Position: Senior Back End Wizard ✨ Company: joi.studio Location: Remote (Sydney EST and LA time) 🌍 Working Hours: Flexible, with a preference for working between 1pm and 12am Sydney EST (8pm to 7am LA time) ⏰ Role Type: Contractor, working ideally 40 hours per week
About Us: Hey there! 🌟 We're a passionate team on a mission to revolutionize mental health and personal growth. Our platform blends the best features of Netflix and Udemy, providing a unique and joyful experience to over 350,000 students across five countries. We reached product market fit over three years ago without needing external capital and continue to scale and innovate every day. 🚀
Role Overview: Are you a back-end wizard who loves autonomy and taking charge? 🧙♀️ We're on the lookout for an assertive Senior Back End Wizard who can set their own working hours while aligning with our fun and dynamic team. Your skills and opinions will be highly valued, and you'll play a crucial role in our development process. You'll be responsible for delivering stellar code and conducting your own QA to western standards. 🌟
Key Responsibilities:
Autonomous Work: Set your own hours while aligning with team working hours (1pm - 12am Sydney EST / 8pm - 7am LA time). Expected that there would be at least 3 hours overlap each day with other team members. 🕒
Backend Development: Design, develop, and maintain robust back-end systems using our awesome tech stack. 🖥️
Assertive Leadership: Be bold and confident in team discussions and decision-making processes. 💪
Ownership and Reliability: Take 100% ownership of your work, including any mistakes, and be expected to own them. Be reliable and ensure you do what you say when you say it. 👍
Quality Assurance: Deliver top-notch code and perform thorough QA to meet western standards. ✔️
Efficient DB Queries: Create lightning-fast database queries to ensure performance and scalability. ⚡
Re-Architecting Systems: Reimagine and re-architect back-end systems to adapt to new and growing application needs. 🔄
Front End Understanding: Have a good grasp and some experience with front-end technologies. 🌐
Stake Holder Management: Effectively communicate with key stakeholders, ensuring their needs and expectations are met and aligned with project goals. 😊
Tech Stack:
Node.js
React.js
Apollo
GraphQL
TypeScript
JavaScript
Python
MySQL (AWS RDS)
MongoDB
AWS Web Services (Route 53, CloudWatch, Terraform, S3, RDS, ECS, Lambda, API Gateway)
Cloudflare
Terraform
DataDog (or other similar logging platforms)
LangChain
Qualifications:
Proven experience as a Senior Back End Engineer. 🏆
Strong proficiency in our tech stack. 🛠️
Demonstrated ability to work autonomously and assertively. 🚀
Experience in re-architecting back ends for scalability and performance. 📈
Strong QA skills with an eye for detail. 👀
Strong experience in MySQL and MongoDB. 💾
Passion for working with mental health and helping others. ❤️
Excellent communication and collaboration skills. 🤝
Reliable and trustworthy, with a commitment to owning your work. ✅
Ideal candidate will have had 10 years of development experience. 🌟
Beneficial, though not critical, to have a passion for AI, Python, and LangChain. 🤖
Why Join Us:
Work on a unique and impactful platform that combines the best of Netflix and Udemy. 📺📚
Be part of a team that values your skills and listens to your opinions. 🗣️
Contribute to a product that has achieved product market fit and continues to scale successfully. 🌍
Make a difference in the mental health space, helping over 350,000 students improve their lives across five countries. 🌟
Most of our team members stay with us for over 2.5 years. In fact, here's a heartfelt message from one of our wonderful team members about our leader (Robert) of the joi.studio on his birthday:
"Hi Robert, On this special day, I want to take a moment to wish you a very happy birthday! Your leadership, vision, and unwavering dedication have been a constant source of inspiration for all of us. Your ability to guide us through challenges with grace and wisdom is truly remarkable, and we are fortunate to have you as our leader. Beyond your professional excellence, your kindness, understanding, and genuine care for each team member make you an extraordinary person. You create an environment where we feel valued and motivated to give our best, and for that, we are deeply grateful. May this year bring you abundant joy, good health, and countless moments of happiness. Here's to celebrating you today and always. Happy birthday!"
If you are a highly skilled, autonomous, and assertive Senior Back End Wizard with a passion for mental health, giving back to those in need, and making the world a better place, we would love to hear from you. Join us in making a meaningful impact through innovative technology. ✨
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Salary and compensation
$20,000 — $80,000/year
Benefits
🏖 Unlimited vacation
⬜️ No whiteboard interview
👀 No monitoring system
🚫 No politics at work
🎅 We hire old (and young)
How do you apply?
