Remote GraphQL + Node + Video Jobs

**Who are we, and why are we hiring?**\n\nWe're based on over 15 years of success, producing world-class video content and building, developing, and managing a number of high-traffic websites. Our success is down to Kodify's distinct teamwork, where each and every one of us plays a key role in getting us one step closer to our goals. Our award-winning content and websites are created exclusively by us and directly for the use of millions of users worldwide.\n\nAt Kodify, we love tech and are always thinking about what’s next! R&D and optimizations are part of our spirit. We work hard on consistently maintaining the highest level of professionalism. The video streaming industry has been growing a lot since last year and as a result, we need to expand our team to release the great ideas we’ve in mind.\n\n**What will you do?**\nYou’ll help to evolve a platform that supports close to 100M unique visitors a month. Improving areas such as:\n* Create, maintain and evolve Server and Client-side applications. Mainly in **Javascript (React at frontend) and Typescript (we’re adopting it).**\n* End-to-end responsibility from technical design to development and testing. We have a dedicated QA team and we really care about testing.\n* Work with Designers and Product Owners to ensure they understand possibilities/limitations.\n* Always work towards minimizing page load time / API response times. With the best tools available to ensure you’ve full visibility: Metrics, Distributed Tracing, and ATM.\n* Become a valued team member, providing feedback about tech, development lifecycle, and processes.\n* Take ownership of your code/task/role.\n* Be proud of what you achieve, and of the product, and be one of the driving forces behind always making it better.\nWhen you cock-up - own-up! (We don’t blame-storming here!)\n\n**Where and when:**\nFrom wherever you want, the position is **fully remote in the EU.**\nWe’re very flexible about when you get your work done, but we do have some **core hours where we like to overlap in order to promote collaboration and low-latency communication between team members (10:00 to 15:00 CET).\n* Our daily virtual stand-ups are important for us but other than that, you’re free to manage your own time.\n\n**What we offer:**\n* Fully remote position or, if preferred, working in our awesome Barcelona office!\n* Agile environment\n* Top-notch tech stack!\n* Upskill Fridays! Developers take time on Fridays to improve your skills, learn and research new trends that will allow us to level up our stack and processes\n* Hackathons every 6 months!\n* Flexible working hours + core hours!\n* 10% on top of your salary for learning and development - of your choice!\n* Latest tech equipment\n* Company Amazon book account!\n* Kodify off-sites, quarterly on-sites, events, and team activities!\n* Amazing international team!\n\n**Requirements**\n* A team player who likes to help others and find solutions together\n* You’ll do coding in JavaScript and TypeScript\n* Be very familiar with the Node.js ecosystem in terms of profiling and debugging tools.\n* You’re very comfortable with Unix tools.\n* Testing. This is critical for you and us, as we used to lack in that area in the past and suffered the consequences.\n* Measuring. Data-driven decisions are the best ones.\n* You have a real ‘Can Do’ work ethic - We are results-based, not clock-based!\n* Your sense of humor will bring a new dynamic to the team - you love to have fun while you work!\n* HTML/CSS\n* MongoDB\n\n**We also value experience in some of the following:**\nReact * Next.js * GraphQL * Microservices architecture * gRPC/ZeroMQ * Redis * Express * We value open source projects * Experience in High traffic websites and his needs * Docker / Kubernetes / AWS * Video streaming technologies / Web playback tools (VideoJS) * Understanding of Agile principles * Experience with Git and JIRA * Experience working remotely \n\nPlease mention the words **POTATO MUSEUM ABANDON** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4yNTA=). 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\nEurope

\nSenior Software Engineer - Core\n\nReaction Commerce is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our growing core engineering team. As a part of the core team at Reaction Commerce you’ll have the opportunity to help shape the fastest growing open source commerce platform in the world. We’re looking for people who are highly communicative, self-directed, with well developed critical thinking skills.\n\nAs a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll be expected to write great code, ship product features independently and with a team, propose architectural recommendations, teach and enforce documentation standards and software design patterns during code reviews,  and participate in the technical interview process. \n\nResponsibilities\n\nAs a senior software engineer at Reaction Commerce, the day to day responsibilities are broad and you’re ultimately responsible for shipping software. While not exhaustive, this is a list of the type of work that we expect you’ll spend the majority of your time on day to day.