Remote Engineer + Front End + Front End + Lead + Serverless Jobs

Do you have a soft spot for profitable companies with a meaningful, globally used and loved product? Would you like to work within a compact, super-capable team in a refreshing work environment? Would you like to work on an application that is changing the way we learn and communicate? Drops could be the place for you.\n\nAbout us:\n\nOur goal at Drops is to ensure effective language learning through a delightful, seamless, gamified experience. We strive to be the #1 app for vocabulary learning. Our app has been live on the App Store for 4 years, covering 42 languages, serving over 27 million users across the globe and has been featured on both the App Store (App of the Day) and Play Store (App of the Year in 2018). Drops has also been featured by TechCrunch, FastCo, Forbes, CNN, Bloomberg, VentureBeat and many, many more. In short, we’re a tiny but very powerful team spread (mostly) across Europe, achieving great things the remote way! In December 2020, Drops was acquired by Kahoot!, the world’s leading game-based learning platform\n\nCheck us out here: https://languagedrops.com\n\n\nAbout you:\n\nYou’re a no-nonsense person, comfortable taking on a variety of projects who has been working within product companies and has extensive front-end development experience.\n\nYou’ve spent years working with React and have experience in React Native with a deep understanding of the internal workings be it working within the browser or a mobile client. You enjoy the challenge of growing a product from an (already) large user base to a larger one with tens of millions of MAU with all the complexities it comes with.\n\nYou are an advocate for static typing and prefer to use a minimal set of simple tools over a diverse range of complex ones.\n\nYou believe variety is the spice of life - In this role, you’ll be developing a complex app deployable to web and app stores, a static site generator, building internal automation infrastructure/tooling and contributing to our internal CMS. You could also be working on our fully serverless architecture on the backend if you feel comfortable doing so.\n\nDrops is a deliberately small, but super effective team. You’re naturally drawn to the fate of the products & driven to grow as an engineer rather than to manage people.\n\n\nThe role:\nYou’ll be a core part of the development team, working on both our main (Drops) and auxiliary products (Droplets, Visual Dictionary, Internal CMS tooling). Drops values clear, honest communication and transparency. It’s the linchpin of our culture, success and freedom. You’ll be involved in both high and low level decision making and are available during European working hours (10AM - 6PM CET). Remember, we’re looking for a missionary here rather than a mercenary.\n\n\nYou will:\n* Work cross functionally with our lead designer / data analyst / engineers / project owner to define, scope, estimate and plan various aspects of the product.\n* Work independently (and with other engineers!) to develop new web experiences\n* Support of production applications / sites that you’ve built or helped to build\n* Communicate effectively and often to ensure that everyone is aligned\n\n\nWhat’d be different here:\n* We’re a small team. We’re optimising for impact, not for headcount. You’ll be carefully considering any tradeoff that would lead to increased complexity\n* We’re using a single programming language - TypeScript. We have strict linter rules Every pull request needs to be approved before it lands in master. We use the rebase workflow and we release a few times a week\n* We’re using React + Redux to develop UI, on both mobile and the web. We use selectors extensively. Our backend is on AWS, deployed multi-region to Lambda and using RDS for our DB\n* We are BIG on AB testing. We focus on releasing high impact projects and minimise noise\n* We’re doing things in a functional way, concentrating state, minimising side effects and making dependencies explicit. We’re sharing 98%+ of the code between Android, iOS and Web\n* We automate where it has positive ROI\n* Our biggest challenge is (and will remain) managing the complexity of sharing a lot of code between different apps\n\n\nRequirements:\n* At least 5 years of experience in software (product) development\n* At least 2 years of experience in building apps with React or React Native with state management tools (redux, flux, etc)\n* Experience architecting and developing complex web or mobile apps and static sites\n* Some experience in understanding basic user funnels, and collaborating with support to resolve user-facing issues\n* Project management experience (everyone manages projects at Drops)\n* Strong verbal and written communication skills\n* The ability to work well cross-functionally\n* Experienced in strongly typed languages\n\n\nBenefits:\n🌍 All the perks of remote working\n👥 An awesomely compact 20 person team\n🧠 Yearly educational allowance\n💪 Fitness allowance\n💻 High-end Apple hardware and ergonomic accessories\n🏖 36 days of holiday per year\n✈️ Quarterly team gathering somewhere in the world (Amsterdam, Iceland, Lisbon and Budapest were previous locations) \n\nPlease mention the word **RELIEF** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xMg==). 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 $70,000 — $100,000/year\n \n\n#Location\nRemote

