Remote API + Developer + Digital Nomad + Front End + Reliability Jobs

LOCATION: Remote within the US\n\nDaily Kos is the nation’s largest liberal online political community, news organization, and activism hub. Powered by millions of highly engaged supporters, we’re building progressive power by connecting grassroots activists to hundreds of people-powered organizations and campaigns.\n\nWe are seeking an experienced and results-driven Senior Frontend Software Engineer to help build and scale the DailyKos platform. You will be hands-on and will actively collaborate with a team of 11 to guide projects, implement best practice solutions, champion the elimination of technical debt, and translate requirements into delivered products. Applicants must be self-motivated, efficient, and capable of delivering results with limited guidance.\n\nDaily Kos is an exciting workplace! Our site is used by hundreds of thousands of people a day who care deeply about progressive politics and are working to affect real political change. We provide an extensive feature set that extends from blogging to activism and beyond, built on top of a modern tool chain that includes React/Redux, Ruby on Rails, Sidekiq, SASS, JavaScript/TypeScript, Nginx, Varnish, and AWS/S3/Cloudfront. We have an energized team of great people with diverse backgrounds and skill sets. If you’re interested in a position that offers more than just a technical challenge, we’d love for you to join our passionate and dedicated team.\n\nOur offices are in Oakland, CA and Washington D.C., however, we are open to fully remote applicants.\n\nResponsibilities\n\n- Collaborate with coworkers across the organization to scope, design, and deliver solutions for large, complex challenges in the Daily Kos platform\n- Partner with internal stakeholders to deliver high-quality product releases in suitable timeframes\n- Actively participate in architectural planning and implementation\n- Effectively communicate technical vision\n- Evangelize best practices internally and externally\n- Clearly communicate technical issues and tie work to company objectives\n- Design for scale and reliability with the future in mind and do critical R&D\n- Persistently debug tough issues, finding a root cause or viable workaround\n- Drive foundational work benefitting the frontend codebases and engineering overall\n- De-escalate conflicts and build consensus between team members about technical matters\n\nExperience\n\n- At least 5 years experience with core web development technologies (Advanced JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript frameworks)\n- At least 5 years experience with API and frontend optimization\n- At least 3 years experience with React/Redux and its ecosystem, including developing and deploying React applications to production\n- A solid understanding of Linux\n- Working familiarity with Ruby on Rails, MySQL, pgSQL, AWS, Varnish, and Redis preferred but not required\n- Experience with large and complex code bases, utilizing API design techniques to help keep code clean and maintainable\n\nQualifications\n\n- Deep understanding of frontend technologies and modern web application best practices\n- Able to make technical decisions, influence architecture, and prioritize work\n- Anticipates technical challenges and explores alternatives and tradeoffs thoroughly\n- Able to navigate and make legacy code maintainable\n- Embraces a metrics driven approach\n- Focused on defining patterns and operational guidelines for frontend codebases\n- Capable of successfully planning and collaborating to deliver complex projects\n- Identifies problems that need to be solved and advocates for their prioritization\n- Able to reduce unneeded complexity\n- Comfortable with the Agile and Lean development process\n- Able to actively diagnose and address data scaling and optimization issues\n- Ambitious spirit and focus on delivering value into customers hands with excellent communication\n- Strong product development mindset and interest in improving user experience\n- Excellent communication skills, primarily in a virtual work environment\n- Familiarity with the Daily Kos application and commitment to become a platform expert\n- Willingness to travel occasionally for events or retreats\n\nSalary Range: $130,000 - $165,000\n\nBenefits:\n\nThis position is a 40 hour/week, full-time exempt position and reports to the Lead Staff Engineer. Candidates must be legally eligible to work in the United States. The position offers a flexible work environment, the ability to work remotely or from home, competitive salary, excellent benefits including: full medical, dental and vision benefits, 401K with a company match, remote worker stipend, professional development stipend, company-paid holidays, a generous vacation package, traumatic grief leave, as well as employer-paid parental/family leave. Our organizational commitment to personal growth and work-life balance reduces churn and encourages a very rewarding long term position.\n\nAt Daily Kos, we believe that the diversity of ideas, experiences, and cultures that our employees contribute to our organization help us be more effective activists, and we are proud to be an inclusive and equal opportunity workplace. We have a team of amazing people with different backgrounds and talents that are energized by the day’s news events, and people united by common cause. We’re a company that loves learning and supports growth and training for all our employees.\n\nWomen, people of color, and LGBTQ individuals are strongly encouraged to apply. \n\nPlease mention the word **RESPECTABLE** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4yNDM=). 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 $130,000 — $160,000/year\n \n\n#Location\nUnited States

