Remote Bank + React + Travel Jobs

\nThis role is a remote full-time position for residents of Bulgaria.\n\nYou will work with other Formidable engineers using a modern JavaScript stack to implement new applications, features, and tools for companies ranging in size from startups to Fortune 100s. You will regularly collaborate with client teams to provide project leadership, mentorship, and technical expertise. When you’re not working on client projects, you’ll have a chance to contribute to our community-leading open-source software.\n\nWe make sure our employees get opportunities to grow within Formidable and participate in daily decision-making processes. Our engineers are leaders in the community and frequently speak at key conferences. Working with other Formidables, you are guaranteed to continually cultivate your skill set by staying atop of industry trends and tools.\n\nIf you’re interested in joining a collaborative community that supports employees and understands the importance of maintaining a work-life balance, we would love to talk to you.\nYou Have\n\n\nAn interest in working in a client service role and passion for the positive long-term impacts of code health and smooth developer experience, while being sensitive to client goals and timelines\n\nUnderstanding of engineering for the web: client/server architecture, REST, and modern best practices\n\nThe ability to communicate the benefits of technical solutions to non-technical project partners effectively\n\nPatience and drive to both learn from and mentor others\n\nFluent in English communication skills \n\n5+ years of software development experience\n\n4+ years of professional experience in a JavaScript stack with a build process\n\n2+ years of professional experience in React and NodeJS\n\n\n\nExperienced In\n\n\nJavaScript/TypeScript, both modern techniques and core concepts\n\nDeep knowledge of React and the surrounding open source ecosystem\n\nBuilding production systems that scale\n\nREST/GraphQL APIs and frameworks like Express and Apollo\n\nPersistence layers like DynamoDB or PostgreSQL\n\nVersion control (git), especially with teams\n\nFront-end testing libraries and methods (Jest/Enzyme/react-testing-library)\n\n\n\nExtra Credit\n\n\nFamiliarity with Lambda / Cloud Functions / Kubernetes / Containerization\n\nFamiliarity with Terraform\n\nExperience implementing CI/CD pipelines\n\nMentorship experience\n\nExperience leading teams\n\nWeb accessibility/a11y\n\nOpen Source contributor\n\n\n\nWhat We Offer Our Employees\n\n\nHoliday - It is important to us that you take some time for yourself to do the things you love, recharge and refresh so we offer a holiday allowance of 25 days + Bulgarian bank holidays + Christmas closure (usually 4 days).\n\nFlexible working - We are a fully flexible working company and support people working from home. We only ask that you are available for team and client meetings and can dial in from wherever you are if you are working remotely that day.\n\nPrivate medical insurance - We like to do what we can to give our Formidables peace of mind internally and externally so we provide full private medical cover, (this can be extended to spouses and children too and Formidable will pay 75% of their premiums).\n\nFamily Forming and Fertility benefits  - To support all paths to parenthood.\n\nHealth & Wellness Bonus - Health and wellness come in all different forms so to support you in choosing what works, we give you an annual 2,000Лв allowance to spend on what is right for you.\n\nRemote Working Stipend (The Megabucket) - The Remote Work Stipend is designed to help Formidables work their best. You will have access to up to Лв.7,000 of expenses per year to help pay for the following needs, however you see fit:\n\n\n\nHome Office Setup: set up your home workspace in a manner that will make working from home more pleasant and productive (desk, chair, monitor, etc).\n\nInter-office travel: We like our Formidables to get to know each other properly; what better way than a trip to visit and work with other teams? You can choose to use this stipend to cover your travel and accommodation so you can go and work with Formidables in other locations. This benefit is currently suspended for overseas travel due to Covid, but we hope to reinstate it very soon!\n\nConference Reimbursement: Use some or all of your stipend to go towards conference tickets (subject to approval, must be related to your job) and the travel/lodging to get you there.\n\nCo-Working: You will have access to up to an additional Лв.2,000 to pay for or subsidize a co-working space for yourself, such as renting a flexible hot desk or private office.\n\n\n\nOpen Source - We have incredible access to a wider community of coding experts who are as passionate about Open Source as we are + an internal ‘Sauce Program’ that enables you to earn extra money for any extra OSS hours you put in.\n\nTraining & Development - You’ll receive unparalleled support from your peers + an all-you-can-eat professional development budget to ensure you can access all that you need to keep growing in your role and levelling up.\n\nCollaboration & Exposure - We work in a collaborative environment that leads to continuous, organic personal development. You’ll also have exposure to a wide variety of customers, from scaleups to Fortune 100s.\n\nGiving back - We also love to give back to our community - so if you give to charity and want to set this up through BrightFunds, we will match your contributions by up to $1000 in your local currency a year.\n\nFormidable Gatherings - Formidables work remotely all over the place, so we try to get together at least once a year in London or Seattle to have some fun in person. Covid still has some things up in the air right now, but we’re hopeful we’ll be able to get together in person again soon!\n\n\n\n\nHow do we work?\n\nOur consultants act as an extension of our customer’s team, embedding themselves in the environment, and adapting to our clients’ requirements and challenges, so they can develop a truly impactful and innovative solution.