\n\n\n* Write great code that is well tested and thoroughly documented\n\n* Develop, support, and improve our GraphQL API\n\n* Design, build, and maintain real-time, event-driven systems, services, and features\n\n* Create new components and improve existing components in our React component library\n\n* Teach and enforce software engineering patterns during code reviews\n\n* Work with the architecture team by proposing recommendations, building prototypes, and providing feedback.\n\n* Work with the QA Engineering team to define test patterns and implement and improve CI processes for projects you’re working on.\n\n* Author documentation for development patterns and features\n\n* Actively communicate status of tasks and projects to peers and leadership\n\n\n\n\n\nQualifications\n\nThis list of qualifications are our “hard requirements.” We’ve worked to keep it short and move anything that isn’t truly a requirement into the nice-to-have section. We believe you’ll excel in this role if you have significant experience doing the following:\n\n\n* Writing modern JavaScript/ECMAScript code that is clean, well tested, and thoroughly documented\n\n* Developing, optimizing, and scaling React and/or Node applications in production\n\n* Writing automated tests in JavaScript\n\n* Developing, securing, and consuming an API\n\n* Developing with either relational (e.g. Postgres) or document databases (e.g. MongoDB)\n\n* Communicating complex issues to technical and non-technical people in writing through documentation, proposals, and blog posts.\n\n\n\n\nWe value your knowledge and skills more than an arbitrary amount of experience using any specific technology or a university degree in a specific field. As a Senior Software Engineer, we expect that you’ll have the skills and knowledge that are typically gained working on production applications for many years and studying in a university Computer Science program, but we don’t care how you’ve acquired those skills or how long it took you.\n\nNice to have\n\nReaction is creating the leading commerce platform for enterprise retailers and the world’s first event-driven commerce platform. As we’re working with a lot of newer technology, we don’t expect candidates will necessarily have experience with our entire tech stack. The idea candidate will have deep experience in a few of these technologies, exposure to more, and excitement and capability to learn new skills as necessary.\n\n\n* Designing, developing, documenting, securing, and/or consuming a GraphQL API using Relay or Apollo\n\n* Developing inclusive, accessible applications, including experience with accessibility (a11y), internationalization (i18n), and localization (l10n)\n\n* Using MongoDB at Scale\n\n* Developing event driven applications using software such as Kafka\n\n* Functional programming experience\n\n* Programming in a JVM language such as Clojure, or Scala\n\n* Developing commerce or logistics software\n\n* Developing and deploying containerized applications using Docker and/or Kubernetes\n\n* Developing with Elasticsearch or other search engine technology\n\n* Maintaining or contributing open source projects\n\n* Experience with Kafka\n\n* Experience using Clojure\n\n* Working remotely\n\n\n\n\nCharacteristics\n\nAs a distributed team, building open-source software, we deeply understand that being a great software engineer is much more than just understanding design patterns and having a deep technical skillset. Our culture is one of communication, character, cooperation, and competence and we believe that people who have these foundational characteristics will fit in well and be able to hit the ground running.\n\nWe believe in being inclusive, welcoming, and supportive of anyone who comes to us with the desire to build, collaborate, and lead. To learn more, read our diversity statement.\n\n\n* Motivated, self-starter who can work in a distributed team environment\n\n* Open-minded mentality\n\n* Goal oriented personality\n\n* Empathy for customers, community, and co-workers\n\n* Tendency to teach others what you know and excitement for sharing knowledge\n\n* Growth oriented mindset and a desire to be better today than yesterday\n\n* Desire to deliver an exceptional customer experience\n\n* Critical thinker who will work to solve the right problem\n\n* Cooperative attitude and an ability to pair program effectively with other engineers\n\n* Ability to think holistically for a given project or problem\n\n\n\n\n\nDetails\n\n\n* Position:  Full Time\n\n* Compensation: Salary commensurate with experience, stock options, medical and dental benefits\n\n* Location: Americas Time zone\n\n* Hours:\n\n\n\n* ~40-50 hours/week\n\n* Flexible: need to run an errand or have an appointment? Communicate and coordinate with your team and it’s not a problem.