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\nScalable Path is looking for a Remote Expert React, NodeJS, & MongoDB Developer to join the team and work on a client project. This is a remote, full-time position.\n\nCLIENT COMPANY DESCRIPTION:\nThe client is looking to pave new pathways in the way that users collaborate on, share and consume stories through text and video. Think of YouTube reimagined, telling stories around the campfire.\n\nThe web and mobile app have been live for over 2 years. The mobile app has trended in the app/play stores multiple times and business is growing every day.\n\nDUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:\nAs a senior React, NodeJS, and MongoDB Developer, you will be working within a team of distributed full-stack developers on the client's existing live web application built primarily in React, NodeJS, and MongoDB on AWS. Ideally, you will have experience working with high traffic systems, scalability, highly performant and fault-tolerant APIs and work well on a remote team.\n\nAs a team, we deliver high quality, responsive, and performant features. We ask questions, raise concerns and keep the big picture in mind while collaborating and following best practices. We perform code reviews for each other and improve our code when it is reviewed. We attend daily meetings and occasionally share our screens to show what we've been working on. We take ownership of our stories and see to it that they are tested by the QA team. Finally, we see the story through deployment.\n\nRELATIONSHIPS - WHO YOU'LL BE WORKING WITH:\nYou will report to the project lead and participate in daily standup meetings with the web developers, QA engineer and the hands-on Product Owner & CEO. The team operates during PDT business hours. There is an existing daily meeting at 8:00am America/Los Angeles (-08:00) PST.\n\nREQUIRED SKILLS:\n- React, Redux, NodeJS, and Express\n- MongoDB\n- CSS & SASS\n- Experience with high traffic systems\n- Knowledge of potential security issues and mitigation techniques\n- Able to build highly performant and fault-tolerant APIs\n- Able to work well on a remote, multi-national team with Agile and Scrum\n- Ability to work during PDT timezone business hours\n- Strong written and spoken English\n\nDESIRED (NICE-TO-HAVE) SKILLS:\n- Next.js and Server Side Rendering\n- Redis\n- AWS DevOps (EKS, EC2, CloudFront + more)\n- ElasticSearch\n- Experience as a lead developer, development manager, Scrum Master or other role with significant responsibility\n\nSTART DATE:\nAs soon as possible.\n\nEXPECTED CONTRACT DURATION:\nOngoing long term\n\nHOURLY RATE:\n\nThe pay rate for this role is from $35 to $55 USD per hour, depending on experience and capability. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n
No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to JavaScript, React, Node, Developer, Mongo, Digital Nomad, DevOps, CSS, Mobile, Senior and Engineer 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
# How do you apply?\n\nThis job post has been closed by the poster, which means they probably have enough applicants now. Please do not apply.
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🤖 Closed by robot after apply link errored w/ code 404 3 years ago
\nScalable Path is looking for a Senior Node/React/MongoDB Developer to join the team and work on a client project. This is a remote, full-time position.\n\nCLIENT COMPANY DESCRIPTION:\nThe client is looking to pave new pathways in the way that users collaborate on, share and consume stories through text and video. Think of YouTube reimagined, telling stories around the campfire.\n\nThe web and mobile app have been live for over 2 years. The mobile app has trended in the app/play stores multiple times and business is growing every day.\n\nDUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:\nAs a Senior React & NodeJS Developer, you will be working within a team of distributed full-stack developers on the client's existing live web application built primarily in React, Node.js, and MongoDB on AWS. Ideally, you will have experience working with high traffic systems, scalability, highly performant and fault-tolerant APIs and work well on a remote team.\n\nAs a team, we deliver high quality, responsive, and performant features. We ask questions, raise concerns and keep the big picture in mind while collaborating and following best practices. We perform code reviews for each other and improve our code when it is reviewed. We attend daily meetings and occasionally share our screens to show what we've been working on. We take ownership of our stories and see to it that they are tested by the QA team. Finally, we see the story through deployment.\n\nRELATIONSHIPS - WHO YOU'LL BE WORKING WITH:\nYou will report to the project lead and participate in daily standup meetings with the web developers, QA engineer and the hands-on Product Owner & CEO. The team operates during PDT business hours. There is an existing daily meeting at 8:00am America/Los Angeles (-08:00) PST.\n\nREQUIRED SKILLS:\n- React, Redux, NodeJS, and Express\n- MongoDB\n- CSS & SASS\n- Experience with high traffic systems\n- Knowledge of potential security issues and mitigation techniques\n- Able to build highly performant and fault-tolerant APIs\n- Able to work well on a remote, multi-national team with Agile and Scrum\n- Ability to work during PDT timezone business hours\n- Strong written and spoken English\n\nDESIRED (NICE-TO-HAVE) SKILLS:\n- Next.js and Server Side Rendering\n- Redis\n- AWS DevOps (EKS, EC2, CloudFront + more)\n- ElasticSearch\n- Experience as a lead developer, development manager, Scrum Master or other role with significant responsibility\n\nSTART DATE:\nAs soon as possible.\n\nEXPECTED CONTRACT DURATION:\nOngoing long term\n\n\nHOURLY RATE:\n\nThe pay rate for this role is from $30 to $45 USD per hour, depending on experience and capability. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n
No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to JavaScript, React, Node, Senior, Developer, Mongo, Digital Nomad, DevOps, CSS, Mobile and Engineer 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
# How do you apply?\n\nThis job post has been closed by the poster, which means they probably have enough applicants now. Please do not apply.
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