Remote Blogging + Developer + JavaScript 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 (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4yMTE=). 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

\nAt Big Nerd Ranch we specialize in developing business-building mobile and web apps for our clients. We then teach students what we've learned through our signature immersive bootcamps, and every year we release new books in our best-selling series of Big Nerd Ranch Guides.\nHow do we do it?  It's all our people -- we only hire the best. And then we live our values of being brilliant, kind, and hardworking.\nWe're looking for Nerds who are as passionate as we are about writing stylish code on the most exciting platforms. Engineers who want to be amongst the smartest, kindest people they know.\nSound appealing? Learn more about us.\nAs a developer, you will...\n* Build server-side web applications and create APIs for multiple client platforms (iOS, Android and JavaScript).\n* Implement and test responsive web front-ends for desktop, tablet, and smartphone browsers.\n* Write stories (use cases, technical and functional requirements), tests and code.\n* Help guide clients towards effective solutions that balance technical requirements and business needs.\n* Collaborate closely with teammates on the development and maintenance of internal tools.  \n* Attend development meetings (stand-ups, kick-offs, retrospectives) and design sessions with teams and clients.\n* Inspire fellow nerds, future clients, our students, and the community at large by writing, speaking, contributing to open source software, and demonstrating our collective expertise and experience.\n\n\nAs a candidate, you...\n* Are an experience full-stack developer with client facing experience. \n* Have experience working on medium to large scale web applications.\n* Possess strong JavaScript development and debugging skills.\n* Have a passion for helping others and have the ability to communicate with a wide range of people.  \n\n\nYou might also...\n* Be proficient with a JavaScript framework (e.g., React, Vue.js, or Angular).\n* Have created APIs that conform to the JSON API spec.\n* Enjoy translating UI/UX wireframes into clean and efficient Sass/CSS.\n* Have interest in mobile development (e.g. Swift/iOS, Kotlin/Android, or React Native).\n* Enjoy teaching others and can clearly describe complicated software to your fellow developers.\n* Have a passion for speaking publicly or blogging regularly.\n\n\nThe benefits we offer:\n* Health, dental, vision, life insurance; 401k matching, short and long term disability\n* A flexible, remote-friendly and learning based environment where creative ideas are explored and the desire to learn new technologies is encouraged and valued.\n* Must reside in the US and be legally authorized to work in the US.\n\n\nAt the Big Nerd Ranch you'll be working with the most brilliant, most kind, and hardest working nerds in the solar system. You'll help companies build and launch useful products, and share what you've learned with the world. Are you up to the challenge? \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Web Developer, Developer, Digital Nomad, React, Teaching, JavaScript, API, Mobile and Android jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $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

\nLOCATION: Remote within the US or Oakland, CA\n\nDaily Kos is the nation’s largest liberal online political community, news organization, and activism hub. Powered by millions of dedicated activists, we’re transforming media and organizing by empowering regular Americans to reshape politics.\n\nWe are seeking a passionate Web Developer who deliver new features in the Content Applications (publishing, authoring, commenting, image library) team on a large Rails application.  You will support the Sr. Applications Architect of the Content Applications team with mentoring and technical input specific to the Rails stack.  You are efficient, self-motivated, capable of working with limited guidance, and excited to do mission-driven work!\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 Rails, React, Varnish, Nginx, RDS/MySQL, Haskell, Nix, ElasticSearch, and AWS. 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 to hear from you.\n\nRESPONSIBILITIES:\n\n\n* Partner with and support engineering team in building best-in-class interface\n\n* Work collaboratively with QA team to deliver quality user experience\n\n* Share on-call responsibilities with team\n\n* Remain current on test, development, and deployment best practices\n\n* Be a team player, share knowledge, and mentor other team members through pairing, feedback, and discussions, etc.\n\n\n\n\nEXPERIENCE:\n\n\n* 3+ years of progressive software development experience\n\n* 2-4 years development experience with Ruby/Rails and some production experience with React.