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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TM is a full-service digital agency that has been building websites, creating custom web software, and doing SEO and other online marketing for over 24 years. Our team is full of dedicated, passionate, lovable coders, designers, and marketers. We have BOTH Front End & Full Stack PHP Developer positions available for individuals with the experience to deliver premium quality partner and customer-facing web programming deliverables. You should have strong programming and communication skills in English and, if convenient operate in Eastern or Central time zones.
1) Full-Stack PHP positions with an emphasis on the backend. Ideally, you will have a strong background working with PHP, but strong programmers with great problem-solving skills and other relevant experience may also be considered.
2) Front-end developer positions require a slayer of CSS, creator of heavenly HTML, and has a great smile. They manage a variety of tasks including full lifecycle custom software, and e-commerce web development. These include creating functional, properly coded cut-ups with the fastest paint possible. Bloat is a thorn in your side and your meaning in life is to abolish all forms of it.
Developers here at TM are at the core of what we do: Crafting and building well-scoped, usable, and performant applications every day. We have high expectations for work quality, work ethic, tenacity, and on-time delivery.
As a developer on staff, you would be on board to offer a wide perspective on our projects from start to finish, as well as contribute to their completion.
Do you enjoy collaboration and challenges?
Do you use thought and logic when making decisions?
Do you know how to have fun, and also take the quality of your work seriously?
Do you take ownership of tasks and run them all the way through the finish line?
Can you take direction and feedback with pleasure?
Can you work independently with confidence?
Requirements (Full Stack)
Strong understanding of HTML and CSS (bonus points for Sass)
Experience with LAMP-powered environments (Linux CLI commands a plus)
Good understanding of PHP
Familiarity with custom WordPress theming (no page builders) and plugin architecture (seasoned experience a plus)
Good understanding of SQL with the ability to write queries
Good knowledge of Javascript/jQuery (modern frameworks like Vue, Angular, React is a plus)
Experience working with Node tooling (Webpack, etc)
Experience with Git (Bitbucket a plus)
Ability to work both collaboratively and/or solo
A solid history of work product
Use of the word phenomenal in your cover letter
A strong work ethic including creativity, integrity, accountability, and passion
Ability to follow process/instruction, and also bring ideas and suggestions to the table often to drive constant process improvements
Skills and Experience we’re looking for that are a bonus to have (but not required):
Apache server configuration/management
Experience working with DNS
Requirement documentation writing and software scoping processes experience
Experience giving accurate estimates for deliverables based on provided requirements
High-level usability/accessibility knowledge and understanding
Web marketing domain knowledge - Google Analytics etc (helps to interface with the Marketing Team)
Ecommerce specific experience
Experience working with, fixing bugs in, modifying, and extending existing/legacy code
SSL/TLS experience
Requirements (Front End)
We need your capabilities and knowledge to include:
Able to hand-code and troubleshoot HTML, CSS, and jQuery
Able to turn a Figma comp into a fully-functioning website template
Experienced building on WordPress and with WooCommerce
Someone who pays attention to details and owns mistakes
A hard worker, who likes to have fun and has a great attitude to bring to our team
It would be helpful if you had:
Knowledge of PHP, SEO, and Analytics
What you can expect from us
A fair and competitive salary, based on your experience and what you bring to the table
A great crew to grow and build together with
A fast-paced, non-corporate environment with flexible scheduling once integrated
12 days of PTO, in addition to paid holidays
1 monthly mental health day paid
Health, vision, dental, and short-term disability insurance
401K with employer match
Please mention the word PROACTIVE when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xMjU=). This is a feature to avoid fake spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and instantly see they're human.
Salary and compensation
$50,000 — $80,000/year
Benefits
🤓 Vision insurance
🦷 Dental insurance
🚑 Medical insurance
🏖 Paid time off
💰 401k matching
🏔 Company retreats
🧘 Mental wellness budget
💰 Profit sharing
🚫 No politics at work
🎅 We hire old (and young)
How do you apply?
This job post has been closed by the poster, which means they probably have enough applicants now. Please do not apply.
\nRESPONSIBILITIES\n\n\n* Collaborate with a strong team of Designers, Developers, and Marketer to build, refine, test, and debug new and existing features \n\n* Solve complex problems related to front-end web development and provide accurate estimates and scope for team deliverables \n\n* Help the company improve development standards and processes \n\n* Contribute ideas to project planning \n\n* Participate in company strategy and product roadmap meetings\n\n\n\nWHAT WOULD MAKE US LOVE YOU\n\n\n* Have a background as a lead software engineer or technical management\n\n* Work experience with MeteorJS, NodeJS, and/or Mongo \n\n* Involvement in MeteorJS, NodeJS, and/or Mongo open source projects \n\n* Engineering experience in a growing B2B SaaS company, and/or web apps that have had to scale. \n\n* An interest in ops, perhaps with monitoring tools, Chef, AWS, and Opsworks \n\n* Engineering experience with real-time live updating apps \n\n* Experience with the Twitter and Facebook APIs \n\n* Have implemented and run scrum teams before, either as Scrum Master or something similar\n\n* Knowledge of basic DevOps tools, or experience working with DevOps teams.\n\n* Have grown and led engineering teams of 5+ people, ideally in a startup or high performing software environment\n\n\n\nLOCATION\n\nToronto – Halifax - Remote (experience working remote is preferred) \n\n#Salary and compensation\n
No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to DevOps, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, Node, API, Marketing, Engineer, Full Stack, Full Time, Testing, Executive, Web Developer, Scrum, Developer, Digital Nomad and SaaS jobs that are similar:\n\n
$65,000 — $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
\n\n#Location\nToronto – Halifax - Remote
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