Remote API + Developer + React + Serverless + 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 (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xNDY=). 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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\nFormstack transforms the way you collect data and put it to work. \nWe are looking for a Senior Software Developer to help us accomplish this mission! \nFormstack is a 14-year-old company with its roots in Indianapolis. Our customers span 110 different countries, and our employees live and work across the U.S. and the globe. We provide a work environment that is flexible and provides great freedom for those who can perform. We are seeking people who demonstrate an ability to work effectively with individuals from diverse cultures and backgrounds.\nWho You Are:\nYou are an experienced full-stack developer talented in Node.js, Java, and JavaScript. You are a supporter and advocate for a completely serverless AWS stack (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, and S3).  You are a problem solver and are motivated to learn. You are able to help plan features from problem statements and loosely defined requirements. You are able to break large projects in manageable chunks to make them easier to work on and consume. You aren't scared to be wrong and don't always have to be right, and you have the ability to leave your ego at the door. You can set measurable goals for yourself and you take the team and personal responsibility seriously.  There are opportunities to develop UI elements in React yourself, so a basic understanding of front-end technologies (Angular.js, ReactJS, CSS, and web components) is desirable.\nWhat You Will Do:\n* Your primary focus will be the development of server-side capabilities on our eSignature SaaS platform and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. \n* You will execute projects, fix bugs, write tests, reduce technical debt, and maintain our documentation. \n* You will collaborate with various teams on a daily basis to make sure what we are creating will support both our internal and external stakeholders. \n* You will work with a Scrum methodology to make sure features ship as they are planned and scheduled.\n\n\nWhat We Are Looking For:\n* Knowledge of Node.js and frameworks such as Express to build RESTful APIs returning JSON\n* Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming, its quirks and workarounds, and experience writing or using JavaScript promises and/or async/await\n* DevOps experience and mentality - You recognize the importance of automating all build, test, and deploy activities for an application and have experience with CI/CD tools such as CircleCI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions and provisioning tools such as Terraform or Cloudformation.\n* Solid foundation in writing queries and updating NoSQL databases such as AWS DynamoDB \n* Experience using the AWS Javascript API to interface with S3 and DynamoDB\n* Good understanding of server-side and client-side javascript build tools and environments such as npm, yarn, Lerna, webpack, and babel \n* Understanding of serverless tools (AWS Lambda, serverless.com and/or Claudia.js frameworks)\n* Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, and CSS3 and React/AngularJS\n* Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes\n* Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests\n* Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git\n* Familiarity with object-oriented development with Java a plus - especially with using Java APIs for PDF manipulation such as iText, Apache PDFBox, or JPedal\n\n\nBonus Points:\n* Mobile app development experience\n* Experience working with well-performing agile teams\n* Experience working on a SaaS product\n* Experience integrating with 3rd party web applications (through REST API))\n* AWS certifications\n\n\nWhat Formstack Offers:\n* Free health plans, as well as company-paid Dental, Vision, Disability and Life Insurance Benefits for full-time employees.\n* Unlimited PTO for all employees\n* 401k with matching company contribution for full-time employees\n* The most up-to-date technology, including company-issued Macs, the latest software and other tools needed to excel at your job\n* Company-paid conferences and extended learning\n* Yearly company gatherings\n\n\nWant to learn more about who we are and what we value? CLICK HERE to hear from some current Formstackers about what matters most!\nFormstack is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.\nAll data collected in our application process from resume collection to application questions is used for recruitment purposes only. We will store it in our applicant tracking system, JazzHR, and will not share this data with anyone else. We will keep your data until the role is filled and only continue to store it if we feel you may fit future roles.\nThank you for your interest in Formstack! \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, React, JavaScript, Java, Serverless, NoSQL, API, Excel, SaaS and Apache 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