## 🚀About [Ampcontrol](https://www.ampcontrol.io/)\n\nWe're Ampcontrol, building AI-powered software for optimizing electric vehicle (EV) charging.\n\nWe are a venture-backed remote team of engineers and energy experts based in the U.S and Europe building the new way of EV charging. Our primary goals are to enable companies to provide higher capacity charging on existing infrastructure as well as optimization of fleet charging logistics.\n\nWe have a flat hierarchy where we aim for consensus and let everyone shape the team and their work environment.\n\n([link to website](https://www.ampcontrol.io/))\n\n## 🌎 Our Mission\n\nWe're on a mission to help the automotive industry transition to 100% electric vehicles.\n\nWe believe in a future of self-managing, reliable, and affordable charging for companies, fleet operators, and humans on our planet.\n\n## 💻 The Role\n\n- All levels of experience. The position will be accordingly\n- You'll be building and improving our data-heavy React frontend\n- Maintain and enhance our end2end tests for frontend\n- Design frontend features together with the product manager\n- Work with backend developers, data scientists and the product manager\n- Write clean and easily maintainable code with a focus on reliability and scalability\n\n## ⭐ You have\n\n- Professional experience in React, Redux, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, and CSS\n- Good understanding of automated end2end testing for frontend applications\n- Experience in using editor and prototyping tools\n- Good knowledge of API integrations on frontend\n- Experience in Python backend development is helpful but not required\n- Fluency in English for verbal and written communication is required\n- Motivation to work on electric vehicles and sustainability\n\n## 📍 Location\n\n**We're a remote team.** You can work from everywhere. \n\nPlease mention the word **HEARTEN** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4yNDM=). 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 $40,000 — $140,000/year\n \n\n#Location\nWorldwide

## 🚀About [Ampcontrol](https://www.ampcontrol.io/)\n\nWe're Ampcontrol, building AI-powered software for optimizing electric vehicle (EV) charging.\n\nWe are a venture-backed remote team of engineers and energy experts based in the U.S and Europe building the new way of EV charging. Our primary goals are to enable companies to provide higher capacity charging on existing infrastructure as well as optimization of fleet charging logistics.\n\nWe have a flat hierarchy where we aim for consensus and let everyone shape the team and their work environment.\n\n([link to website](https://www.ampcontrol.io/))\n\n## 🌎 Our Mission\n\nWe're on a mission to help the automotive industry transition to 100% electric vehicles.\n\nWe believe in a future of self-managing, reliable, and affordable charging for companies, fleet operators, and humans on our planet.\n\n## 💻 The Role\n\n- All levels of experience. The position will be accordingly\n- You'll be building and improving our data-heavy React frontend\n- Maintain and enhance our end2end tests for frontend\n- Design frontend features together with the product manager\n- Work with backend developers, data scientists and the product manager\n- Write clean and easily maintainable code with a focus on reliability and scalability\n\n## ⭐ You have\n\n- Professional experience in React, Redux, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, and CSS\n- Good understanding of automated end2end testing for frontend applications\n- Experience in using editor and prototyping tools\n- Good knowledge of API integrations on frontend\n- Experience in Python backend development is helpful but not required\n- Fluency in English for verbal and written communication is required\n- Motivation to work on electric vehicles and sustainability\n\n\n## 📍 Location\n\n**We're a remote team.** You can work from everywhere. \n\nPlease mention the words **UMBRELLA CAUSE RIVER** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4yNDM=). 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 $50,000 — $140,000/year\n \n\n#Location\nWorldwide

**About Us**\n\nRoger was founded to make day-to-day financial operations like bill pay, expense management, compliance and bookkeeping as worry-free as possible for business owners, finance teams, accountants and bookkeepers. Roger works as an automated layer on top of a company's accounting software, saving businesses and accountants hours of work every day. We're proud of the product that we've built so far, and our global customer base agree that we're making something complex and tedious simple and maybe even fun.