Remote Content + Engineering + Front End + Node + System Jobs

#The Opportunity\nShorthand is a growing company that provides a digital publishing platform to many of the world's best-known publishers, brands, not-for-profits, and universities. With customers on every continent (except Antarctica!), there's never been a more exciting time to join Shorthand. Our company has a rare distinction in this era of money-burning startups of being comfortably profitable. We're a small team of geeks with art and heart, and a high bar for quality.\nTo deliver our magic to customers and their audiences, we build software that is scalable, flexible, reliable and as simple as possible but no simpler.\nWe tend to do things a little differently at Shorthand. For one thing, we're a small, fully remote team distributed around the world. For this role, we'll happily take applications from anywhere in North or South America, but applicants must be fluent in English.\n#The Role\nThis role will be primarily responsible for designing, engineering and supporting our customer integrations systems and services. You'll be glueing together our great storytelling product with our customers' content management systems and with our third-party providers like Google and Apple to create a seamless experience. Some integrations are backend API related (including Drupal/WordPress and other CMS module development), but most are focused on frontend JavaScript/TypeScript and Google AMP. A secondary but important aspect of the role is advancing Shorthand's automated testing coverage.\nWe are looking for someone who:\n- Is whip-smart, as demonstrated by career achievements and/or school/university results\n- Has great communication skills, particularly with respect to writing and interacting directly with technical and non-technical customers (sometimes across US and European timezones).\n- Has good knowledge of cloud-based web architectures, web crawlers, SEO, and frontend web performance optimisation.\n- Experienced in system design and system integration.\n- Has a wide range of experience and expertise across languages, frameworks and approaches such as JavaScript, TypeScript, and ReactJS, NodeJS, scripting, and serverless.\n- Is an expert in using git.\n- Has worked with CI/CD processes before (CircleCI/GitHub Actions preferably).\n- Is experienced using test automation tools (Cypress, Jest, React Testing Library, Percy preferably).\n- Is experienced with Drupal module and WordPress plugins development, especially in integration with third-party APIs.\n- Has an extremely high bar for quality.\n- Is thorough and detail-oriented.\n- Can learn fast.\n- Gains deep satisfaction from helping to make products better.\n- Has experience of working in a small business or startup environment.\n- Preferably has experience collaborating with diverse, geographically-dispersed teams.\n#Core Responsibilities:\n- Own customer integrations development including reusable third-party integrations (like WordPress plugins and Drupal modules) and JavaScript embedding solutions, publishing destinations (Google AMP, AWS S3, Akamai and others), as well as bespoke tailored customer-specific integrations.\n- Work directly with customers through the whole lifecycle of delivery.\n- Mature Shorthand automated testing capabilities to help improve product quality and team safety.\n- Provide high tier support especially for custom systems integrations.\n- Learn, evolve and improve an existing application/system architecture.\n- Review code from other engineers and provide feedback.\n- Help secure the environment.\n- Contribute to the technical direction of the Shorthand tool.\n- Report bugs.\n- Communicate with the customer support team and customers to suggest solutions to issues.\n- Assist in the creation of product documentation when required.\n#Qualifications:\n- A minimum of 5 years of experience in Software Engineering roles.\n- A minimum of 3 years of experience in web application development.\n- Thorough knowledge of NodeJS and the web.\n- Experience with AWS.\n- University qualification in computer science or a closely related field, or equivalent career experience required.\n#Personality Attributes:\n- You are a proactive self-starter, who does not need to be told what to do and will be resourceful in order to find solutions to any challenge.\n- You thrive in a fast-paced and demanding environment and possess a high level of intellectual curiosity.\n- You are collaborative.\n- You find fulfilment in the job itself, and happiness in a job well done. \n\nPlease mention the words **LITTLE EXERCISE SUIT** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xODA=). 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 $85,000 — $115,000/year\n \n\n#Location\nAny US-friendly timezone

\nHOMER is looking for a collaborative and results driven Senior Web Engineer to join our energetic, growing team. This is a remote role, but must be able to work East Coast hours. You will have a profound impact on a company that touches the lives of children, parents, and teachers across the globe with one of the most celebrated reading and learn-to-read platforms in the industry. We are looking to create world class digital learning experience available. Your work will help build a beautiful, personalized experience to meet every child's specific needs as they learn to read, love to read, and read to learn. Overall success in this position means you have helped the children using our products find the lessons, stories, and other content that best fit their age and interests.\n\nHOMER is a venture-backed, high-growth business that offers competitive compensation including equity and full benefits in a creative, flexible environment that invests in professional development\n\nAs Senior Engineer on our growing Web and Android team, you will be responsible for improving and maintaining several websites and web apps and contribute to the backend infrastructure that supports them as well as potentially developing games, lessons, and other interactive educational content consumed by a growing number of cross platform web and mobile apps. You are a maker at heart and have experience in and temperament for mentoring others on your team and across engineering. You will focus on elegant and effective technical solutions that enable Homer’s vision described above. As you grow, you will participate in growing our technology platform to support the needs of rapidly growing user-base. Above all, you should care about delivering quality software in a sustainable and timely manner.\n\n\nYour responsibilities will include:\n\n\n* Make direct technical contributions (writing, debugging, reviewing and deploying code) using Javascript, React framework, Node and other languages as necessary.\n\n* Provide technical guidance and feedback to your team members on a team distributed in several time-zones using agile project management methodologies.\n\n* Collaborate effectively with your stakeholders (product owners, animators, illustrators, UX designers, engineers, data scientists and others) to define and refine requirements.\n\n* Lead technical design of applications and participate in larger system design efforts.\n\n\n\n\nYou must have:\n\n\n* Demonstrable expertise designing and building websites and web apps and other systems using Javascript, React and Node.\n\n* Sound Computer Science fundamentals (Bachelor’s degree in CS or related fields preferred).\n\n* Strong interpersonal and communication skills.\n\n* At least 5 years of relevant work experience (or Undergraduate degree in Computer Science and 3 years of relevant work experience).\n\n\n\n\nWe are also looking for:\n\n\n* Knowledge of full stack engineering especially how scalable frontend and backend systems interoperate.\n\n* Knowledge of deployment technologies in cloud hosted environments like AWS.\n\n* Knowledge and experience with GraphQL.\n\n* Experience developing web or mobile 2D games, interactive apps, or animation systems.\n\n* Ability and openness to switch programming languages as necessary.\n\n\n\n\nWe like people who are:\n\n\n* Results oriented, hands-on and passionate about our industry (education) and our consumers (children, parents and educators).\n\n* Collaborative, and thrive in startup environments.\n\n\n\n\nWhat you’ll get:\n\n\n* HOMER offers competitive compensation including equity and full benefits\n\n* Smart, passionate, and engaged co-workers\n\n* Excellent top-tier Medical/Dental/Vision benefits\n\n* A chance to have a big impact\n\n* A chance to bring a love of reading and learning to children globally\n\n\n\n\nHOMER is an equal opportunity employer and enthusiastically encourages people from a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences to apply. HOMER does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), gender, national origin, citizenship, age, mental or physical disability, veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation or any other basis prohibited by law. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Senior, Engineer, Web Developer, React, Cloud, Node, Mobile, Android 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