\n\nWe take a lot of pride in both the work we do and how we do it. We love trying new approaches, challenging the norm, and we’ll never stop striving to be at our technical best. It comes naturally to both our team and the community we work within to help each other’s growth, share and elevate ideas, and meaningfully collaborate as much as possible. Our people are more than the sum of their parts.\n\nThat’s why you’ll get an unusual amount of autonomy — you’re here because you’re brilliant, so we trust you to do your role in a way that works for you. Our high-trust culture is one of the things that makes us so successful, so you do you and we’ll be over here, listening and providing support where needed.\nWe have two core beliefs here:\n\nThe very best ideas are born from a community that is collaborative, high-trust, and diverse. Creating a development-led culture is key to us, so we do everything we can to cultivate knowledge sharing and personal growth within our team. That means your questions never go unanswered, and there will always be someone on hand to work through a problem.\n\nPeople are at their best when they have what they need, and we’re committed to providing the best possible working environment. Vegan snacks? Slippers for the office? Want to work from another country to spend more time with your family? We got you.\n\n\n\nInclusion is one of our core values. We don’t discriminate by race, religion, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We require our candidates that they have the right to work in Bulgaria. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Jira, Python, Senior, Engineer, SEO, Mobile, Legal, SaaS, DevOps, Education, Cloud, Software, React, JavaScript and Travel 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
\n\n#Location\nSofia, Sia, Bulgaria

**DESCRIPTION**\n\nBefore you start reading, keep in mind that the aim of this job ad is to give you a feel for what it’s like to work at Catapult. There’s lots of research which suggests people often don’t apply because of so-called “requirements” in a job description. If you’re an experienced engineer, like the sound of working here and see something you’re not an expert in yet, that’s great, apply and you can learn it here!\n\nWhat you’re getting yourself in for\n\nOur mission is to build the worlds best part time job. We spend our time thinking about how to give a global workforce complete control of their own work life while completely automating the hundreds of thousands of man hours which would normally be required to manage people on this scale.\n\nWe do this through React Native based iOS and Android applications, React based web applications, a mixture of Ruby/ Rails and Phoenix/ Elixir on the backend and Rest API’s to communicate with machine learning services from our data science team.\n\nBusinesses ranging from the largest high-street retailers to five star hotels and and independent coffee boutiques rely on Catapult as their casual workforce. If you’ve spent time in London, you’ve probably been served by a Catapult waiter or sales assistant without even realising it!\n\nOur company values https://writing.joincatapult.com/our-values/ are really important to us and influence every facet of how we work together.\n\nThings we’ve been working on recently\n\nNo two days are ever the same in a startup, but to give you a flavour of what we’ve been up to recently:\n\nBuilding a stand-alone signup service to test different approaches to user on-boarding. We took this as an opportunity to test out Phoenix + GraphQL. We were so impressed with the productivity boost we’re also now incorporating GraphQL into our primary Rails application\nUsing Kubernetes to deploy standalone environments for our feature branches, complete with anonymised production data\nRe-thinking how we test Javascript and what the line should be between unit tests and acceptance tests\nAbout the role\n\nWe’ve been growing rapidly over the last three years and as we start our international roll out, we’re looking for ambitious engineers to help us build the future of work. Our engineering principles https://writing.joincatapult.com/engineering-principles/ give a good feel for how we work together and what we value.\n\nYou’ll be working joining out remote team so working from anywhere in Europe is fine! We work in small cross-functional pods of developers who focus on a particular product area and encourage people to rotate across teams.\n\n**REQUIREMENTS**\n\nWe've found that the best developers are outliers so these are guidelines rather than firm requirements. If you're passionate about building great software, finding the best tools for the job and learning new skills, we'd like to hear from you!\n\nAbout You\n\n* Solid experience developing web or mobile applications commercially\n* You really buy into the importance of getting things into the hands of a user quickly and then iterating\n* You actively think about when to incur technical debt and when to pay it back\n* You like to explore new technologies and have a keen eye for when something new can add real business value\n* Bonus points for Rails, React, Phoenix or GraphQL\n\n**BENEFITS**\n\nAs well as being a part of a well funded startup at one of the most exciting phases of it’s growth, you’ll get:\n\n* Competitive salary + stock options\n* A strong approach to professional development and mentorship, everyone has a dedicated L&D budget for books, training, conferences and the like\n* Product retreats at least every two months where the whole team either comes to London or goes somewhere warm (the next one's in Lisbon!), looks back on how we can improve and then spends a week together hacking on new ideas and exploring new technologies\n* Regular social events & the opportunity to travel to our other offices\n* Company Macbook Pro which you’re free to take home\n* A flexible work environment focused on output not hours\n* 25 days holiday + bank holidays\n \n\nPlease mention the words **CONFIRM DESERT SPORT** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMTguMjIwLjE5Mi4xMDk=). 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 JavaScript, React, Ruby, Full Stack, React Native, GraphQL, Developer, Digital Nomad, Travel, Mobile, Android, Sales and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $120,000/year\n