The Opportunity\n===============\nShorthand is a growing company that provides a digital publishing platform to many of the world's best known publishers, brands, not-for-profits, and universities. With customers on every continent (except Antarctica!), there's never been a more exciting time to join Shorthand. Our company has the rare distinction in this era of money-burning startups of being both investor-backed and comfortably profitable. We're a small team of geeks with art and heart, and a high bar for quality.\nTo deliver our magic to customers and their audiences, we build software that is scalable, flexible, reliable and as simple as possible but no simpler.\nThe Role\n========\nWe tend to do things a little differently at Shorthand. For one thing, we're a small, fully remote team distributed around the world and have been for over 3 years, meaning we have established systems and processes in place. For this role we'll happily take applications from anywhere in the United States.\nThis role will share responsibility for designing, engineering and scaling our backend systems and services.\nWe are looking for someone who:\n- Is whip smart, as demonstrated by career achievements and / or school / college results\n- Has good knowledge of cloud-based web architectures.\n- Experienced in system design and distributed computing.\n- Has a wide range of experience and expertise across languages, frameworks and approaches such as Javascript, Typescript, and ReactJS, NodeJS, scripting, serverless, and microservices.\n- Is an expert in using git.\n- Has worked with CI/CD processes before (CircleCI/Jenkins preferably).\n- Has an extremely high bar for quality.\n- Is thorough and detail-oriented.\n- Can learn fast.\n- Has great communication skills, particularly with respect to writing.\n- Gains deep satisfaction from helping to make products better.\n- Has experience of working in a small business or startup environment.\n- Preferably has experience collaborating with diverse, geographically-dispersed teams.\nCore Responsibilities:\n======================\n- Own backend development and contribute to other areas of the product. \n- Learn, evolve and improve an existing application/system architecture.\n- Review code from other engineers and provide feedback.\n- Help secure the environment.\n- Develop Shorthand app server-side and API functionality to help improve the customer experience. \n- Contribute to the technical direction of the Shorthand tool.\n- Report bugs.\n- Communicate with the customer support team and customers to suggest solutions to issues.\n- Assist in the creation of product documentation when required.\nQualifications:\n===============\n- A minimum 10 years of experience in Software Engineering roles.\n- A minimum 3 years of experience in web application development.\n- Thorough knowledge of NodeJS and the web.\n- Experience with AWS.\n- A university qualification in computer science or a closely related field, or equivalent career experience required.\nPersonality Attributes: \n========================\n- You are a proactive self-starter, who does not need to be told what to do and will be resourceful in order to find solutions to any challenge.\n- You thrive in a fast-paced and demanding environment, and possess a high level of intellectual curiosity.\n- You are collaborative.\n- You find fulfilment in the job itself, and happiness in a job well done.\n\nBenefits: \n========================\n- Health and Medical Benefits\n- Unlimited holidays and sick leave\n- Hardware and home office allowance\n- Co-working office allowance\n- Health and Wellness allowance \n\nPlease mention the words **ANGRY TUBE SQUIRREL** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4yMDQ=). 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 $120,000 — $160,000/year\n \n\n#Location\nUnited States

\nOur homes are our most valuable asset and also the most difficult to buy and sell. Knock is on a mission to make trading in your house as simple and certain as trading in your car. Started by founding team members of Trulia.com (NYSE: TRLA, acquired by Zillow for $3.5B), Knock is an online home trade-in platform that uses data science to price homes accurately, technology to sell them quickly and a dedicated team of professionals to guide you every step of the way. We share the same top-tier investors as iconic brands like Netflix, Tivo, Match, HomeAway and Houzz.\n\n\nWe are seeking a passionate Backend Software Engineer to help us design and build our customer-facing APIs and backend services. You must be a developer with a keen sense of good system design and application architecture. We are looking for someone who is passionate about creating great products and making the world amazing for homebuyers.\n\n\nAt Knock, we have fun, we move fast, we support and celebrate our fellow teammates, and we live by our POPSICLE values.\n\n\nAs a NodeJS Software Engineer on the backend team you will: \n\n\n* Design, build and maintain APIs and tools that power Knock’s internal and customer-facing applications. Communicate your designs to fellow engineers.\n\n* Understand the data that power our applications, and be able to propose appropriate data models for new features.\n\n* Build new services from scratch, as well as maintain existing applications.\n\n* Provide secure and seamless integration of Knock’s applications to our SaaS partners.\n\n* Committed to good engineering practice of testing, logging, alerting and deployment processes.\n\n\n\n\n\nWe’re looking for Knockstars who have: \n\n\n* Must be U.S. based.\n\n* BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.\n\n* 3+ years of full lifecycle software development experience in Node.js, including coding, testing, troubleshooting, and deployment.\n\n* Strong desire to work at a rapidly growing startup and make it a success. Comfortable learning new technologies and tools.\n\n* Expert in Javascript (Node.js). Experience with various Node.js modules such as fastify, hapi.js, lodash, async.\n\n* Experience with AWS ecosystem such as Lambda, S3, SNS, SQS, and CloudWatch.\n\n* Strong SQL knowledge (Mysql or Postgres), familiarity with techniques to identify slow queries and debugging.