### A bit about Newfront\nFrom the Mayflower to the moon landing, every venture relies on insurance. The $1 trillion insurance industry is fundamental to our economy and society, but remains stuck in the stone age. Incumbents rely on antiquated pen-and-paper process and there's a huge opportunity to transform it through technology. At Newfront, we're building software to supercharge insurance brokers and help them deliver a delightful experience to clients.\n\nWhile we’re a technology-driven company, we believe that people and trusted relationships matter. Newfront believes in empowering people rather than "disrupting" them. Our singular mission is to create the future of work for this massive industry.\n\nWe believe breakout growth creates breakout opportunities and diversity drives innovation.\n\nAs an Engineering Lead at Newfront, you will work with a team building features across the platform to help clients manage their risk and supercharge our brokers. There are tons of challenging technical problems to solve that directly impact the lives of your teammates and Newfront clients.\n\nNewfront scales by hiring brokers who join with their book of business. Through automation and artificial intelligence, we eliminate paperwork and pay brokers a higher split of their commission revenue. We represent a paradigm shift in the industry and career path for tens of thousands of brokers.\n\nThis position is open to remote candidates with Pacific Time Zone preferred. ***#LI-Remote***\n\n\n* 🎥 To learn more about the technology we're building, watch our video [Engineering at Newfront](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6513862682058330112/)\n* 🚀 To learn more about our mission and values, check out our [Careers Page](https://www.newfront.com/careers) or [Key Values](https://www.keyvalues.com/newfront)\n* 💰 To learn more about our funding, check out this [Forbes article](https://www.forbes.com/sites/igorbosilkovski/2020/10/20/exclusive-meet-the-entrepreneurs-who-have-raised-over-100-million-to-digitize-insurance/?sh=727e74a03206)\n\n### What you'll work on\n\n* ***Lead the development of product features:*** You'll be involved during product discovery and you'll contribute to the technical design process. You are product-minded and able to collaborate with a Product Manager to define the product roadmap and vision. You'll be responsible for speccing and guiding your team in building out features and infrastructure.\n* ***Shape business processes:*** As Newfront is a technology-enabled brokerage, we are looking for new ways to improve business processes by using technology. You will become the expert on how an area of the business functions and work directly with stakeholders to build optimizations.\n* ***Define technical direction:*** You will help shape the technical vision and roadmap for a large area of the product. You will also influence best practices and introduce new technologies when appropriate. You'll need to clearly communicate your vision with the team to gain support and a shared understanding of the technologies.\n* ***Mentor other engineers:*** You will working with more junior engineers on your team to help them grow and develop their skills.\n\n### Requirements\n\n* ***5+ years of engineering experience.*** You have previous success developing and shipping a large-scale application with a user-empathetic mindset\n* ***2+ years of experience leading an engineering team.*** You have proven abilities in providing technical direction for a small to medium team of engineers.\n* ***You're product-minded.*** You take initiative to understand production intention, team goals, business context, and user problems to propose improvements, eliminate gaps, and reduce risk in the project. You contribute to and drive the teams roadmap with product and design. You meet with stakeholders across the company when needed to eliminate gaps in your knowledge. You work closely with design to make sure that a design is able to be built and that it has a logical system behind it.\n* ***Security-minded,*** You have a detailed understanding of security protocols like OAuth2/OIDC/JWT. You understand client-side cookie authentication and JWT. You should have an understanding of front-end security risks and how to mitigate them.\n* ***You're highly skilled with web technologies including JavaScript (React/Node), HTML, and CSS.*** These are important foundational skills for a front-end engineer and impact everything from performance, to maintainability, to accessibility. You understand which features can be used across the various browsers, you understand how to make a website accessible, and you know how to implement responsive design.\n* ***You have experience architecting complex front-end web applications. We use React/Next.js,*** but you might have experience with Ember or Angular. You understand the concepts of services, stores, state management, build tools, routing, testing, serverless functions, and API design. You might have experience working with micro front-end applications and you are able to discuss trade-offs when slicing up a front-end app. You have created frameworks and libraries to abstract away complexity in your application to amplify your impact across the team.\n* ***You have some experience with micro-service/cloud and enterprise architecture patterns.