\n\n* Experience working remotely in a virtual work environment\n\n\n\n\nQUALIFICATIONS:\n\n\n* Proven development experience in a large and complex (Ruby/Rails) codebase with an emphasis on delivering to production\n\n* Demonstrated JavaScript development skills\n\n* Solid understanding of dev ops standards and web usability\n\n* Strong organization and task management skills\n\n* Proficiency integrating with third party APIs in Ruby\n\n* The above list is a set of highly desired attributes; we will evaluate each candidate as a whole. Tell us about unique skills, experiences, and attributes that you can bring to such a role that we may be missing and why it would be a benefit to the organization\n\n\n\n\nSALARY RANGE:  $90,000 - $105,000\n\nBENEFITS:\n\nThis position is a 40 hour/week, full-time exempt position and supervised by the Sr. Applications Architect. 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, optional 401K with a company match, professional development stipend, a generous vacation package, as well as employer-paid maternity/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 LGBTQIA individuals strongly encouraged to apply. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Web Developer, Developer, Digital Nomad and JavaScript jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $125,000/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

\nLOCATION: Remote within the US or Oakland, CA\n\nDaily Kos is the nation’s largest liberal online political community, news organization, and activism hub. Powered by millions of dedicated activists, we’re transforming media and organizing by empowering regular Americans to reshape politics.\n\nWe are seeking a passionate Senior Web Developer who will deliver new features in the Content Applications (publishing, authoring, commenting, image library) team on a large Rails application. This person must be efficient, self-motivated, and capable of working 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 Rails, React, Varnish, Nginx, RDS/MySQL, Haskell, Nix, ElasticSearch, and AWS. 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 to hear from you.\n\nRESPONSIBILITIES:\n\n\n* Design, architect, and code high-performing application solutions\n\n* Partner with engineering team in building best-in-class interface\n\n* Work collaboratively with QA team to deliver quality user experience\n\n* Share on-call responsibilities with team\n\n* Remain current on test, development, and deployment best practices\n\n* Be a team player, share knowledge, and mentor other team members through pairing, feedback, and discussions, etc.\n\n\n\n\nEXPERIENCE:\n\n\n* 7+ years of progressive software development experience\n\n* Experience working remotely in a virtual work environment\n\n\n\n\nQUALIFICATIONS:\n\n\n* Extensive development experience in a large and complex (Ruby/Rails) codebase with an emphasis on delivering to production\n\n* Production experience with JS frameworks utilizing virtual DOM and dataflow techniques for building responsive web user interfaces such as React, Redux, Angular, Vue.js)\n\n* Solid JavaScript development skills\n\n* Demonstrated proficiency integrating with third party APIs in Ruby\n\n* Thorough understanding of TDD/BDD/testing, etc.\n\n* Familiar with the Agile development process\n\n* Motivated, organized, and self-directed technical leader\n\n* Critical thinker with thirst for knowledge and continuous improvement\n\n* Ability to work autonomously, take ownership, and deliver a quality software experience\n\n* Excellent communication skills and comfortable talking with team members at all levels\n\n\n\n\nSALARY RANGE: $130,000 - $140,000\n\nThe above list is a set of highly desired attributes; we will evaluate each candidate as a whole. Tell us about unique skills, experiences, and attributes that you can bring to such a role that we may be missing and why it would be a benefit to the organization.\n\nThis position is a 40 hour/week, full-time exempt position and reports to the Senior Application Architect. 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, optional 401K with a company match, professional development stipend, a generous vacation package, as well as employer-paid maternity/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 LGBTQIA individuals strongly encouraged to apply. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Senior, Web Developer, Developer, Digital Nomad and JavaScript jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $130,000/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

