Remote Accounting + Developer + React + UI Jobs

Full Stack Engineer (React+Python)\n\nThere’s a big shift in the way people work towards self-employment and entrepreneurship in the UK and around the world. \n\nCoconut is a current account that takes care of accounting and tax. It’s designed specifically for freelancers, self-employed people and small business owners.\n\nWe launched our first product in January 2018. We’re at an exciting point in our journey and we now have 31,000 customers. Our mission is to free millions of people around the world from business admin by combining banking and accounting into one simple product.\n\nIn order to achieve this, we need more incredible people in our team. We are now looking for an experienced Full Stack Engineer with strong React/Python (Django) experience to join our engineering team to help us deliver our ambitious roadmap.\n\nWe’re a friendly, welcoming and diverse team and look forward to speaking to you if this role sounds of interest.\n\nOur primary technology stack has:\n\n- React for web application experiences\n- Python 3 for server side application code\n- Django for web applications and APIs\n- Celery for async task management\n- Redis for caching and async task brokering\n- Lambda for serverless parts of our application like transaction processing\n- AWS for infrastructure and other services supporting the platform\n\nA bit about the role:\n\nEvery day is different at Coconut so we are looking for somebody that takes change into their stride. A typical week might include:\n\n- Understanding requirements from across the business and translating them into technical solutions for external and internal customers \n- Creating exceptional front end web experiences from high fidelity digital designs for customers using modern React and associated technologies (Redux, Webpack etc.)\n- Creating features/APIs supporting either web applications and/or mobile applications\n- Helping the Growth Team run web-based experiments\n- Working on the Coconut website\n- Working closely with design to review UI and UX\n- Improving performance of our web products\n- Improving our front end tool chains\n- Bug fixing or enhancement work\n- Demoing your work to the business for feedback\n\nSkills you need:\n\n- 3+ years of strong Javascript and React web applications (including Single Page Applications) development experience including networking with APIs to deliver functionality\n- Exceptional front end web development skills and proven experience in construction of high quality component-driven user interfaces\n- API development, most ideally in python/Django/DRF or similar framework programming experience working on various systems and problems including exposure to Cloud computing and databases\n- PHP and Wordpress experience a bonus\n- Good understanding of and experience implementing web security\n- Strong design sensibility, product intuition and a creative mind and enjoy brainstorming and solving problems\n- Writing unit and functional tests of your work\n- Understanding of performance and scaling issues and how to affect these\n- Understanding of the importance of best practices vs pragmatism\n- Strong drive to own your work and ensure its delivered from start to finish\n- Able to work independently and seek help where needed\n- Deep care for quality in your work\n- Passionate about delivering value to customers\n- Experience of working within a product team and understand agile methodology\n- are highly collaborative and helpful\n- Communication to a high standard to both technical and non-technical people\n- Knowing when to ask for help and being open in times of difficulty\n- Desire to work in a fast-paced, demanding but rewarding and fun environment\n\nInterested in learning more?\n\nIf you’re interested we would love to hear from you. You can apply below or you can contact harriet@getcoconut to learn more. We have a 4 stage virtual interview process as follows:\n\n- Initial call with Head of Talent\n- 45 minute chat with CTO\n- 45 minute chat with Design, Product Management and Growth\n- 1.5 hour technical interview including discussion around a technical exercise that you prepare before the interview\n\nWorking at Coconut\n\nBenefits:\n\n- Be a member of a small growing team that is building something exceptional\n- Competitive salary + options available\n- Company pension with matched contributions\n- 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays)\n- Remote working indefinitely\n- London office available if preferred\n- Work environment that values creativity, personal growth and collaboration\n- Continuous learning and development: you will be challenged with lots of responsibility and exciting projects\n\n\n \n\nPlease mention the words **NEXT LOBSTER EVIL** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi41OQ==). This is a feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n /year\n
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\nWhat is Biller Genie?\n\n\nBiller Genie is startup company currently in its 2nd year that just closed on its first round of growth funding.  Our technology serves as an Invoice and Accounts Receivable automation platform that integrates with third-party accounting software to help users get their invoices paid faster.   We are quickly being recognized as one of the leading A/R automation tools for QuickBooks with a perfect 5-star rating in every review site worth mentioning, and we already have multiple software companies coming to us to license our technology.  Our "Freemium" product is an Automated Invoice Messenger that takes the busy work out of daily collection processes.  Users can add-on a branded Customer Portal which gives their clients 24/7 access to their information online and supports payments via credit card and ACH, tokenized and encrypted payment method storage, and bi-directional communication. \n\n\nOur advanced and innovative system has grown exponentially since its inception in 2018, but we are just getting started!  We have a major roadmap for future development, so this is an excellent opportunity to start early and grow with the company.\n\n\nWhat would I be doing if I came on board?\n\n\nYour primary responsibility would be to continue to enhance our software and publish new feature releases in a timely manner.  Impending projects include development of our API, hardware integrations to payment processing devices, API integrations with third-party software companies, development of transactional SMS technology, and creation of tests to protect the platform from regression and bugs.  \n\n\nWhat we are offering?\n\n\n\n* Pay: DOE\n\n* Vacation: Open PTO policy\n\n* Health/Other Benefits: 50% of primary policy holders premium or equivalent\n\n* Office: Work from home\n\n* WorkStation: BYOD (Bring your own device)\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat technology are we working with?\n\n\n\n* .Net Core 2.2\n\n* Code first migrations\n\n* SQL server (Code first migrations only)\n\n* MVC web pattern\n\n* Dependency Injection\n\n* Bootstrap and JQuery for UI (no Angular or Vue, React or other client-side SPA framework)\n\n* Git for versioning\n\n* Azure for hosting\n\n* Azure DevOps for build and deployment pipeline\n\n* Microsoft Teams for communication of the team\n\n* Scrum Process \n\n* 1-click deployments, daily builds on CI/CD pipeline\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat are we looking for in our next developer?\n\n\nYou need to be enthusiastic, witty, positive and encouraging!  We are looking for someone who is a self-starter, can learn quickly, maintain focus and work collaboratively in an Agile environment.  Someone who can contribute to the improvement of our QA and release processes.  If you think of yourself as a super-utility programmer Swiss army knife - someone who is more than just a developer; a solution creator; someone who can solve problems with more than just code - we want you to join our growing team of talented engineers and lead us in improving our rapidly growing application for our clients.   \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Senior, Developer, Digital Nomad, Accounting, React, DevOps, Angular, API and jQuery jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n