Upwork ($UPWK) is the world’s work marketplace. We serve everyone, from one-person startups to over 30% of the Fortune 100, with a powerful, trust-driven platform that enables companies and talent to work together in new ways that unlock their potential. Last year, more than $3.8 billion of work was done through Upwork by skilled professionals who are gaining more control by finding work they are passionate about and innovating their careers.

We're looking for an experienced Senior Backend Engineer to join our Al team in the Search & Recommendations domain. In this role, you will be building cutting-edge search & recommendation systems that better connect companies and talents and elevate our AI  strategies to drive significant business growth. As a senior Backend Engineer, you will have the opportunity to work with some of the brightest minds in the industry and contribute to innovative and customer-impacting products that shape the future of work. If you are passionate about pushing the boundaries of search and AI/ML technologies, thrive in a collaborative, results-oriented culture, and are excited about our mission, we invite you to join us.

This is an engagement through Upwork’s Hybrid Workforce Solutions (HWS) Team. Our Hybrid Workforce Solutions Team is a global group of professionals that support Upwork’s business. Our HWS team members are located all over the world.

Responsibilities:

• Architect, build, maintain and improve search systems and AI/ML services that scale with the growing demands of our applications and state of the art search capabilities 
• Collaborate with frontend and backend teams to design and implement API that align with business requirements and optimize backend processes to enable low-latency and high-reliability retrieval and ranking needs
• Conduct thorough code reviews and drive enhancements to boost API performance and functionality.
• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for our services ensuring transparency and knowledge sharing with the team.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and advancements in software development and AI and evaluate their potential impact on our projects.
• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for our services ensuring transparency and knowledge sharing with the team.
• Manage your time independently and effectively to achieve project deliverables, which may require an estimated 40 hours of effort per week.
• Communicate and collaborate frequently, proactively and effectively in English.
• Participate in project meetings and provide regular status updates.
• Participate in on-call pager duty schedules providing timely responses and resolutions to critical issues.
• Show a commitment to continuous learning and improvement in both technical and soft skill.
• Ensure consistent availability from 8:00 am to 12:00 pm PST to facilitate team collaboration and meetings.

What it takes to catch our eye:

• Strong Industry experience with large scale production grade systems as a software engineer and Indexing experience with Elasticsearch, OpenSearch or Apache Solr
• Strong  experience in Java programming with a record of delivering robust and high-quality code with unit tests 
• Solid understanding of API Design Principles and CI/CD 
• Exposure to machine learning concepts and workflows with an understanding of how services support machine learning models
• Excellent communication skills and ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and globally distributed teams and adapt to evolving project requirements.

As Associate Data Engineer, you’ll support business analytics projects by providing data-driven insights to HQ. The purpose is to analyze data gathered and to make informed decisions, improve operations, and strategize for future initiatives. The successful candidate will be responsible for advising the Enterprise Team and its stakeholders and developing strategies that drive operational improvements and support future business endeavors.

We know that you can’t have great technology services without amazing people. At MetroStar, we are obsessedwithour people and have led a two-decade legacy of building the best and brightest teams. Because we know our future relies on our deep understanding and relentless focus on our people, we live by our mission: A passion for our people. Value for our customers.

If you think you can see yourself delivering our mission and pursuing our goals with us, then check out the job description below!

What you’ll do:

• Designing, developing, and maintaining scalable data pipelines and building out new API integrations to support increasing data volume and complexity. 
• Collaborating with analytics and business teams to improve data models that feed business intelligence tools, enhancing data accessibility and fostering data-driven decision-making across the organization. 
• Implementing processes and systems to monitor data quality, ensuring production data is accurate and available for key stakeholders and business processes. 
• Performing data analysis to troubleshoot and resolve data-related issues. 
• Collaborate closely with a team of frontend and backend engineers, product managers, data analysts and business analysts. 
• Defining company data assets (data models), and create Spark (Using PySpark) and SQL jobs to populate data models. 
• Writing unit/integration tests, contributing to the engineering wiki, and documenting work. 

What you’ll need to succeed:

• Willing and able to be onsite in Reston, VA at least 3 days/week
• Bachelor’s degree 
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance
• 0-2 years of relevant experience; 4-6 years of additional experience in lieu of degree 
• Proficiency in Data Warehousing, ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) Processes, SQL and NoSQL Databases, Data Modeling, Data Integration, and Data Quality Assurance. 
• Proficiency in programming languages including Python and C# is required. Strong problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills are also necessary. 
• Experience with Microsoft Azure Cloud Platform such as Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Databricks (using PySpark) and Azure SQL Database. 
• Strong problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills. 

