Countable Job Postings

Purpose

This serves as a root page with all example job postings we commonly hire for at Countable.

Scope

Currently covers the base job posting, admin, devops, django, front end, and nodejs posts.

Base Job Posting

Hi!

cta (call to action) here "let's chat"

Want to be challenged by a team who will push you to your potential, and support you along the way? If so, we may be the place for you.

We are technology consultants and product creators who love to prototype and experiment on the web. Our roster of happy clients includes the Tesla of boats, a star-trak grade medical devices startup, global comicbook brand, Province Government, and a next generation of cellular data provider. We help socially responsible, driven, and lucky companies across the globe leverage the internet by creating amazing things in an environment of your own design. On our team, every voice matters and we want to find ways to always improve, push each other to our potential to better serve the end-users of ours software. We’re also ridiculously transparent from the ground up: we’ve open-sourced our company’s operations manual here if you want to learn more about our current thinking.

Our Open Source Ops Manual

responsibilities and skills

You should:

  • Have excellent and engaging written English skills, to help create clarity.
  • Be able to work remotely (we do have an office in Vancouver though)
  • Be a continuous, self-motivated learner, and always push to improve the environment for yourself and your team members.
  • Experiment and investigate a problem deeper yourself, but know when to ask your team for help.
  • Voice disagreements rather than keeping them to yourself. We need all opinions need to be on the table in order to make the best decision.
  • Clouds and Dirt - Consider both the big picture and minute details, from a client’s overall business down to crossing T’s and dotting I’s.
  • Be able to uncover, and focus on, what’s really important in a complex environment with many distractions.

We are open to a variety of work arrangements and time commitments, let us know what you prefer.

Your application must include a resume, and a cover letter. To avoid automated submissions, and to see if you pay attention to detail and follow instructions, your email must be exactly 100 words. Further instructions can be found at: https://countable-ops-manual.readthedocs.io/peopleops/recruiting/APPLICANT_GUIDE.html .

I look forward to hearing from you!

Front End Posting

title

Front End Developer and Designer

cta

If you love CSS and HTML (and maybe some javascript and design), let’s chat!

responsibilities and skills

Make all our user interfaces look good and be painfully easy to use :)

You will be responsible for:

  1. Designs, html, css and javascript for internal projects.
  2. Precision and attention to detail in your designs.
  3. Excellent code quality and standards.
  4. Working on improving our front end work delivery pipeline by finding ways to improve and automate.

You should have a portfolio that demonstrates most if not all of:

  1. CSS and HTML
  2. UI Design in Photoshop, Sketch or other tools for front end mockups.
  3. javascript
  4. UX / Usability testing and communication.

There will be a technical test on the above skills, so it will save everyone time if you’re honest about your abilities.

Experience with Node.js, Python, Postgres (SQL) and Linux are also an asset.

test

Design a UI mockup for (something TBD), convert to responsive html/css, publish on github pages. If you know Node.js or Python, build a backend rest api for the app as well.

Django Posting

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Python and Django Developer

cta

If you love hacking with Python and Linux, let’s chat!

responsibilities and skills

Keep Linux based systems rock solid, unit tested, and automated. You will be responsible for:

  1. Developering back-end features (Node.JS and/or Django) with automated tests (ie, mocha, jasmine)
  2. Rest APIs, backend jobs and queues, Linux server administration, automation jobs.
  3. Excellent code quality and standards.
  4. Working on improving our back end work delivery pipeline by finding ways to improve and automate jobs on servers.

Core skills:

  1. Python (Django and Flask)
  2. Linux

Bonus skills:

  • bash scripting
  • Docker
  • Postgres (SQL)
  • Node.js (npm, mocha, Express)
  • javacript

There will be a technical test on the above skills, so it will save everyone time if you’re honest about your abilities.

test

Design a rest api for an (TBD) app.

DevOps Posting

CTA

Can you use your bash wizardry with Docker and Ansible to automate everything with us?

requirements

  • Many years of experience with Linux
  • Ansible is a bonus
  • Docker experience is a major bonus
  • You should be a bash wizard
  • Experience with Jenkins is a bonus
  • Experience with deployment of web apps

NodeJS Posting

title

Node.js Developer

cta

If you’re a back end coding Guru who loves Node.JS and Linux, let’s chat!

responsibilities and skills

Keep Linux based systems rock solid, unit tested, and automated. You will be responsible for:

  1. Developering back-end features (Node.JS and/or Django) with automated tests (ie, mocha, jasmine)
  2. Rest APIs, backend jobs and queues, Linux server administration, automation jobs.
  3. Excellent code quality and standards.
  4. Working on improving our back end work delivery pipeline by finding ways to improve and automate jobs on servers.

Core skills:

  1. Node.JS (Experience with NPM/Yarn, writing tests, debugging)
  2. Linux
  3. HTML / CSS

Bonus skills:

  • bash scripting
  • Python
  • Docker
  • Postgres
  • MongoDB

There will be a technical test on the above skills, so it will save everyone time if you’re honest about your abilities.

test

Design a rest api for an (TBD) app.

Marketer

cta Let’s chat if you’re interested in doing channel experiments, campaign management and funnel optimization!

responsibilities and skills

  • Channel experiments. Determine what marketing channels are effective for our product and our clients’ services.
  • PPC campaign management.
  • Early sales process (respond to inbound leads)
  • Funnel optimization.
  • Other cross-functional work production development work. We’re a small team so 50% of your work will likely be outside the core marketing skillset!

Admin Posting

Add this to the specific jobs section of the posting:

cta

If you love helping a team stay organised, online research, and are enthusiastic about communicating with a diverse set of stakeholders, let’s chat!

responsibilities and skills

Help us stay organized and grow. You will be responsible for conducting market research, usability testing, admin stuff, and other activities to support our team of consultants. You’ll attend weekly video team Scrum meetings and talk about the details of what you did each week. For this reason, it’s required that we have a single person for consistency, not a changing team.

You must be:

  1. A good writer (in English)
  2. Good with Excel / Google Docs
  3. Great at paying to detail while always trying to understand and work towards high level goals.
  4. A self-starter who takes initiative to solve problems and chase opportunities for the company.

test

Complete some research on embeddable web based widgets and components. Install 5 on one page using squarespace. Fill a usability report and spreadsheet.