Remote JavaScript + Microsoft + Senior + Students Jobs

[Paperpile](https:/paperpile.com/) helps researchers to find, organize, read, and write academic papers.\n\nIn addition to the Paperpile app, we have recently introduced a new product [BibGuru](https://bibguru.com) for students. We are signing up thousands of new students every day.\n\n**WHY WORK FOR PAPERPILE?**\n\n- **As part of a small team, everything you do matters**. You only work on stuff that has a direct big impact on the product and our customers.\n- **Work from anywhere on your own schedule**. As a remote-first company, we communicate with tools like Slack, Figma, and Notion to move our product forward fast.\n- Work with an **interesting and diverse community of academics**. Our customers use Paperpile to study climate change, cancer, or medieval history. You interact with them directly to understand how we can make their work more productive.\n\n**YOUR ROLE**\n\n**You will take responsibility for substantial parts of our codebase and develop and ship new features and products**.\nWe use Typescript/JavaScript across all our product lines: web-apps, browser extensions, Google Docs and Microsoft Word plugins, server-side scripts, iOS and Android apps (React Native) and desktop app (Electron).\n\n**REQUIREMENTS**\n\n- You can work independently and write **clean, reusable and testable code**.\n- You can work and communicate within a **Scrum** team and produce production-ready code efficiently and on time.\n- You have a deep understanding of core web technologies (**REST APIs, CSS3, HTML5,**)\n- You understand **TypeScript/JavaScript** inside-out and are up-to-date with modern developments of the language.\n- You have experience with **Node.js** and the ecosystem around it (Express, Babel, Webpack, Jest, Yarn)\n- You have experience with **React** and have worked on large React-based web apps before.\n\nMore useful experience (optional):\n- React Native\n- Electron\n- Browser extensions (Chrome/Chromium, Safari, Firefox, ...)\n- Native iOS and Android development\n- AWS, ElasticSearch, MongoDB, Linux\n- Background in research or academia\n\n**BENEFITS**\n\n- Bonus/equity program.\n- 4 weeks paid vacation + local holidays.\n- We sponsor co-working spaces in your city.\n- Learn and grow. Try out new things. We sponsor relevant courses, seminars, and conferences.\n \n\nPlease mention the word **BRIGHT** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xODA=). 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 $40,000 — $80,000/year\n \n\n#Location\nWorldwide

\nJob description\n\nIn the last years, we successfully built up an R&D company that develops great products using latest technologies. We do this with an unique approach: combining a fixed core team and a huge and strong community of developers, engineers, makers, hackers, and designers. In the community, there are freelancers, academic researchers, and senior elite students that then work on projects on a flexible basis.\n\nYou could join our community as a ReactJS & React Native Engineer in a student job position (in Gemany called "Werkstudent"). \n\nThis is not a 100% remote position. You'll have the option to work remotely, but it is not a fully remote position. Please don't apply if you can't guarantee to come to our office in Munich or Stuttgart once in a while (especially in the first few months).\n\nYour profile\n\n\n* Currently pursuing studies in Computer Science, Information Systems, Informatics, or similar\n\n* Optimally located in southern German area (e.g. Stuttgart, Munich, Augsburg, Nuremberg, Karlsruhe, etc.), as Werkstudenten should be able to come our offices every now and then\n\n* Hand-on experience in web application technologies such as Javascript, maybe Angular, Vue, React or similar\n\n* Good software engineering basics (e.g. patterns, architectural questions)\n\n* Experience with SQL or NoSQL databases (e.g. MongoDB, PostgreSQL)\n\n* Having worked in agile environments, being able to follow the SCRUM process\n\n* Good communication skills in English in writing and speaking\n\n* Having worked with Docker, GitLab CI, or comparable tools\n\n* Any Backend (e.g. NodeJS) or Python, Flask, or Django experience would be awesome\n\n\n\n\nYour Role\n\n\n* Taking over a central role in web development projects at Motius\n\n* Joining various teams, topics, and customers (e.g. Microsoft, Innogy, BMW, Siemens) for building strong and beautiful web & app projects, e.g. for Smart City usecases, Blockchain applications, or IoT products\n\n* Perspective: after graduating becoming a fullstack engineer and leading the scrum process with teams of 2-5 other developers and 1-2 DevOps engineers\n\n* Discussing the technical realisation of feature requests with Product & Project Owners\n\n* Organizing code reviews, pair programming sessions for improving the quality of the team\n\n\n\n\nWhat we offer\n\n\n* Being part of our huge and interdisciplinary tech community of 600-800 developers, engineers, makers, hackers, etc.\n\n* Flexibility (remote work 30-70% possible)\n\n* Above average salary (for Munich tech startups)\n\n* Getting great and unique insights into different industries by joining different projects from time to time, e.g. building a solution with BMW in the IoT area for 4 months, and then joining a Microsoft Xbox project afterwards\n\n\n\n\nSome of the values we share here are\n\n\n* open communication and a constant feedback culture (flat hierarchies help here)\n\n* diverse teams (not really a value, but diverse teams lead to great results in our opinion)\n\n* comitted to personal growth (as a young company, we all grow day by day)\n\n* eagerness, curiosity, and desire to build new products, learn new things, try things out, fail fast, etc.\n\n\n\n\nWhat you can expect here\n\n\n* a young team that wants to grow with you\n\n* a steep learning curve and definitely a place to take over ownership and responsibility for something\n\n* a diverse team with over 10 nationalities and tech backgrounds as software engineers, designers, electrical engineers, mechanical engineers, etc.\n\n* a self-funded healthy startup that grows constantly and is profitable from year one\n\n* of course coffee and team building events and all these hippie startup things\n\n\n\n\n\nAPPLICATION PROCESS:\n\nPlease apply either via Stackoverflow or via our Motius Platform (www.motius.de/talents) directly in our community\n\n* Step: Review of your profile and background\n\n* Step: First interview via Skype/Hangout or in person in Munich\n\n* Step: Technical Test (e.g. via Hackerrank)\n\n* Step: If successful, becoming part of our Tech community at Motius\n\n* Step: For a concrete project, a concrete technical interview with a Technical Project Manager at Motius\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, Engineer, React Native, DevOps, English, NoSQL, Microsoft, Senior and Backend 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