Like we said, we arebig fans of our people. That’s why we offer a generous benefits package, professional growth, and valuable time to recharge. Learn more about our company culture code and benefits. Plus, check out our accolades.

Don’t meet every single requirement? 

Studies have shown that women, people of color and the LGBTQ+ community are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification.  At MetroStar we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic culture, so, if you’re excited about this role, but your previous experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to go ahead and apply.  We pride ourselves on making great matches, and you may be the perfect match for this role or another one we have. Best of luck! – The MetroStar People & Culture Team

What we want you to know:

In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.

MetroStar Systems is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. The statements herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees and are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. Furthermore, they do not establish a contract for employment and are subject to change at the discretion of MetroStar Systems.

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About the Company

Gemini is a global crypto and Web3 platform founded by Tyler Winklevoss and Cameron Winklevoss in 2014. Gemini offers a wide range of crypto products and services for individuals and institutions in over 70 countries.

Crypto is about giving you greater choice, independence, and opportunity. We are here to help you on your journey. We build crypto products that are simple, elegant, and secure. Whether you are an individual or an institution, we help you buy, sell, and store your bitcoin and cryptocurrency. 

At Gemini, our mission is to unlock the next era of financial, creative, and personal freedom.

In the United States, we have a flexible hybrid work policy for employees who live within 30 miles of our office headquartered in New York City and our office in Seattle. Employees within the New York and Seattle metropolitan areas are expected to work from the designated office twice a week, unless there is a job-specific requirement to be in the office every workday. Employees outside of these areas are considered part of our remote-first workforce. We believe our hybrid approach for those near our NYC and Seattle offices increases productivity through more in-person collaboration where possible.

The Department: Trading

Gemini is a regulated, full service, crypto service provider where engineering is the core of the company. There’s a wide range of tough problems to solve at Gemini – from properly securing hundreds of millions of dollars worth of customer funds, to developing innovative new blockchain products, to finding new techniques to combat fraud, to shaving microseconds off our API response times, and everything in between.

All of Gemini’s engineers are able to work across the software platform, not just on their own specialization or subteam. We value a thoughtful, collaborative software development process, coupled with a pragmatic approach to problem solving and delivering software.

Gemini’s OTC Trading team is specifically focused on providing a capital market crypto service offering to institutional investors. We provide a software based platform that provides custody, access, trading, settlement & clearing of crypto.

The Role: Staff Trading Services Engineer (Backend)

Our institutional OTC Trading platform serves as a gateway from traditional financial services into the digital asset ecosystem. As a software engineer, you will design and implement a variety of software systems that motivate, execute, and settle what is shaping up to be the largest transfer of wealth from the past to the future. It is hard to find a more exhilarating place to design, code, test, and deliver software products than in the real time trading environment of the front office of financial institutions.

We are looking for a talented software engineer that is focused and fascinated by the real time movement of price and value at wire speed across a global liquidity network of buyers and sellers.

Responsibilities:

• Conceive, assemble, and deliver the financial platform that meets the OTC team’s functional and business requirements for our global broker/dealer platform
• Build out our global liquidity network at scale across the key financial centers world wide
• Cultivate best practices and collaborate with engineering teams structuring applications
• Realize and promote the domain model and architecture for our broker/dealer platform
• Leverage key software systems and services from across Gemini’s portfolio of exchange, settlement, and custodian technologies

Minimum Qualifications:

• Proficiency with C++ and Python on Linux
• 3-5 years experience in design, development, and delivery of scalable, distributed systems
• Track record of building financial trading systems
• Track record of working in a distributed design and development effort
• Understanding of trading on a central limit order books and with other liquidity providers
• Understanding of communication protocols, specifically TCP/IP, FIX, Websocket, REST and Ultra Messaging
• Strong analytical and conceptual skills with solid organizational skills and attention to detail
• Engaging communicator with a knack for precision and conciseness
• Independent decision maker able to act decisively based on your domain expertise

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience building an OMS
• Experience working with Crypto or FX
• Experience building trading algorithms

• Competitive starting salary
• A discretionary annual bonus
• Long-term incentive in the form of a new hire equity grant
• Comprehensive health plans
• 401K with company matching
• Paid Parental Leave
• Flexible time off

Salary Range: The base salary range for this role is between $172,000 - $215,000 in the State of New York, the State of California and the State of Washington. This range is not inclusive of our discretionary bonus or equity package. When determining a candidate’s compensation, we consider a number of factors including skillset, experience, job scope, and current market data.

