Build delightful software for podcasts and spoken word audio. [Backtracks](https://backtracks.fm/?ref=job-posting) is seeking a qualified Mid-Senior Front End Developer to join our Product & Engineering Team.\n\n**Opportunity**\n\n[Backtracks](https://backtracks.fm/?ref=job-posting) helps audio content creators and brands know and grow their audience and revenue. You will be responsible for building the client-side of our web applications and platform to deliver delightful experiences to our users.\n\n**Your day-to-day**\n\n- Prototype, design, and implement improvements to new and existing portions of our platform, website, and applications\n- Improve appeal and usability of our different products\n- Code and deploy new features in collaboration with our product and engineering teams\n- Be part of a small team, with a large amount of ownership and responsibility for managing things directly\n- Ship high-quality solutions with a sense of urgency and speed\n- Work closely with both internal and external stakeholders, owning a large part of the process from problem understanding to shipping the solution.\n- Have the freedom to suggest and drive initiatives\n\nWe expect you to be a tech-savvy professional, who is curious about new digital technologies and aspires to combine usability with visual design. Ultimately, you should be able to create a functional and attractive digital environment for our company, ensuring a great user experience.\n\n**You have**\n\n- History of autonomous design decision making at technically focused companies\n- History of designing and building web components, products, and technology\n- History of focusing on user experience\n- In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development and deployment)\n\n- Experience working on design and development in any of the following roles:\n - Product Developer\n - Product Engineer\n - Front End Designer and Developer\n - Front End Engineer\n - UI Designer/Developer\n - Full Stack Engineer\n - Full Stack Developer\n - Front-end Designer and Developer\n - Front-end Engineer\n - Frontend Designer and Developer\n - Frontend Engineer\n\n- Strong knowledge of:\n - Javascript (ES6+)\n - Vue.js\n - Know when to use immutable types, observables, reactive patterns, reduce, spread, etc.\n - You also know and subscribe to simple is better (you know when plain JavaScript with no framework is best)\n - CSS, SCSS\n - Compilation, bundling, and packaging via Webpack, Babel, etc.\n - Front end frameworks (specifically Vue or React)\n - Integrating APIs, web services, and remote data\n - Node.js and npm\n\n- Confidence or experience working with:\n - TypeScript\n - CSS-in-JS\n - Front end test frameworks (Cypress, Karma)\n - Experience with front end build/deployment processes (Webpack, Babel, CI/CD)\n\n- Strong design skills including understanding of layout aesthetics\n- Motivation and an enjoyment for a startup environment\n- Systems thinker (consider how components can scale across our platform and product offerings)\n- The ability to code and build out designs independently from no mock up all the way to working CSS/HTML/JS\n- A blend of product, system, and people knowledge that lets you jump into a fast paced environment and contribute from day one\n- An ability to balance a sense of urgency with shipping high quality and pragmatic solutions\n- Strong work sense of ownership\n- Strong collaboration and communication skills (fluency in English)\n- PMA (Positive Mental Attitude)\n- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, relevant field, and/or relevant work experience\n- 5+ years professional experience\n\n**Other qualities and traits**\n\n- Passion for podcasts, radio, and spoken word audio\n- Passion for delivering high-quality designs with quick turnaround times (e.g. you ship)\n- A product-first approach to building software\n- An enthusiasm for solving hard problems\n- Thrives in a fast-paced environment\n\n**Bonus points if you have experience with**\n\n- Web performance (time-to-interactive, dependencies, wasted renders)\n- Node-based serverside APIs\n- Audio processing and interaction on the front-end \n\nPlease mention the words **POOL LITTLE SETUP** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4yMDQ=). 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 $120,000 — $150,000/year\n \n\n#Location\nWorldwide

