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 (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xMjU=). 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

The Opportunity\nModern Tribe is looking for an experienced UI/Front End Developer to join our team as a freelance contractor.\n\nIf you have experience with advanced JavaScript, frameworks including React and React Native and want to apply those skills on top of a variety of delivery systems, from integrations with large scale WordPress installs to custom backend and server side rendered platforms you’re probably a good match for this role.\n\nYou will enjoy unique challenges and build hybrid app systems or complex interactive UI’s alongside other Front End/Back End Developers that will require deep collaboration with your team. Performance optimization and testing will be a required skill set, and knowledge of the latest asset bundling systems with optimal performance configuration for them will be key. You will also implement designs accurately with progressive css/templating methods and work with the rest of the team to identify reusable code proactively, abstracting that to internal tools as applicable.\n\nThis opportunity is for a person ready to challenge themselves with a diverse team on a wide range of JavaScript intensive projects. We foster a collaborative and engaging environment, and are looking for people who want to grow our systems with us as we create the best interfaces and experiences we can for our clients.\n\n# Responsibilities\n **Responsibilities**\n**ARCHITECT** Work to architect scalable and maintainable applications across a range of technologies.\n**COLLABORATE** Coordinate and communicate clearly and whenever needed with designers, back-end developers and other application devs\n**SOLVE** You will be presented with complex technical requirements and design robust solutions to fulfill them.\n\n**Location**\nWork from anywhere and join our distributed team working across the globe. If your timezone is outside of US business hours, but you work at least 3-4+ hours of overlap each day, let’s chat. You should be fluent in English and just need a computer and a strong wifi signal to support daily video chats with the Tribe.\n\n**Compensation**\nPay range is commensurate with qualifications and experience between $40-$65/hour. We are currently looking for freelance contractors about 10-20 hours a week for this gig.\n\n**Perks**\nWe believe that distributed working is a way of life. We understand what it means to work remotely. We offer consistency in expectations, payment, and support. We believe in learning from each other and fostering personal growth. You can expect to learn a lot while working with us.\n\n(Also, if you work enough with us, we’ll bring you on the team trips.) \n\n# Requirements\n**Personal Competencies**\n* Strong communication skills\n* Experience working as part of a remote team\n* Self-motivated, detail-oriented\n* Strong organizational skills\n* A methodical approach to all tasks\n* Ability to prioritize workloads and meet deadlines\n* Fluent English speaker\n\n**Knowledge & Experience**\n* Extensive knowledge of modern JavaScript standards and patterns\n* Experience with React and/or React Native\n* Proficiency at local environment setup for app development, docker\n* Experience with REST APIs\n* Experience with async operations at scale and modern practices to handle them\n* Advanced experience with state management\n* Solid understanding of various styling approaches for UI Development (CSS Modules, Styled * Components etc)\n* Unit, snapshot and integration testing\n* GIT\n\n**Bonus Points**\n* Examples of plugins / code that you’ve released to the open source community\n* Experience with WordPress\n* Experience with GraphQL\n* Native app development (android, ios)\n\n**Who We Are**\nModern Tribe, Inc. is a rapidly growing software & design company. We develop custom solutions for some of the world’s largest companies, government institutions and smaller growing organizations. We pride ourselves on our ability to bridge people and technology and to bring the passion and dedication of an entrepreneur to every project. Our team is composed of talented employees and freelancers around North & South America (and a smattering across the globe).\n\n**Inclusion Statement**\nModern Tribe is committed to a culture that embraces diversity and inclusion. We foster an environment of collaboration, open engagement, fairness and respect regardless of differences in age, race, disability, national origin, gender identity, religion, sexual orientation or veteran status. As a hybrid workspace ranging from distributed contractors to traditional employees, we value the unique perspectives and experiences of our global team.\n\nWe come from all walks of life. We are small business owners. We are tattoo aficionados and 80’s movie buffs and ex-pats. We are homeschool teachers. We are single parents. We are musicians, college drop-outs, and entrepreneurs. We are travelers, feminists, runners, volunteers, and makers. We are a Modern Tribe.\n\nEveryday we strive to fulfill our motto: live well and do good work. We hope you will consider joining us.\n\n**Who You Are**\nWe love working with each other because we have built a culture that suits us well. We work primarily with freelancers and coordinate their talents for large projects. To be on our team, you must be:\n\n* **HAPPY** Where there is a will, there is a way. Having a positive disposition allows us to achieve great things and to support each other.\n* **HELPFUL** Always looking for ways that you can help others.\n* **CURIOUS** It is essential that you have a passion for learning. Technology changes daily, and life has a way of constantly raising the bar.\n* **ACCOUNTABLE** Our clients expect us to get the right thing done on budget and on time. Communicating expectations and meeting them is the cornerstone of success.\n \n\nPlease mention the words **PURPOSE DRAGON ANGER** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xMjU=). 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, Design, React Native, Developer, Digital Nomad and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $120,000/year\n \n\n#Location\nWorldwide