Internal Support Engineer at Stack Exchange (Denver, CO) (allows remote)
Job Description
As a member of the Internal IT team, you'll be responsible for making awesome things happen for the other workers at Stack Exchange. An environment full of Windows, Macintosh and Linux, the IT team is expected to be able to jump into just about any type of user-related problem and see it through to a fix. Our engineers are adroit at solving problems; one day they may be working on a helpdesk request and another day tackling an important user-facing project. There is plenty of room to find your own place to shine in this small department.
We’re looking to hire the best people wherever they are in the world. If you’re able to relocate to our office in Denver, you’ll enjoy a brand new office with some amazing amenities. If not, we expect you to be awesome at working from home, and to be available to sync up with the team for our weekly morning meeting (US Eastern time).
Skills Requirements
About Stack Exchange
Our goal is to make the Internet a better place to get expert answers to your questions. We’ve done a lot of that with Stack Overflow, but we think there’s still more to do.
We believe in hiring smart people and getting out of their way. We have an office in New York with some of the best amenities of any New York startup, and we have people who work remotely all over the world. We keep meetings and ceremony to an absolute minimum.
Oh yeah, and...
Stack Exchange, Inc. does not discriminate in employment matters on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other protected class. We support workplace diversity.
Joel Test score: 10 out of 12
The Joel Test is a twelve-question measure of the quality of a software team.
- Do you use source control?
- Can you make a build in one step?
- Do you make daily builds?
- Do you have a bug database?
- Do you fix bugs before writing new code?
- Do you have an up-to-date schedule?
- Do you have a spec?
- Do programmers have quiet working conditions?
- Do you use the best tools money can buy?
- Do you have testers?
- Do new candidates write code during their interview?
- Do you do hallway usability testing?
Who you’ll work with
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