At Gemini, we strive to build diverse teams that reflect the people we want to empower through our products, and we are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. Equal Opportunity is the Law, and Gemini is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. If you have a specific need that requires accommodation, please let a member of the People Team know.

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About the Company

Gemini is a global crypto and Web3 platform founded by Tyler Winklevoss and Cameron Winklevoss in 2014. Gemini offers a wide range of crypto products and services for individuals and institutions in over 70 countries.

Crypto is about giving you greater choice, independence, and opportunity. We are here to help you on your journey. We build crypto products that are simple, elegant, and secure. Whether you are an individual or an institution, we help you buy, sell, and store your bitcoin and cryptocurrency. 

At Gemini, our mission is to unlock the next era of financial, creative, and personal freedom.

In the United States, we have a flexible hybrid work policy for employees who live within 30 miles of our office headquartered in New York City and our office in Seattle. Employees within the New York and Seattle metropolitan areas are expected to work from the designated office twice a week, unless there is a job-specific requirement to be in the office every workday. Employees outside of these areas are considered part of our remote-first workforce. We believe our hybrid approach for those near our NYC and Seattle offices increases productivity through more in-person collaboration where possible.

The Department: Trading

Gemini is a regulated, full service, crypto service provider where engineering is the core of the company. There’s a wide range of tough problems to solve at Gemini – from properly securing hundreds of millions of dollars worth of customer funds, to developing innovative new blockchain products, to finding new techniques to combat fraud, to shaving microseconds off our API response times, and everything in between.

All of Gemini’s engineers are able to work across the software platform, not just on their own specialization or subteam. We value a thoughtful, collaborative software development process, coupled with a pragmatic approach to problem solving and delivering software. 

Gemini’s OTC Trading team is specifically focused on providing a capital market crypto service offering to institutional investors. We provide a software based platform that provides custody, access, trading, settlement & clearing of crypto.

The Role: Staff Trading Services Engineer (Fullstack)

Our institutional OTC Trading platform serves as a gateway from traditional financial services into the digital asset ecosystem. As a software engineer, you will design and implement a variety of software systems that motivate, execute, and settle what is shaping up to be the largest transfer of wealth from the past to the future. It is hard to find a more exhilarating place to design, code, test, and deliver software products than in the real time trading environment of the front office of financial institutions. 

We are looking for a talented software engineer that is focused and fascinated by the real time movement of price and value at wire speed across a global liquidity network of buyers and sellers.

Responsibilities:

• Conceive, assemble, and deliver the financial platform that meets the OTC team’s functional and non-functional requirements for our global broker/dealer platform
• Build out our global liquidity network at scale across the key financial centers world wide
• Cultivate best practices and collaborate with engineering teams structuring applications
• Realize and promote the domain model and architecture for our broker/dealer platform
• Leverage key software systems and services from across Gemini’s portfolio of exchange, settlement, and custodian technologies

Minimum Qualifications:

•  Proficiency with Golang and Typescript (React)
• At least 6 years experience in in full-stack development, with a strong focus on design, development, and delivery of scalable, distributed systems
• Experience building microservices deployed on AWS and Kubernetes
• Track record of working with a distributed design and development effort
• Strong analytical and conceptual skills with solid organizational skills and attention to detail
• Engaging communicator with a knack for precision and conciseness
• Independent decision maker able to act decisively based on your domain expertise
• Understanding of communication protocols, specifically FIX, Websocket, REST and GraphQL

Preferred Qualifications:

• Understanding of centralized financial exchanges (CeFi)
• Understanding of central limit order books and other liquidity providers

• Competitive starting salary
• A discretionary annual bonus
• Long-term incentive in the form of a new hire equity grant
• Comprehensive health plans
• 401K with company matching
• Paid Parental Leave
• Flexible time off

Salary Range: The base salary range for this role is between $172,000 - $215,000 in the State of New York, the State of California and the State of Washington. This range is not inclusive of our discretionary bonus or equity package. When determining a candidate’s compensation, we consider a number of factors including skillset, experience, job scope, and current market data.

At Gemini, we strive to build diverse teams that reflect the people we want to empower through our products, and we are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. Equal Opportunity is the Law, and Gemini is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. If you have a specific need that requires accommodation, please let a member of the People Team know.