\n\n* You’ll be expected to make team meetings and work at least 5 hours/day that overlap with 9AM-5PM Pacific\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBenefits and Perks\n\n\n* 100% coverage for medical, dental, and vision\n\n* Minimum vacation policy & stipends\n\n* Up to 12 weeks for new parent leave\n\n* Stocked kitchen, weekly lunches, and office dogs at Santa Monica HQ\n\n* 401K retirement plan\n\n* Work from anywhere in the world\n\n* Learning stipend for books, classes, or trainings\n\n* Diverse and inclusive culture\n\n* Bi-annual in-person all-hands meetups\n\n\n\n\n\nApplication Process: What to expect\n\nOur application process begins once we receive your application and cover letter. Due to the volume of applicants, we only consider candidates who submit both and application with the required information, along with a detailed cover letter outlining why you want to work at Reaction Commerce. Candidates who don’t submit the necessary information will not be considered.\n\nIf we decide to move forward with your application, we’ll schedule a 30-45 minute screening video call via Zoom to learn more about your interests, talk about the role, and determine if Reaction Commerce is a mutual fit\n\nWe’ll then have a series of technical interviews. The first interview will be a technical conversation where we’ll discuss previous experience and work to uncover how your skill set might fill a need at Reaction Commerce.\n\nFollowing the technical interview we’ll have one or more interviews focused on collaboratively solving problems with members of the engineering team. These interviews will involve writing code in a remote pair-programming type of scenario.\n\nFinally, if appropriate based on location, we’ll conduct an onsite interview so that you’ll have the opportunity to meet key stakeholders on the team. If we can’t do this in person, we’ll arrange it as a video call.\n\nAt the offer stage, you will learn more about compensation, equity range, and benefits. While the entire process can take 4-6 weeks total depending on schedule availability, we’re committed to communicating progress frequently so you won’t be left wondering about the status of your application. We look forward to meeting you! \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to JavaScript, React, Senior, Engineer, GraphQL, Developer, Digital Nomad, Video, Elasticsearch, Node, API, Excel and Medical 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

_Contract position, 2-4 months, possibility of extension_\n_40 hours / week_\n_Remote/NYC_\n\n\nThe internet has a people problem. \n\nMany online communities are fragile, toxic spaces. Some people have given up on engaging altogether. But we believe that healthy online communities can exist, given the right systems and tools – and that the future of journalism depends on strong online relationships.\n\nThat’s why Mozilla, The New York Times, and The Washington Post have come together as The Coral Project. We build industry-leading open source software that brings journalists and the communities they serve closer together.\n\nWe’re looking for a full-stack developer to join our team on a contract basis for at least the next 2-4 months, to help us create amazing user experiences on our open-source comment platform. \n\nYou have strong background in developing Node applications that are secure, scale, play well with other apps and are a pleasure to extend and maintain (or as close to pleasurable as maintenance can be.)\n\nYou’ll architect and implement features, and also have the opportunity to work with teams in newsrooms across the world who are integrating our platform onto their sites. You’ll work either from New York, inside the New York Times, or remotely.\n\nThis is a contractor role beginning asap.\n\nWhat you have:\n\n• Passion for improving the state of comments/community around journalism\n• Strong Node JS application development experience\n• Experience with MongoDB, especially aggregation pipelines\n• Strong communication skills and the ability to work remotely\n\n\nWhat you might have that would be great:\n\n• Experience with GraphQL \n• Use of the Apollo GraphQL client\n• Experience with React and Redux \n• Open Source experience\n\n\nWhat you will do:\n\n• Work in a delivery-based, agile environment, with a supportive, open, and diverse team that is primarily remote\n• Work closely with product and tech stakeholders to deliver on stories, give feedback to team members via code reviews and architectural reviews, and contribute to making the product secure, solid, and user-friendly\n• Participate in video team meetings, such as daily scrums/standups, sprint planning, and estimation sessions\n• Contribute to the architecture of the application, with the goal of making it easy for open source contributors to build plugins and code that make the product sustainable in the long-term\n\nHelp us make the internet a better place for everyone!\n\nIf you’re deeply interested in working on full-stack development and have relevant skills and experience, please consider applying even if your background doesn’t perfectly match our ideal credentials. We are committed to diversity and especially encourage members of underrepresented communities to apply.\n\nThe initial contract will run through October 1st. There is a strong possibility of continuing with the project beyond that date.\n \n\nPlease mention the words **NOTICE GLORY SPIDER** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4yNTA=). 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, Node, Full Stack, GraphQL, Developer, Digital Nomad, React and Video jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $120,000/year\n