\n\n* A strong customer-first mindset and data-driven approach to their work\n\n* Proven success working remotely in prior positions & are experienced working with a distributed, national team \n\n\n\n\n\nBonus points for knowledge of:\n\n\n* Docker ecosystem and container orchestration systems such as Amazon ECS or Kubernetes.\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat We Can Offer You:\n\n\n* An amazing opportunity to be an integral part of building the next multi-billion dollar consumer brand around the single largest purchase of our lives.\n\n* Talented, passionate and mission-driven peers disrupting the status quo.\n\n* Competitive cash, full medical, dental, vision benefits, 401k, flexible work schedule, unlimited vacation (2 weeks mandatory) and sick time.\n\n* Flexibility to live and work anywhere within the United States. As we are a distributed company and engineering team, we are open to any U.S. location for this role.\n\n* This is a 100% remote, full-time career at Knock.\n\n\n\n\n\nWe have offices in New York, San Francisco, Atlanta, Charlotte, Raleigh, Dallas-Fort Worth, Phoenix, and Denver with more on the way. In fact, we are proud to be a distributed company with employees in 21 different states. This is an amazing opportunity to be an integral part of building a multi-billion dollar consumer brand in an industry that is long overdue for a new way of doing things. You will be working with a passionate, mission-driven team that is disrupting the status quo.\n\n\nKnock is an Equal Opportunity Employer.\n\n\nPlease no recruitment firm or agency inquiries, you will not receive a reply from us. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to JavaScript, Node, Engineer, Developer, Digital Nomad, Amazon, SaaS and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $62,500 — $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

\nOur homes are our most valuable asset and also the most difficult to buy and sell. Knock is on a mission to make trading in your house as simple and certain as trading in your car. Started by founding team members of Trulia.com (NYSE: TRLA, acquired by Zillow for $3.5B), Knock is an online home trade-in platform that uses data science to price homes accurately, technology to sell them quickly and a dedicated team of professionals to guide you every step of the way. We share the same top-tier investors as iconic brands like Netflix, Tivo, Match, HomeAway and Houzz.\n\n\nWe are seeking a passionate NodeJS Backend Software Engineer to help us design and build our customer-facing APIs and backend services. You must be a developer with a keen sense of good system design and application architecture. We are looking for someone who is passionate about creating great products and making the world amazing for homebuyers.\n\n\nAt Knock, we have fun, we move fast, we support and celebrate our fellow teammates, and we live by our POPSICLE values.\n\n\nAs a Software Engineer on the Backend team you will: \n\n\n* Design, build and maintain APIs and tools that power Knock’s internal and customer-facing applications. Communicate your designs to fellow engineers.\n\n* Understand the data that power our applications, and be able to propose appropriate data models for new features.\n\n* Build new services from scratch, as well as maintain existing applications.\n\n* Provide secure and seamless integration of Knock’s applications to our SaaS partners.\n\n* Committed to good engineering practice of testing, logging, alerting and deployment processes.\n\n\n\n\n\nWe’re looking for Knockstars who have: \n\n\n* Must be U.S. based.\n\n* BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.\n\n* Minimum of 3 years of full lifecycle software development experience in Node.js, including coding, testing, troubleshooting, and deployment.\n\n* Strong desire to work at a rapidly growing startup and make it a success. Comfortable learning new technologies and tools.\n\n* Expert in Javascript (Node.js). Experience with various Node.js modules such as fastify, hapi.js, lodash, async.\n\n\n\n\n\n* Experience with AWS ecosystem such as Lambda, S3, SNS, SQS, and CloudWatch.\n\n\n\n\n\n* Strong SQL knowledge (Mysql or Postgres), familiarity with techniques to identify slow queries and debugging.\n\n* A strong customer-first mindset and data-driven approach to their work\n\n* Proven success working remotely in prior positions & are experienced working with a distributed, national team \n\n\n\n\n\nBonus points for knowledge of:\n\n\n* Docker ecosystem and container orchestration systems such as Amazon ECS or Kubernetes.\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat We Can Offer You:\n\n\n* An amazing opportunity to be an integral part of building the next multi-billion dollar consumer brand around the single largest purchase of our lives.\n\n* Talented, passionate and mission-driven peers disrupting the status quo.\n\n* Competitive cash, full medical, dental, vision benefits, 401k, flexible work schedule, unlimited vacation (2 weeks mandatory) and sick time.\n\n* Flexibility to live and work anywhere within the United States. As we are a distributed company and engineering team, we are open to any U.S. location for this role.\n\n\n\n\n\nWe have offices in New York, San Francisco, Atlanta, Charlotte, Raleigh, Dallas-Fort Worth, Phoenix, and Denver with more on the way. In fact, we are proud to be a distributed company with employees in 21 different states. This is an amazing opportunity to be an integral part of building a multi-billion dollar consumer brand in an industry that is long overdue for a new way of doing things. You will be working with a passionate, mission-driven team that is disrupting the status quo.\n\n\nKnock is an Equal Opportunity Employer.\n\n\nPlease no recruitment firm or agency inquiries, you will not receive a reply from us. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to JavaScript, Node, Engineer, Developer, Digital Nomad, Amazon, SaaS and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $62,500 — $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