re writing directly to the team, explaining the situation and hyping them up for the next few months of work.
- What is the most important feedback a manager has ever given you? Why? Please answer in 1-2 paragraphs.
- We love someone with a perspective about product development. Answer, in one paragraph: How early is too early to ship? How late is too late?
- Answers to eight quick, informational questions, which include things like your contact information, location, and relevant experience for the role.
A few final notes:
- We hope that you’ll feel free to be genuinely yourself in your application. We want to get to know you, not ChatGPT.
- Though we know it’s customary in some areas, please do not share a headshot anywhere in your application materials.
- You’ll only be able to apply once, so make sure your answers are final before you click submit. You can always start your application, and then click the “Save application for later” link at the bottom to—you guessed it—finish it up later. (Note: that link will have an expiration date! Check your email for more information if you choose this option.)
- Our goal is to make the recruitment and hiring process as accessible as possible. If we can help you with an accessibility need, email us at [email protected] and indicate in the subject line that you’re applying for the Technical Product Manager role. (Please note that we can only respond to messages related to accommodations at this email.)
- Finally, please click here for an outline of what this hiring process will look like. It’s rigorous, but we also hear that it’s fun (truly!). We enjoy getting to know you throughout, and we make sure you have plenty of chances to get to know us, too.
We’re excited to hear from you!
P.S. If you’re not interested in this position right now, but know someone who might be, we’d appreciate you passing this along!
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UI/UX Designer
Our mission
At Jaumo, we’re on a mission to revolutionize how people connect. We’re expanding beyond dating. Building new apps to help people meet, grow, and thrive in every area of life.
From friendships to wellness, creativity, and beyond, we’re creating meaningful experiences that bring people together. By focusing on the power of community, we’re fostering a more human-centered world where everyone feels they belong
Our values
- User-Focused: Honest. Transparent. Dedicated to our users.
- Constant Improvement: Deliver top-tier products. Embrace change and innovation.
- Ownership: Drive strategy with responsibility and commitment to our mission.
- One Team: Collaborate across boundaries. Value diverse perspectives. Keep it fun.
- Simplicity: Do more with less. No BS.
The role
As a UI/UX Designer (or Product Designer), you’ll play a key role in crafting intuitive, user-centered, and visually stunning designs for our apps.
You thrive on solving complex problems, experimenting with unconventional solutions, and uncovering new opportunities in uncharted territory. You’ll own the design process and collaborate with product managers, developers, and stakeholders to deliver seamless, engaging user experiences.
With seven apps and millions of downloads monthly, this role is critical to scaling our reach across platforms and driving global growth. You’ll work on our flagship Jaumo app and new ventures in new verticals.
2025 is a transformative year for us. We’re building a brand-new portfolio of apps beyond dating, redefining how people connect, grow, and thrive. We’re seeking a talented Product Designer to bring these bold ideas to life.
What you'll do
- Your work will play a critical role in shaping experiences that help millions of users worldwide connect and thrive.
- Design intuitive, user-friendly UI mockups in Figma for our flagship Jaumo app and new apps beyond dating.
- Developer hand-off: Prepare and deliver developer-ready design files, ensuring all assets, specifications, and interactions are documented clearly.
- Own and evolve our app design systems, creating scalable systems for current and future products.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless design implementation, including design-to-developer handoff.
- Enhance UX/UI through research, competitor analysis, and industry trends.
- Lead the entire design process for new apps, from concept to final designs (0-1), while integrating stakeholder feedback.
- Stay ahead of design trends to ensure fresh, innovative, and engaging experiences.
What we're looking for
- Visionary Designer: You have a strong track record designing consumer mobile apps for Android and iOS, ideally apps used by millions of monthly users.
- Hands-On Creator: You love diving into the details and bringing ideas to life. You prefer hands-on creation over managing large teams.
- Startup-Minded: You thrive in dynamic, fast-paced environments, bringing creativity, adaptability, and resourcefulness to every challenge. You have a proven ability to work autonomously and proactively in a remote setup.
- Technically Skilled: You’re a pro with Figma and skilled at building and evolving design systems.
- Pragmatic & Independent: You balance design excellence and practical execution, solving problems and delivering results independently.
- Passion for Design: You stay current on design/UX trends, love analyzing competitors, and consistently apply best practices to improve your work.
- Strong Communication: Clear, concise, and collaborative—both written (we use Notion and Slack) and verbal (video calls).
- Bonus:
- Experience with UX research, user testing, or growth-focused design strategies, UI copywriting
- Familiarity with the dating app space or other high-growth app categories.
