Remote Angular + API + JavaScript + PHP + System Jobs

VA/2020/B5011/20210 - Javascript Developer, Multiple positions \n\n\nBackground Information - Job-specific\n\nThe UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is seeking talented and creative individuals to contribute to the development and maintenance of its online applications (HPC.tools). Within OCHA, the Assessment, Planning and Monitoring Branch (APMB) is responsible for helping OCHA’s network of country offices and humanitarian partners implement the humanitarian programme cycle (HPC). APMB, in partnership with OCHA’s Information Services Branch (ISB) is engaged in a multi-year transformation project to improve the suite of information management tools/systems that support the HPC. This includes data management applications for project submission and review, monitoring and evaluation of humanitarian response, and financial tracking, amongst others. These applications are developed on a Javascript stack using PostgreSQL, Node.js, TypeScript, AngularJS and Angular, React, and provide data to a public API and two Drupal websites: Financial Tracking Service (fts.unocha.org) and Humanitarian InSight (hum-insight.info). \n\nThe successful candidate will be working as a developer in a small team of both senior and junior backend and frontend developers, and will work either as a full stack developer or (depending on skillsets) with a particular emphasis on frontend or backend work. In addition to programming, the successful candidate may also be involved in the coordination and oversight of the development team or members thereof, as well as contribute to sprint and release planning. While the position is home-based, occasional travel to Geneva, Switzerland might be required. The successful candidate will report to the Information Systems Officer, Monitoring Platforms and Tools Section (MATS), in Geneva and work collaboratively with colleagues in OCHA Headquarters locations, as well as other developers working on this and other OCHA projects.\n\nFunctional Responsibilities\n\n\n* Design, implement and manage solutions for web applications including system architecture, database models and coding standards\n\n* Develop, iteratively improve and maintain existing and new HPC applications using AngularJS (1.5 and above), Angular (7 and above), React, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Docker,Solr and TypeScript\n\n* Discuss and improve specifications in conjunction with the project manager and business owners\n\n* Contribute to Agile sprint and release planning\n\n* Review code submitted by team members using the Git workflow model\n\n* Develop and review unit tests\n\n* Work closely with the OCHA-wide infrastructure team for code deployments, troubleshooting and other related issues.\n\n* Develop and review technical documentation for developers and application administrators to support and maintain the system\n\n* Contribute to the wider OCHA software development effort, including participation in regular knowledge interchange, joint events etc.\n\n* Assist with data migrations as needed\n\n\n\n\nEducation/Experience/Language requirements\n\nAdvanced-level university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in computer science, software engineering, information systems, mathematics, statistics or related field.\n\nA first-level university degree in combination with additional two years, a technical/professional diploma with additional four years, or a secondary school diploma with additional six years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced-level university degree.\n\nRequired Experience\n\n\n* At least 2 years of relevant experience is required of online database application development and implementation.\n\n* Minimum of 2 years functional programming in JavaScript and libraries on dynamic interactive websites.\n\n* Minimum of 2 years’ experience of developing on a Linux environment.\n\n* Demonstrated experience in web development projects in a consulting or professional services environment, working with cross-functional teams.\n\n* Experience in development of web applications using RESTful API backends\n\n* Experience of code versioning using Git workflow and sprint/release planning\n\n* Experience working both independently and in collaboration with remote, geographically diverse teams - must be very comfortable working via e-mail, chat, IRC, audio/video conference etc.\n\n\n\n\nDesirable Experience\n\n\n* The successful candidate will also have experience in as many as possible of:\n\n* Developing with AngularJS (v1.5 and later) orAngular (v7 and later)\n\n* Developing with React\n\n* Developing with TypeScript\n\n* Developing web applications or APIs with Node.js and Express or Restify\n\n* Developing with monorepo managers such as Nx, Rush.js or yarn workspaces.\n\n* Publishing packages to NPM, adhering to Semantic Versioning\n\n* Creating and running Docker images and containers\n\n* Developing with SQL-based open-source databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL\n\n* Use of Sequelize or similar ORM\n\n* CSS and use of pre-processors such as SASS or LESS, or libraries like styled-components\n\n* Management of dependencies, code deployment to various environments and development workflow.\n\n* Working on projects using an agile workflow\n\n* Experience of developing web applications in other programming languages would be beneficial.