A remote contractor role in building the Hostshare travel platform. (Potential for long term, full-time employment)

Our Company

Hostshare, who recently got covered on the My First Million Podcast (episode 451), lets short term rental hosts turn their unbooked vacation rental nights into valuable currency, allowing them to explore the world and travel for free (only paying for a cleaning fee). We are building hostshare as a yearly membership service and travel platform to disrupt a market that has a lot of untapped value with properties that are “unbooked” about 50% of the time.

Our leadership team is a combined partnership of successful real estate entrepreneurs and a premier idea lab and holding company called Blender.

Role Profile

This role will be on a contractual basis with the Blender team and has potential to turn into full-time employment at the conclusion of the initial contract.

As a frontend software engineer, you will work directly on the Hostshare platform along with our agile development team that will immediately help us grow and launch this new platform. Our ideal candidate is someone who legit LOVES to code. You are an innate problem solver and you make sure things are done right and delivered on time.

You’d be a great fit if you love to work on the front end because you love beautiful design and a buttery user smooth experience. You may have some full stack experience, but if you had to choose, front end is your jam. You’ll also be working with an experienced full-stack engineer, so good communication and availability is crucial.

You’d set yourself apart from the rest if are a rockstar with React/Next.js on the web and are efficient with TailwindCSS/TailwindUI. Even better, you also have mobile development experience with React Native or any other technology.

Job Duties - (Day-to-Day)

• Building & delivering robust, scalable, and usable software in 1-2 week sprint increments for our current and future products

• Working with the team to formulate user stories, and then translate them into pragmatic and effective technical solution

• Asking for help immediately when stuck in order to help the team accomplish our goals every single day

• Following developer coding standards and properly testing code to ensure efficiency

• Contributing ideas for more efficient code and processes

• Diving into difficult problems and successfully deliver results on schedule

• Occasionally communicating effectively with clients to help resolve any technical support issues in a timely manner

Skills & Requirements

You meet most (if not more) of the following requirements:

• 4+ years of recent hands-on front-end and/or full-stack web development experience

• Self-Starter, highly motivated, team-player, great communicator, high quality, get-it-done mentality

• Experience with of most of these web development programming languages (Next.JS, React.JS , Node.JS, Typescript, TailwindCSS)

• Experience working with source code repositories and working with branches

• Solid object oriented programming and software design knowledge - you should know how to create software that’s extensible, reusable, scalable, and meets desired architectural objectives.

Extra Credit Experience

• Experience with implementation of a booking travel platform similar to Airbnb or VRBO and with Channel Manager APIs like Lodgify, Cloudbeds, Hostaway, etc.

• Experience with mobile app development/design with React Native (or native iOS/Android mobile experience)

• Experience with database design and usages of big data and stored procedures with MySQL to build analytic dashboards

• Desire to learn and grow into a full-stack developer and potentially fit for a full time role in the future for other projects and ideas within the Blender.

Work Contract

• 2-3 Month At-Will Contract Starting Beginning of June, 2023

• Full-Time Remote Contractor Role with flexible schedule

• Competitive Salary DOE and Cost of Living (~$3k-$10k/mo)

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Salary and compensation

$40,000 — $120,000/year

Benefits

🌎 Distributed team

🏖 Paid time off

SummitESP is seeking candidates that can directly contribute to the development, design, installation, testing, and maintenance of multiple web applications. Our team is responsible for developing and maintaining software to automate business and manufacturing processes. We're looking to build a team that lasts and continuously improves. Candidates will be expected to be innovative and learn quickly. We have team members all over the US and this position is open to excellent remote candidates. Our headquarters is based in Tulsa, OK.

Skills & Requirements

You Must Have:

• An expert-level ability to communicate in the English language, both written and spoken. 
• Extensive experience building and maintaining dynamic websites backed by databases (HTML/JS/CSS/SQL) 
• 5+ years of professional development experience
• 3+ years of professional experience with Python 
• 3+ years of experience with JavaScript 
• 2+ years experience with relational databases
• A strong grasp of computer science

Nice to Haves

• Prior experience with Django 
• Familiarity with a Unix-based environment 
• Familiarity with Vue.js 
• Familiarity with Tailwind 
• Familiarity with Typescript 
• Familiarity with distributed version control (Git) 
• Familiarity with Postgres or MySQL 
• Stackstorm 
• GitHub Actions 
• Saltstack 
• AWS
  • EC2
  • RDS
  • VPC
  • IAM
  • S3

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Salary and compensation

$80,000 — $140,000/year

🌍 Who are we?

🧠Your Mindset

• Self-improvement: You want to grow your skills and grow as a person. You seek ways to do things more efficiently.
• Problem-solving attitude: Problems are opportunities. You see problems as challenging and have the urge to solve them. There is no problem in the world you cannot solve!
• Proactive attitude: It's not easy to work remotely. If you are having issues we expect you to be proactive about it and speak up.
• Independent: Since we are 100% remote this means that you need to be able to reach your goals independently. It would be best if you were self-aware and self-managed.
• Quality first: You value quality code! If you find yourself writing things twice you automatically refactor them. You find code reviews valuable (an opportunity to learn) instead of annoying.
• Passion: Coding is your passion, not just a job. You love to write good code and get great satisfaction from it.

🛠️ What will I be working on?

📜Our Offer

• Remote work: Time is valuable, why would you spend time commuting? We believe in choosing our own working hours. Flexibility is needed in a world that gets more complex day by day.
• Company retreat: Be prepared to travel twice a year for a team-building get-together with the Megaverse Team. This is to put names on the faces of all your internet superhero colleagues! If you are curious about how that looks, check a short video from our trip to Malaga.
• Supported tools to help you grow: We will ensure you get all the tools needed to grow and get things done.
• Salary: Is competitive in the industry and can be adjusted to your skillset.
• Time off: You get 35 paid days off / year (this includes public holidays)

🙋How to Apply?

• A personal introduction.
• Listed experience working remotely.
• Attached CV describing your previous work.
• Salary Expectation (we are working with monthly fixed rates).
• Any personal projects or code contributions you'd like us to see?

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Salary and compensation

$30,000 — $80,000/year

Benefits

🌎 Distributed team

🏔 Company retreats

💰 Profit sharing

🚫 No politics at work

Location

Europe