Why you'll love it
- Empowering Culture: We’re diverse, supportive, and inclusive, working closely with our founders.
- Work-life balance: Results matter, not hours.
- Meaningful work: Help millions find friends, love, and happiness.
- Ideal environment: Fact- and engineering-driven with a 'no BS' policy.
- Well-Being Focus: 30 days paid vacation, local holidays, competitive salary.
Application process
Our application process is transparent and consists of four individual steps:
- Online application with your portfolio (~10 mins): Tell us who you are and show your work.
- Culture interview (~30 mins) Meet our CEO/Founder. See if we're a match.
- Mini-Task (~2 hours): Showcase your skills.
- Team interview (~90 mins): Meet future colleagues. Ask questions directly.
We value your time and provide insights into our company throughout the process. No surprises.
Please provide all the necessary information in English.
Apply now! Let’s build something amazing together.
Diversity & Inclusion at Jaumo
Jaumo is committed to fostering diversity and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds, believing that a diverse team enriches our work and drives innovation. Join us in creating a space where everyone belongs.
About Jaumo
We believe that meaningful connections thrive when fueled by shared passions. We were frustrated by the superficial swipe culture and envisioned a platform where people connect over common interests, hobbies, and genuine enthusiasm for life.
With over 75 million downloads, Jaumo ranks among the top 10 most downloaded dating apps globally. We've cultivated vibrant communities where people forge genuine relationships beyond profiles. Our flagship app boasts an impressive 4.6-star rating, one of the highest in our category.
What makes Jaumo unique? We focus on shared passions, not profiles. Connect with like-minded individuals who share your interests, from hiking to music to book discussions. Engage in meaningful conversations that go beyond the superficial. Our apps support connections in over 120 countries and 20 languages, and we champion a remote-first approach, fostering creativity and agility in our team.
Jaumo is more than just a dating app. We're community builders, constantly innovating to make connections more profound and enriching. We are a fully remote, bootstrapped company based in Germany, with a team of 35 across 18 countries. Join us in making online socializing more personal and human. Our key markets are Germany, Brazil, Mexico, Spain, and Türkiye.
Are you ready to join a movement that prioritizes passion over profiles? Connect with us and explore the power of shared passions.
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What’s a Rich Text element?
The rich text element allows you to create and format headings, paragraphs, blockquotes, images, and video all in one place instead of having to add and format them individually. Just double-click and easily create content.
Static and dynamic content editing
A rich text element can be used with static or dynamic content. For static content, just drop it into any page and begin editing. For dynamic content, add a rich text field to any collection and then connect a rich text element to that field in the settings panel. Voila!
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Senior iOS Engineer
Hi, we’re DuckDuckGo, the Internet privacy company for everyone who wants to take back their privacy now. For over a decade, we've been building our all-in-one product, developing new privacy technology, and working with policymakers to make online privacy simple and accessible for all.
Our browsers and extensions have been downloaded over 250 million times with our built-in private search engine, which has delivered over 100 billion searches and is the 2nd largest search engine on mobile in the United States and 17 other countries, including the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Germany, Poland, and Spain. Our private search engine is also 3rd in market share in the U.S. and over 20 major markets. Oh, and we've been profitable since 2014, with annual revenue exceeding $100 million!
The DuckDuckGo browser’s uniquely comprehensive privacy protections are used by tens of millions of people to protect their everyday online activities on Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android, from searching to browsing, emailing, and more. We also offer Privacy Pro, a three-in-one subscription service that includes a VPN, Personal Information Removal, and Identity Theft Restoration.
We’re looking for a Senior iOS Engineer to help shape our all-in-one privacy solution and join our mission to show the world that protecting your privacy online can be simple.
The Opportunity
In this role, you will autonomously lead highly impactful projects that scale across millions of users from proposal through to postmortem assessing vague problems, proposing high impact solutions, and executing them against a set of success criteria. You will also:
- Step up to resolve product issues – large and small.
- Identify opportunities to increase searches and enhance the standard of trust online.
- Own major application features and take responsibility for their maintenance and improvement over time.
- Collaborate with peers remotely during product brainstorms, technical design discussions, pair programming sessions and code reviews.
- Write pragmatic, performant, and testable code that works consistently across devices.
- Always work to improve the quality of the codebase.
What You Will Bring to DuckDuckGo
- Ability to lead and collaborate on high-impact and complex projects from proposal through post-mortem.
- Skills to wrangle vague problems, propose innovative solutions, and execute them with a strong focus on metrics.
- Significant iOS engineering experience (5+ years), with experience working on at least two large native iOS applications.