\n\n* Some knowledge of Drupal-based websites, particularly regarding integration of database applications with Drupal front-ends, and website development in PHP would be an asset.\n\n* Some experience working with the public or not-for-profit sector would be an asset.\n\n\n\n\nLanguages\n\n\n* Intermediate or fluent knowledge of English is required.\n\n* Knowledge of another UN language (Spanish, Arabic, Russian, Chinese and French) is an asset.\n\n\n\n\nOther considerations\n\n\n* As this is a home-based role, the successful candidate will need to provide their own workspace, including high-speed internet connection and a local development environment running on Linux or MacOS.\n\n\n\n\nContract type, level and duration\n\n\n* Contract type: INternational Individual Contractor Agreement\n\n* Contract level: IICA-1/ICSC-9\n\n* Contract duration: full-time for an initial period of three months, to be extended depending on satisfactory performance evaluation.\n\n\n\n\nFull information at https://jobs.unops.org/pages/viewvacancy/VADetails.aspx?id=20210#4 \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to JavaScript, Developer, Digital Nomad, English, PHP, Git, Angular, Drupal, API, Travel, Senior, Junior, Linux and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $67,500 — $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

\nBackground Information- Job Specific\n\n\nBackground The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is seeking talented and creative individuals to contribute to the development and maintenance of its online applications (HPC.tools). Within OCHA, the Assessment, Planning and Monitoring Branch (APMB) is responsible for helping OCHA’s network of country offices and humanitarian partners to implement the humanitarian programme cycle (HPC). APMB, in partnership with OCHA’s Information Services Branch (ISB) is engaged in a multi-year transformation project to improve the suite of information management tools/systems and that support the HPC. This includes data management applications for project submission and review, monitoring and evaluation of humanitarian response, and financial tracking, amongst others. These applications are developed on a Javascript stack using PostgreSQL, Node.js, AngularJS and Angular, and provide data to a public API and two Drupal websites: Financial Tracking Service (fts.unocha.org) and Humanitarian InSight (hum-insight.info). \n\nThe successful candidate will be working as a developer in a small team of both senior and junior backend and frontend developers, and will work either as a full stack developer or (depending on skillsets) with a particular emphasis on frontend or backend work. In addition to programming, the successful candidate may also be involved in the coordination and oversight of the developer team or members thereof, as well as contribute to sprint and release planning. While the position is home-based, occasional travel to Geneva, Switzerland might be required. The successful candidate will report to the Information Systems Officer, Monitoring Platforms and Tools Section (MATS), in Geneva and work collaboratively with colleagues in OCHA Headquarters locations, as well as other developers working on this and other OCHA projects.\n\n\n\nFunctional Responsibilities:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n* \n\nDesign, implement and manage solutions for web applications including system architecture, database models and coding standards\n\n\n* \n\nDevelop, iteratively improve and maintain existing and new HPC applications using AngularJS (1.5 and above), Angular (7 and above), Node.js, PostgreSQL, Docker and Solr \n\n\n* \n\nDiscuss and improve specifications in conjunction with the project manager and business owners\n\n\n* \n\nContribute to Agile sprint and release planning \n\n\n* \n\nReview code submitted by team members using the Git workflow model \n\n\n* \n\nDevelop and review unit tests\n\n\n* \n\nWork closely with the OCHA-wide infrastructure team for code deployments, troubleshooting and other related issues.\n\n\n* \n\nDevelop and review technical documentation for developers and application administrators to support and maintain the system\n\n\n\n\n\n\n* \n\nContribute to the wider OCHA software development effort, including participation in regular knowledge interchange, joint events etc.\n\n\n* \n\nAssist with data migrations as needed\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEducation/Experience/Language Requirements:\n\n\nEducation\n\n\n* \n\nAdvanced-level university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in computer science, software engineering, information systems, mathematics, statistics or related field. \n\n\n* \n\nA first-level university degree in combination with additional two years, a technical/professional diploma with additional four years, or a secondary school diploma with additional six years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced-level university degree.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWork Experience \n\nRequired:\n\n\n* \n\nAt least 2 years of relevant experience is required of online database application development and implementation.\n\n\n* \n\nMinimum of 2 years functional programming in JavaScript and libraries on dynamic interactive websites.\n\n\n* \n\nMinimum of 2 years’ experience of developing on a Linux environment.\n\n\n* \n\nDemonstrated experience in web development projects in a consulting or professional services environment, working with cross-functional teams.