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About the Role:  

As a Pre-Sales Working Student, you will work closely with our APJ (Asia Pacific Japan) Sales Engineering team. This team supports all ongoing Sales processes with knowledge and experience in geodata management and processing, understanding customer-specific technologies involving Planet´s suite of products and helps both the customer and our Sales team as trusted advisors.

This is a part-time, temporary position working up to 20 hours per week. This is a remote position based in APJ.

Impact You’ll Own:

• Work with the sales engineers to understand what is required by the customer to address their unmet need or problem
• Prepare geospatial data from both the customer and internal Planet requests for further use in the sales process
• Search for compelling data examples in Planet´s image archives, to assist customers and convincing them to use such in their daily work
• Conduct literature and press research for finding most suitable demonstration use-cases for Planet data
• Provide detailed research reports to the APJ Pre-Sales team

What You Bring:

• Experience taking on new challenges and approaching them with a positive attitude
• Current student enrolled in a full-time program at a university
• A passion for geodata in ArcGIS or QGIS
• Experience working in a team environment
• Able to work in APJ time zones and work remotely
• Knowledge in GIS, coordinate reference systems, digital image processing
• Understanding of distributed systems, cloud platform, API and software tools
• Fluent in English

What Makes You Stand Out:

• Scripting experience in Python
• Experience in computer Vision AI/ML
• Experience in ENVI, Erdas
• Basics of Hyperspectral image processing
• Ability to communicate in Bahasa Indonesia or Vietnamese

Benefits While Working at Planet:

• Generous time off including vacation, holidays and company global days off 
• Comprehensive Healthcare coverage*
• Remote friendly work environment 
• Employee Wellness Program 
• Home Office Reimbursement
• Monthly Phone and Internet Reimbursement
• Tuition Reimbursement and access to LinkedIn Learning
• Equity Options**
• Volunteering Benefits

*Where group plans are not available, allowances are provided

**Benefit, amount, and type are dependent on geographical location, based upon applicable law or company policy

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Classy, an affiliate of GoFundMe, is a Public Benefit Corporation and giving platform that enables nonprofits to connect supporters with the causes they care about. Classy's platform provides powerful and intuitive fundraising tools to convert and retain donors. Since 2011, Classy has helped nonprofits mobilize and empower the world for good by helping them raise over $7 billion. Classy also hosts the Collaborative conference and the Classy Awards to spotlight the innovative work nonprofits are implementing around the globe. For more information, visitwww.classy.org.

About the role:

Help build an indispensable product that empowers nonprofits to accomplish their remarkable missions. Are you ready to make a significant impact on the world by leveraging your extensive experience in product management and technical expertise, particularly in cutting-edge technologies such as ML/AI, data analytics, martech tools, and platform development? 

As a Staff Product Manager at Classy, you will play a pivotal role in defining and executing our product strategy, ensuring alignment with company objectives, customer feedback, and our product vision. You’re the type of person who isn’t afraid to take up the gauntlet and strives to thrill customers with features that help them solve the world's social problems. This is a highly collaborative role, partnering with cross-functional teams to drive innovation and customer satisfaction in the ever-evolving landscape of data intelligence and analytics and engagement of omnichannel solutions.

If you are excited about shaping the future of the nonprofit fundraising market, driving real change with the latest innovations, and being part of a supportive, purpose-driven team, we invite you to join us on our mission at Classy.

What you'll accomplish: 

• Define the product strategy and roadmap in collaboration with others on the team ensuring alignment of company objectives, product vision and customer feedback
• Develop and articulate compelling value propositions and product positioning, partnering with marketing and sales teams to build awareness and drive demand.
• Create learning plans to identify and test the biggest hypotheses to drive your KPIs and success metrics; analyze metrics that inform product development and continuous optimization to increase adoption and engagement
• Collaborate with a team of engineers, designers, customer success, shared services teams, analysts and operations, to define product requirements and translate them into actionable development plans, driving innovation and customer satisfaction.
• Foster ongoing relationships and communications with customers to develop a clear understanding of their goals and challenges to create a product strategy; creating a strong understanding of our customers and become an expert on the nonprofit fundraising market
• Manage, investigate, prioritize and communicate tasks and issues for completion by engineering team while communicating roadmap and product launches to the rest of Classy
• Ruthlessly prioritize backlog and work across teams to drive work that delivers value for our customers & experts.
• Present regularly to the leadership teams on project strategy and deliverables
• Perform market research, competitive analysis, and establish industry best practices to stay ahead of data-in innovations and trends.
• Continuously monitor and analyze customer feedback, market trends, and usage data to identify opportunities for improvements and new feature development.