- Experience programming in Swift.
- Deep understanding of software design patterns such as MVVM, MVP, etc., mobile threading, and memory management and how they apply to mobile applications.
- A fundamental understanding of complex data structures and algorithms, which enables you to develop and apply new solutions and confidently navigate and improve existing code.
- Ability to leverage both quantitative and qualitative data and to collaborate with a cross-functional team to develop effective UX solutions.
- Effective project management skills.
- Creative problem solvers and risk takers. You like to take initiative to push projects forward but know when to involve others.
- Excellent communication skills. You can validate your decisions and communicate them clearly.
- Knowledge of Kotlin and willingness to do Android related work would be considered a plus.
How We Will Support You
Our core values -- build trust, question assumptions, and validate direction -- underpin how we work day-to-day and the support we give our team members. We strive to empower our team members to be self-directed and self-motivated in their work.
- Remote First, Always: We've always been a fully distributed company with team members all over the world. We trust you to get your work done wherever, and whenever.
- Commitment to Personal Growth: Every team member has an annual budget of $1,250 USD to invest in their professional development. Every team member also has a dedicated Career Advisor, who serves as a guide to help you develop your strengths, identify your motivations, and understand your opportunities for growth.
- Leadership: We have many different types of leaders and possible combinations of leadership roles, so you can grow your career in a way that aligns best with your personal goals. You can seek additional leadership roles by being directly responsible for projects, taking ownership of areas of the company, developing and maintaining internal processes, or pursuing advisory roles.
- Work/Life Balance: Team members have the freedom and flexibility to organize their own work schedules. We want you to thrive both in and out of the office. We trust you to use good judgment and take the time off that you need to bring your best self to work.
We also offer paid parental leave, a co-working stipend, office setup reimbursement, and a wellness stipend. More support resources can be found in our Team Member Support Guide, which explains how we make your well-being a priority.
For more information on how we collaborate worldwide, from leadership in our relatively flat organization to start-to-finish ownership, check out DuckDuckGo Culture: How We Work.
Compensation
Annual compensation for this role is $178,500 USD plus stock options. Compensation is the same within a professional level, regardless of geographic location or functional area, and the compensation for each professional level is transparent across the organization.
Hiring Process
Hiring works best when it's a two-way street. Learn how we help you get to know DuckDuckGo and envision your future role here. Find out more about how we hire.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
DuckDuckGo provides equal work opportunities to all team members and applicants, and it prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, caste, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by our policies or federal, state, or local laws.
We want to ensure that our hiring process is accessible. If you need reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process because of a medical condition or disability, please send an email to [email protected] to let us know the nature of your request.
If you think you might thrive in this environment, we would love to hear from you.
Please note that:
- Sometimes we meet up! Expect to travel at least two times a year: once for our all-hands meetup and again for a team retreat (each around 4-5 days). While extenuating circumstances may impact attendance, everyone is strongly encouraged to attend.
- While we offer a flexible work arrangement with no core hours, expect an average full-time commitment of 40 hours per week.
- A successful candidate will be subject to a background check and must receive satisfactory results of the same, as a condition of joining the team.
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Software Engineer III, Release Engineering
Summary
The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a mid-level software engineer to join the Release Engineering Team.
Software engineers on the Release Engineering team build development environments, maintain CI/CD infrastructure, and design tools and processes to support our developer community.
Release Engineering is a geographically distributed remote team of seven people in three time zones.
You are responsible for:
- Deploying Wikipedia and our other wikis
- Maintaining and adding features to our continuous delivery system
- Using Docker, BuildKit, and Kubernetes to enhance our deployment pipeline
- Upgrading and maintaining Release Engineering tools for our large developer community:some text
- CI/CD infrastructure: Jenkins, Zuul-CI, Docker, GitLab
- Code review: GitLab, Gerrit
- Issue tracking: Phabricator/Phorge
- Deployment tooling: Kubernetes, Helm, and custom tooling written in Python and Go
Skills and Experience:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in related work experience
- Written and verbal English communication skills sufficient for a remote work environment
- Collaboration and consensus-making skills
- Professional experience with systems/DevOps engineering
- Experience with complex software development
- Experience with continuous integration/delivery (CI/CD) systems
- Experience with Kubernetes and containerization
- Familiarity with server configuration management software (e.g., Ansible, SaltStack, Chef, or Puppet)
- Familiarity with infrastructure as code tools (e.g., Terraform/OpenTofu)
Qualities that are important to us:
- Professional experience with one or more of the following: Python, Go, PHP
- Experience with Puppet
Being a role model for Wikimedia's values
Additionally, we’d love it if you have:
- Free culture/Free software experience
- Remote work experience
- You are inspired by our guiding principles and our mission
- Familiarity with/involvement in the Wikimedia community
- Experience maintaining other specific software systems we use: Phabricator/Phorge, Jenkins, GitLab, and Gerrit
- Located within UTC+3–UTC-8 time zones
About the Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects. Our vision is a world in which every single human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. We believe that everyone has the potential to contribute something to our shared knowledge, and that everyone should be able to access that knowledge freely. We host Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects, build software experiences for reading, contributing, and sharing Wikimedia content, support the volunteer communities and partners who make Wikimedia possible, and advocate for policies that enable Wikimedia and free knowledge to thrive.