\n\n\n* \n\nExperience in development of web applications using RESTful API backends\n\n\n* \n\nExperience of code versioning using Git workflow and sprint/release planning\n\n\n* \n\nExperience working both independently and in collaboration with remote, geographically diverse teams - must be very comfortable working via e-mail, chat, IRC, audio/video conference etc.\n\n\n\n\n\nDesirable:\n\nThe successful candidate will also have experience in as many as possible of:\n\n\n* \n\nDeveloping with AngularJS (v1.5 and later)\n\n\n* \n\nDeveloping with Angular (v7 and later)\n\n\n* \n\nDeveloping with Node.js\n\n\n* \n\nDeveloping with SQL-based open-source databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL\n\n\n* \n\nUse of Sequelize or similar ORM\n\n\n* \n\nCSS and use of pre-processors such as SASS or LESS\n\n\n* \n\nManagement of dependencies, code deployment to various environments and development workflow.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n* \n\nWorking on projects using an agile framework \n\n\n* \n\nExperience of developing web applications in other programming languages would be beneficial.\n\n\n* \n\nSome knowledge of Drupal-based websites, particularly regarding integration of database applications with Drupal front-ends, and website development in PHP would be an asset.\n\n\n* \n\nSome experience working with the public or not-for-profit sector would be an asset.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLanguages\n\n\n* Intermediate or fluent knowledge of English is required.\n\n* Knowledge of another UN language (Spanish, Arabic, Russian, Chinese and French) is an asset.\n\n\n\n\n\nOther considerations\n\nAs this is a home-based role, the successful candidate will need to provide their own workspace, including high-speed internet connection and a local development environment running on Linux or MacOS.\n\nContract type/level and duration\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n* Contract type: INternational Individual Contractor Agreement\n\n* Contract level: IICA-1/ICSC-9\n\n* Contract duration: full-time for an initial period of six months, to be extended depending on satisfactory performance evaluation.\n\n* Duty Station: home-based, occasional travel to Geneva, Switzerland might be required\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAdditional Considerations\n\n\n* Please note that the closing date is midnight Copenhagen time\n\n* Applications received after the closing date will not be considered.\n\n* Only those candidates that are short-listed for interviews will be notified.\n\n* Qualified female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.\n\n* The incumbent is responsible to abide by security policies, administrative instructions, plans and procedures of the UN Security Management System and that of UNOPS.  \n\n\n\n\nIt is the policy of UNOPS to conduct background checks on all potential recruits/interns. \nRecruitment/internship in UNOPS is contingent on the results of such checks. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to JavaScript, Developer, Digital Nomad, English, PHP, Git, Angular, Drupal, API, Travel, Senior, Junior, Linux and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $67,500 — $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

\nFavly is a mobile application that connects people with trusted businesses through the power of personal referrals.\n\n\nWe believe in strengthening communities by promoting good, local business. Favly was born out of the conviction that our favorite, most trusted way of doing business is by sharing personal referrals.\n\n\n\nVice President of Technology\n\nReporting to the VP/General Manager, your role is to ensure the successful execution of the company’s business mission through the development and deployment of Favly’s mobile app and web presence. You are instrumental in helping to scale a very dynamic and growing organization. You have deep technology knowledge, specifically as it relates to mobile development, and are able to evaluate and identify appropriate technology platforms for the delivery of our product. You will build and manage a top caliber development and quality assurance team, and oversee development, QA and project management. You are able to work in a fast paced environment overseeing development and deployment, while keeping releases on time. Serving on the Executive Team, you co-own company strategy and leadership, and have analytical mind and solve problems quickly.\n\n\nEssential Duties & Responsibilities\n\n\n* Create and articulate the company’s product vision and product road map\n\n* Recruit, develop and retain top engineering talent\n\n* Lead the engineering process, determining when to use native, when to use web, or when to use a combination\n\n* Lead the delivery of high-quality, on-time mobile product improvements and features ensuring high customer satisfaction\n\n* Lead execution of technology partnerships, relationships, etc.