Remote Content + Engineering + Mobile + Node + React Jobs

\nProjektt is hiring a Full Stack Developer - working in Vue.js and Node.js - to help build its new fitness app and associated infrastructure and processes.\n\nWe're a start-up technology company that helps people achieve their fitness goals. We're building a slick easy-to-use application that people will love. We will expose you to our domain experts and users to help you understand our world, from which you can build great solutions. You'll be our fourth colleague in the engineering team, with support from our UX designer.\n\nYou'll make important contributions from the start - initially focused on the web front end, and laying the groundwork for major projects such as the mobile app, while helping evolve our processes. \n\nWe deploy to production multiple times each day, and we'll trust you to get on with things. We offer a culture where you may work under your own initiative as part of a collaborative effort towards common goals. \n\nIt's an opportunity to be a formative team member, and to grow and improve together.\n\nUpcoming projects within the team\n\n\n* Building content feed, live streaming, payment integrations, group, sharing etc.\n\n* Contributing to our development culture, methods and automation\n\n* Exploring Elastic for data storage and search\n\n* Building mobile app\n\n* Optionally, helping build recommendation engine\n\n\n\n\nWe're looking for\n\n\n* Someone with curiosity, pragmatism, and who relishes autonomy\n\n* Proven back end coding skills, using Node.js\n\n* Familiarity with Vue.js, or comparable JavaScript frameworks\n\n* Ability to write code that's efficient, robust, documented and well tested\n\n* Web service writing skills, and familiarity with relational databases e.g. MySQL or PostgreSQL\n\n* Optionally, you may also bring - or like to gain - familiarity with React Native or similar\n\n\n\n\nCurrent ecosystem - we'll welcome your influence\n\nNode.js API service (run using AWS Lambda) | Vue.js (Quasar framework) with TypeScript | DynamoDB | Github Actions | Cypress | app performance monitoring\n\nSalary and benefits\n\n\n* £40,000 - £55,000 we're keeping an open mind\n\n* 25 days holiday, plus public holidays and a day for your birthday\n\n* Flexible and remote working - tell us what you need\n\n* Personal development plan that you can shape, with budget for related training/certifications\n\n* Stock options after qualifying period\n\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, Node, Mobile, Engineer, Full Stack, React and API 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

\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