The Wikimedia Foundation is a charitable, not-for-profit organization that relies on donations. We receive donations from millions of individuals around the world, with an average donation of about $15. We also receive donations through institutional grants and gifts. The Wikimedia Foundation is a United States 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization with offices in San Francisco, California, USA.
As an equal opportunity employer, the Wikimedia Foundation values having a diverse workforce and continuously strives to maintain an inclusive and equitable workplace. We encourage people with a diverse range of backgrounds to apply. We do not discriminate against any person based upon their race, traits historically associated with race, religion, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy or related medical conditions, parental status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristics.
The Wikimedia Foundation is a remote-first organization with staff members including contractors based 40+ countries*. Salaries at the Wikimedia Foundation are set in a way that is competitive, equitable, and consistent with our values and culture. The anticipated annual pay range of this position for applicants based within the United States is US$ 88,975 o US$ 139,056 with multiple individualized factors, including cost of living in the location, being the determinants of the offered pay. For applicants located outside of the US, the pay range will be adjusted to the country of hire. We neither ask for nor take into consideration the salary history of applicants. The compensation for a successful applicant will be based on their skills, experience and location.
*Please note that we are currently able to hire in the following countries: Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, Netherlands, Nigeria, Peru, Poland, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America and Uruguay. Our non-US employees are hired through a local third party Employer of Record (EOR).
We periodically review this list to streamline to ensure alignment with our hiring requirements.
All applicants can reach out to their recruiter to understand more about the specific pay range for their location during the interview process.
If you are a qualified applicant requiring assistance or an accommodation to complete any step of the application process due to a disability, you may contact us at [email protected] or +1 (415) 839-6885.
More information
What does the Wikimedia Foundation do?
What makes Wikipedia different from social media platforms?
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Senior Backend Software Engineer
We are seeking a Senior Backend Software Engineer to join our fully remote team. As a vital member of our Engineering team, you will contribute to the development of new features and have an impact on how we develop our product. This role demands a deep understanding of distributed systems, performance optimization, and the ability to drive significant business value through technical solutions.
Our tech stack (the bigger the overlap, the better):
- Languages: Rust, JVM (Java, Spring, Scala, Kotlin), Python.
- Data: ClickHouse, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Redis, MySQL.
- Cloud platforms: Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- DevOps tools: Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm.
- Others: Protobufs, gRPC, Swagger.
Responsibilities:
In this role, you will be:
- building an application that is:some text
- Scalable: we aim to be the standard for data scientists and ML engineers around the world – there’s quite a few of them;
- Portable: we offer both SaaS and on-prem installations. There are times when we need to be very lightweight;
- Flexible: Machine Learning is a very fast-paced field; we often need to adapt;
- choosing the tools we use. We’ll lean on your knowledge and expertise to select the best technologies and tools for a given task;
- participating in defining our application’s architecture;
- implementing new features and improving the existing ones.
You might be a fit if you have:
- Minimum of 4 years of professional software development experience.
- Strong proficiency in algorithmic thinking and problem-solving.
- Passion for performance optimization, both on architecture & component level.
- Extensive experience in designing and implementing distributed systems, including:
- Large-scale data processing in near real-time;
- Ensuring the consistency and integrity of data across multiple storage systems;
- Building systems with high reliability, robustness, and resilience.
- Concise and logical communication, both written and verbal.
- Ability to balance business goals with technical purity, especially when adapting to high-paced, shifting priorities.
We offer:
- Flexibility: 100% remote work with offices (co-works) in Warsaw/Wrocław/Poznań/Kraków available and flexible working hours;
- Share in our success: Participate in the Employee Stock Option Plan and be part of our growth journey;
- Time off: 20 paid service-free days per year;
- Ownership and impact: Space to take action, bring your ideas to life, and make a real impact.
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