Position: Senior Back End Wizard ✨ Company: joi.studio Location: Remote (Sydney EST and LA time) 🌍 Working Hours: Flexible, with a preference for working between 1pm and 12am Sydney EST (8pm to 7am LA time) ⏰ Role Type: Contractor, working ideally 40 hours per week
About Us: Hey there! 🌟 We're a passionate team on a mission to revolutionize mental health and personal growth. Our platform blends the best features of Netflix and Udemy, providing a unique and joyful experience to over 350,000 students across five countries. We reached product market fit over three years ago without needing external capital and continue to scale and innovate every day. 🚀
Role Overview: Are you a back-end wizard who loves autonomy and taking charge? 🧙♀️ We're on the lookout for an assertive Senior Back End Wizard who can set their own working hours while aligning with our fun and dynamic team. Your skills and opinions will be highly valued, and you'll play a crucial role in our development process. You'll be responsible for delivering stellar code and conducting your own QA to western standards. 🌟
Key Responsibilities:
Autonomous Work: Set your own hours while aligning with team working hours (1pm - 12am Sydney EST / 8pm - 7am LA time). Expected that there would be at least 3 hours overlap each day with other team members. 🕒
Backend Development: Design, develop, and maintain robust back-end systems using our awesome tech stack. 🖥️
Assertive Leadership: Be bold and confident in team discussions and decision-making processes. 💪
Ownership and Reliability: Take 100% ownership of your work, including any mistakes, and be expected to own them. Be reliable and ensure you do what you say when you say it. 👍
Quality Assurance: Deliver top-notch code and perform thorough QA to meet western standards. ✔️
Efficient DB Queries: Create lightning-fast database queries to ensure performance and scalability. ⚡
Re-Architecting Systems: Reimagine and re-architect back-end systems to adapt to new and growing application needs. 🔄
Front End Understanding: Have a good grasp and some experience with front-end technologies. 🌐
Stake Holder Management: Effectively communicate with key stakeholders, ensuring their needs and expectations are met and aligned with project goals. 😊
Tech Stack:
Node.js
React.js
Apollo
GraphQL
TypeScript
JavaScript
Python
MySQL (AWS RDS)
MongoDB
AWS Web Services (Route 53, CloudWatch, Terraform, S3, RDS, ECS, Lambda, API Gateway)
Cloudflare
Terraform
DataDog (or other similar logging platforms)
LangChain
Qualifications:
Proven experience as a Senior Back End Engineer. 🏆
Strong proficiency in our tech stack. 🛠️
Demonstrated ability to work autonomously and assertively. 🚀
Experience in re-architecting back ends for scalability and performance. 📈
Strong QA skills with an eye for detail. 👀
Strong experience in MySQL and MongoDB. 💾
Passion for working with mental health and helping others. ❤️
Excellent communication and collaboration skills. 🤝
Reliable and trustworthy, with a commitment to owning your work. ✅
Ideal candidate will have had 10 years of development experience. 🌟
Beneficial, though not critical, to have a passion for AI, Python, and LangChain. 🤖
Why Join Us:
Work on a unique and impactful platform that combines the best of Netflix and Udemy. 📺📚
Be part of a team that values your skills and listens to your opinions. 🗣️
Contribute to a product that has achieved product market fit and continues to scale successfully. 🌍
Make a difference in the mental health space, helping over 350,000 students improve their lives across five countries. 🌟
Most of our team members stay with us for over 2.5 years. In fact, here's a heartfelt message from one of our wonderful team members about our leader (Robert) of the joi.studio on his birthday:
"Hi Robert, On this special day, I want to take a moment to wish you a very happy birthday! Your leadership, vision, and unwavering dedication have been a constant source of inspiration for all of us. Your ability to guide us through challenges with grace and wisdom is truly remarkable, and we are fortunate to have you as our leader. Beyond your professional excellence, your kindness, understanding, and genuine care for each team member make you an extraordinary person. You create an environment where we feel valued and motivated to give our best, and for that, we are deeply grateful. May this year bring you abundant joy, good health, and countless moments of happiness. Here's to celebrating you today and always. Happy birthday!"
If you are a highly skilled, autonomous, and assertive Senior Back End Wizard with a passion for mental health, giving back to those in need, and making the world a better place, we would love to hear from you. Join us in making a meaningful impact through innovative technology. ✨
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Salary and compensation
$20,000 — $80,000/year
Benefits
🏖 Unlimited vacation
⬜️ No whiteboard interview
👀 No monitoring system
🚫 No politics at work
🎅 We hire old (and young)
How do you apply?
How to Apply: Please send your resume and a cover letter explaining why you are the perfect fit for this role.
