80% of the global workforce is deskless, yet just 1% of all enterprise software funding is dedicated to serving these 2.7 billion people.\n\nAt Sona, our mission is to put cutting edge technology in the hands of every deskless employee to empower them to do their best work.\n\nWe’re a rapidly growing, VC-backed B2B SaaS startup founded in the summer of 2021. We are fully remote, with overlapping ‘office hours’ during the mornings (GMT). \n\nWe are strong believers in giving everyone the autonomy to do their best work, when and how they prefer. That means you’ll have a lot of flexibility and control over how to shape your job and work life, while getting all the support you need to succeed.\n\nWe take our health and mental health seriously, believing that we can only perform to our best when we are healthy and happy. That’s why we work 4.5 day weeks, with a flexible half day that you can use as you choose. \n\nYou can learn more about the team and what it’s like working at Sona [here](https://www.notion.so/getsona/Working-at-Sona-4e3c00206c414d8c9eb9b7a617cdc6d7)\n\n### About the role\nWe fundamentally believe that the best products are built when small, cross functional, autonomous teams are empowered to solve business problems as they see fit. You’ll be joining a pod which owns a particular area of the product and movement between product areas is encouraged and easy.\n\nEngineers are heavily involved throughout the product development process, inputting into the why and what as well as the how.\n\n*Our stack has two main components:*\n* A backend with a GraphQL API (for communicating with the Native App) and a web frontend built using Elixir and Phoenix Live View (the PETAL stack)\n* A native mobile application built in React Native + Typescript\n\nWe think in terms of “T Shaped” developers. This means that while all of us have some ability across the “full stack”, most of us have one side of the stack (e.g. Elixir or React Native) we’re stronger on and spend the bulk of our time on.\n\nWe’re passionate advocates of the Live View approach for building web applications and believe that it’s one of the biggest step changes in productivity and developer experience since Ruby on Rails.\n\nLikewise we strongly believe in the benefits of the common, typesafe Android and iOS codebase that React Native combined with Typescript and GraphQL gives us. \n\nTypically when somebody starts working with us, they have strong experience with one side of the stack and then learn the other part on the job.\n\n### How We Work\nOur [engineering principles](https://www.notion.so/getsona/Engineering-Team-Principles-b83ffe9620a645e5920529ad79928c66)give a flavour of how we like to work. We’re a fully remote team spread across 4 countries (and growing). We have a company stand up most mornings at 10:00 UK time. We aim to have fully paid for company meetups roughly once per quarter.\n\nEverything starts with talking to customers. We like everyone in the company to regularly join either sales calls with new prospects or catch ups with existing customers\n\nWe’re a small company with a strong preference for lightweight, asynchronous processes. \n\nWithin product we work in sprints with periodic retrospectives.\n\n### Interview Process\nOur hiring process follows this pattern:\n* Initial phone screen (30 minutes) focused primarily on approach to work, career goals and your questions about Sona\n* Technical Interview (1-2 hours) take us through a piece of code you're proud of and talk about how it's architected, what worked well and what you'd do differently if you wrote it again. If you don't have a suitable piece of code, we're also happy to pay you for half a days work to do a take home task. But we understand that everyone's busy so we'd much rather use some code you've already got where possible!\n* Founder Interview (1 hour), focused on why you’re interested in Sona and your questions about the vision\n\n### Requirements\nWe love engineers who have a non nonsense approach to “getting it shipped”, who when given the choice between “complicated and shiny” vs “get something simple in front of a user” will always choose the latter.\n\nEverybody’s different, but a lot of the following probably applies to you:\n* You have extensive professional experience in either React Native or Elixir\n* If your experience is in React Native you’re happy to talk about Typescript, the role of generics and when they should be used, how hooks changed how we build React Native apps and when one should consider writing custom hooks. You’d be equally happy explaining promises and how they interact with async / await.\n* If your experience is in Elixir you’re passionate about LiveView and are comfortable talking about it’s advantages and challenges\n* You have a strong preference towards taking ownership, making sure you’re clear on what you’re doing and why and then communicating progress over awaiting instruction\n* You’re in a country which is GMT +/- 3 and fluent communicating both verbally and in writing in English\n\n### Benefits\n* Competitive salary\n* 4.5 day standard working week\n* 37 days annual leave (25 days standard plus 12 flexible ‘bank holiday’ days)\n* Share options\n* Fully remote and flexible working\n* Co-working space stipend\n* Free mental health support (On-demand online therapy & coaching)\n* Quarterly all expenses paid team retreats\n* The latest Macbook and equipment for your home office\n* Professional development budget\n* Unlimited free books \n\nPlease mention the word **AWE** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xMzc=). 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 $90,000 — $120,000/year\n
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*Comp also includes .5% - 1.25% Stock Options*\n\nPenji is a SaaS platform that helps universities scale up student support programs (e.g. tutoring, mentoring, advising). We’ve signed deals at 55 universities like Rutgers, Georgia, and Vanderbilt in the last 24 months and are set to continue growing quickly. We are looking for a full stack developer to join our small remote team.\n\nYou’ll be working alongside our CTO, contributing across our whole stack including:\n- A React Native app (iOS, Android, Web) that students, tutors, and advisors use to schedule, manage interactions, and chat\n- A React admin app for visualizing and managing a center’s activity\n- Our backend systems that integrate with university systems\n\nYou’ll also help in developing new ways for universities to support their students while expanding existing features like appointments, drop-in, and kiosk.\n\n**How you’ll be interviewed:**\n- You’ll send us your GitHub or other profile and any material about your skills\n- We’ll review some tech questions related to your experience and also areas in our stack\n- You can ask us any questions or things you’re curious about\n- We’ll do some hands-on coding especially with React\n\n**We want to learn more about:**\n- A React Native app you helped release\n- Or your contribution to an open source project\n- Or how you earned your StackOverflow reputation\n- Or a presentation, article, or demo you made\n- Or some cool tech you worked with recently\n\n**How you’ll work:**\n- Ship features each week across all our apps and platform\n- Participate in daily standups and weekly prioritization meetings\n- Work with our university partners to improve and expand their programs with new modes and features\n- Meet up in VR for a round of minigolf!\n\n**The stack you’ll work with:**\n- Language - JavaScript & TypeScript\n- Frontend - React, React Native, React Native Web, Redux, Parse\n- Backend - Node, Parse Server, Cube JS, Heroku\n- Data - MongoDB, Firebase, BigQuery\n- Testing - Appium, Jest\n- Tools - Slack, Trello, GitHub, Loggly, JupyterLab, Azure DevOps, Docker\n\n**Within 1 week you’ll:**\n- Set up your local environment\n- Work on a good first issue and ship it\n\n**Within 1-2 months you’ll:**\n- Work together on at least one large project released to production\n- Understand overview of systems and integrations\n- Help debug and triage user-facing issues\n- Propose ideas for our roadmap\n\n**Within 3-6 months you’ll:**\n- Own large features and new integrations in production\n- Sketch out and review new products and get feedback from university partners\n- Collaborate on defining priorities and have deep understanding of student and partner needs\n\n**What we offer:**\n- 401K with 3% match, and another 2% match of 50%\n- Health Insurance Reimbursement\n- 15 Days Vacation, Unlimited Sick Days\n\nThe higher education system is entering a major state of change. Schools are feeling intense pressure to modernize, and Penji has found a customer-base that is motivated and excited to collaborate on building the future. It’s been a really great year and we’re just getting started. We’d love to welcome you to the team!\n \n\nPlease mention the word **SUPPORTS** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xMzc=). 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 — $100,000/year\n \n\n#Location\nWorldwide