At Powerpal we’re building Australia’s largest residential energy engagement platform. Our customers love us – they’re saving money on their bills and helping out with the climate crisis at the same time!\n\nWe’re full-stack from the batteries up. We design and manufacture our own IoT hardware which connects through our cross-platform mobile apps to a cutting edge cloud platform allowing us to build amazing customer experiences on top of huge volumes of data.\n\nWe build and maintain a React Native iOS/Android mobile app, a range of Go and Ruby microservice APIs running on Kubernetes, and a Bigtable/Bigquery/Dataflow big data platform – all hosted on on Google Cloud Platform.\n\nWe love clean code, automated testing, CI/CD and believe in a true devops workflow where the same team designs, builds, tests, deploys and monitors end-to-end products.\n\nWe’re a fully remote team with huge amounts of flexibility and autonomy to set your own schedule and drive your own projects. Ideally you’ll be based close to Sydney, Melbourne or Wollongong so that we can get the team together for a couple of days per month to socialise and share ideas.\n\n**A Typical Day**\n\nThere are so many exciting projects to work on as the company accelerates that no two days are the same, but recently we have been mostly:\n\n* Planning new features for customers with rooftop solar across the Powerpal hardware, mobile app and data platform.\n* Building tools to support the rollout of tens of thousands of free Powerpals in Victoria with an amazing customer booking experience and geospatial logistics for our team of installers.\n* Moving our terabyte scale time-series database from Postgres to Bigtable with zero downtime.\n* Keeping in touch with the team over Slack and Friday afternoon Zoom beers.\n* Optimising our cross-platform app to provide the best possible Bluetooth connectivity and background power management across a variety of mobile hardware.\n* Ensuring that our cloud infrastructure autoscales and self-heals so that we can ignore it entirely when we’re on holiday.\n* Working with our energy industry partners to launch load shifting and demand response experiences to reward customers for balancing their power usage throughout the day.\n* Going to the beach on a sunny Wednesday without meetings and getting some quiet coding done on a rainy Sunday afternoon instead.\n\n\n**What You’ll Need**\n\n* Minimum of 3 years development experience across a range of projects, technologies and organisations across both iOS and Android.\n* Ideally, you’ll have experience using our core stack (Go, Ruby, JS, Kubernetes).\n* A previous lead role on a major end-to-end product delivering mobile, web and backend components.\n* Significant experience building web-based APIs and their associated data stores (both SQL and NOSQL).\n* Solid Javascript skills (bonus points for React and/or React Native) and exposure to rich web and/or mobile UIs.\n* At least one major project involving big data storage and asynchronous data processing.\n* A demonstrated ability to work autonomously and take ownership of teams delivering end-to-end products.\n* A background in deploying and owning cloud services (we use Google Cloud, but AWS or Azure will transfer perfectly).\n\n\n**What You’ll Get To Do**\n\n* Lead teams delivering user-facing projects with end-to-end features that touch the React Native mobile app, our backend APIs and our big data platform.\n* Build a beautiful mobile user experience to help our customers see their power and use it improve their lifestyle.\n* Build new tools to support manufacturing, rollout logistics and fleet management of tens of thousands of IoT devices.\n* Take a leading role in driving our future mobile direction. Should we be considering dedicated native apps? Should we be using Typescript? How can we make our user experience even better?\n* Integrate with our existing backend APIs and get involved in the design and development of new APIs to support the mobile app’s needs.\n* Rapidly prototype new features within the app by designing and building new Javascript content for our embedded web views.\n* Work on hard problems around scaling real-time data feeds with gigabytes of time-series data arriving every day.\n* Share ownership of the whole Powerpal system and take responsibility for ensuring that the projects you work on can be deployed, monitored, and maintained without friction.\n* Improve the quality of our existing codebases and expand our automated unit testing to include higher level end-to-end testing in multiple environments.\n* Help to set the direction for a great developer experience from the laptop to the cloud as we scale our build, test and deployment processes to support a larger team.\n\n\n**Compensation**\n\n* Up to $180k plus super (depending on your specific experience).\n* Negotiable equity (options) in a profitable and rapidly growing startup.\n* A new Macbook Pro or equivalent value in mobile devices and home office upgrades as necessary.\n* A free Powerpal for your home\n\n\nIt doesn’t get better than this! Work at the cutting edge of development as part of this hands-on role whilst helping to drive the development strategy roadmap for an ambitious, growth phase tech start up. An industry leading salary and benefits package is on offer to the successful candidate. Apply now \n\nPlease mention the words **SOURCE FLOCK ASK** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4yMDQ=). 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 AUS 150000 — AUS 180000/year\n
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\n\n#Location\nAustralia