\nLOCATION: Remote within the US or Oakland, CA\n\nDaily Kos is the nation’s largest liberal online political community, news organization, and activism hub. Powered by millions of dedicated activists, we’re transforming media and organizing by empowering regular Americans to reshape politics.\n\nWe are seeking an experienced and results driven QA lead to help shape the QA function at Daily Kos as we expand our development team and build out more capacity for automated testing. 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 Rails, React, Varnish, Nginx, RDS/MySQL, Haskell, Nix, ElasticSearch, and AWS. 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 to hear from you.\n\nRESPONSIBILITIES:\n\n\n* Serve as primary QA engineer for our services team, building a deep understanding of our backend systems through testing our infrastructure, cloud services, and dev ops automation tools\n\n* Clearly and precisely identify, track, and document issues\n\n* Reproduce bugs and perform meticulous regression testing\n\n* Write and follow detailed test plans for new features\n\n* Collaborate with the product team to document software and systems functionality\n\n* Identify QA bottlenecks and suggest strategies for clearing them\n\n* Partner with team members to create and implement an automated testing strategy\n\n* Advocate for our users both internally and externally to ensure they have the reliable tools that they need and do what they need and expect\n\n\n\n\nEXPERIENCE:\n\n\n* 5-10 years experience in software quality assurance with at least two to three of them as a lead\n\n* Working experience using the JavaScript console, debugger, and other browser developer tools\n\n\n\n\nQUALIFICATIONS:\n\n\n* Ability to write and run raw SQL queries in MySQL or PostgreSQL; knowledge of other data storage a plus\n\n* Capable of understanding Ruby and JavaScript code\n\n* Awareness of typical programming errors and the unexpected things users do whether accidentally or maliciously\n\n* Experience measuring performance (reading and interpreting metrics dashboard, using benchmarking tools, etc.) and security testing\n\n* Strong track record building front-end automated tests and experience with various automated testing tools\n\n* Working knowledge in systems or operations at OS and basic networking levels.\n\n* Maddeningly creative approach to breaking things and other chaos monkey skills\n\n* Excellent communication skills, primarily in a virtual work environment\n\n* Familiarity of the Daily Kos application and willingness to become a platform expert\n\n\n\n\nSALARY RANGE: $80,000 - $95,000\n\nThis position is a 40 hour/week, full-time exempt position and reports to the Senior QA Manager. 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, optional 401K with a company match, professional development stipend, a generous vacation package, as well as employer-paid maternity/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 LGBTQIA individuals strongly encouraged to apply. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Quality Assurance, Senior, Engineer, Developer, Digital Nomad, JavaScript, Cloud, Ruby and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $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

\nLOCATION: Remote within the US or Oakland, CA\n\nDaily Kos is the nation’s largest liberal online political community, news organization, and activism hub. Powered by millions of dedicated activists, we’re transforming media and organizing by empowering regular Americans to reshape politics. \n\nWe are seeking a Senior Web Developer who will deliver new features in the Content Applications (publishing, authoring, commenting, image library) team on a large Rails application. This person will support the Application Architect of the Content Applications team with mentoring and technical input specific to the Rails stack.\n\nDaily Kos is a great place to work– your code will be used by hundreds of thousands of people a day who care deeply about progressive politics and are working to effect real political change. We provide an extensive feature set that extends from blogging to activism and beyond. If you want a job that offers more than just a technical challenge, we’d love to hear from you. Our organization’s commitment to personal growth reduces churn and encourages a rewarding long-term position. We have an energized team filled with great people with different backgrounds.\n\nQUALIFICATIONS:\n\nWe are seeking an independent, self-aware, remote-work experienced technical leader who:\n\n\n* has strong and recent development experience in a large Ruby/Rails application codebase with an emphasis on delivering to production in their recent roles;\n\n* has experience mentoring less experienced application developers through pairing, discussions, etc.;\n\n* has production experience maintaining a production Rails “majestic” monolith into a service-oriented design;\n\n* has strong Javascript development experience and ecosystem understanding (production experience with application frameworks utilizing virtual DOM and dataflow techniques for building responsive web user interfaces such as React, Redux, Angular, Vue.js);\n\n* has experience being on-call for a production Rails application they contribute code to where the responsibility of on-call is shared across the team;\n\n* has an interest or curiosity about in what is beyond delivering CRUD applications and why we might move that way;\n\n* can clearly articulate their position on TDD/BDD/testing, etc.