***  You have an understanding of cloud architecture patterns, like pub-sub and BFF APIs, and are able to work with other engineers to discuss the trade-offs and benefits. While you might not be setting up these systems, you understand how they work, why they're used, and how they can impact front-end app performance, product requirements, and front-end code architecture.\n* ***You have a strong understanding of design:*** You understand that as a front-end engineer it is your job to help uphold the quality of the product. You're aware that loss of quality is often death by a thousand cuts and you care when elements are a few pixels off. You're able to understand why particular interactions should be used and when and you're able to recommend particular UI patterns to solve user problems. You'll have contributed to or have built design systems in the past.\n\n### Some of the technologies we use\n* Node\n* Typescript/JavaScript\n* React/Nextjs\n* styled-components\n* Vercel\n* Docker\n* NestJS\n* Redis\n\n### Nice To Haves\n* Proficiency with Typescript, React, Jest, and Next.js.\n* Experience with styled-components or similar CSS-in-JS libraries.\n* Understanding of containerization technologies such as Docker.\n* Experience using Vercel to deploy applications.\n* Experience with Node.js and/or serverless functions.\n\n### Compensation + Benefits\n* $50k-$100k USD (based on experience)\n* All employees receive equity (based on experience)\n* $500 work from home stipend\n* Unlimited vacation\n\n---\n\nNewfront is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. [Learn more about our commitment to diversity and inclusion.](https://www.newfront.com/diversity-and-inclusion)\n\nNewfront provides reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at [email protected]. \n\nPlease mention the word **SUCCESSFULLY** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xMg==). 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 $50,000 — $100,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n
\n\n#Location\nLatin America

\nSyncSmart.io, a Lynton brand, is looking for a talented frontend engineer to join their integration app product engineering team. We're a "startup within an agency" - productizing our expertise from 10+ years building custom HubSpot integrations for growing businesses. We use cloud-based technology to launch scalable integration apps to thousands of HubSpot users worldwide. \n\nWe're building our app framework on the HubSpot CMS with nodejs serverless functions, reactjs, mongodb, and other rest apis. The app is in its early stages being built on contract by an experienced senior engineer. You will be our first frontend engineer and primarily responsible for the success and growth of our frontend app.\n\nThe ideal SyncSmart frontend engineer is:\n\n\n* Experienced in responsive design, reactjs, html, css, and javascript.\n\n* An independent, creative problem-solver and self-starter who learns new systems and technologies quickly. \n\n* Familiar with agile/scrum. We work in 2-week sprints and we strive for 100% burndown every sprint.\n\n* A strong communicator who self-documents their work, willing to help out a team member, can explain complex technical concepts to business users, and doesn't mind creating the occasional demo video\n\n* A team player: our web apps are tightly integrated with our backend integration technology, requiring constant communication with our integration app engineering team.\n\n* Growth-driven: passionate about helping customers grow their business and aligned with the growth goals of our team\n\n* A constant learner, always pushing themselves to stay on the forefront of tech trends and best practices\n\n\n\n\nOur tools and technologies include: javascript, lodash, moment.js, request.js, nodejs, mongodb, rest apis, json, jsonpath, odata, postman/insomnia, swagger, Google Cloud Platform, Heroku, Amazon AWS, and Azure. Javascript and API experience is a must; all others are a nice-to-have and plenty of training will be available.\n\nCore values\n\nWe hire and fire based on our core values. We expect you will too. You will understand:\n\n\n* Dive right in: we’re in a fast-paced, competitive industry. We value people who can immerse themselves without being afraid of new technology or process. \n\n* Solve the unsolvable: we tackle some of the toughest challenges for our clients, and build some of the industry’s most innovative solutions. We must know when to exercise this talent, and apply our problem-solving abilities to the best opportunities.\n\n* We before me: we don’t let our ego get in the way of our company’s success.\n\n* Teach as we learn: we’re in a constant state of learning at Lynton. It’s important that we all reap the rewards of our growth journey.\n\n* Question to understand: asking the right questions, and listening to others - our customers, our team, and our community - is critically important in guiding our decision-making and company strategy. \n\n* Growth driven: we know that our organization and everyone within it has the potential to develop, grow, and learn. We commit to each other, take risks, accept our failures, and encourage determination, so we can continually push the boundaries and move forward.\n\n\n\n\nWhy our team loves working at Lynton:\n\n\n* Competitive compensation, benefits, and bonus program\n\n* We’re always learning\n\n* Paid training (online courses, instructor-led, and conferences)\n\n* Remote/virtual workplace\n\n* Annual company retreat\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 Engineer, Front End, Executive, JavaScript, Amazon, Serverless, Cloud, API, Senior and Backend 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