\n\n* Identify competitive services and opportunities for innovation\n\n* Identify technology trends and evolving social behavior that influence the business\n\n* Anticipate and address major technology changes\n\n* Work with product team to identify requirements and features feasibility\n\n* Develop proprietary tools based on business needs\n\n* Identify and prioritize development initiatives\n\n* Set and meet aggressive timetables\n\n* Direct development and execution of enterprise-wide information security plan\n\n* Direct and execute an enterprise-wide disaster recovery and business continuity plan\n\n* Build and manage internal and external teams\n\n* Oversee infrastructure development and deployment; build an infrastructure that can scale to millions of registered and active users\n\n* Develop and own technology budget\n\n* Define organization’s software development methodology\n\n* Establish a specification conformance and testing regimen\n\n* Establish and supervise QA process, including integration and system testing\n\n* Select, deploy and monitor performance profiling tools and procedures\n\n* Evaluate and select web application hosting providers\n\n* Establish an application deployment process\n\n* Monitor app performance and review any app failures in staging or production\n\n* Analyze server workload, including traffic and utilization trends\n\n* Establish and monitor an analytics regime that measures performance to goals\n\n* Review and approve proposed development releases\n\n* Evaluate search engine optimization\n\n* Ensure the ongoing maintenance and updating of information systems and infrastructure, including hardware, software, and ASP applications\n\n\n\n\n\nDesired Skills & Experience\n\n\n* Experience developing cross-platform mobile applications\n\n* Expertise in agile development\n\n* Expertise in HTML5/CSS/JavaScript\n\n* Experience with JavaScript frameworks and libraries like Angular, Ember, React, Node\n\n* Expertise in iOS or Android native development, or wrappers like PhoneGap\n\n* Experience with automated testing and test driven development\n\n* Experience with social login from Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, etc.\n\n* Strong Objective-C skills and inside-and-out knowledge of the iOS SDK\n\n* Strong Java skills with extensive knowledge of the Android SDK\n\n* Experience using and creating scalable web-based RESTful APIs\n\n* Object Oriented PHP skills at all scales\n\n* Experience in integrating 3rd party interfaces\n\n* Experience in a startup environment\n\n* Ability to manage engineering teams (QA, Dev, Ops)\n\n* Ability to keep remote teams on track\n\n* Proficiency with web programming languages (PHP, C#, Java, Ruby, Python)\n\n* Proficiency with front-end web technologies (XML, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ajax)\n\n* Proficiency with several RDBMSs (MySQL, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL)\n\n* Experience with revision control systems (Git, Mercurial, SVN, Perforce, etc)\n\n* Experience working with different CMSs (BrowswerCMS, Drupal, Joomla, DotNetNuke)\n\n* Experience managing agile development processes through tools such as Atlassian suite\n\n* Familiarity with information security vulnerabilities\n\n* Excellent verbal and written communication\n\n* Keen analytic and problem-solving abilities\n\n\n\n\n\nPersonal Qualities & Core Competencies\n\n\n* Possess personal integrity: a deep moral compass that guides personal action\n\n* Use values and principles to make decisions\n\n* Strive to “do the right thing”\n\n* Yearn to work at a company where the organization’s values reflect personal ones\n\n* Are a team player: understand that success is only achievable as a team\n\n* Treat others fairly and with respect\n\n* Listen well and communicate well\n\n* Are fiercely consumer focused: have a real love and understanding of consumer behavior, and have personal experience using a variety of research and A-B testing techniques\n\n* Seek to understand what consumers want/need from both functional and emotional perspectives\n\n* Embrace the user community, becoming a “hands on,” active user of the service\n\n* Envision long-term market potential and business opportunity and position the business to capitalize on them\n\n* Anticipate future business opportunities or problems and develops strategies to address them\n\n* Drive results: set dramatic, compelling goals and aggressive schedules for improvement\n\n* Have a demonstrated record of delivering both short- and long-term results\n\n* Translate the vision/mission of the organization into actionable, quantitative plans\n\n* Convey a sense of urgency, and drive issues to closure\n\n* Seeks to build a great company for the long haul, not merely optimize for short-term gains\n\n* Embrace goals with enthusiasm: relentlessly optimistic while being grounded in reality\n\n* Manage performance: translates over-arching business goals into specific objectives for each member of the team\n\n* Hold people accountable for agreed-to results.\n\n* Identify and keep others focused on the most important metrics that drive the business.\n\n\n\n\n\nEducation\n\nUniversity degree in the field of computer science or engineering. An advanced degree is a plus.\n\n\nLocation\n\nWe are located in the beautiful community of Ojai, CA.\n\nIt’s a great place LIVE * WORK * PLAY (www.discoverojai.com/about_ojai.html)\n\nHowever, working remotely is an option.\n\n\nCompensation\n\nComfortable base plus equity.\n\n\n\nTo Apply\n\nAre you interested in applying? Contact us at [email protected]. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to JavaScript, InfoSec, C, C Plus Plus, CSS, Quality Assurance, PHP, HTML, Python, Scala, Angular, Node, Drupal, Ruby, SEO, API, Admin, Mobile, Android, Engineer, Sys Admin, Executive and Java jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $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