Come and help us to take a successful technology startup into a worldwide software category leader. We are building a cutting-edge SaaS application that will allow our customers to know what and where a shopper will buy, weeks before it happens, and plan for it.

We are looking for a Backend Software Developer for our recently formed Internal Operability Squad. 

The Internal Operability Squad will focus on optimization and automation of internal processes which will enable us to scale our operations.

We are looking for someone who thrives understanding the needs of internal teams and building tools to leverage their work to the next level.  On the other hand our culture is very important for us. We are working to build a learning community where everybody share their knowledge and mentor their workmates,  so we expect our new peer to share and contribute to our vision here. 

Responsibilities include:

• Working with the Product, Services and Operations teams to discover and validate new internal product features
• Ensuring that the quality of the new software meets our quality standards and helping us to raise them
• Applying and encouraging the use of best practices in software development. Specially following the XP and DevOps engineering practices
• Taking an active role in the design of the system that supports our ever growing data management pipelines
• Helping to mentor workmates with less experience

Even if you think there are some requirements you don't meet, but you feel you'd be a good addition to our team, don't hesitate to contact us, we are always open for the right candidate!

We offer 

• € 35k - 45k salary

• Fully remote work

• Easy work-life balance

• A highly innovative and fast-paced environment. Expect to find a team with an interesting mix of business and tech/data profiles. 

• The opportunity to work with top customer decision-makers in the fashion retail industry and sharpen your business reasoning and interpersonal skills. Learn from peers from top consulting firms and the best global business schools. 

• Periodic company get-togethers to meet the rest of the team.

• Company equity as we progress towards our Series B fundraising rounds.

• A laptop with the possibility of choosing between Mac or Lenovo

• Business-oriented. You acknowledge software is not the end but a means to get business value (while keeping code quality standards). You are willing to learn all business concepts and you try to understand the business motivation under the tasks you develop.

• Self-motivated and self-organized. Good time-management and personal organizational skills are essential.

• You are a supportive team player with also good self-organization skills.

• You consider it mandatory to do automatic testing to create maintainable code.    

• We value fluency developing in Ruby or Python. Experience in other languages will also be valued. 

• We value if you have worked in an agile environment and therefore have a deep understanding of agile development practices and concepts such as CI, CD, TDD, lean, etc.

• We value if you have experience with specific topics such as scalability, cloud native development, etc.

• We value experience releasing to products to production, monitoring and maintaining them. 

• You are fluent in English (other languages, especially Spanish, are a plus) and are interested in working in an international company.

• At the moment we are only seeking candidates in Europe (UTC+02:00 or similar)

What you will do

Team up with our designers and developers to create great user experiences and reliable interfaces.

Work closely with our team to tie the front-end to our back-end infrastructure.

Implement new features and improve existing ones.

We use the latest technologies, including:

• ES6
• Webpack
• React
• Redux
• Typescript

Check our stack via https://stackshare.io/smallpdf/frontend

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in developing web-based user interfaces
• Outstanding skills in Javascript (including some knowledge in Node.js)
• An obsession for interactions, animations, and visual details
• CSS, TDD, Git and Linux experience
• Experience with React is a plus
• Can excel independently and have a sense of ownership for your own work
• Fluent English
• Based in Zurich or willing to relocate
• Swiss or EU passport holder (or other permits that allow you to work in Switzerland)

Ideal candidate for this role:

• At least 3 years of professional experience as a Software Engineer, writing code for native applications

• Required experience building React based apps & ES6

• Required experience building server side apps based on NodeJS

• Good experience building large single page frontend apps

• Good grip on functional programming design patterns

• Good grip on TDD, and writing elegant test cases

• Experience using/building JS based tooling such as webpack, babel & npm

• Preferable experience using JS based languages/type systems such as TypeScript/FlowType/Elm/ReasonML

• Effective communication skills (English, verbal and written)

• Prior experience working remotely as an effective member of a team

• Comfortable working with individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds

About GitStart:

    GitStart is a mechanical turk for small coding tasks. It is an automated interface built on an on-demand technology around the idea of Community. Engineering teams accelerate 2-5x through GitStart. Our vision is to provide a global technology platform for developers and engineering teams to work together harmoniously.