What you bring (Required): 

• 7-10+ years designing and delivering world-class software products in a Product Management role or equivalent experience in a technical role such as software development or solution architecture. Proven track record of delivering results that impact critical business metrics. 
• Domain expertise in one or more platform technologies such as middleware systems, integrations to tools and services, API and platform, containers, data streaming, time-series, or complex event processing.
• Demonstrated curiosity and passion in learning and understanding technology & software especially around data intelligence, analytics, and omnichannel / marketing solutions
• Technically savvy with experience working with developers and architects to build scalable and highly reliant systems
• You bring a customer centric mindset. Excitement to translate users’ needs into clear, well-defined functional and technical requirements backed by data analysis and an understanding of the Classy landscape.
• Ability to comfortably analyze large data sets and ask the right data questions in order to hone your ideas and deliver features which have a high degree of ambiguity
• Capable of decomposing a big vision into bite-size milestones.
• Energized by working across multiple functions. Strong partnership and influence skill - driving prioritization and feature requirements to capabilities teams.
• Experience in leading, scaling and optimizing a growing software platform.
• Ability to dive deep with engineers to make technical tradeoff decisions and summarize it all for non-technical stakeholders and executives.
• Self-aware with a strong desire to learn and continuously improve.
• Insanely curious and data-driven, with a strong attention to design details
• Natural leadership skills and ability to work with all teams in the company, must be highly collaborative
• BA or BS degree required. Equivalent experience will be considered.

What would be awesome to have (Preferred): 

• MBA or Comp Science, Eng degree - technical degree a plus
• Product Management experience in a b2b2c business model
• Experience with nonprofits, fundraising and event management
• Strong understanding of SaaS business model
• Product Management certification

Why you’ll love it here: 

• Market competitive pay.
• Rich healthcare benefits including employer paid premiums for medical/dental/vision (100% for employee-only plans and 85% for employee + dependent plans) and employer HSA contributions. 
• 401(k) retirement plan with company matching.
• Hybrid workplace with fully remote flexibility for many roles.
• Monetary support for new hire setup, hybrid work & wellbeing, family planning, and commuting expenses.
• A variety of mental and wellness programs to support employees.   
• Generous paid parental leave and family planning stipend.
• Company provided life and disability coverages.
• Supportive time off policies including vacation, sick/mental health days, volunteer days, company holidays, and a floating holiday.
• Learning & development and recognition programs.
• “Gives Back” Program where employees can nominate a fundraiser every week for a donation from the company.
• Inclusion, diversity, equity, and belonging are vital to our priorities and we continue to evolve our strategy to ensure DEI is embedded in all processes and programs at GoFundMe. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion team is always finding new ways for our company to uphold and represent the experiences of all of the people in our organization.
• Employee resource groups.
• Your work has a real purpose and will help change lives on a global scale.
• You’ll be a part of a fun, supportive team that works hard and celebrates accomplishments together. 
• We live by our core values: impatient to be great, find a way, earn trust every day, fueled by purpose.
• We are a certified Great Place to Work, are growing fast and have incredible opportunities ahead!

The total annual salary for this full-time position is $150,000 - $200,000 + equity + benefits.  As this is a remote position, the salary range was determined by role, level, and possible location across the US. Individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. 

Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range based on your location during the hiring process. 

If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete a job application or a job interview or to otherwise participate in the hiring process, please contact us at accommodationrequests@gofundme.com

Dedication to Diversity 

GoFundMe and Classy are committed to leveraging Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging to cultivate a culture that embraces and supports the unique identities, experiences, and perspectives of our people and customers.

Our diversity recruiting priority is recognized under our first DEIB Driver: Opportunity Foster Diversity - we identify, recruit, and invest in top talent- ensure our people reflect the unique identities, experiences, and perspectives of the communities we serve and are all given the chance to grow.

Global Data Privacy Notice for Job Candidates and Applicants:

Depending on your location, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) or certain US privacy laws may regulate the way we manage the data of job applicants. Our full notice outlining how data will be processed as part of the application procedure for applicable locations is available here. By submitting your application, you are agreeing to our use and processing of your data as required. 

Learn more about GoFundMe:

We’re proud to partner with GoFundMe.org, an independent public charity, to extend the reach and impact of our generous community, while helping drive critical social change. You can learn more about GoFundMe.org’s activities and impact in their FY ‘23 annual report.

Our annual “Year in Help” reportreflects our community’s impact in advancing our mission of helping people help each other.

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