\nWe are backed by some of the best investors in the financial technology space, and most recently raised $7.5m from QED, Silicon Valley Bank and others. Joining Roger is a unique opportunity to join a team that's still small enough to be nimble but has great financial backing and cares about building an excellent product experience and a great team. We hire for attitude and not credentials. Please apply regardless of your educational background.\n\n**The Opportunity**\n\nThe Roger web application is the client with the highest usage by customers and users. A great web experience is essential for an excellent overall customer experience in Roger, and it's a priority for us to invest in improving and building out our web offering.\n\nWe are looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer to be an integral part of the small clients team (iOS, Android, Web). You'll be able to take a leading role in delivering an excellent web experience to our 1,000+ customers and our thousands of users. Your primary tasks will include:\n\n* Working with the product and backend engineering team to implement new features on the frontend\n* Making sure the web client can scale 7-10x in the next year\n* Maintaining security and stability during rapid growth\n* Help mitigate and resolve bugs / work with the customer support team to resolve frontend bugs\n\nYou'll be working collaboratively with the rest of the engineering team as well as with the product team to drive the implementation and release of new features. You'll get familiar with all parts of our stack from end to end, and will drive positive change to Roger's engineering culture, processes and technology. We see this role as a unique chance to take a large ownership over an important piece of the Roger product, and grow into any role you see yourself in as we expand the team and the product.\n\n**The Team**\n\nThe engineering team is characterized by a high degree of support internally. We help each other out and pitch in when problems arise as well as give each other feedback to grow. Our top priority is to build the world's best financial automation platforms, while keeping our users safe and compliant. Scalability, reliability and robustness are keywords we live by but we also get excited about building out feature MVPs quickly to keep our innovative reputation with customers and partners alive and well at all times.\n\n**The Stack**\n\nWe use as a frontend stack React/Redux for modularity, simplicity and speed of development. Tests are run in Jest and Puppeteer and our landing sites are optimized for server-side rendering using Next.js. Our backend / API is built in C# / .NET for it’s robustness and security and our machine learning runs on Python.\nSome of the tools we use are Lamda (for integrations), AWS, Bugsnag, Heroku, CircleCI and other great tools to keep our development processes running smoothly.\n\n**Our Values**\n\nWe're a global company with offices in Copenhagen and San Francisco. Our values are heavily influenced by our Scandinavian roots (both founders are from Denmark), and count humility, humor and inclusiveness. We strive to create a culture where anyone feels part of the family, and we place a great amount of value in hiring for attitude rather than resumes. We support flexibility in everyone's lives, and working at Roger can be easily combined with babies, toddlers and teenagers. We have two primary office locations but have a remote culture that we put a lot of effort into as we believe great talent can be found anywhere. As a remote worker you can be sure to feel like you are as much part of the team as those who come to an office every day. About every 6 months we all get together in person. Our last trips took us to Greece and Spain. Everyone on the team shares a passion for creating the best possible product and user experience, and that is something we value in future team members as well.\n\n**The Roger Story**\n\nRoger's founders started the company after exiting their first startup to Cisco Systems. Having experienced all the frustrations with daily financial operations when starting previous ventures, the first gist of an idea for Roger was born in 2016. Since then, international investors from both Europe and the US have supported the growth of the team and the customer base, and the product is now used and loved by thousands of customers worldwide.\nRoger is an equal opportunity employer. We strive to maintain and develop our inclusive work environment and welcome members of all backgrounds and perspectives. \n\n# Requirements\n* Customer empathy and the ability to think through customer needs and come up with clever ways solve their problems is something you're good at and excited about\n* You have an interest in building robust UIs with modern tools like ES6, React, Redux\n* You're passionate about building production-ready features fast\n* You have a high bar for the quality of code and automating repetitive development tasks as well as a high attention to detail \n\nPlease mention the words **NOMINEE MIXED DOMAIN** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4yNDM=). 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 Senior, Engineer, Design, Front End, Developer, Digital Nomad, Accounting, Finance, API and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $120,000/year\n \n\n#Location\nWorldwide