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In a world where we spend more time on screens than not, Opal is a partner to your digital well-being, helping you save time, find focus and develop a healthier, more balanced relationship with screens.\n\nSince launch in January 2021, we have raised $5.5m from great investors who share our vision.\n\nThe Opal full-stack team is responsible for everything JavaScript, from frontend clients to backend services. The team is early stage, so there are lots of opportunities to make your mark!\n\nOur stack includes:\n- TypeScript\n- React & ES6 Features\n- Node.js\n- Koa.js\n- Test-Driven Development\n- MYSQL\n- REST API\n- WebSockets\n- AWS\n\nThis position is fully remote!\n\n### What you will be doing\n- Design and build the frontend and backend components of the Opal web infrastructure;\n- Collaborate with the product team to define app features;\n- Ensure quality and performance of application;\n- Write tests of code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability;\n- Work on bug fixing and on improving the application performance;\n- Maintain the application code base;\n- Design and implement application updates;\n- Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency;\n\n### What you should bring along\n- 2+ years of experience developing for the web;\n- Experience with React.js, Node.js, Databases, API development, third-party libraries.\n- Proficient in code versioning tools like Git;\n- Experience with continuous integration;\n- Ability to take initiative and employ good judgment;\n\n### Would be nice to have\n- Experience with Amazon Web Services;\n- Experience with Test Driven Development;\n- Experience in VPN technology is a plus;\n- Experience with Server deployment, OAuth and web sockets, and Chrome Extensions;\n- Familiarity with push notifications, APIs, and cloud messaging;\n- Interest in Artificial Intelligence;\n- Passion for personal projects & development, saving people's time, helping people feel better, and/or mindfulness in general.\n\n### Recent projects\nSome projects the Full Stack JavaScript team recently worked on are:\n- Creating ElasticBeanstalk environments in AWS\n- Setting up user accounts\n- Creating multiplayer rooms for sharing sessions (including live data with Socket.IO)\n- Setting up a React frontend with Next.js for web payments\n\n### Submission Requirements\n- Your resume\n- If you have a portfolio/website/Github link, add to top\n- A brief note about your past experiences\n- Incorporate into this note, a thought on one of the following:\n - Our product\n - How to market our product\n - Online distractions or mindfulness (legal or technical)\n\n### Hiring Process\nOur hiring process includes the following steps:\n- Step 1: Initial online assessment (1 hour)\n- Step 2: Interview: Non-technical with full-stack engineer (1 hour)\n- Step 3: Take home code test\n- Step 4: Interview: Code test review (1 hour)\n- Step 5: Offer extended \n\nPlease mention the words **CITY LIVE STAY** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xMDc=). 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
$60,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Location\nWorldwide
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/Data is the leading research company in the developer economy: We help the world understand developers and developers understand the world. We survey 40,000+ developers annually - across mobile, IoT, desktop, cloud AR/VR and machine learning - to help clients such as Microsoft, Facebook, Google and Amazon understand who developers are, what tools they love or hate and where they are going next.\n\nWe’re now looking for a full-time Software Engineer to help drive data and visual insights out of millions of developer data points. The position is full time, either remote or based in our Athens office (if you happen to live near), we will also consider locations within 2-3 hours of Central European Time.\n\n# Responsibilities\n
What skills we are looking for\n\n3+ years of experience developing web applications with modern JavaScript (ES6+) frameworks\nProven experience with React, Redux and related technologies\nFamiliarity with testing tools such as Enzyme, Mocha, Chai, Jest\nAppreciation for good UX & UI design, ability to contribute to a design discussion\nBackend web API development experience (Node.js)\nExperience with AWS and other cloud providers\nExperience with a language other than JavaScript, preferably one with static types\nExperience working with relational and NoSQL databases (MongoDB)\nBonus points for\n\nExperience with AWS Lambda or other “serverless” backend architecture\nExperience with Python\nExperience with data visualisation (e.g. using D3.js)\nAn appreciation for data and understanding of statistics\nWhat you’ll be responsible for\n\nIterating on our in-house survey tool (built on AWS Lambda, React and Redux) to reach developers everywhere in the world and provide a delightful UX.\nWorking on our custom dashboard tool (backend in Node.JS / Python and frontend in React) for displaying data to clients and developers.\nMaintaining and enhancing our developer and client-facing websites. We’ve deployed ‘static-CMS’ sites using Gatsby, Contentful, Prismic and Netlify. Much of our stack is using Node.js.\n\n\nIf you’re that person, we’d love to talk. \n\n# Requirements\nKey success metrics\n\nYou will be successful in the role if in the first 6 months you have:\n\nProvided optimisations both in data and memory usage of our survey tool.\nImproved the UI and UX of our survey tool across devices.\nYour code is of great quality and delivered on time.\nBuilt successful working relationships across the company when providing technical assistance.\n\nWhat we offer\n\nOpportunity to make a difference as part of the research company that works with the biggest tech brands to help the world understand developers.\nCompetitive salary\nPerformance-based bonus every 6 months\nCompany share option plan\nYour laptop of choice + large monitor\nNo dress code formalities. Come to work with your flip-flops or your holiday sombrero\nAnnual training budget to develop your skills and career\nMonthly book allowance from Amazon, on any book you like\nSpotify Premium or Netflix subscription\nPart of an entrepreneurial, fast moving company that's raising the bar, and calling the trends of the software economy\n \n\nPlease mention the words **WONDER BUDGET COMPANY** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xMDc=). 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
No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to JavaScript, React, Serverless, Python, Engineer, Full Stack, Front End, Developer, Digital Nomad, Amazon and Cloud jobs that are similar:\n\n
$70,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Location\nEurope
# How do you apply?\n\nThis job post has been closed by the poster, which means they probably have enough applicants now. Please do not apply.
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