\n\n* has experience integrating with third party APIs in Ruby;\n\n* has an interest in learning new things\n\n\n\n\nSALARY RANGE: \n$130,000 - $140,000\n\nBENEFITS:\n\nThis position is a 40 hour/week, full-time exempt position and supervised by the Sr. Applications Architect. 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, optional 401K with a company match, professional development stipend, a generous vacation package, as well as employer-paid maternity/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 LGBTQIA individuals strongly encouraged to apply. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Senior, Web Developer, Developer, Digital Nomad and JavaScript jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $130,000/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

\nAt Big Nerd Ranch, we specialize in developing business-building mobile and web apps for our clients. We then teach students what we've learned through our signature immersive bootcamps, and every year we release new books in our best-selling series of Big Nerd Ranch Guides.\n\n\nHow do we do it?  It's all our people -- we only hire the best. And then we live our values of being brilliant, kind, and hardworking.\n\n\nWe're looking for Nerds who are as passionate as we are about writing stylish code on the most exciting platforms. Engineers who want to be amongst the smartest, kindest people they know.\n\n\nSound appealing? Learn more about us.\n\n\nAs a Developer, you will…\n\n\n\n* Work on apps written in both Objective-C and Swift\n\n* Develop complex macOS applications where versioning, performance, localization and accessibility are required\n\n* Develop Applications with a complex release cycle\n\n* Be responsible for finding and improving weak points in the development cycle\n\n* Code-review your team members\n\n* Demonstrate attention to detail and common architectural patterns in your code\n\n* Refactoring and improving the performance of applications\n\n* Be exposed to Modern Web APIs and Javascript Libraries\n\n* Have experience writing Unit and UI tests to accompany Swift code\n\n* Write stories (use cases, technical and functional requirements), tests and code\n\n* Help guide clients towards effective solutions that balance technical requirements and business needs\n\n* Attend development meetings (stand-ups, kick-offs, retrospectives) and design sessions with teams and clients\n\n* Inspire fellow nerds, future clients, our students, and the community at large by writing, speaking, contributing to open source software, and demonstrating our collective expertise and experience\n\n\n\n\n\nAs a candidate, you…\n\n\n\n* Know the macOS Core competencies (windowing, code signing, delegation, object archiving, accessibility, the responder chain…)\n\n* Have excellent written and communication skills\n\n* Can effectively work and communicate in a primarily remote environment\n\n* Know the intricacies of building, archiving, and releasing an iOS or macOS app\n\n* Have experience with git\n\n* Know the core aspects of iOS development including architecture, design, configuration, the Xcode environment, Objective-C and Swift\n\n* Have a solid knowledge of multithreaded programming and UI concepts (responder chain and accessibility)\n\n* Are friendly; strong interpersonal skills are key for success\n\n\n\n\n\nYou might also…\n\n\n\n* Be an advanced git user\n\n* Have customized and configured Apple's WKWebViews\n\n* Have worked on iOS/macOS Continuous Integration or in an environment managed by active CI\n\n* Be passionate about speaking publicly or blogging regularly\n\n* Have experience teaching technical skills\n\n\n\n\n\nThe benefits we offer to full time employees:    \n\n\n\n* Health, dental, vision, life insurance; 401k matching, short and long term disability\n\n* Any hardware, software or services you need to do your job are always 100% on us.  \n\n* A flexible, remote-friendly and learning based environment where creative ideas are explored and the desire to learn new technologies is encouraged and valued.\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nAt the Big Nerd Ranch you'll be working with the most brilliant, most kind, and hardest working nerds in the solar system. You'll help companies build and launch useful products, and share what you've learned with the world. Are you up to the challenge? \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Developer, Digital Nomad, Teaching, JavaScript, Git and Mobile 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