    As a developer at GitStart, you will primarily work to scale the Engineering teams of our global clients while leveraging the community of talented Engineers to grow professionally through detailed product and technical reviews; stellar code reviews and collaborative work environment that's 100% remote.

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Angular Developer who loves TDD

Main project

Our main project is a learning management system (LMS) which allows learners to enroll and take courses online. Our primary customers are healthcare workers who are required to maintain their licenses by taking courses to get CEU’s (continuing education units)

This project has a frontend served with node, built with angular 2+ which consumes our backend application via RESTful API maintained by other team members. The backend is mostly php but you won’t need to touch that unless you really want to.

What you will be doing

• Adding new features to our LMS frontend application. This includes all UI/UX, design to development.
• Meet with stakeholders to understand our clients needs and propose solutions.
• Design functional user interfaces to meet those needs
• You bring your own unique skill set to
  the table and collaborate with others to accomplish your goals.
• Develop components backed by tests, code quality and tests are HIGHLY valued here, you will have time to make sure it is done right!
• Cleaning existing tightly coupled components that where not done right the first time…
• Migrate old features out of the legacy application. Best not to touch it lest it break, so just re-make it the right way!
• We are all about continuing education, you will be provided the time resources to learn and grow and we expect you to do so!
• You will be the lead frontend engineer, expected to mentor those under you.
• Review other team members pull requests and respond to feedback on your own.
• Prepare release candidates and respond to testing feedback (product owner manually tests things before they are approved to deploy)
• Look for ways to improve anything and propose your ideas. We want to hear them!

Day-to-day flow

• You’re part of an agile, multidisciplinary team. You bring your own unique skill set to
  the table and collaborate with others to accomplish your goals.
• One week sprints planned ahead in JIRA
• Super short daily stand-up in the afternoon
• Learn something new each day
• Enjoy flexible work hours while getting stuff done!

Our Dev Team

Company size is about 20 to 30 people. The dev team size is about 5, two frontend, two backend, and then a devops/backend guy who manages all kinds of stuff.  We collaborate, bounce ideas off each other, have fun.  We do TDD kata's and coding challenges just for fun.  We talk on slack and google meet.

Tools

• Slack
• Jira
• Github
• TravisCi or CircleCi (we have and use both for different things)
• Docker
• AWS

Languages and Frameworks

We need you to know JavaScript, TypeScript, Angular

Though others may be using PHP, Bash, Python, Go

Computers

Mac or Linux please, lets leave it at that :)

Must haves:

• JavaScript
• Angular 2+
• TypeScript
• TDD
• passion for clean, quality code that is maintainable!

Nice to haves:

• AngularJS (some legacy stuff needs re-done)
• Nodejs, storybook, cypress, jest
• Docker
• DevOps, CI/CD Pipeline
• Linux CLI

We offer:

• Money
• Flexible work schedule
• We pay for your training (udemy, pluralsight, cleancoders)
• 15 days paid time off (PTO)
• health, vision, dental, 401k, etc.

Ideal candidate for this role: 

• At least 2 years of professional experience as a Software Engineer, writing code for native applications
• Required experience building React based apps & ES6
• Required experience building server side apps based on NodeJS
• Good experience building large single page frontend apps
• Good grip on functional programming design patterns
• Good grip on TDD, and writing elegant test cases
• Experience using/building JS based tooling such as webpack, babel & npm
• Preferable experience using JS based languages/type systems such as TypeScript/FlowType/Elm/ReasonML
• Effective communication skills (English, verbal, and written)
• Prior experience working remotely as an effective member of a team
• Comfortable working with individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds

GitStart is a mechanical turk for small coding tasks. It is an automated interface built on an on-demand technology around the idea of Community. Engineering teams accelerate 2-5x through GitStart. Our vision is to provide a global technology platform for developers and engineering teams to work together harmoniously.    

As a developer at GitStart, you will primarily work to scale the Engineering teams of our global clients while leveraging the community of talented Engineers to grow professionally through detailed product and technical reviews; stellar code reviews and collaborative work environment that's 100% remote.

Visit us at https://gitstart.dev