Job title: Senior Frontend (Typescript, React/React Native) developer\nType: Remote, permanent, full-time position \n\nDo you have a soft spot for profitable companies with a meaningful, globally used and loved product? Would you like to work within a compact, super-capable team in a refreshing work environment? Would you like to work on an application that is changing the way we learn and communicate? Drops could be the place for you.\n\nAbout us:\nOur goal at Drops is to ensure effective language learning through a delightful, seamless, gamified experience. We strive to be the #1 app for vocabulary learning. Our app has been live on the App Store for 4 years, covering 42 languages, serving over 27 million users across the globe and has been featured on both the App Store (App of the Day) and Play Store (App of the Year in 2018). Drops has also been featured by TechCrunch, FastCo, Forbes, CNN, Bloomberg, VentureBeat and many, many more. In short, we’re a tiny but very powerful team spread (mostly) across Europe, achieving great things the remote way! In December 2020, Drops was acquired by Kahoot!, the world’s leading game-based learning platform\n\nCheck us out here: https://languagedrops.com\n\nAbout you:\nYou’re a no-nonsense person, comfortable taking on a variety of projects who has been working within product companies and has extensive front-end development experience.\n\nYou’ve spent years working with React and have experience in React Native with a deep understanding of the internal workings be it working within the browser or a mobile client. You enjoy the challenge of growing a product from an (already) large user base to a larger one with tens of millions of MAU with all the complexities it comes with.\n\nYou are an advocate for static typing and prefer to use a minimal set of simple tools over a diverse range of complex ones.\n\nYou believe variety is the spice of life - In this role, you’ll be developing a complex app deployable to web and app stores, a static site generator, building internal automation infrastructure/tooling and contributing to our internal CMS. You could also be working on our fully serverless architecture on the backend if you feel comfortable doing so.\n\nDrops is a deliberately small, but super effective team. You’re naturally drawn to the fate of the products & driven to grow as an engineer rather than to manage people.\n\nThe role:\nYou’ll be a core part of the development team, working on both our main (Drops) and auxiliary products (Droplets, Visual Dictionary, Internal CMS tooling). Drops values clear, honest communication and transparency. It’s the linchpin of our culture, success and freedom. You’ll be involved in both high and low level decision making and are available during European working hours (10AM - 6PM CET). Remember, we’re looking for a missionary here rather than a mercenary. \n\nYou will:\nWork cross functionally with our lead designer / data analyst / engineers / project owner to define, scope, estimate and plan various aspects of the product.\nWork independently (and with other engineers!) to develop new web experiences\nSupport of production applications / sites that you’ve built or helped to build\nCommunicate effectively and often to ensure that everyone is aligned\n\nWhat’d be different here:\nWe’re a small team. We’re optimising for impact, not for headcount. You’ll be carefully considering any tradeoff that would lead to increased complexity\nWe’re using a single programming language - TypeScript. We have strict linter rules Every pull request needs to be approved before it lands in master. We use the rebase workflow and we release a few times a week\nWe’re using React + Redux to develop UI, on both mobile and the web. We use selectors extensively. Our backend is on AWS, deployed multi-region to Lambda and using RDS for our DB\nWe are BIG on AB testing. We focus on releasing high impact projects and minimise noise\nWe’re doing things in a functional way, concentrating state, minimising side effects and making dependencies explicit. We’re sharing 98%+ of the code between Android, iOS and Web\nWe automate where it has positive ROI\nOur biggest challenge is (and will remain) managing the complexity of sharing a lot of code between different apps\n\nYou have:\nAt least 5 years of experience in software (product) development\nAt least 2 years of experience in building apps with React or React Native with state management tools (redux, flux, etc)\nExperience architecting and developing complex web or mobile apps and static sites\nSome experience in understanding basic user funnels, and collaborating with support to resolve user-facing issues\nProject management experience (everyone manages projects at Drops)\nStrong verbal and written communication skills \nThe ability to work well cross-functionally\nExperienced in strongly typed languages\n\nBenefits:\n🌍 All the perks of remote working\n👥 An awesomely compact 20 person team\n🧠 Yearly educational allowance\n💪 Fitness allowance\n💻 High-end Apple hardware and ergonomic accessories\n🏖 36 days of holiday per year\n✈️ Quarterly team gathering somewhere in the world (Amsterdam, Iceland, Lisbon and Budapest were previous locations)\n\n \n\nPlease mention the words **FORCE FAMILY SHINE** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xMg==). 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#Location\nWorldwide (CET working hours)