Remote English + Investment + JavaScript + UX Jobs

We, at **Octopods** ([https://octopods.io](https://octopods.io/)), are a small, sharp-focused and deliberate team. We built Octopods to connect businesses using live chat software (like **Intercom**) to the most popular messaging channels out there (like **WhatsApp, Twitter, Facebook, etc**). We started small, and we want to keep staying small, bootstrapped, and very profitable. But we do dream big, and we have plenty of big plans. We want to tackle our next set of exciting challenges in the next years to come and this is where YOU come in the picture, we want your help for us to do so.\n\n\n\n**About the role,**\n\n\n\nWe are looking to hire a Senior Frontend Engineer to join our small distributed team around different parts of Ireland, Canada and other spots around the world. Ideally, we are looking for a frontend generalist, someone who can wear many hats, someone who is pragmatic, and most importantly, who thinks from first principles (https://fs.blog/2018/04/first-principles). **We work remotely, and so this is a 100% remote role.** You can choose to work anywhere you'd like having at least 6 hours overlapping with GMT+0.\n\n\n\nHere are few pieces of work you will have a chance to work on,\n\n\n\n- Lead our frontend engineering efforts and set the bar for our Senior Frontend Engineer.\n\n- Architecting our monolithic frontend for our new upcoming suite of products.\n\n- Building omnichannel conversational experiences for businesses to communicate with their customers.\n\n- Building a chatbot designer or editor from scratch to support major business messaging channels.\n\n- Founding a design system for our suite of new upcoming products.\n\n- Building or choosing a UI Kit and wrap it up with framework components.\n\n- Collaborating tightly with our Product Designer to solve complex design problems, empathetically.\n\n- And a few more equally exciting and challenging projects!\n\n\n\n**About you,**\n\n\n\nA little bit about what we think can be a good fit for us,\n\n\n\n- You worked with Javascript, and would probably put an argument choosing **Typescript** over it.\n\n- You worked extensively with Vue.js or React.js in the last 4 years & above.\n\n- You worked & architected data flow patterns with a front-end app.\n\n- You worked with WebSockets, and/or realtime web technologies.\n\n- You worked with REST, GraphQL APIs and you can put an argument for using one over the other.\n\n- You understand the value of writing tests, as an investment for the future.\n\n- You worked & grokked with Webpack and can set up reliable build pipelines.\n\n- You have solid HTML5 + CSS3 foundations.\n\n- You worked on a SaaS product before, and you understand the Laws of UX well.\n\n- You did some work with Ruby. The more exposed you are to it, the merrier.\n\n- You write your code with empathy for your fellow Engineers, and for future readers.\n\n- You have are self-driven, and can self-manage.\n\n- You can write and communicate in English succinctly. You wrote technical plans before, we do write a lot.\n\n- You love to take on complex problems, and you don't shy away from fixing issues.\n\n- You have some remote experience, and you understand its challenges.\n\n- You can take, and give feedback openly.\n\n- You are kind, and there is ≥5% a chance we will see you smile. :)\n\n- You like to work in a small team, and have direct ownership of your work.\n\n- You think of technology, not as an ideology but rather as means to push value into the world.\n\n\n\nYour engineering skills are as important as your entrepreneurial skills to us. We value frontend generalists who can take a problem from its most ambiguous state and deliver its end value to solve a real world problem for our customers.\n\n\n\n**About pay & benefits,**\n\n\n\n- A salary up to 4,000$ per month or up to 48,000$ yearly (USD).\n\n- 1 full-month yearly bonus subject to yearly performance.\n\n- Reimbursing your monthly internet bill.\n\n- A new laptop and equipment that you will need.\n\n- 100% remote, stress-free and friendly environment.\n\n- We don't have managers, we will work to enable you be successful and get out of the way.\n\n- You'll have the opportunity to have a massive impact due to our size and being an early stage.\n\n\n\n**Next steps,**\n\n\n\n- If you'd like to work with us, send us your resume, and a personal message. :)\n\n- If we feel like we can work together, we will send you an email with the next steps. \n\nPlease mention the words **CALL HOUR CUP** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xMDA=). 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 $30,000 — $48,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 🌎 Distributed team\n\n
\n\n#Location\nEurope

\nAngular is your and our investment in the future. With Google as a backer, Angular has established itself as one of the two major front-end technologies with an incredible ecosystem, so our clients and we invest in this technology. We use Angular to bring complex UIs, interactive apps, and entire HMIs to life for industrial machines. And with an efficiency and a user experience that would have been inconceivable in the past.\n\nWith large projects since the inception of Angular.js and hundreds of thousands of lines of code in the repositories, you can get ready for interesting input from our team and exciting challenges from our clients who count on you, interfacewerk and Angular!\n\nAre you interested in joining and shaping a young company? Do you work independently? Do you have an active and dynamic working attitude? You like to finish and polish products? Continue reading!\n\nTechnical Requirements\n\nGood understanding of TypeScript\n\nYou completed projects with Angular (2+) in the past and you have a strong interest in fostering your skills there.\n\nHTML/CSS: you should have heard about Flexbox and the like\n\nBenefits\n\nStartup Spirit and self-determined work\n\nTech budget for your workplace\n\nPerformance-related remuneration\n\nRemote work and flexible working hours are possible\n\nAn internal training program and mentoring to develop your own skills\n\nResponsibilities\n\nYour task will be to develop clear and understandable software. That means you have to think and plan a lot, understand user behavior and derive features from it.\n\nYou'll be working as a full team member in one of our Engineering Teams on diverse challenges — together with UX Designers, adept Angular Engineers, and a Project Lead. By means of consulting and discussing issues with your team and with your technical mentor, we make sure that we all learn together and improve our skills.\n\nGeneral requirements\n\nThe belief that software has to be clear and user-friendly and you, as a developer, will solve all problems for users\n\nCuriosity\n\nAbility to work independently\n\nYou like to develop new products and tools\n\nFluent in English or German\n\nSolid communication and team skills\n\nCompany\n\ninterfacewerk is a UX innovation service provider. We are unique in combining UX design and technological expertise. From start-ups to industrial companies, it is becoming increasingly clear to everyone: its impossible to continue without digitization, and innovation is needed for digitization. With a high level of technical understanding and good communication, we enable our customers to become or remain international leaders in both technology and user experience.\n\nBewerbung\n\nWe are looking for a Working Student (f/m/d) in our beautiful Munich office.\n\nIf you are interested in working with us, then write us a short application (max. 300 words). Explain us, why do you want to work for us, what can you contribute and what you would like to learn while working.\n\nIf you have any questions, you can naturally contact us by email or telephone. We are looking forward to hearing from you! \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to JavaScript, Angular, Engineer and English jobs that are similar:\n\n $65,000 — $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